This is looking great so far. It'll be important to get the metal joints looking smooth, sub-d would be the best bet for this. Fortunately you have a ton of good reference (reverse-image searching on your ref board pointed to some ebay listings)
Totally agree! Stepping outside your comfort zone is exactly how you push your boundaries and level up. You can't be afraid of the learning curve or of growing. =) Honestly, I went through the exact same thing with my own dragon sculpt. I think I started over like 5 times because I just kept looking at it like, "ish, this…
Long shot, but I'm hoping someone in this community might be able to help with a preservation project. Chromacolour (the UK-based animation supply company behind the cel paints used on films like *Who Framed Roger Rabbit*) sold three digital color palettes up until around 2012: - **Series 100** — 600 colors - **Series…
Here's one possible solution to modeling this ball, I'm using 3ds Max. I start with a sphere primitive and trace the pattern in orthographic mode with splines: You can then either conform those to the sphere or use any other modeling method to get the curvature. After fiddling with the shapes a little bit, you can quickly…
Hi! I found Polycount mentioned on a super-old reddit thread, where it was mentioned that you could find someone willing to do a 3d model for commission here. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing but I am trying to gather information for a small, personal project for my wedding next year. Any advice…
Heyo, I started working on a small collection of stylized low-poly potions some time ago. The goal is to have them all fully hand painted and ready to use in Games and Animation ^_^ I'll keep posting progress updates here and I'd be happy to get your feedback and suggestions along the way! TOOLS: Blender (Ucupaint), Clip…
Hiya folks! I come to you today with an odd problem that's been plaguing me on and off for a while, but now has come to a point where it's really causing trouble for me. On a number of my imported meshes, various groups of vertices (seemingly separated by Element, from what I can tell in Max) do not allow me to paint on…
Hi all, The beloved manager of our local Warhammer store has been promoted to a regional position, and a group of us want to get him a custom miniature for Christmas. The character is going to be of his favorite literary character, Sabriel, from the Old Kingdom series (reference images attached). What we would like: - 1:12…
The problem is that you're painting with too much caution and trying to make everything perfect. Get a bigger brush, make a color/value palette and just paint. Make happy accidents. Also, look at reference. The whole point of hand painted is to paint in shadows, ao and etc. Just because you will be able to see below the…