Wow, thanks everyone Bobo - Thanks The first Photoshop painting tutorial I ever took a gander at was your video (must be 6-7 years old by now) when you were painting a dude's face with almost all dodge and burn :P Needless to say, your style has changed since then, but the inspiration is still there. Thanks! Aes - I can't…
ROUND 1 Topic Suggested: Ninja Pirate Topic Interpretation: The suggested idea asks me to make a Ninja Pirate. This implies that the character is/may be from Japan. So, topic can be considered as Japanese Pirate. Since there is no time-period specification, it is open to choice. Hence, I may be making a futuristic Pirate…
dang, I pretty much finished writing this whole post and then for no reason at all my computer blue screen of death on me. Anyway, At work for about a year or so I've been doing a bit of hand painted characters although these characters are really simple and have relatively fast turn around I wanted to see what I could do…
Hello Guys! *UPDATE* Just to update! We are live! As lobo had placed up. We are so thrilled to finally be able to show somethings with everyone! Every day we have a team of people working to get things done for this. There is so much excitment on the project that it makes me thrilled to be a part of such an awesome team!…
I'm a lot more technically oriented than I am purely artistic/creative, and visual approaches to creativity don't work well for me. If I try scribbling silhouettes or rough forms to create a unique design, I just seem to end up with random blobs - looks like a rorschach test gone very wrong :) What I do instead is pretend…
I agree nothing is going to give you better results than doing it all by hand but what a task that is. I do a few metric tons of lip sync every year. Pretty much the same situation it sounds like. The two apps you're looking at, don't. They are both horrible. At work we looked into them both extensively and came to the…
Week 2 - End Apologies for the late update, i had a rather hectic weekend! this will hopefully bring everyone up to speed with where i was at on sunday (end of week 2). i spend much of the week tweaking and refining the torso shape, getting it to a place i was happy. i also spent a lot of time on the head. i'm not happy…
Sweet... The drama's back... (The following is an effort to help you keep your threads railed) I agree that you're too sensitive to critique and defensive of your mistakes, as most artists are. This thread and 2 others are full of it. No one is putting words in your mouth or telling you what you think, they're restating a…
Thanks a lot guys for the comments. I normally use color specular maps. For this project I wanted to use greyscale specular since I'm learning that not all engines use color specular. I would have prefered color specular since I'm not a fan of white highlights (the miniature painter in me just has this thing against using…
Sup dudes! I'm here to share my process with ya'll, get some feedback, answer any questions you may have, and hopefully contribute something positive to Polycount. I also want to thank all the people in the WAYWO thread that gave me some encouraging comments :) thanks dudes! My process is kinda still in a pre-mature state.…