The environment is already looking pretty good with the geo you have so far! Good stuff man. You say you sorta have some idea's of how you might texture it in your head? Let's hear/see some of em :smiley: Doesn't hurt to start things off with a peer into your initial vision for this piece. What kind of sci-fi scene is it?…
Well there are a few areas that really stand out for me. Have a look at your basemesh and compare it to the arshlevon ones here: http://wiki.polycount.com/BaseMesh You'll notice that his and NickZ's are far more rounded than yours. Your characters face is pretty square and the proportions of the facial features is off…
IMO, if you're working on a portfolio as an environment artist its a good idea to focus on a few small scenes. I wouldn't worry about having an entire playable level(as this is more suited to a level designer than an environment artist). If you were to create a few small scenes, with some sort of focused design in each it…
I got one of those awesome letters last week. And then to see this thread is even more awesome. After getting hired on and then let go 3 months later, selling almost all of my crap, and doing a 1200 mile drive twice down to Texas (one for each car I own) I should have an ear full for you guys. But I don't have that much to…
I like the Mx because you can set up custom button set ups through the logitech software. So in firefox my forward and back buttons work as such but in 3ds max my back button also acts as my middle mouse button and it is comfy and I have noticed it has taking strain off my wrists over a period of time. In the past modeling…
I'm on the fence about this, on one hand LC is a long time supporter of his students, i've followed his students work for some time through the work he personally posts for them. He holds his students in high regard, trying their following and for that i applaud him. (Below is assumed UK shit) I also know about the red…
Are you on Win7? My workstation PC had this issue earlier in the week (Quadro card), the day after I signed off with some updates installing. It only happened once though, it's a long shot but maybe related? Alternatively, do you have any monitors connected to intel HD? The latest driver supplied by Win10 (on home PC),…
No problem :D Yeah, you never want Maya to smooth your mesh normals out completely. Sure, most game models are all smooth normals ... but on the off chance you actually want a hard edge you will want that option off. I just make sure my mesh's normals are smoothed before I export. Tangents and Binormals are a Normal's…
Hehe don't you love the auto-shutoff "feature" of the Sennheisers ? It's so crazy to think that it went through QA and got released that way ... (for those not in the know : after a few minutes of detecting that no audio stream is being played ... the unit is set to switch off the signal from the base/emitter. But it is…
What on earth does this mean? Your portfolio is good in that it shows off your 2d work immediately. everything else seems redundant: what would go in digital art that couldn't go in 3d art or game art? Why have a webdesign section at all? Don't have active links to pages that aren't there, it makes me feel like I've wasted…