rowlando opened this issue on Jan 09, 2011 ยท 27 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 15 January 2011 at 6:54 PM
Note: At the heart of this dispute we have people using a phrase without agreement on what each person thinks that phrase means.
A high-quality bump map is one that
Is of the state of the art in CG - movie quality.
Is not something that was made in a half hour or even 2 hours. It took hundreds of hours. Otherwise, what do you call the maps that were made over hundreds of hours by the greatest CG artists in the industry, if the half-hour maps are "high quality". Are those other ones "ridiculous god-like quality" or what?
Cost somewhere around $10,000 to $100,000 to make, given all the people and technology and footage that went into getting it to its final state. If that's not the case, then what do we call the quality of the texture set that did actually cost $100,000 to make?
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