----PART2 Just wanted to add few words about the outdoor environments. All the above still applies, but given that sometimes when dealing with "regular" sunlit environments you may not have that many options as you have with indoor environments you may want to play with light-shadow contrast as well as add more interesting…
Thanks for the feedback. Good, bad, or indifferent, it's always welcome. A few points if I may. 1 - I'm Irish, so by nature we don't ever 'Hollywood' it up. And I certainly won't be pretending to be 'more energetic' any time soon. 2 - I work 60 hours a week. Spend about 20 hours a week on personal work. And put these tuts…
I'm reviving an old project I stopped working on a year ago and would love some feedback. It was a character i've thought on often but never been able to see finalized and I have spent many many many hours working on him yet making little to no progress. When I put this model down in defeat a year ago, I felt as though I…
Sounds like you just want to be with like minded people. Check out local meetsups. Not sure where you live but Check and see if you have any local community colleges in the area and attend a class that is relevant to the industry, you'll make friends etc.. I thought I really wanted to go to a college for this stuff but…
As requested from Artquest (but i hope it will be usefull to many other people) i decided to do a mini tutorial (better to call it "a bunch of tips") to explain my baking workflow. There isn't really anything more than the things that someone who bake low poly models should already know. Anyway, let's get started. Image A:…
I here you on the using tuts as a port piece for sure. Everything I just read on that blog was pertinent and to the point I might add. I actually know that all my instructors told me to never use a tut project as a port piece, but I didn't listen. I have made many models on my own from scratch but have never really posted…
The tutorial culture has become bad. So many bad tutorials being put out these days where teaching isn't in the creators interest, the money is, and some of these teachers have minimal knowledge in the first place. Udemy and Skillshare are full of them. I also recall Allan McCay talking about experienced artists often…
pappete & Alphavader: Thanks guys!! but please no Vader fights :) woogity: Thanks for the thoughts man. I'm not doing this like one of the current in game versions, just trying to kinda capture the style. Cheers dude. So I've done the retopo and some bakes. It's currently sitting at 10505 tris and I'm planning on adding…
School is definately what you make it, but in the end not really worth the money. I attend school for Game Production, and am very passionate about my feelings on the subject of "art school degrees". Over the course of my time at school I have surely improved in many aspects of 3d art-especially in the modeling/texturing…