Please it is N.D.  My name is N.P.  Though my name says portelli, I read
N.P. and see my name.
Nick Portelli. 

Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Hmmm, yes, I saw the "model" picture of the watch, ocean picture may be
> from somewhere too huh? Well, I don't understand what N.P. may have been
> up to, but innocent until proven guilty still holds even for rendering I
> suppose. Maybe he's just redoing these, he mentioned the Photoshop
> texture-making anyway. And it was rotated 90 degrees (I'm joking now).
> Remakes or should I say rerenders of previous things is not anything
> new. There just wasn't any mention of self-made or pre-made I think. The
> comments seemed to suggest it at first I thought. I like other peoples
> stuff a lot sometimes, I redid a pterodactyl animation (well, not exact
> duplication) and a still of it as well. I liked it but I didn't leave it
> on my web page since I didn't like the idea of starting to do more such
> things and filling the web pages with footnotes on who's who. At least I
> don't think it's there anymore.
> One other image has a BMW car model obtained from 3D Cafe or MeshMart or
> some place and the rules for it's use pretty much say freely use so long
> as not connected with commercial aspects or some such. Best to keep away
> from that if at all possible. But maybe N.P. bought this watch model and
> it's royalty free until used to make money off of it.
> Well, heck, what am I saying, N.P. can surely defend (that is the right
> word, correct? ha-ha) himself, he seems to have the ego and extrovertion
> for it.
> My apologies to N.P. if any of what I said here is to the contrary.
> 
> x_web wrote:
> >
> > TonyB wrote:
> >
> > > > ... and Nicholas' first ocean picture (and animation) looks right like
> > > > something Arete Image Software (of Titanic fame) could have done...
> > >
> > > How did you find the images of " Nicholas' " work?
> >
> > First, it seemed very strange that someone unable to spell common words
> > ("leik") could be able to produce high-end models and images requiring a
> > large amount of maths. Also, modelling waves is not what you expect from a
> > newbie.
> > His boasting and bragging were also strange for a professional (well...).
> > I first noticed the similitude of his "ocean" with the one from Arete Image
> > Software
> > (a company who specializes in "natural" digital SFX) but I didn't say
> > anything since
> > I could not find the "original" and prove it. His other ocean pictures seem
> > legit.
> > However, the Rolex was definitely too much, since the model
> > is sold by Acuris (with exactly the same hour, minutes and seconds ;
> > see my first post). Also, a Rolex 3D picture with the same
> > name as his (rolexfr.jpg) was published some time ago by a company
> > called wedo3D, that seems to be out of business. I couldn't trace
> > the picture, but my guess is that "Nicholas" just took the picture
> > and claimed it as his own.
> > Seems we all learnt a little lesson here, including me :(
> > All checking was done in Altavista and Lycos.
> 
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