Yeah if you are just starting out it can seem impossible. It's like asking how long a piece of string is. There are lots of ways to model what you need and it depends on what you intend to use the model for. A combination of ZBrush and Marvelous Designer is popular at the moment. Here is a screen cap I made years ago…
there's nothing about having a dedicated paid site for personal service that helps your web presence. if you've got issues with a '.blogspot' that follows a domain, you can pony up a few bucks to google and you will be able to have your site hosted outside the naming umbrella. I've only used blogspot, so I can't speak for…
I've been using Gimp for about a year now, after years of using Photoshop. I had no problems getting used to Gimp's user interface, and generally was able to learn it rather quickly. I have not done any 2D painting in it, just typical image editing and adding details to my 3D renders. Overall Gimp works well. It's more…
If you ever figure it out, let me know. I think the learning path is a little different for everyone. I think digital painting can learn a lot from traditional painting. I would avoid 95% of the "photoshop painting tutorials" online most are "how to make a candy i-mac buttonz". In fact I would skip photoshop all together…
Hey, No, no hardware installs. I'd done a good amount of tooling around w/ software/driver updates and editing backround processes...all of which caused further mayhem for a time. But as of late I've had very few lock-ups or BSOD's, pretty stable for the most part. My only main problem right now is 3D Studio max 8 and 9…
look into learning editions, imho the one that closest resembles the actual commercial program is XSI i think its www.softimage.com look into it, i think they also have alot of tutorials and videos to get you started, XSI also has game tools for getting your work into games (HL2) and then when you're confident enough or…
hey guys i just downloaded Tool Bag and when i try opening it my pc starts making some beeping noises and i get this error in the Tool Bag log: Particle: cannot load file"base/particle/impactwater/impactwaterbig.part"! Sound: cannot open sound file "base/sound/impact/impactwater_large.wav"! Cannot load audio file…
Hey User Interface Designers I've been working for about a month now on some UI and HUD's for the evanto marketplace where I can work my way to the top of the digital goods marketplace and thought maybe we could do something for https://videohive.net/search/hud an infographic and could defiantly use someone with UI…
I tried with adaptive sampling off and then it keeps rendering (So adaptive should always be off for interactive rendering?). However, when there is Ornatrix hair in the scene and I use GPU it keeps re-starting instead of refining. When I 'collapse' the hair modifier stack it keeps rendering. What could cause this? Also,…
I think we need one of these. I'm having a hell of a time finding good tutorials, so I'm hoping people have some good ones I can add to this first post. And since Sandbox is coming to consoles, I'm sure it will start getting popular around here. Also, who is excited for CryEngine3? Editor Crysis Wars Mod SDK [ Sandbox…