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  Re: Is it real...?  
From: Mr  Art
Date: 13 Oct 2001 12:44:17
Message: <3BC8A78A.1000706@chesapeake.net>
Mostly I just model stuff. I don't worry about making a scene.
Maybe that is why I don't ever post pics here.

Bill DeWitt wrote:

>     Just wondering how many people try to model reality, and how many try to
> model an appearance of reality. For instance, when you need a crowd of trees
> in the background, are you more likely to make a bunch of trees, or will you
> put up an image map of some trees on a box? When trying to make a texture,
> do you make it in detail every time, or do you let it slide if it is too far
> back for all the normals to be seen?
> 
>     Since I always tend towards animation, I try to make things real. It
> means that some projects just don't get done. But if I ever want to do a
> walk through of one of my scenes, nothing ends up looking bad from the other
> side.
> 
>     Just curious, no intent to disparage either method or assume that people
> should use one exclusively of another. I just get the feeling that people
> who aren't as hung up on reality are the ones that send us such good scenes
> more often than others.
> 
> 
>


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