This will be the last of my reminiscence posts for a while, I am going to stick to current stuff for the immediate future. However I wanted you all to see what led me to my current personal project, and that was my intention to make a short movie using live miniature sets and animated [...]

One often overlooked great method to using a 3D modeling package, is not to build fully three dimensional meshes at all. This is also a great method for building displacement bitmaps. However there are current problems to rendering properly since you have to add details in layers that do not light up correctly when rendering, [...]