maybe this will help. the idea being to keep the focus on the dynamite. your lining is competing with the dynomite and the clock. also desaturating the dyn-o-mite a bit will further help to punch the clock out... the light from the clock wouldn't bleed out across the rest of the object either, because the lip of the clock…
hey man just got that chance to get back to you about your work. your clock is turning out to be your best piece yet. make sure to stick to reference very closely. make sure things center up as well since where things are located on the top of the clock seem like they might be offset a bit to the left. The little sculpted…
The gears at the 90 degree junction should be bevel gears. The gears for the clock are quite a bit more complicated, and you're going to need two hands. Note that the outer shaft is a great deal thicker - it has to enclose the inner shaft. You'll also need a solid support where the shaft passes through the glass - the…
@Jerc Something to keep an eye on that I've been noticing. When opening Painter, sometimes, it will not utilize my entire GPU. I have GPU-Z open and the times that my card hits 100% clock speed, the viewport seems to be running fine. However, there are many times where it won't even hit 50% clock speed with the same…
Really cool stuff! For the sheet metal I'd just model them as boxes, paint them flat, and then cut and bend them afterwards. It'll make handpainting and uv'ing easier in the long run. Also, I think that if your bomb clock is going to be the centerpiece, then the silhouette could probably be a bit more interesting. Right…
Wanted to follow up and show some progress on this project after a long bout of silence. Found myself having to do a lot of trial and error with the cloak's detail repetition and making sure I can bake the details to the hood properly before pushing it down like the concept through sculpting or simulation later, but my…
Yeah, manufacturers pick the benchmarks in which they look good. But Blender should be a decent pick for a multithreaded performance comparison to their 8 module FX line (e.g. FX 8350 etc.), which as far as I remember was much slower than Intels 4 core CPUs in Blender (a i7 4770 was 50% faster in the BMW bench if I…
Yeah I guess they do have a slight FEAR vibe... Thanks man :p I actually spent a little time figuring out the rotation speeds in relation to the timing of our engine with our coder, so that the clock model is perfect. By perfect I mean the second hand takes 60 seconds to do 360 degrees, and jumps to the next second, like a…
Any company worth the game it makes, makes time for R&D on the clock and does not relay on its employee's off the clock time to help improve its pipeline and its games. I might leave work and still think about my job because I love it, but they shouldn't bank on me clocking out, heading home and clocking back in. Tool…
1) Was it a BFG? They over clock most of thier cards and "say" they are safe but I have seen a lot of BFG's burn out. So much so that I won't buy one. We have customers call/email in saying "after hours of play my game crashed". If they have a BFG or they over clocked the card themselves we have them under clock it and…