Thanks for posting this, was nice to read about it and will be sure to share this with a friend of mine who did quit 3d and now does a webpage study coding thing. anyway, he did doubt his skills and thought ''why am I not improving like the rest of the class? why are they and I'm not?'' etc. well I did now get him back to…
I'd take care with the design of your character as well. Sit down and draw out who this person is. Why wear the clothes she wears? Why only have one pauldron? Right now the rough details like the gear imprint into her boot and belt makes no solid sense when seen alotgether. It sort of feels cobbled from Insert Mesh…
People who constantly point out the inferior hardware of apple products completely miss the point. The hardware specs are not that relevant to people who buy apple, it's the iOS/Mac OS. Apple happens to make the only hardware that comes with iOS/Mac OS, and that's why they can charge whatever they want. As someone who owns…
I dunno man, i can understand why it's a difficult legal issue, however as a person, and a parent my view is this: Teaching children that paying money for the CHANCE to get something they want, leads to the learned behaviour that gambling is fun. There are enough adults out there who know gambling can cause problems, who…
Not to be an ass, but kids should consider going to public schools rather than $30,000/year privates. Unless your family is rich, or you can absolutely guarantee that you'll get a job paying 130k immediately out of school, it probably just isn't worth the cost. Not a ton of sympathy here for the government bailing out…
I think usually when people give you feed back, they should stick more to telling you how you can improve on what you already have done, anyone that feels its their place to tell you what to do specifically that has nothing to do with what you wanted their opinion on in the first place can go to hell. Usually I find people…
supporting edges / quad chamfers and creases are sorta same same but different. supporting edges give you better control over the edgequality, as in, its always going to be the same width as per your setting, while with creases the result is highly based on the surrounding geo. its just a slight mindset shift, creases are…
I saw it last night. I thought the CG in general was pretty damn solid, especially the animation and shader work on the Tharks. Unfortunately, that's basically the best thing I can say about the entire ordeal. There were a couple of shots that were noticeably badly framed, even for someone like me who has zero film or…
I don't really boycott products just because of someones opinion and unless the person was an activist or highly influential I don't even think it'd be very helpful. Even then, I've bought books in the past from authors I thought were nuts specifically to read about their points of view so I've bought stuff intentionally…
Oh hell no don't recycle electronics! Reuse yes, but don't recycle them. I don't like e-cycling any more than you do oXYnary, most of it just goes to some 3rd world country that's happy to have some kind of money flowing in. They don't handle it correctly, they just do what is "uncool" to do in the US, they landfill it.…