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It?s actually a nice little free plug-in called Greeble. It?s quick but it only makes the basic blocks so the lights on the buildings were made with 3ds-maxs own procedural textures.

I think to main issue with motion (and performance) capture is that it?s not actually a time saver, which in a roundabout way is what it?s frequently pitched as, a way to do something that would take animators a great deal of time to accomplish. In reality, motion capture data can take hours...

Hi there, I?m Matt. The 3D artist for ?Show About Games Show?. Thanks for your comment. Weirdly enough, live action integration isn?t as bad as most people think. You just have to know the right corners to cut. Obviously we didn?t go for full photorealism here but if some thought is put into the...

As I understand it, brown dwarfs produce very little light, if any. It?s possible that it?s so far away and so faint that it would be nearly impossible to see.

I remember reading about a theory a while ago that said there was a brown dwarf star orbiting our system which they named ?Nemesis?. They believed it could be responsible for some of the mass extinction event on earth. Maybe this is referring to the same thing?