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Re: Brawl² Challenge / Competition, Vote and discussion?
third?Eric Chadwick said:We could make a special rank, that reverts after a couple months or something.
im hurt
(but yes - thats what i meant)
also fwiw I'd personally advise against opening it up beyond a narrow discipline - at least on the first try. its already going to be 5 times as much work as you think
poopipe
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Re: [WIP] Serpent Vase
Been through several reworks of this. I did some scanning of some native plants near me and used that to rework the central plant, which I think has a much more interesting silhouette now. Also scanned some bits and bobs to populate the scene with secondary and tertiary forms. I think I'm about 80% happy with this now, the right side still feels too empty and I think just a couple more detail elements would help push it to where I'm satisfied, just struggling to think of things that have some sort of symbolic meaning, won't dominate the scene, and also not take another 4 weeks to model.
rexo12
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Re: Advice with secondary forms
Current progress with the head so far, specifically the cranium and inside the nose... Here's a before and after:
DustyShinigami
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Re: Mirroring and stacking UVs leads to tangent discontinuity and seam
In painter > filters > material finishes. These are sometimes part of the pre made materials inside Painter, these will always show seams unless UV seams fall in more logical places. (example: apply material finish on chest armour plates 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueC2qGzWrgQ&t=1276s that wont show seams)
As for your mirroring and tangents I dont know if its Maya related, try exporting with fixed tangents as shown in your link but instead of applying pre made materials make a basic material with normal map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueC2qGzWrgQ&t=1276s that wont show seams) As for your mirroring and tangents I dont know if its Maya related, try exporting with fixed tangents as shown in your link but instead of applying pre made materials make a basic material with normal map.
HAWK12HT
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Re: Portfolio Critique Needed - 3D Environment Art
Nice furniture renders dude 
I can see a bunch of areas where you could improve, but honestly just keep making more art and pushing yourself, you'll end up improving a ton. I'd say remove the Space Marine and the Scifi room. The texturing on the Streets of Amsterdam isn't really up to par, but I'd honestly just move forward with another project. I'd suggest whatever environment you choose, make sure you make a focal point, it'll really help with the art side of things. Your next enviro really depends on what studio you want to end up in. Wanting to work on the next Dark Souls vs CoD is really different. Start keeping ArtStation Collections to collect reference and concepts which will help you make quicker decisions on your next piece.
I can see a bunch of areas where you could improve, but honestly just keep making more art and pushing yourself, you'll end up improving a ton. I'd say remove the Space Marine and the Scifi room. The texturing on the Streets of Amsterdam isn't really up to par, but I'd honestly just move forward with another project. I'd suggest whatever environment you choose, make sure you make a focal point, it'll really help with the art side of things. Your next enviro really depends on what studio you want to end up in. Wanting to work on the next Dark Souls vs CoD is really different. Start keeping ArtStation Collections to collect reference and concepts which will help you make quicker decisions on your next piece.Don't put too much time into thinking about your photo on ArtStation lol. Good luck
Ashervisalis
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Re: How would I unwrap and bake this car model?
First of all awesome, its a Supra!
Now for automotive work you model the car mid poly, I have never seen automotive work going through high and low poly. Due to the nature of car's curvature shifts and mostly flat areas. Usually you bake the mid poly car onto itself to get the required maps.
Having said that vehicles that do go through high / low poly pass may include military vehicles or ones that have been acquired via photogrammetry.
Enable Apply Diffusion, it helps with blank areas during mipping. Try with min / max distance at .007. Also make sure _high _low suffix match your car parts, they are case sensitive (if your car_part_High then make sure in High Poly Mesh Suffix area its _High and not _high)
Some links and images below to assist you. All the best!
https://www.speedhunters.com/2011/11/behind_the_scenes_creating_cars_need_for_speed_run/
https://www.speedhunters.com/2015/07/creating-the-cars-of-need-for-speed/
https://80.lv/articles/vehicle-production-for-games/
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L38yJl (call of duty vehicle artist)
Now for automotive work you model the car mid poly, I have never seen automotive work going through high and low poly. Due to the nature of car's curvature shifts and mostly flat areas. Usually you bake the mid poly car onto itself to get the required maps.
Having said that vehicles that do go through high / low poly pass may include military vehicles or ones that have been acquired via photogrammetry.
Enable Apply Diffusion, it helps with blank areas during mipping. Try with min / max distance at .007. Also make sure _high _low suffix match your car parts, they are case sensitive (if your car_part_High then make sure in High Poly Mesh Suffix area its _High and not _high)
Some links and images below to assist you. All the best!
https://www.speedhunters.com/2011/11/behind_the_scenes_creating_cars_need_for_speed_run/
https://www.speedhunters.com/2015/07/creating-the-cars-of-need-for-speed/
https://80.lv/articles/vehicle-production-for-games/
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L38yJl (call of duty vehicle artist)
HAWK12HT
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Re: Brawl² Challenge / Competition, Vote and discussion?
End of June, beginning of July seems like a decent time frame to get this organized and build up hype. I think limiting the categories to character and environment is fine, if there is enough interest for other categories, then perhaps sometime in the future. Other things that need to be thought about is who are the judges going to be and how many do we need? Are we going to rely on volunteers or have to reach out to people? The people judging should also not be participating in any other way in the interest of fairness.
Alemja
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Re: Love the feedback recently
Agreed. I think it's fair to assume that social media platforms are losing their appeal, and people are *very much* thirsty for places like here and are slowly but surely coming back. So, a big thank you to everyone behind the scenes putting time and resources into maintaining this place.
If anything I'd personally love for the Showcase and Critique section to be complemented by a "wall of current art" page, showing the first (or last ?) image of each thread, going back as far as possible. In principle there's nothing wrong with the oldschool display of thread titles but it doesn't really make things visible (the magnifying glass helps but is a bit tedious). Such an art wall wouldn't replace the text based view, but could be a handy complementary page and a good resource for browsing.
The site homepage does that to an extent, but it only highlighting threads with replies as a "best of" defeats its purpose quite a bit IMHO.
If anything I'd personally love for the Showcase and Critique section to be complemented by a "wall of current art" page, showing the first (or last ?) image of each thread, going back as far as possible. In principle there's nothing wrong with the oldschool display of thread titles but it doesn't really make things visible (the magnifying glass helps but is a bit tedious). Such an art wall wouldn't replace the text based view, but could be a handy complementary page and a good resource for browsing.
The site homepage does that to an extent, but it only highlighting threads with replies as a "best of" defeats its purpose quite a bit IMHO.
pior
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Re: Sketchbook: David Cruz
okay real post this time, this been on off a month or so, i really liked the look of this concept so i wanted to replicate it for now in a sculpt, i had to make up the back and adjust things "away" from the concept, so practicing that part of my "reinterpretations/recreations". playing with ruffle ideas, already made the backpack/weapon+. right click img cntrl+ for zoom action.
Hope ya like it, cya later.
iam717
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Concept sketching practice
Hey guys. I’m pushing my concept sketching skills. I’d love to see any feedback you may have. Lately I’m focusing on vehicles(because they’re awesome.) what I’m trying to improve right now is line weight/quality and form design. Thanks for checking out my thread.
This is a UGV(unmanned ground vehicle) design based on some reference I collected
Rektum
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