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It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
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It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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Re: Advice with secondary forms
Regarding the lats: that last image above is veering back to the “too artificial” territory to me. I liked the direction you were going with in the few images up from the bottom in the previous page here:
DustyShinigami said:Just added some bulkier softer shapes instead. Not sure if they'd be considered 'readable' though, or make any sense. :-\
With the main tweak being that I would try to bring some planarity back and probably with some of the other muscle groups too, just to add some larger level specular break-up to the forms so that not everything would look so uniformly inflated.
The top image that Eric shared of the bodybuilder is really
good reference for that. The original models also has this quality to it.
As mentioned earlier: I would still recommend doing an equal pass on the whole model, as I think it would help you better gauge what areas need work. Looks like progress!
pxgeek
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Re: Advice with secondary forms
Just added some bulkier softer shapes instead. Not sure if they'd be considered 'readable' though, or make any sense. :-\
DustyShinigami
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Re: Game-Ready Fire Extinguisher
Looks really great! The only thing that stands out to me, as that the paint is shaded like a metal, while most fire extinguishers I have seen have a glossy red paint that isn't metallic.
Example:
Love all the fine details on this!
Example:
Love all the fine details on this!
Joopson
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Re: Game-Ready Fire Extinguisher
I think what Eric is talking about is you can see the low poly issue here in the render. If this was for a hero asset, or for a portfolio, I would honestly just add a few more edge loops into the low poly specifically here so you can't see this jagged shape.
Dope prop btw 
Ashervisalis
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Re: Game-Ready Fire Extinguisher
This looks great. One thing that stands out to me is the chunkiness of the rubber hose, and the two metal bands around the body. If possible I'd like to see a few more edges to smooth out these curves.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Feeling lost and hopeless out of education as a games artist
.... hell was that!!
a breath of foul air thankfully flushed away whence it came
sacboi
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Re: Feeling lost and hopeless out of education as a games artist
Well, did I make the right call? Need to be careful and considerate when carrying the admin stick, which I don't always do, my apologies.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: [FINISHED] Scifi Antenna
Hello! It's been a long time since the last update, but I finally found some time to continue working on this model. I refined the high-poly version and created a low-poly model with around 11.6k triangles. Here’s the result after baking the maps. The mechanical arm is split into separate pieces for animation.
Dolgaror
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Re: Struggling with Head Anatomy – Need Feedback to Break the Cycle
Have you heard of the loomis and Asaro methods? Of head construction.. should help with planes of the face switching between 2D and 3D might help you there.. I would suggest spending time on areas away from heads like anatomy, musculature, texturing anything else at all that will help improve other areas. When you do circle back to heads I strongly suggest studying the tissues and muscles bone structure of the human head not just a visual sculpt from pictures unless you're already doing that try to reconstruct a human head in all of it's anatomical parts under the skin. Something over looked is that blood fluids, fats etc change the shape of a face in subtle ways.. A person upside down looks different from their right side up counterpart
Seriously good stuff keep up the good work
bayonetricochet
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Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros
A lot of the design choices are mostly solid now, been going through and eliminating a lot of subpar or awkward design choices I made early on. I don't think much will change, all that's left is polish and finishing up. Stomach and lower back still needs work IMO.
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
zetheros
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