Terribly sorry Nick! Damn my failing memory, I can't read something and
then write it again. Shame on me anyway.
My short term article availablity here is partially to blame, so many
posts and yet N.D. hasn't been seen much throughout.


portelli wrote:
> 
> 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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