Those QuickBoots are real fine work, gps ! Thanks loads for your generosity, these a damn sight better than the "socks" on my own M1-2 QS's - hope you don't mind if I use'em, too ;o)

I believe that CoreArts (www.corearts.com) is close to completing an M3 baseballer. You might want to contact C. and inquire.

Attached Link: CG Channel Article On Strike/Rolhion

Attached Link: CG Channel Thread On Poser Use

Amen, bonni, amen! "He painted always like a scholar and a gentleman, though not like a great artist." Quoted from the obituary of John William Waterhouse (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=79). According to the patronizing obituary, Waterhouse's art wasn't art because ... well, because the critics had now defined his kind of style and subject matter as non-art. The modern art savant buys or cheers art as sort of a critic-verified diploma of taste. The more money or cheers you're willing to put into it, the greater the proof of how much art means to you. It's really quite fascinating : you can actually con intelligent people into paying a small fortune for a sealed can of artist's poop! I'm not joking, this "objet d'art" was on display on the Lousiana museum in Copenhagen. Very nice can, though :o) The con club of self-appointed critics, in and out of 3D, are staking their fame and fortune on their opinion, so don't ever expect them to listen to arguments to the contrary. However, if you can wow and woo their public, it will become a very one-sided argument - they'll be talking to themselves ;o)

Seems to me we're discussing a side issue ;o) Why, or more precisly to whom, is it so IMPORTANT to be labelled "Art"? My guess is that it's important to every do-it-yourself'er who feels threatened by the "mass-producers" using Poser and other kinds of "automated" apps. Not pros who are losing their market (they simply use the tools that serve them best), but amateurs who are losing attention and admiration to products that may not LOOK inferior, but definitely ARE inferior. They just have to argue this into a fact rather than a partisan view ;o) They can't afford to accept Poser art as Art, the "attention/admiration market" is too small for both camps. That's why our internal art/non-art debate is a side issue. This is essentially a fight for the "hearts and minds" of the cheering public. If Poser artists want to win, they have to stop arguing with the anti-Poser camp, and concentrate on wowing and wooing the public. Stop arguing and start filling the Poser galleries with great art, sneak even better Poser art into the anti-Poser galleries, and don't reveal the Poser origin until it's too late - for them ;o) I don't think the cheering public is all that different from the paying public - as long as the (shortcomings of) the production process are invisible, it's the product that counts. Give'em a good one ;o)

Pressing the Escape key is usually faster than clicking the Cancel button. Worth a try, at least.

Unchained and unplugged, he'll be singing on in a LOT of people's memories.

More danish sympathies to Lindh and Sweden. As one of the politicians of my country had the courage to say, more body guards are not the long-term answer. Working towards societies that do not spawn violent people is. It's easier said than done, but we can't all wear bullet-proof vests 24 hours a day. From what I know of Lindh, I think she would have agreed.

Depending on how specific moves you need, you can buy Poer-ready moves several places on the web. I've also heard that some people have used Muybridge's famous picture sequences for rotoscoping.

VERY interesting site. Seems to be quite a few comix fans here, I'd love to hear your opinions on the best online format for comix - as I think comix have to go online to survive. Fewer and fewer people are buying the paper version, it seems. Web comix may have a niche, at least until movies can be d/l'ed in reasonable quality at tolerable d/l times. But web comix seems to be unsure as to how comix should look on-screen. Seems to be three formats : - "Classic" - complete page, portrait format, click for next page - "New format" - same as Classic, but landscape format - "Dynamic" - Scrolling a strip of images of same height or width "Dumb" doesn't really seem to be fit for the screen, "New format" still limits you to one page before the viewer's immersion in the reading is broken by the necessity of clicking for the next. "Dynamic" could (like movies) keep the viewer there for the duration of at least a section or chapter. Which format is most likely to succeed - or are there other, better ways? Any comments appreciated.

Posted a few suggestions about future trends on the message board. You have a fascinating concept. Good luck ;o)

one monitor one mouse one cable modem two coffee cups two mobile phones (work and personal) three DVD movies (AE Titan, Tomb Raider I, Animatrix) three biscuits one snoring cat named Troll ...and one book - "Goldratt's Theory Of Constraints" which supposedly teaches you to make the most of sparse resources ;o)

Real men don't use backups - but they sometimes cry ;o)

History is moving as we speak : DreamWorks stops hand-drawn, hand-animated moviemaking in favor of CGI : http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=4b0bb549fd1567d9c1acdd4dad7937a8&threadid=76963 (thread points at article, full article text is in second posting) It's not the turn of human actors yet, but this definitely the writing on the wall, IMHO.