REVIEW
DECEMBER 5,
2000
Alias|Wavefront Maya Paint Effects
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Those supplied in the basic
set offer a great range
of brushes, from metal and fibers to trees, foods and flesh. Each effect can be
customized to produce infinite variety. So let's take a look at some of what's
included.
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Airbrush:
This set includes a number of airbrush effects for creating basic strokes.
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Alien: The
Alien set includes odd shapes and patterns, including mutated plants and some
other unnatural effects.
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Animals:
This includes just one brushgarter snake.
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Clouds: The
produceyou guessed it!cloud effects. They require a lot of tweaking
to achieve the photorealism of the other effects in this package.
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Electrical:
This includes lightning and spark effects.
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Feathers:
Includes downs, fluffy feathers and variegated feathers.
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Fibers: Includes
rope, twine, wicker, etc.
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Fire: Various
styles of fire.
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Flesh: Ever
feel like grossing out your friends and family? This is the set for you. From
mounds of fingers to twisted yards of hairy arms to less than medically sound
incisions, this one has it all. Quite disgusting. Gotta love it.
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Flowers:
In stark contrast to the Flesh category, these brushes produce lovely little stands
of flowers, ranging from daisies to roses.
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Food: This
category, like Flesh, can produce some disgusting results as well, from raw meat
to corn on the cob.
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Fun: This
category has a little bit of everything in it, from confetti to bricks. Hey, sounds
like a party to me.
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Galactic:
Includes space stuff.
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Glass: Includes
glass stuff.
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Glows: Includes
various glowing shapes, from fibre optics to aurora borealis.
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Grasses:
Includes things that grow in fields, like corn, dry grass, lawn grass, etc.
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Hair: Includes
several hair styles, like dreadlocks and kinky red hair. Very nice for creating
Spirograph-style designs as well.
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Liquid: This
has water effects. It's actually not all that photorealistic a category, as you
might have noted from the waterfall in the sample QuickTime movie from page 1.
But it can be tweaked for some interesting results.
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Markers:
These brushes create the effect of markers (as in Magic Markers).
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Metal: This
category offers some nice brushes that can be used to create chainlink fences,
gold chain necklaces, tubing and other metal objects. Quite nice.
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Oil: This
set draws strokes reminiscent of brush strokes from an oil painting.
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Paper: Creates
fiber effects from paper and canvas materials.
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Pastel: Creates
pastel strokes.
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Pens: Creates
pen strokes.
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Plants: Offers
a number of plant effects, like brambles, pine cones, leaves, etc.
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Trees: Does
just what the name says. The basic pack includes ferns, pine trees and birches.
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Underwater:
Has a lot of underwater effects, from bubbles to aquatic life forms.
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Watercolor:
Creates watercolor strokes.
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Wet in Wet:
Creates wet effects.