I remember doing this awhile back with mental ray and using some sort of surface shader trickery rendering to a square aspect ratio camera. Not to sure how to do it nowadays with Arnold though it seems easy to do the albedo pass with one of the built in AOVs but I couldn't figure out the ambient occlusion that takes into…
hey everyone! Time for an update, not a big one, but an update nonetheless. @coots - thanks for the crit! Hopefully this version addresses some of the intense shadows more than the previous one. Also got rid of the moss. @silkroad - thank you! @DWalker - Hey thanks for the crits, I decided to follow and change the colors…
Step 1: Finish creating first iPhone App Step 2: Promote and sell iPhone App Step 3: Create additional versions of same iPhone App, but with different content for each. Promote and sell them as well. Step 4: When cash flow has reached critical mass, quit day job and begin developing iPhone games full-time. Step 5: Develop…
The easiest way to do this in Max is to - put your model on a plane - add a skylight to the scene (anywhere, it doesn't matter) - turn on Light Tracer (Rendering > Advanced Lighting > Light Tracer) The defualt settings on the skylight and light tracer will work fine. If you want it to render faster, lower the number of…
Valentines Day sales - Artist 12 (2nd Gen) Never used ones with a display, they've certainly grabbed my attention atm and aussie dollars AU$257.29 quite affordable tho probably pick one up heaps cheaper in other regions also with tyranny of distance living down under we're typically slugged with 'customs duties' anyway…
Info The idea of this thread is to recycle some of my old concepts and see what I would make from them today. I will try to go into detail about every step I take from the original sketch to making modular meshes, fit for UDK and other realtime engines. I'd apreciate your feedback and thoughts/suggestions and hope we can…
I created a night scene with ray tracing last night and saved the file closed it reopended it and the scene isnt lit anymore with the dark sky, is there an option i need to select to turn it back on?
Team name: Sunstar Productions (Not registered) Project name: 'Project Conqueror' (Name not final) Brief description: It's a 3D sidescroller shooter/platformer. Sci-Fi in nature. About an alien who crash-lands on a planet, gets her powers stolen by the planet's government, and decides to raise hell (I.E. take down just…
Hello and welcome to my digital sketchbook! My name is Davey Woodward also known by YettiCrush. I'm starting this sketchbook to document my progress as an artist with a goal to improve through both practice and criticism. Please feel free to be as harsh and picky as possible! My Bio: My life as an artist started as a…