Loklo Media 3D Animation Blog

I didn’t find many helpful tutorials in the first few minutes of searching on how to create Protype title effects in Sony Vegas Pro, so after playing a little on a project, decided to put up a little screencast tutorial. hopefully it helps you with your pro titles and text effects.

After having a bit of a lull in sales on The3DStudio.com, I’ve decided to lower prices on some of my most viewed items, including the Pumps and Motors set, Grass Textures, Penguin and Wolf Models, tutorials and molecules.
Check them out here:
http://t3ds.com/m/260735

So After watching some Autodesk videos on Youtube, I played with some mirrors and colored mirrors in Max/V-ray to have a little fun last night.

Would you believe that the following four images contain only 5 or 6 primitive objects?

I thought they could be used as desktop backgrounds for anyone interested. Download the 1920×1080 versions here: http://loklomedia.com/files/HD-colored-backgrounds.zip

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I did another little comparison using V-Ray this time to see the performance of the 1090T vs. q9550.

See the pics:

Ignoring the first frame render time, as that includes Max startup, I took the average for both:

Pholus (q9550 @ 3.4GHz with 6GB DDR2) – 8:36 (m:s)

Kraken (1090T @ 3.8GHz with 8GB DDR3) – 5:02

Kraken is 41.5% faster in this case.

If you remember this post, it’s not quite as fast as the i7 2600, but for the price, it’s ok, and good enough for now. IF you look at the render times for frame 1402 on the old post, you’ll figure out that render settings are slightly different, and so is the render time – therefore not a valid comparison, but good food for thought.

I rendered the hummer benchmark scene (http://www.evermotion.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46777) on both my overclocked q9550 and overclocked 1090T, and the results are in: approximately the same per core speed, but since it’s 6 cores vs. 4, the AMD is faster.
Q9550 @ 3.4GHz with 6GB DDR2 ram: 7:44 (with render bucket size changed to 32, and order changed to hilbert)
1090T @ 3.6GHz with 8GB DDR3 ram: 4:34 (32/hilbert).
I will be doing more comparisons, and overclocking the 1090T to 4.0GHz (It wasn’t stable with my initial efforts)… so stay tuned.
The cheap MSI n430 GT video card has a faulty fan, which is going for RMA… and the Mobo won’t boot without video, so It’s turned off for now.