So, how do you patterns like the Zel banner?
 

I'm just wondering how stuff like it as well as tacoX's and Chruser's sig are made?

It's a neat effect.

It's called "computer graphics". You make that kind of stuff starting with Photoshop, then get a 3d proggie and use that with photoshop. They aren't patterns. They're just shapes, barely ever filters (unless it's a n00b), text, etc.

Oh and taco is a ripper, so don't start liking his work. I on the other hand, don't rip.

I'm too lazy to use Photoshop nowadays. Actually, I use it for pixel art at times, but otherwise, it's mostly Lightwave all the way.

Lightwave scares me.

But I play with Maya Personal Edition.

3dsmax! woot

If you can get the full Maya, it's better. ;)

It's what hollywood uses. Mind you, it's an $3000 dollar proggie.

I think I'd rather use that money on a laptop than on some 3D program :O)

Exactly. That's why I use the free version.

I use the.... oh yeah no more free speech :(

"That's what Hollywood uses", eh? Fine, here is a list of movies where LightWave has been used for the special effects:

2002

Black Hawk Down
Blade 2
Brotherhood of the Wolf
FoodFight!
Half Past Dead
Halloween: Resurrection
Hart's War
Impostor
Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (Imax)
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
Master of Disguise
No Good Deed
Panic Room
Race To Space
Rollerball
* Scooby Doo
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
The Time Machine
Undercover Brother
XXX


2001

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (pre-vis)
Behind Enemy Lines
Black Knight
Bones
* Corky Romano
Driven
Final Fantasy (modeling)
Going Back
Jason X
Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
Jurassic Park III (pre-vis)
Kate and Leopold
Max Keeble's Big Move
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Monsters, Inc. (modeling)
Scary Movie 2
Spy Kids
The One
The Others
3000 Miles to Graceland


2000

Battlefield Earth
The Cell
(modeling)
Charlie's Angels
Dracula 2000
Dungeons and Dragons
Final Destination
Gladiator
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Little Nicky
Mission to Mars (pre-vis)


1999

Bats
Deep Blue Sea
Dogma
From Dusk Till Dawn 2
My Favorite Martian
The Astronaut's Wife
The Thomas Crown Affair
The World Is Not Enough
Toy Story 2 (modeling)


1998

Armageddon
The Big Hit(modeling)
Blade
Blues Brothers 2000
Chairman of the Board
Deep Impact (pre-vis)
Lost in Space
Phantoms
Shakespeare in Love
The Siege


1997

Conspiracy Theory
Contact
Devil's Advocate
The Fifth Element
Flubber
Free Willy 3: The Rescue
The Jackal
Men in Black
Mortal Kombat II: Annihilation
Red Corner
Spawn
Sprung
Star Kid (aka The Warrior of Waverly Street)
Titanic (Visual Effects Academy Award Winner)
Wishmaster


1995-1996

Courage Under Fire
Goldeneye
Lord of Illusions
Nixon
Waterworld (pre-vis)


1991-1994

Freejack
Jurassic Park (pre-vis)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pitch Black
Red Planet
Rules of Engagement
Scary Movie
Supernova
The Sixth Day
Supernova
X-Men

Maya's used for a heck of a lot too. I won't argue that LW is a great program, I'm just used to Maya now.

Or why not some TV Series?

Access Hollywood (NBC)
Ally McBeal (Fox)
Babylon 5 (synd/TNT)
(1993 Visual Effects Emmy Award Winner)
Baywatch (synd)
* Buffy The Vampire Slayer (UPN)
Butt-Ugly Martians (Nickelodeon)
Charmed (WB)
Crusade (TNT)
Dan Dare (UK)
Dark Angel (Fox)
Dark Skies (NBC)
Dawson's Creek (WB)
Dexter's Lab (Cartoon Network)
Enterprise (UPN)
Family Guy (Fox)
Firefly (Fox)
Gary and Mike (UPN)
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (synd)
Hypernauts (ABC)
Invader Zim (Nickelodeon)
Justice League (Cartoon Network)
Jimmy Neutron (Nickelodeon)
Mad About You (NBC)
Max Steel (WB)
Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (Fox)
NASCAR Racers (Fox)
NightMan (synd)
Pecola
The PJs (Fox/WB)
Power Puff Girls (Cartoon Network)
Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy (Fox)
Robocop: The Series (synd)
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers (synd)
seaQuest DSV (NBC)
Seven Days (UPN)
Silver Surfer: The Animated Series (Fox)
Sliders (Fox/SciFi)
Smallville (WB)
Space: Above and Beyond (Fox)
Stargate SG-1 (Showtime)
(Emmy Nomination)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (UPN)
Star Trek: Voyager (UPN)
(1999, 2001 Visual Effects Emmy Award Winner)
Timecop (ABC)
The Tonight Show (NBC)
Unsolved Mysteries (CBS)
Viper (NBC)
The Visitor (SciFi)
Weird Science (USA)
The X-Files (Fox)
(2000 Visual Effects Emmy Award Winner)
Xena: Warrior Princess (synd)
Xyber 9: New Dawn (Fox)
You Wish (ABC)

Bah, I don't care if you say you use a warez version, just don't help other people find it ;)

Actually, one of the reasons why MAYA is very famous is because they managed to take the credits for all of the Final Fantasy cutscenes movies, but guess what? The modeling was done in LightWave, while the movie sequences were done in MAYA. MAYA is an excellent movie/film industry program, but LW is a lot harder to beat when it comes to modeling or photorealism. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but it's not very easy.

Maybe I should give LW another shot, then.

Well, if we ever manage to team up for Xi, I might as well buy a few licenses to people who will need it. Of course, funding is as always a problem, but since it's not very likely that I will be able to pick up C++ and know it well enough for making Direct3D applications in a few years, I might have no other choice.

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YAAAAY! lol

Links and ways to get warez are only not allowed because the host doesn't allow it.

Plus, a web bot could flag us as a warez site and get us some pretty horrible members.

DO I KNOW YOU?!

did you post at otakuforums? or from dev..

Dev meaning devart? o_O
I'm -pek- there.

Never heard of otakuforums. Maybe there are other names for it?