Hey Brad, glad to see you are interested in the Viewer! First off, the Viewer is still in active development and the feature set is not set in stone. At this time, there are some limitations, currently only 3 shadow casting lights are supported. Area lights are not supported at this time. The primary reason for these…
Indeed ! Using a given software in an art pipeline doesn't mean that things are necessarily drawn in it. A japanese animation studio like the one shown in the video below doesn't exactly have the luxury of wasting time. They probably carefully audited/optimized all their productions steps ... and end up drawing all frames…
Welcome! Nice stone wall dude :) I'm also new here, hoping to get some feedback on my stuff and aiming to improove my 2D skills. You can check me out at: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105858 Something that really inspired me to improve is this:…
Hey man, everyone has been dishing out good advice so far, so here's my whack at it. The first thing you should do is read these guides. They will show you the ins and outs of the style, and get you familiar with the concepts that take place while designing. Being informed about what you are doing is the foundation for the…
upgraded to 2016, and so far I have to say I'm appreciating the updates. I haven't used it too much yet so I will have to save full reactions for later, however one thing that's just killing me is there's a bug where hotkeys will just refuse to work until I zoom the camera in. I'm using a tablet pen for modeling so I'm not…
Ah right sorry I guess it wasn't clear. You make a new layer (on top of the bg colour), use circle marquee tool (if you're using photoshop it should be next to the lasso tool). Hold shift+alt, drag to create a perfect circle. Then on the layers panel, there should be an option to 'lock' that layer. That will stop you from…
Thanks. Yeah, all the shirt designs are done in Photoshop with a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet. I do a lot of work in Illustrator as well, but for these more illustrative works I prefer Photoshop because of the greater accuracy of the brush tool over the blob brush tool in Illustrator. Working at very high resolutions negates any…
The fact that you're even asking a question like that will mean your entry portfolio will prolly surpass the graduation portfolio of your classmates in a few years time!!! Most unis put more emphasis on traditional skills at the beginning because not everyone will have access to the hardcore PCs and expensive software…
Nope, that's the way it is. Ergotron Arms are not designed to be worked on, they are just made to hold a display up. Your best bet is to simply use it as a way to manipulate the screen more easily while still keeping the bottom/long edge resting on your desk. Now it's kiiinda possible to work with it while standing up,…
Since my last post i have been doing some research into ways to streamline my workflow. This includes photoshop droplets, zbrush hotkeys and wacom macros. My plan is to set up zbrush macros to change materials, render and save out images. Then set up a photoshop droplet to import and composite all the render passes. Once i…