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These are all things i worked on recently (meaning yesterday and today), and i'd like any advice i can get.
This officially makes me a has-been slacker, while Crash is still quite firmly lodged in the "massive slacker"-category.
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The red mesh could use some tightening up and such but other wise i'd say your on a path of kick assedness.
Now texture all of them!
Nice stuff.
Here's a little preview of the bug:
That texture is why pea rules.
edit: an updated bin
black bits will be alpha'd out, including the handle. And there's a bag inside of there, as well.
I agree with your comment, Sectaurs, but i wanted them to be horns from the beginning, so i really wanted to stick with that. I hope it works, as they were the hardest part to texture, heh.
If i can find some more time to work today (what with my roommate's girlfriend egging me on to mop the floor, haha.) i'll try some different colours for that trashbin, and i'll put in some more colours, as it's still entirely monochrome right now.
Would it be silly (with a decent portfolio-piece in mind) to use a small (256) texture for the streetlight, considering its rather high polycount?
Keep it up hombre!
the pot-bellied female klesk is cute
I did some tiling stuff today, as i've never really done much of that, and i think i should have things like that in my portfolio.
The wallpapers tile quite good horizontally, and i'll add a border for the ceiling at some time tommorow. I want to do some grass later, but i've never done tiling grass that was larger than 128x128, so i don't really know where to begin. I suppose a picture would be a good idea, but does anyone have any advice on a way to do more stylised grass, as a tiling texture?
I should probably mention that this is sourced from a photo from imageafter, allthough i edited it a lot, to get it to tile well. The second picture shows it being tiled, and as you can see there's no very obvious pattern to them, except for the vertical line of red bricks... Should i attempt to get rid of those as well, or is this good? I'm trying to do these within a short timeframe, to teach myself some shortcuts (ways to do things faster, not keyboard shortcuts
Since all of this is being done to have new material in my portfolio, what do you think i should focus on? I'm shooting for a "texture-artist with modelling experience" kind of thing, so textures are my main thing.
Play some Metroid Prime for some ideas.
Hey, the last guy I saw doing a Metroid Prime enviroment got a job there, so go Retro-style!
And i know these aren't very original, but i don't think my chances of being hired would be all that good if i only had stylised things, right? i'm just re-familiarising (what a word! does that even exist? it does now!) myself with getting textures to tile, and i wanted a few of these photo-sourced things in my portfolio anyway.
For sure making them isn't the most exciting thing to do, but it's good to have in there i guess...
Anyway, here's a model i've tinkered with a bit today:
There are still lots of bits i can (and should!) clean up, but i'm still just roughly fleshing out what he's going to look like.
I tried to keep a team-workflow in mind during this, but i still have to kick the habit of using lots of ngons and all that i guess... allthough i do find it enables me to work much faster, and leave the cleanup untill the end, so i don't clean up anything that might be gone at the end anyway.
i don't think my chances of being hired would be all that good if i only had stylised things, right?
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Not suggesting you should make stylized textures, You should just pick better source. You can still make something extremely interesting AND be realistic. Add dirt, grit, stains. Pick some interesting surfaces like a stone wall with windows and engravings. Maybe go a little more fantastical in your subject or more sci fi. I'm not suggesting you go stylized, just make more interesting textures if you want to stand out!
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/rorshach/index2.shtml
Also StrangeFate has some good ones.
http://www.strangefate.com/textures/sf.html