Screamer Tutorial by Richie

If anyone is interested I found a great tutorial from Richie about how to use Screamer net, part of lightwave that lets you do Network rendering.
Here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66tBf4Qfc4

Compared to the many guides and information this was the only one that was easy to follow and I managed to get it to work.
Im sure there is similar software or apps for Blender etc

Concept Art Website

Greetings fellow Earthlings, thought I might provide a link to a concept art website that might provide some inspiration. Artworks are posted by professional artists working in the entertainment and art industry, so it can show an idea of what sort of work is being produced. The website also has information about online art courses ranging from concept artwork to 3D digital modelling. The website also has information on the artists themselves and studios as well. Anyway it might be worthwhile.

Live long and prosper.


http://conceptartworld.com

Laptops: Metabox by Clevo options

I've been researching Metabox by Clevo laptops as Clevo has a good reputation for building powerful good value laptops. I've managed to boil things down to 2 major options: The Metabox P150SM and the Metabox P157SM.
The links will be to the store page as that's most useful.

P150SM
Key features:

• 8 Cell battery
• Full size keyboard (includes numpad)
• Good screen resolution (1920x1080). 95% colour gamut option
• Fast enough i7 mobile cpu with 4 cores/8 threads
• Nvidia quadro K1000m or K3000m graphics
• 4 Ram DIMM slots.

Cost with k3000m:  $2358 ($2457 with Operating system bundled)
P157SM
Differences between P150SM:

• More hard drive upgrade options (not many though)
• Different chassis visual style.
• Comes standard with 95% colour gamut screen.

Advantages over (for example) the lenovo ThinkPad W530

• Memory sticks are all 8GB making future upgrades easy: The W530 uses 4GB sticks, making future upgrades requiring you to repurchase sticks and throwing out the old if you want to get to 32GB.
• Keyboard is full, those numpads are useful.
• K3000M option available which is roughly 40% faster than a K2000M available in the lenovo option.
• Standard HDD capacity starts at 1TB. Lenovo starts at 500GB.
• Standard battery is 8 cell. Lenovo has 6 cell (upgradable to 9 cell for +$55)
•  Lenovo with stock configuration and k2000m is $2,349.00. The P150SM is cheaper considering it's advantages(more ram, more hdd, more battery etc by default). Lenovo configured to be almost similar (still no graphics upgrade and using 4 4GB sticks): $2,611.62 // although it still lacks a full keyboard on top of that.

17" Options
There are also 17" versions of those two laptops, the P170SM and P177SM respectively.  I am considering portability considerations in my recommendation though.

My recommendation
The P150SM as it has a more work focused aesthetic over the P157SM while only costing around $10 more (with the same technical specifications). Yeah, I think it looks better.

For people interested in ridiculous expense for ridiculous performance
There's the Metabox P570WM with K5000m workstation graphics and i7 3930K.
This monster comes equipped with the best nvidia mobile workstation graphics and a ridiculously powerful desktop processor. It's very heavy and the price without OS is: $5,488.00
It also has the capacity for dual graphics(although only ships with one), 3 hard drives and destruction of the earth.

Hope that's helpful :)

Another laptop to check out...

Here is an MSI laptop that might be suitable, please keep discussing options and post any links to suitable laptops.....

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1538_1544&products_id=23438

The matrix has you,
Richie

Laptops for next year

Hi all, please click on the links below to view laptop specs for next year. We are not locked into purchasing these laptops, we may find a more suitable laptop.

Lenovo
http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w530/
Please look at the following options;

Option 2
ThinkPad W530 with Faster Processing

Option 3
ThinkPad W530 with Faster Processing and RAID support

Austodesk recommended list
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/syscert?siteID=123112&id=18844534&results=1&stype=system&suite_group=111&release=2014&edition=2&os=8192&manuf=all&opt=1


A list of software will be up here soon......

Live long and prosper,
Richie

Female character design

Article relevant to the female character design.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/07/warface-joshua-howard

Perth Central Intitue of Technology Show reels 2013

I came accross this years show reels from Perths Central Institute of Technology. From accross the country, have a look what others are doing.