What's up guys. Progress has been slow, and realize I'm gonna have to practice painting a bit before I can finish this character. My painting skills are shit at the moment, lol. Should probably start a smaller project.. oh well.. I have a small update on the model, and UV's: 1) I made some more changes to the head - gave…
for a game? No. In your portfolio work, you can do what you need to do to get that nice bake or the look you want. However ignoring the practical realities of development is going to set back your work. At some point you will need to understand how to create efficient low poly models (and why). this question is confusing…
Looking good for beginner stuff! Here's some advice: - It looks like you've modelled it as one piece in parts, like the grip to the hilt? If this is the case, you don't need to do that for high poly models. The common phrase everyone reiterates is, if it's separated in real life then model it separately in the model. - The…
2. Pre-Production - Back To Basics If you want to be a character artist, you need to learn and practice anatomy. Pull out your sketchbook or tablet and start drawing. If you are not sure where to start, there are plenty of resources available to you. Polycount has a lot of threads on the subject, and CGTalk has a dedicated…
I think it went too personal too fast. I came here to offer you some critique. You can take it or leave it. I personally don't care. There are no strings attached to my crits. Why do I crit though ? Because I really know how it is to be in a position where you post and get no feedback. It sucks. Also I think that…
Keep this in mind when making metal for this. The iron horde does not have artisan blacksmiths. You're not going to find smooth polished metal. When they put something together they're hammering a piece of metal until it works and if it doesn't they're layering even more iron slabs, crude rivets and spikes until it does…
SuperPNG doesn't change the PNG format specifications, it just saves files more efficiently than the default Photoshop implementation with a few more available options. PNGs do not support multiple layers. (So all that said ... you are now seeing why many people like to use TGAs. In practice it might not sound like a big…
Hello again guys, first of all thank you so much for all the criticism given it really helps me in realizing my shortcomings (since I literally couldn't see my mistakes initially). The planar references you provided are great as well, and I actually found a nice female head reference posted elsewhere on the forum:…
Umm, No. It was the consumer feedback and attention brought to it with the focus on Foxconn practices. That was the major push for Apple to hire the third party organization on factory worker practices/rights. To be frank, the workers wanted more hours because they could get overtime.. even though it was really illegal and…
Thanks guys, didn't expect to get that much encouraging feedback right away :) I appreciate that! d1ver - lol, u got me on that ;) I agree with your point that vids may take ppl more time that looking at images. Well, at least i can practice capturing/recording some stuff since I need some practice for a tut which i wanted…