Hi there
Is it possible to upload the video as a downloadable file please ?
I would like to watch it slowly and in detail, since your modeling and painting skills are of topshelf quality
Does anyone have a link to the pages oke the user who did that worm vidoes by chance,
Thanks
Cobus
Hi SagaN,
if you watch the movies with internet explorer, you can find them in IE’s cache:
C:\Documents and Settingsxxx(the current user)Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
rename get[1].jsp to whatever.flv and watch them with a Flv player
(copy get.jsp first to your desktop or another place)
Good Luck
Nickz thanks for a new one to watch 
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In the meantime i´ve scrutinized my HD and couldn´t find anything.
Very strange! The only conclusion i have is that it was some kind
of bogus-virus attached to the agressive ad(drivecleaner) popping up
shortly after the video began which made my security app react.
So it seems to be only annoying but harmless,hopefully.
Never had such a thing before.
Veoh should do something against obtrusive ad pop ups of that kind.
I didn’t get one. I’m on a mac though so it might be different. Or, maybe you got a trojan from a different window that was open.
Nice work as always Nick. Can’t wait to see the final texturing and rendering.
I get the same thing: IE blocks because of a detected virus
DONTCLICKhttp://nl.winantivirus.com/download/2007/?ax=1&ex=1&ed=2&aid=bottomof_be_nl&lid=intl&affid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]
This thing starts scanning your puter even is you tell it not. I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del force it to stop. Therefore I added DONTCLICK to the adress.
I don’t believe it is a real virusscanner as no serious company would do a thing like that.
I checked and it’s spyware that seems to be very hard to remove.
Bloody hell!
Spybot S1D found six cookies and five better hidden data. It went straight through my Sygate firewall and AVG virusscanner, both at maximum security.
I’m not saying nor implying you are responsible Nick, only warning people to stter clear from veoh for now.
I just bought another complete suite (Panda) that with an online scan found another entry.
Just hope I won’t have to do a total reinstall like some people advise to do when this “winantivirus” is found…
ahhh…those bastards! they should be flayed alive, a square inch a day! may the rot and burn in hell!
update: panda found another 57 entries of this malware.
Sorry guys and gals, I had no idea, I feel rather dirty now. Just when you find something great on the net…BLAM. Some hacker/whatever you want to call him/her has to go and ruin it for everyone.
What can we/I do besides get a Mac?
This really sucks if I can’t share my work with this site anymore…because it is a great site! It is times like these that I could just walk away from computers for ever and just scultp in real clay!
Sorry all!
NickZ. 
Sent an e-mail to the veoh tech support:
I uploaded this video
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v850664CHYZG7J7?c=nickz
And my users are reporting that when they try to load the page that there is a virus that is being detected.
“Hi,
just tried to look at your video and caught a trojan virus,
thought you might want to know.”
"I get the same thing: IE blocks because of a detected virus
DONTCLICKhttp://nl.winantivirus.com/download/2007/?ax=1&ex=1&ed=2&aid=bottomof_be_nl&lid=intl&affid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]
This thing starts scanning your puter even is you tell it not. I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del force it to stop. Therefore I added DONTCLICK to the adress.
I don’t believe it is a real virusscanner as no serious company would do a thing like that.
I checked and it’s spyware that seems to be very hard to remove.
Bloody hell!"
"Spybot S1D found six cookies and five better hidden data. It went straight through my Sygate firewall and AVG virusscanner, both at maximum security.
I’m not saying nor implying you are responsible Nick, only warning people to stter clear from veoh for now.
I just bought another complete suite (Panda) that with an online scan found another entry.
Just hope I won’t have to do a total reinstall like some people advise to do when this “winantivirus” is found…
ahhh…those bastards! they should be flayed alive, a square inch a day! may the rot and burn in hell!
update: panda found another 57 entries of this malware."
Could someone please help?
Thank you,
Nick Zuccarello.
Hope they figure this out!
Thanks for understanding I/we do appreciate your work a lot and you are in NO way responsible for this!
Guys, at the top of the Veoh video window is a button that says Download.
I suggest you try it.
I agree with Aeneas,definitely not your fault nick.
willbrown1:plakkie tried that with not so much success the
other day.
Hello guys. If you see this stuff on Veoh while looking at this video then please take a screenshot of it and send it to me at [email protected]. You can’t get a virus from our site but if the sponsor has a rogue pop-up that directs you to another site then it could happen. We are currently looking into this problem and we’ll take care of it when we find the culprit.
Here is the render that I have so far. This is one of my sub-d levels exported and rendered with a normal map.
[attach=90474]alienHost_render_test_004.jpg[/attach]
Still working on getting a displacement map to render correctly.
(I’m taking the alpha number from Z and plugging that into the alpha gain, then div that by -2 and plugging that into the alpha offset. I have even tried the “Take the “Alpha Depth factor” number and divide by 10, then divide it by 3, then multiply by 2 this will give you the Alpha Gain
Take this number and divide it by -2 to give you the Alpha Offset (half and in negative)” - Thanks DeusEx for that.)
It is rendering, but I am having trouble setting the alpha gain and alpha offset in Maya correctly. (doesn’t look that strong to me, but with I push the numbers the model looks bloated.)
I’m starting to think that that magic number doesn’t exist.
Once I get the displacement working I will feel confident that I can move on to animation set up.
Thanks for looking,
NickZ.
Damn. Thats a lot of work to go through? I usually set my desired alpha, be it 0.4 (I guess this till I get a similar look) and negative half my offset(-0.2) and it works fine. Also did you try crank up your displacement in photoshop to about 80 percent in the contrast? That also helps.
Yeah I’ve thought the same thing about maya and using disp maps. I agree with cranking up the contrast. Another little trick I’ve used is exporting the cage mesh and using that as a blendshape. This gives you more of the original zb shape when it is smoothed. Only problem with this is the model might get a little swelled but I can usually find a blendshape value that is a happy medium.
I recently had an artist ask how I would approach making skin pores for a character inside of ZBrush.
[attach=90475]skinpores.jpg[/attach]
I put together a very quick video (02:23) to demonstrate how to do this.
You can take a look at the video here:
Hope this helps someone out!
Thanks,
NickZ.
I seen (and downloaded… ) all your videos on Weoh…
Fantastic techniques and subjects… 
You Rock Man!!! 
Really love all your work. especially the aliens. Cool movies and thanks for the tut movie on the skin pores.
I have had a few people request a video on how to project detail and color from a hi res mesh onto a resurfaced mesh.
I had some time today to put together a video on this.
[attach=90476]resurfProjectionMovie.jpg[/attach]
You can take a look at the video by following this link:
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TUTORIAL
Hope this helps some people out.
Peace,
NickZ.
Part 2
This is a short video on how to add new sub division levels to a mesh that has been projected from another source mesh. This is a little confusing as to why the ability to add new sub division levels is grayed out. I’m not even surewhy the process that I am showing works…I just know that it works. I also show how to enable the displacement key as well.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1139056kK2eR9nr
I just uploaded at 11:18 ET (9/13/07) give the video some time to process. (about 20 min.)
Sorry no sound, I didn’t have my mic. tonight.
Hope this helps.
Great video and great work Nick.
Have you tried the subtool > project all feature? I find it gives a lot less distortions on most meshes than the zsphere projection method.