Wow guys, thanks so much for the feedback and ah ha, yeah you guys are totally right about the "less polys does not equal better curves comment" That rule was poorly phrased. Xoliul: yeah this is definately simplistic. This part is meant for people who have NEVER properly used subdiv modeling and dont know what it does. My…
[ QUOTE ] It's just bothers me that you think we'll win any conflict simply because we're the US of A. If Americans carry that attitude, it's about time we lost a war...and much of our arrogance. [/ QUOTE ] Well, there's no problem then, because I don't think that! There's nothing magical about the stars and stripes that…
Escape. Yep, the sun is coming back and we're in for a few beautiful months where you can get outside and not be punished for wanting to be outside. I can't wait to go camping again. Instant funk-be-gone. Through the dark months, I do it in small ways, I get up early when everything is still quite and just bask in the dark…
Oh! Well when you said Ape Escape, you didnt say that you meant the second one. The first one is indeed for PSX. And PSX often makes for en excellent example because their hardware was very limited compared to moderns stuff, so they had to get creative with their approaches; and sometimes their solutions were the best and…
Wow complete with hip misspellings they really know their shit! That site is off the hizzy yo... can't... look away... must stop reading... eyes bleeding... can't stop... lungs hurting from the laughter... world going dark... As a PsP owner (or is that pwner?) I have always been insulted by the PsP ad campaigns, this one…
I just don't understand who he is talking to or about with the whole making a spaceship because you can't make a car. Get better friends dude idk what to tell you. That's some downright toxic shit if you make an awesome spaceship and they come to you and tell you its bad because it isn't a car. I have never heard that in…
As @throttlekitty said, simple Maya scripting docs are just fine. Chad Vernon's site and his respective vide tutorials are all Python oriented. So they can hardly help with Mel. Klaudio is right! maya's script editor shows almost all modeling scripting commands. It's really not that hard to get the point about how this…
I had a few unrelated thoughts on this: * There are regional markets around the world where for example, African game developers are making culturally-themed games for an African market. This wasn't the case ten years ago. One of the things I love most about working on gamedevmap is seeing trends like this emerge on a…
Dear Arqus, you wanna feel a bit more confident? I'm 30, married. I've started learning 3d one year and a half ago after wandering and keeping away from my passions for all my life. I wrote on a piece of paper that I would have a basic portfolio in 1 year and my first gig as a junior 3d artist. Both happened this year :).…
Today's exercise is to add my Son of Santo styled character to a IC6 world. I'm experimenting with foliage, foreground lens elements (as I tend to stage my work in the middle), overhead Softbox arrays and learning to assign a walk to a Path. 800 frame animation switched between two cameras. Assigned a Dummy or Nul object…