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I shall lock this thread on monday 22nd may, this will signify that the challenge is over. posts without entries will be deleted, no running commentary please. RULES: *Post 3 images of your deformed demon (in one post!): _*wire with polygon counter _*concept _*final *post thumbnail of 96x96 pixels (in same post!) *the…
Welcome to the Concept Thread for the next Monthly Community Noob Challenge! Here I will post a few concepts for both the Environment section and the Prop Challenge section to be voted on for the upcoming month. BUT, for this month in particular, the challenge will change to host two Prop Challenges ONLY. Remember to vote…
Well this was my entry for a recent contest at www.gamestepper.com the contest was to redesign one of the original character from Mega Man 1. I choose to redesign cutman. We had a 10k tri budget and all textures could total a single 2k map. you can see the other entries here:…
Well, if it were really the case that a Nintendo Gameboy ate my TF2, then we'd have something along the lines of the artwork below. We stumbled onto this over at facepunch.com and immediately had to share it. It has a good collection of the classic Team Fortress 2 character designs, mixed in with some the 1800's designs…
Thanks mate. Nah, I've never had this problem before. UDK can be an utter tart with mirrored uvs but I'd say it's likely something to do with your face normals - it's the only thing I can think of that would affect the normal maps direction. I spent a while travelling the inter-web for you and still can't find any answers…
Hey man, I have like the most minimilst setup... I use an akg mic (wide diaphragm) to record my interments and vocals, and use the creative fidelity premium sound card for input... really simple and inexpensive, but I think it works fairly well. I see no point in getting a mixer just yet because I only record 1 thing at a…
i dunno about environment artist. Recently there was the polycount awards and one of the winners is Josh Lynch (i think is the name) and he's an enviro artist. I think he has some kind of training or mentorship going on. Tim Simpson (aka pixelmasher) is starting to put out a lot of tutorial content for enviro artist. Also…
This is a weird poll... I only say that because this has been covered alot in PnP and Gen Discussion on polycount. Here's an example of what I mean. Lots of the questions I see can be answered using the other boards/polycount wiki as a reference point :D 9/10 I find you will get a better baking method using a couple…
I decided to muck around with this as well (having first seen it used in AmsterdamHiltonHotel's Atchisson) and when reading this thread I figured bevels would be the clear winner. However after trying it I agree; loops give those fat bevels that just read better at distance as long as you're going for that look. Here's…