I thought I'd go ahead and post the results I have so far. I went ahead and tried the two stage bake just to educate myself, but I'm going to push on with a low poly that doesn't require an extra reduction at the end. (This bake is so simple that I do think it would be a mistake to declare it a success.) Render, left to…
I got distracted by real world stuff for the past week, and progress was slow going. So I'm using xnormal to bake Object Space normals. I put the gun into wolfire's phoenix engine. The nvidia plugin doesn't do object space, from what i can tell. So I'm not able to put in all the details that I had before. Still trying to…
I think if she wanted a new yacht, she'd buy a real-estate development firm to help her close a bid on a naval shipyard, and then buy all the land around it for twenty miles just to keep the looky-loos away. Then she'd have it built by hand, and carried ninety miles to sea by a team of Sherpas personally hand-picked from…
Self education related to things that interests me. No family so I have quite a lot of time.Those related things comes down to learn math and programming which I wish I focused on more in school but its never late I guess. I also like tech so I spend a lot of time tinkering with computer stuff and exploring new fields of…
Take Clinton Crumpler's Modular Environments for UE course at CGMA. It was worth every penny to soak up his knowledge :) Edit: Read your post a bit more thoroughly. If you're just getting into your software... do a couple personal projects first and then seek some outside education. If you're fighting hotkeys and workflows…
Working on collaborative projects can be a valuable educational experience, but if someone is promising that you'll get paid at some unspecified point in the future, you should assume that you will absolutely never get paid. There is a ninety-nine percent chance that they're overly optimistic and/or flat out scamming you.…
Feng Zhu mentions the trap of speedpainting somewhere in his podcasts (which are honestly all amazing), saying that it's seemingly fun and educative especially since most of the youtuber concept artists go for it, but it doesn't really help you really learn anything in the end. (Unless you're already at the level where…
I'm moving this from Career & Education to the 2D Art Showcase & Critiques section. Technique & reference discussion makes more sense there, and it should get you more feedback too. Skin coloration is informed directly by anatomy. If you study superficial anatomy in particular... muscles & ligaments & tendons & fat layers…
Time for a dump! I'm going to call it practically finished, but the illustration could definitely use more attention, especially when rendering Romulus' skin. What's even better is that a friend of mine wants to model / sculpt them! I'll be getting started on that with him very soon, and I'll post progress on that part of…
Part the the issue is questions here typically already have been answered a dozen times, or the answer is super situational and subjective. Also the app specific sub-forums get less traffic in general, I know I barely look at them. Probably because app specific questions often require more effort to answer. And like others…