Jesse Pitela now has 50 detailed tutorials including free project files for Phoenix FD and 3DS Max. Get them on Gumroad.
Jesse Pitela now has 50 detailed tutorials including free project files for Phoenix FD and 3DS Max. Get them on Gumroad.
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Lots of 500 Internal Server errors Gumroad page.
Hammer Chen is much better, this Joe Panini dude can only use the presets.
hahahaha I’m excited I’m successful enough to have haters. Have a good one Darren.
Come on, please appreciate at least the effort this “dude” is making for FREE!
Btw nothing wrong in using preset as starting point imo, as he shows how (and why) to tweak them to get the desired effect.
Being able to reinvent the wheel under pressure is no doubt a useful skill, and innovative solutions can be great. But working ‘clever’ has its place, and price. My clients tend to only worry about results and meeting deadlines, they rarely give a monkeys about the process I use to get there. Kudos to Joe – these tutorials seem to go a long way to plug the gap of decent (and free) tutorials for Phoenix.
Yeah, totally disqualifying comment. I can’t tell if you are trolling or not. But I’m sure that that “dude” can’t do shit about errors on gumroad servers. He is giving all the work experience, files and knowledge out for free, this sense of community is what made 3ds strong in the first place. It is unfortunate to see that this community is more and more disgraced because of ungrateful individuals. I also recall the ivy grow incident.
Thanks dude for the files and the time and effort it took to make the tutorials. It’s much appreciated by the vast majority! Cheers.
At last some quality training for PhoenixFD. Thanks!