Change of Scenery

I have been reading this book everywhere: I went to the beach, too sandy and cold; then to the park, to windy; now I just sit indoors and try to get through it.

I am branching out at Palma, getting more heavily involved in Lighting/Rendering. We are currently using Mental Ray for Maya, I have a passable knowledge of how to get what I need for compositing, and enough Pre-Prod background to produce assets for rendering. 

Still, lighting and rendering can make or break a good model, and you can only fix and hide so much in post.