₦airaland Forum

kadeyy:
1. Overcome the "African mentality" that we are not as good in creative endeavours as the the other races. We have brains just like the others and we can create stuff.

Wow, man! You just spoke my mind. I was pretty shocked and speechless when some people towed the 'we shouldn't even try' and 'we are not capable' line. Nice to know there are people like you around.

lol @ NSNA

To those looking at the problem solely from a tribal angle, why not drive all Igbo people to the sea and Nigeria will become the Garden of Eden. Mental derangement sure comes in different forms and some people don't even have the faintest idea of their delirium.

@ texazzpete, I couldn't have said it better. A lot of people on this board need to learn a thing or two from you. Good write up, man.

babasin:
Above all, you guys you buy it and not borrow for free from friends!

lol. Nah, I don't think anyone in their right ming would let their friends ''borrow'' their mocap system unless they are all working together on a project but they gotta stay there and do whatever they gotta do, the system stays in the studio.

Get in touch with Chris Okoro, he'll cook up some original soundtrack for your movie.If you're interested I'll try to get you his contact info. Don't use those classic Igbo music without clearance, it ain't good and will hurt you down the line. Another option is to buy some royalty free music with African themes. They are very affordable and you are free to use them forever once you make the one time payment (usually between $10 - $39.00) per track. There are even some free ones flying around but most of them are crap.

lol. I have been flamed for advising people into graphics and animation to avoid Vista. Good luck with the XSI, man.

Drixie

I am a Softimage XSI user and I will give you some info on XSI based on 12 months of intensive usage. XSI is an all round application but the strongest point of the app is character animation. I am not sure there's any app that can knock it off the table in that department and believe me I have used applications like Lightwave and dedicated character animation app like Messiah Studio and many more. XSI allows you to handle huge amount of polygons with ease. The node based shader is something to die for if you can get over the initial intimidation (yes,it could be intimidating at first sight). The learning curve is surprisingly not as steep as it was touted especially if you have previous 3D experience. Coming from Lightwave it took me just two weeks to start rigging and animating. About 80% of the character animation in my last short 'Enemy of the Rising Sun' was done in Softimage XSI.

There's nothing I can tell you here that's not been said in the numerous XSI forums. The bottom line is if you do a lot of character animation, you have absolutely nothing to lose by purchasing XSI. It has built in Mental Ray but if you don't want to use that renderer, you can always export your animation to your favourite 3D app for rendering using PointOven. I can't say much on the modeling side of XSI since I model with Modo or Lightwave and them import the Lightwave objects with all the morphs intact. XSI has a powerful shape manager for facial animation and it is pretty easy to use but I don't use it since XSI supports lwo.(Lightwave object) import with all the morph targets intact for facial animation.Heck, XSI 6.0 comes with a new feature that enables you to move your rigged character with all the bones intact to Max or maya, which simply means you can rig your character in XSI and continue the animation in Maya/Max or you can rig in Max/Maya and bring it into XSI for fine tuning and animation.

Go ahead and buy XSI at least buy XSI foundation to begin with ($495.00) if character animation is your concern. For everything else, you are not really missing out pretty much, XSI particles suck, the rendering is pretty fast but Lightwave still beats it to pulp. If you're already modeling with another app, you are not really going to find too much 'wow' factor in XSI modeler (IMHO).

Word of advise: If you are going to buy XSI, disregard everything Microsoft or Avid has to say about Windows Vista and run your software only on XP until they have fixed all the open GL and other issues in Windows Vista.

Looks like 'The Lion King' is the winner here.

She's not another 'shiny doll'

Pokahontas: Brave,different, beautiful

@Digiman, you got that right, been asking that same question for years.

Because they want to marry more than one wife and the African culture has lots of room for polygamy.

I love to smoke it with Peak Milk and coconut. The only reason why I don't do it frequently is there is always sand (lots of it) in the gari I buy from African stores. . . I really don't know why because I used to process gari back in the days and there's no stage where sand comes in. . . perhaps they are pouring sand to increase the quantity?

YkeD and adconline, thanks a lot for your input. I find it very objective and refreshing. I am not for polygamy because I can't handle it but I will not stand up and tell you polygamy is a NO-NO. Any man and women who can deal with it should go for it, they have my unflinching support. The argument that polygamy encourages infidelity is completely false and baseless since a vast majority of the men and women who cheat on their spouses or who have had multiple quadruple divorce are monogamists. I once heard a friend tell me that a married man who cheats on his wife is the same as a man married to 2 women. I only shook my head and left because these two cases are completely different. People who moonlight and sleep with any member of the opposite sex even when they are married or in a serious relationship think polygamists are 'greedy animals'. . . WOW! I mean. . . WOW! Who are we kidding here?

Namzo, like Moondust said, your hand is your ultimate weapon if you want a decent comic. The pros at Marvel, Image, DC etc do it that way pencil, ink, scan, digitalpaint. . . You can use toon shaded 3D models if you are a good modeler. Graphic tablet or not, tablet PC or not, I still prefer to do it by hand and scan.

Lion King
Watership Down
Prince of Egypt

Moondust this is a small world, really. That means you know me pretty well. To refresh your memory grafikdon= Obinna aka 'Akpuruka'
Nice to have ya on board.

Moondust, your stuff has the Image/Dark Horse Comic feel, cool I tell ya. It reminds me of my budy in Lagos who has a similar style, perhaps that's you. Does the name 'Martlaws' ring a bell?

Preview clips and trailer of the animated short "Enemy of the Rising Sun".

http://www.mayhemproductions.org/EnemyPreview.htm

Trailer: http://www.mayhemproductions.org/EnemyTrailer.htm

This guy should be banned. You got the nerve to post this bullshyte here. Na real wa for WAEC.

The new preview for animated short "Enemy of the Rising Sun"

http://www.mayhemproductions.org/EnemyPreview.htm

Trying to draw Oyibo this time.

Here's a pencil sketch, this guy is just a nobody. .

Here's one I did this evening. He's Essien The prince of Omorodion; one of the lead characters in an e-comic I am developing titled " The Groom of Osaro"