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Issue 4

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COVER STORY: SEEING, FEELING, CREATING
The sculpting of Lord Richard Ribbitt in 3D Digital space.
BY SIMON GOODALL AND DANIEL CHAMPION


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VISUAL EFFECTS TRICKS: KLINGON BLOOD IN ZERO-G
Two tutorials in one! A side-by-side comparison of the same techniques done in both Maya and LightWave.
BY ALEXANDER SHAREEF


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UV MAPPING A COMPLEX CHARACTER
The nitty gritty of UV mapping. Bill highlights several iterations, complete with tips and pitfalls, while mapping a full character.
BY BILL BLAKESLEY


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ARTERY DISPLACEMENT SURGERY
Want to rustle up work in medical modeling and visualization? Learn how to model a human artery, create a texture map in Photoshop, then animate its displacement and bump map in After Effects.
BY AARON KENT


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AMBIENT OCCLUSION WITH MENTAL RAY
Boaz explains how to improve the detail in your renders using mental ray's occlusion texture.
BY BOAZ LIVNY


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LIGHT FUSION: DON'T OVERWORK YOURSELF
Compositing for more flexibility and creative freedom. Deuce shares techniques as he takes you through a recent project he did for a client.
BY DEUCE BENNETT


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RIGGING A HUMAN MODEL
Part 2 of Peter Ratner's rigging portion of his Setting Up the Human Model for Animation series.
BY PETER RATNER


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LINKING OBJECTS TO PARTICLES
PART 2 -FX LINK
Using FX Link and FX Linker to take something that is inherently difficult and make it fantastically simple. Using FX Link and FX Linker to take something that is inherently difficult and make it fantastically simple.
BY ANDREA CARVEY

RE-WRITING THE RULES - FACIAL ANIMATION
Tired of cumbersome workarounds? Still waiting for software to do what you need it to do? Find out how Tim Albee stopped waiting and re-wrote the rules for facial animation.
BY TIM ALBEE

TOUCH AND GO
When it comes to fast and affordable data storage, just how new and improved is the Maxtor OneTouch ™II?

GALLERY:
Featuring ALEX DINNIN, GUNTHER HEINRICH, ERIC KELLER, AND CHARLI SIEBERT

INFORMATION IS POWER:
An editorial by DAN ABLAN

KOOSHLINGS:
An editorial by DARIUSH DERAKHSHANI

LATEST HAPPENINGS IN THE SOFTIMAGE|XSI COMMUNITY:
An editorial by RAFFAEL DICKREUTER

FINAL RENDER: I Want My HDTV
An editorial by BRAD CARVEY

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