ChaosV49-Hand of redepmtion (2handed axe)

Chaosv49

Hey guys I have submitted a sketchbook with all my work there but its not been approved yet. Here is an axe I did for my friend but it's more modified.
Any crits? I'm a young modeller and want to become a weapon artist. Am I doing pretty good so far?

MachineMinded

Your axe appears to be a bit blunt. That's the first thing you should fix. Then I'm assuming that this is a high polygon model from which you're planning on baking a normalmap to a lowpoly model you're actually going to use in game. If not then, I'd suggest that you do a bit search into that, it'll be helpful and interesting.

Chaosv49

Fixed.

Chaosv49

Its not very high poly.

Chaosv49

Can anyone post a good uvw texturing tutorial? I dont understand how to make my own textures and place them on the rendered wire maps.

BradMyers82

You could always google it, but when I was learning I found this tutorial helpful:
http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html

(btw, I'm guessing you want a tutorial for max, cause your screen grabs are from 3ds max).

Lord McMutton

I think that Machine was talking about the blade, or the lack thereof.

bounchfx

aye dude that axe aint gonna be cutting anything without sharp edges

or any edges, for that matter. unless the view fails me, it looks like your actual blade parts are just extruded out and not brought together. first thing I'd say to fix!

Chaosv49

I'm looking for a tutorial on how to actually make textures from photos and place them ontop of the wireframe mapping.

oobersli

seems you got a bit of studying to do with 3d. since you seem to be using max just go to ...help option on the top menu and select tutorials....and you'll find all the help you need.

Chaosv49

Hey mate uhm, I'm 15. I've been using max for around 2 years on and off. How many 15 years olds can do that? Thats insulting to point me to the tutorials mate.

Jeremy Lindstrom

just because you're 15 doesn't mean you shouldn't look at the tutorials. There's a couple 15 year olds on the forums that are doing awesome stuff. Grow a thicker skin, if you've been using it for 2 years then uv layouts should be a breeze. Polycounts is about tough love, there's plenty of tutorials out there for unwrapping in 3dsmax.

http://www.moddb.com/tutorials/unwrapping-in-3ds-max-for-beginners

Good luck man, and get a sharp edge on that axe!

Michael Knubben

It's insulting to want us to hold your hand, when some much better artists have already written down everything they know on the subject.

You know, in the form of a tutorial...

Dekard's right, you know. Grow some thicker skin, or you won't get very much out of Polycount. And there's so very much to learn here!

dolemite

Yeh man, I was doing stuff with 3D when I was 15. Thought I was hot shit. Too bad I didn't hit the boards and take crits way back then. As it is I'm 25 and having to learn really basic shit.

Don't let it happen to you.

oobersli

insulting? one of the best things max users can do to learn 3d is to use the tutorials within the program. Better than a lot of online tutorials and its right at your fingertips. I'll still reference back to them if I need to refresh myself on something.

and fyi , I'm not your mate.