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ITF Models Used in LotR
Rick asked me to post this since he's been
busy and unable to visit the site lately.
JMS responded to one moderated newsgroup
poster with this text. The quoted material
was written by the original poster and the
text following it was written by JMS:
>The wheel had already been invented and perfected in Lightwave. *Use* the
>wheel. If necessary, tweak it some more, but *don't* go to different
>software. To change to Maya is to incur additional work and expense, and
>leave yourself open to the possibility of errors and inconsistancies. This
>kind of thing really pisses me off. The change makes no sense. There are
>times to be conservative, and this was one of them.
Understand, however, that we did not *have* that software, or those images. WB
had literally lost all the CGI archives we gave them every season. All we were
able to get, at the very last moment, was a copy of the ship files we had
given Sierra for the B5 game. That's it.
busy and unable to visit the site lately.
JMS responded to one moderated newsgroup
poster with this text. The quoted material
was written by the original poster and the
text following it was written by JMS:
>The wheel had already been invented and perfected in Lightwave. *Use* the
>wheel. If necessary, tweak it some more, but *don't* go to different
>software. To change to Maya is to incur additional work and expense, and
>leave yourself open to the possibility of errors and inconsistancies. This
>kind of thing really pisses me off. The change makes no sense. There are
>times to be conservative, and this was one of them.
Understand, however, that we did not *have* that software, or those images. WB
had literally lost all the CGI archives we gave them every season. All we were
able to get, at the very last moment, was a copy of the ship files we had
given Sierra for the B5 game. That's it.
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Thats Typical....
There is one thing to look foreward to though...
In say 10-20 yrs time some unsupecting 'tramp' will be rooting through WB's Dumpster and find these files....
[i]What a find eh?[/i]
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- John Sheridan, Babylon 5
[b]Well this goes to show how good their assets management is... oh yes manage the big stuff. We'll probably be told next that all the sets from B5 were eaten by Gophers or something. They couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery!
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Eaten by Pak'ma'ra
[b]Well this goes to show how good their assets management is... oh yes manage the big stuff. We'll probably be told next that all the sets from B5 were eaten by Gophers or something. They couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery!
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Actually, we were scrambling to get the video done on the existing sets way back before the game was moved to Seattle, because many of the sets were already torn down at that time already.
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Seriously though, if I was JMS I would be furious with WB. After all his work and effort for it to be lost that way, geez I'd flip.
JackN, you did manage to get the video footage done before the sets went down didn't you?
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]www.NialB5.com[/url].
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
The Deconstruction of Falling Sets...
[This message has been edited by Randy (edited 01-23-2002).]
Worf
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Captain Gideon: I thought you said you dont hold a grudge?
Galen: I dont, I have no surviving enemies...at all
Ave Primo-Populi (Hail the Firstones)
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Hmm... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
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[b]Likely true. But they may notice something if it shows up. [/b][/quote]
Aye, but its been so long so you could just say that you re-did it and it just happened to be the exact length and file size. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]www.NialB5.com[/url].
[This message has been edited by Falcon1 (edited 01-24-2002).]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
=-Rigs-=
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"Now, we gave you a promise and we are bound by that promise and damn you for asking for it! And damn me for agreeing to it! And damn all of us to hell, because that's exactly where we're going! We talked about peace. You didn't want peace. We talked about cooperation. You didn't want cooperation. You want war! Is that it? You want a war? Well you've got a WAR!"
- John Sheridan, Babylon 5
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras