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Issue 4

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

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

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

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
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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