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How to import .obj files into Maya 2011? [closed]
I'm using 123D (a great 3D suite from Autodesk) that generates .obj files.
I'm trying to open them in Maya 2011, but to no avail.
It's strange because both applications are from Autodesk, yet they ...
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How can I create a realistic 3d model from my 2d photos of furniture?
Before you point your finger and laugh, please take into consideration that my boss is asking me to do this for him. As a faithful employee with some Photoshop skills and no experience with 3d ...
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Is there a way to extrude an image in Photoshop?
I want to create a new icon for my application according to the new Android Design Guidelines. Is there any way to get my 2D silhouette and automatically extrude it to create the 3D effect?
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3D Max generate objects from animation frames, copy frames to viewport [closed]
Is it possible to copy all animation frames into separate objects in the viewport?
I am already using the Path Deformation and the Array tools, but they cannot (as far I know) animate materials. ...
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hazy lighting effect / filter in photoshop
I would like to change the overly clean look of some rendered images i have made as they are a bit to crisp to be "real".
In the couple of images bellow there is this kind of hazy light.. is there a ...
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Looking for a particular 3d image style
Sorry if my question is silly :-(
I'm trying to create my personal website, but I am stuck with the graphics. I tried to create pictures myself but it was too hard, so now I want to use a prepared ...
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Does long-time rendering damage CPU? [closed]
I have a question. Does long-time rendering (3D animations) damage CPU? Or make it slow or reduce its life? I am not talking about network systems or big computers used in animation companies. I'm ...
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How to spread a video out in Blender [closed]
How can I in blender spread out my animation? Right now, I have keyframes at positions 1, 123, 201, and 247. My animation runs at 10 fps. I would like to increase it to 24 fps but have the same amount ...
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Blur function from focusing [closed]
I have a depthbuffer of every pixel on the screen. From this, I compute the average depth of each pixel and call this my "focus" distance (This may pop up as another question, how to find the ...
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Cutouts model resources?
I am a fan of DIY stuff and have recently seen these cardboard safari which looks pretty nice. I would like to try to do some of those myself but haven't found good cut out resources around and my own ...
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Best free program to view 3D models in Collada format? [closed]
I'm working on a software project which requires some 3D models. We hired a freelance modeler and she just delivered the first model in Collada format.
For now, I just want to see what it looks like ...
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Bright spots while rendering [closed]
My problem is that I have bright spots caused by reflection parameters of the material of an object and I don't know where they come from.
It is not so obvious in this image but stil visible (in the ...
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Blender 3D design [closed]
I want to design a 3d living room using Blender. Can any one help me to find good tutorials. I saw a video tutorial in you tube but it is not enough. Videos or any other form of tutorials are OK.
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Which program is used to create these effects? (see example within)
http://www.mynuvia3.com
There's an animation on the front page and eventually I'd like to make something like that. I don't know where to start though.
Which program(s) could be used to make such ...
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stereoscopic illustration
I want to convert my illustration (created with AI) into stereo 3d (Red/cyan anaglyph). I basically want to assign depths to each object relative to each other in postcard fashion and then generate ...
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Creating a 3D image from 2D shape [closed]
I am working on a logo in Illustrator CS5 at the minute and am trying to create a 3D scales from a 2D image. I have created the stem and 'bowls' of the scale using the 3D rotate feature and they're ...
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Importing highly complex(maybe vector) graphics[3D model] from PDF to Illustrator
I am trying to import a PDF into illustrator, the problem is that the PDF is a highly complex 3D diagram.
I don't know from which software the PDF was genarated. I know that the original file ...
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SketchUp: Changing a Follow-Me shape after the fact [closed]
I have a 3D design made in Google Sketch-up, and have been told that part of the model just won't work. That part of the model was made using the follow-me tool to create that shape all around the ...
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Manipulating the axis of a 2D graphic
I have made a flat 2D design in Illustrator that I want to change the viewer's perspective on. So where it is currently being viewed head-on or top-down, I'd like to skew the projected viewing angle ...
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How to creat this background patterns which gives a 3 effect - either in Photoshop or PAINT.net
You can see this is very faint image (below), only one pixel tall. The demo can be 100 px tall.
How can I achieve this affect in Photoshop or Paint.net? I would like the main inner area to be 800px ...
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How do draw 3d arrows?
I'm using Illustrator CS2 to create some graphics. In one of my graphics I'd like to use a "3d" arrow lying on the ground as shown in the following example:
I want to draw arrows just like in the ...
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Shadow for medium sized text
there are many examples of text-shadow effects on the web but only for very large text or particular background/foreground colours.
I've tried creating an engraved effect or a 3D effect (I really ...
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How can I easily create a 3D figure that looks like a human? [closed]
I need to create something like this. What program can I use to obtain something similar, in an easy way?
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How do I create Mexican hat potential figure in Illustrator using 3D Map Art?
This is what I'm trying to create in Illustrator. (for those interested, it's a graph of a Mexican hat potential function)
Here's what I've done so far, using Illustrator's 3D->Revolve and Map ...
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With what software I can create 3d expo booth designs? [closed]
Not sure if this is the right sxchange community. But anyway here is the question:
I have to make some 3d expo booth designs. I worked with 3D Max before but I am not sure if that's the right tool ...
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3D tools to create icons [closed]
I really like icons like those created by SoftFacade.com
I read the interview from one of their founders here: http://www.iconfinder.com/blog/12/
where he mentions that they use "3d tools" without ...
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3D car models freely available [closed]
I enjoy messing around with 3DS Max, and I've always had my way without too many tutorials, as I do pretty much everything in modelling by intuition, and use tutorials for things like effects, ...
