Cynthia Hansen

Great info from all of you! And big thanks for the support! Patrick, was there a particular lawyer at that firm? It looks like they are licensed here in California so would like to consider calling them.

Thanks Ernest for the information. I was wondering about the copyright issue.

Thanks for your input Tom.

no George, no money. And yes it was malicious. But the bottom line is that now the company that he was contracted to is using my works without my permission.

Hi Tommy, do you know what kind of lawyer? And by naming and shaming, do you mean the dirtbag who hired me as his sub or the real estate development company that's now using the images? Legal contract no, sigh.. but an agreement via emails as to the price.

So, A little less than a year ago a certain a@@hat hired me to model and render out a bunch of homes for a well known developer. Long story short he tried to rip me off, so I refused to give him the final hi rez pics. I figured my loss and lesson learned but then I went to the real estate developers website and find they are using the low rez versions of my renderings. They are small pics but they are plastered everywhere on their friggin sight! So yeah, I'm pissed. I don't know if Mr. Douchebag got paid but he apparently did give them the low rez renderings. I've located a PR person of theirs and have requested that they at least remove the renderings or be paid for them. We'll see what happens. Does anyone know if I have a legal leg to stand on to get compensated by the company that's now freely using them? Thanks.

My favorite so far is "I want it to pop more but soften everything..." ..

Thank you Dimitrios for your rather thorough reply to my query. This is why I love this forum: so many people from around the world having such extensive knowledge in all aspects of the 3d world, you can find an answer for anything.

Thank you, Dylan, for your very clear explanation.

Hi all, I'm in the process of ordering a new computer and am not tech minded and have been limping along on an old Precision 690 XEON 5140, so please bear with me. I'm looking at ordering a Dell system (Dell Precision T3600, six core E5-1650), and there is 1 type of RAM available that is Non-ECC : DDR3 UDIMM, (4x2 GB DIMMS), and 2 types that are ECC: 1333Mhz, DDR3 SDRAM(4 DIMM) and DDR3 RDIMM, 1600 MHz(4 x 2GB DIMM). Could someone on here explain the difference to me (in laymans terms please)and why one might be better than another for my needs? I primarily use 3dsMax, Vray and Photoshop and occasionally After Effects, Premiere and Illustrator. Thanks in advance, Cynthia

Nice one Fran. Hope you have a great year!

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Thanks Fran, I was hoping you might have an idea as to what to do for the conversion! Cynthia

Hi all, I've offered my 3d rendering services pro bono to a group that is rebuilding an orphanage in Haiti. The problem is that they use Rhino. I'm not familiar with it and they aren't sure what would be the best file format to give me. From what little I can find online to convert a Rhino file for 3ds Max, it looks like there is the NPower converter is the best way to go. Unfortunately, I can't afford to get it at this time as I'm out of work and money is tight. Are there other suggestions that you could give me that would work best for me to get the file? I'd really like to help them out with this. Thanks, Cynthia