:) thanks glottis, but that was Lamont there giving me a hand. I've learned quite a bit since then, have yet to implement it en masse in the scene. well i've been all over the place except for 3d lately, but now I'm back to wrapping this baby up. feeling good for the end of this month, give maybe one week for love &…
Hi! [TLDR: Tree's shadows break when masking out polygons that are perpendicular to the camera by multiplying the opacity mask with the Dot product of Camera Vector and Normals that have been calculated using DDX and DDY (as the tree has edited vertex normals). Shadows work when using Pixel or Vertex normals instead of the…
First job: someone saw my art I was posting on some art forums, polycount, cgchat etc back in the day and slid into my DM asking if i was availiable to come in for an interview/art test etc. bashed that out and got my first job as a jr env artist. actually made a video about that part of my career!…
Basically, I'm taking classes at Watts to get away from that linear caligraphy type drawing I do.....I'm trying to learn color, hues and contrast, instead of linear drawing/form. Not to say learning how to draw form is not important, but it doesn't end there. Ron Lemen and is wife Venessa were the showcase instructors at…
By adding yet another edgeloop to make the tri to a quad. Or by merging the vertices together to remove the faceloop that ends in this tri. Or you add an SDS layer, then this tri turns into quads, with a pole. Another question is if this tri makes trouble at all. When this is a final geometry then you might just be fine…
I just released the mod. As I said in my private messages, I didn't use all the material I got the authorization for in this mod, mostly because of stage location problems. But rest assured, you didn't gave me your authorization for nothing, as I will release all the stages I made as single Training Stages ;) . Again, I…
I saw this in another forum - perhaps related to the lag? Seems like they changed something regarding Windows Ink in 2020. You could try panning and zooming with the mouse first to see if lag occurs. Here’s what’s changed in 2021.1: ADDED: Preferences >> Tablet >> Tablet Driver API to determine how ZBrush works with…
It isn't "because he is using a cage" it is how averaged normals work. It has *nothing* to do with cage distance, cage distance only becomes a problem when it gets much too large and starts collapsing in on itself. The 2 bake method will work, but is pretty hacky. NO. Simply N to the O. C'mon Mop, doing this will create…
Hey, Going to participate in the Leartes&Dekogon challenge. Taking some inspiration from Eddie Mendoza and blending it with some slight retro future but also giving it some personal story elements. The setting is early 1950s and the war ended at the end of 1940s but the way it ended also triggered the end of the world.…
So for this challenge I decided I'd like to animate a character with Yordle like proportions, and I would like to animate a dance. After doing some searching, I landed on this character from Artella - https://artella.lpages.co/artella-lily-snout-giveaway/ However, there were some things about the rig and the design of the…