Penguins have "feathers" in tail, rest is very thin, like hair. I was thinking in something like "hair paint effects" of maya, wich has low cost for rendering.

Now time to learning about materials... and particles (at least a test :) ).

I'm thinking in static particles for fur. Someone knows what is better,they or the plug-in?

It seems pretty good, but only for windows :-/
Added to bookmarks, thanks.

Hello, I'm another newbe in blender. After MAX and truespace I stopped in Maya, but I decided jumping to Linux. After knowing free software spirit and people who uses it, I tested blender and I think in it for serious works.
Interface is different, but learning curve is fast, render motor is fast, NLA is great, blender for Linux is fast and stable, and its performances are growing with each new version.
You don't need to spend hundreds of thousands of bucks, but buying the printed guide is good for you and for blender foundation (if you decide continue with it after testing).

Greetings to forum :)

With this thing Ive remembered a Greek Classic, the Satyricon. The ancient poet, who was rich after a wide life of poverty. When he was death his testament said: "If my inheritors want my inheritace, they must devour my raw body." This is not a suggestion :) but the problem is very, very ancient. Greetings.

About one or two months I suggested divide that forum in two ones, one for serious jobs and resumes, and another one for freebies.

The problem must be the video codec, its DIVX 5.1 I think that zipping a jgps sequence can be a good idea. The size is short and you only need a direct encoding in your video editor (being serius, correct size, no aditional work,...).

My animation is not finished on time, but you can see it near finished in Free Stuff / Animation: "Potato Peeler" Beta Shortfilm It will be a funny work for the 2004 DVD :)

Thanks, we are doing it in the maya animation challenge, and if works fine.

I have been discussing about animations in next DVD in maya forum, and it seems fine, I will begin soon to work in the animation :) One suggestion, why dont a preview selection with e-links of the animations and then mail only the selected ones?

Just go to File->Export->Image. Its an stranger order of Poser.

Thanks, PhilC. I have been working by this way, but even changing parameter names editing, rotations continue about absolute axis. I have a partial solution: yaw and select pitch or roll. This is the idea of my method for export the animation of a camera: Dolly camera position ---> figure.Body position. Dolly camera Yaw ---> figure.Body yRotation. Dolly camera Pitch ---> figure.Head Bend. Dolly camera Roll ---> figure.Head Side-Side. Put center of body and head in 0,0,0 with Joint Editor. It is convenient replace head with a Prop with centered axis. I use the manequee of the library, it is a simple mesh. This can be usefull for integration with another programs, I am open to another ideas.