Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A Grand Strategy, Sir!

"One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."
     –from a Russian document

"The reason that the American army does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the American army practices chaos on a daily basis."
     –a German general officer

"If we don't know what we're doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions!"
     –1st Canadian Division officer (World War II)



Sounds like a wonderful plan, sir!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

More Maya Tutorials

This is the result of the second tutorial. By the time I got done building this I was thoroughly sick of the project. It might just be my preference for the Blender interface, but Maya is beginning to really bug me. If Blender I had some of Maya's advanced modeling tools, I would just stick with what I know, but Maya's better tools might make it worth the headache of the clunky interface.
Anyway, behold the monochromatic steam engine:


I still haven't figured out Maya's rendering settings, so this was done with it's default setup.