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The Soulburn CG Education Page has been updated:

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educa...g_education.htm

* Added a new tutorial discussing my Wirebundler script.
* Added some new info to the Ptex and Ptex Use In Mudbox 2013 tutorials for those of you using mentalray in maya or using vray.
* Updated my Blended Box Mapping tutorial with some extra bits of info, mostly centering on choosing the correct box map method for your situation.
* Updated my Contrasts In Composition tutorial to contain another example of visual detail and visual rest.

20 years ago when I was a little child, my parents got me my first pony.
It was blue with a golden mane and a pink saddle with golden flowers on it... or maybe the other way around, I don't clearly remember.

I loved this pony so much I would play all day with it. Which is funny because I usually was much more into cars and stuff. But that pony... oh my. They got me a lot more from the same collection later (the „before 2010“ collection....) I also got the white „wedding“ pony, in bodytype looking a little like princess celestia. She had beautiful silver glittering hair and all the girls wanted to have her because she was so pretty.

The reason why I am writing that is the funny fact that in my childhood, ,My Little Pony' - toys, TV show, cassette tapes - was only „in“ as long as we were little girls. Between 5 and 10 years old. I got a lot of them and even collected different variants of them later. However, when I was around 20 I gave most of them away, keeping only my favourite ones and my very, very favourite which was a violet pony who carried a bee on its side.



Then, 20 years later from the moment were I got my first pony, it was suddenly cool to be into „My Little Pony“ again, as the internet discovered the new animated series and with it the bronies and a lot of other fandom appeared. Being an 'Old School Fan' those first attempts to make toys matching the new TV show looked very alien to me. But I must say that now, 2 years later, the toys have become much better and so even I can like them.

This whole new hype is so very funny because I got a fullgrown man besides me yesterday, a big dude with a lot of muscles and ALL, going nuts and squeezy about a nice toy of Rainbow Dash that we found while browsing the child corner out of fun.

In fact, this brony was sooooo EXCITED that I decided to buy Rainbow Dash and carry her home just to see him unbox it in JOY. (He would have loved Pinkie Pie much more, but they didn't have her at the store.)

It was really funny to watch how this fullgrown man asked in a squeezy voice of joy if he could have the pony box once we got home from shopping. I gave it to him and he opened it with most care not to damage anything. When he started pulling her out we were all like
,Careful, girls toys are packed different from boy toys! Take care of the head!' XD
Then he had her on the desk in front of him and said ,and now I have to brush her hair!. :3'
I snatched the comb from him 'Don't do it! The curls will get damaged!'
He looked at me like O_O and I said ,Trust me, I got experience with those toys! XD'

Man that so feels like time travel... he got all the little extras from the box and decorated her and I was like OMG... almost like little girls arguing who could play with her first. Hahaha this is so wrong in a way but also so funny on the other. Seeing a man going crazy over those toys for real – and suddenly collecting them is cool again. OK the new show IS cool and exactly what this brand needed, because now you can finally like it again... oh trends can be so funny!

The Soulburn CG Education Page has been updated:

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educa...g_education.htm

* Added 2 new Ptex related tutorials. First off, the Ptex tutorial is a general discussion of what Ptex is, and then the Ptex Use In Mudbox 2013 describes the various things you can do with them in the latest version of Mudbox. If you're tired of UVing objects, then these tutorials are for you.

CG Wishlist Update:

So on my website I have an official Neil Blevins CG wishlist, which are featured I'd like to see added to many of my favorite 3d apps such as 3dsmax, mudbox, photoshop, etc. Autodesk started last year an official 3dsmax wishlist, the idea is you entered your wishes into their database, and then users vote on which ones they'd most like to see added, then the top ones get considered for future versions of max. So what I've done is I've entered most of my wishlist into the official Autodesk 3dsmax list, and provided links from my pages to the official list.

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools...ishlist_max.htm

Feel free to look around, and if you agree with any of my wishlist items, you can follow the voting link to vote for it on the official autodesk list. You can also add new wishes to the official list, and vote for other people's wishes that they've already entered. Regardless of whether you vote for any of my wishes, or you add your own / vote for other people's, hopefully you'll have time to participate, so we can all work together in providing autodesk with a more accurate view of what their users really want out of their software.

Max script update:

Updated 2 older script2:

objectPainter: Fixed a bug that occurred if you renamed your Paint With object. Now you can specify an initial size multiplier for your Paint With objects.
putPivot: Fixed a bug that caused groups not to work properly.

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools...burnscripts.htm

Thanks to everyone for your support.

The Soulburn CG Education Page has been updated:

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educa...g_education.htm

* Added a new mentalray tutorial called Massively Instance Geometry With Proxy Objects.