Show Reel Help Questions.

edwoods

Hi, i'm in the process of creating a showreel for character modelling and just have a few questions if anyone can help me. I've pretty much finished my first character which is around 11,000 polygons but unsure of whats best for the finale so to speak.

1. What's the best program to render turntable's in ? I have acces to Zbrush, Maya and Blender. (Mac only)

2. When showing your character in your showreel i seem to see very low polygon model's which seem to be the high res versions, do you show off the higher sculted res version then show the wireframe for the base mesh; as i've seen a few and they certantly dont just look like normal, spec maps etc..... or are the low poly with a smooth filter/preview on them.

Thanks.

ZacD

Anything you present in a game art portfolio should be rendered in real time, you could use a game engine or a view port shader.

Game artists should not be using smoothing unless they are working with dx11 and tessellation.

Jason Young

I'd focus on putting together a stills portfolio before a demo reel.

David-J

JMYoung wrote: »

I'd focus on putting together a stills portfolio before a demo reel.

+1

Autarkis

I would show a quick turn of the high poly and then the low poly baked version. I know in your list you do not have access to this, but I would definitely recommend Marmoset toolbag to render your low poly, it's ease of use and setup of mesh is bar non the best. The price is extremely low too ( 50 bucks.) Like the other have said, work on nice stills first