Hey Danny, If this is your first time ever modeling a character, I'd say this is a decent start. You've got the basic resemblance of a human figure there. The next step is getting much more refined with your proportions and shaping the anatomy better. If you look at the wireframe renders of his face from the side, you have…
old_man_funk: There actually is now no chance to see it inagme as the animator needs a few more days to get him done (and I don't know if he is willing to/can work over the holidays. Once there are pics avaible, you'll be the frst to see them. Renaud Galand: Basically it's the base color (which are officially blue and…
I'm in a similar situation. I work in IT, and make nearly 75k yearly. It's stable, though I move around a lot from contract to contract. I'm miserable. I've wanted to be a game artist since I could pick up a pencil. My life wasnt really conducive to spending time on modeling etc. I just grabbed a job in IT since I had to…
"I'm needing direction in the way of color and realistic shading." The two things you describe are worlds apart. Start with values ( scales of grey) and how they describe a surface. If you can show how a surface is in grey, color will be much easier since you are working digitally. Also working digitally is not…
One of the things that excites me most about my Industrial Design course at the moment is that I'm finally learning to sketch properly. We're only a little way in so I don't have much to show for it yet, but they're very big on weeding out bad technique quickly. One thing they're very big on is confidence of linework.…
Here's some of my pencil stuff from my anatomy class. Gonna call this one "Where mah cheesepuffs at?" This was my final. We were supposed to copy some other piece of art or photograph and make it all blocktastic. So I saw this picture and thought it was way too fun to pass up.…
@Jeff Parrott: Thanks again! I tried it and I think I achieved a better result with a bigger brush! @Cremuss: Thanks a lot for your critique! I really admire your hand painted art and it was one of the main reasons I finally got started with it! :) Alright, I'll avoid the clouds filter from now on. I used it mainly because…
BBCode no longer works, you can either use the toolbar to embed pictures, or edit the whole post using HTML. As for the model you have the big form and volumes right, but the small details are messy and inaccurate; To get better at accuracy collect more references and study them harder, try making paper and pencil…
Good model and quite accurate. :) Just some minor observations (although point 5 is a bit more important): 1. Should be just the last 4 digits of the serial number. Besides, there is no letter "R" in the Cyrillic alphabet. 2. Missing spot-weld marks (you have them on the left side, just need to duplicate them on the right…
Hi everyone, I love to handpaint normal maps using just photoshop without doing any highpoly at all. I only do this when the polycount is kept quite low and the texture size is as small as possible. When I work like this 90% of the work is done with the pencil tool in one pixel size (not the brush tool). The rest 10% of…