Here are some basic enemy animations. I blocked them out in Maya to get the perspective correct, then snapshot every frame and drew over them in Photoshop. Very tedious, but I don't know of a better way to really achieve the hand-drawn look I want for our game. After my initial 3D blockout, each animation only took about…
Looks really cool, I like your lighting and use of color. One thing I think stood out to me is the graffiti, in real life i dont think there would one be one super massive perfect graffiti on one wall, maybe add some smaller tags around the other walls to make it look like many people have been to this place over time.…
I haven't used it since the November build, but here are some of my notes from back then. Be aware this might be wrong now, as the Landscape system was under heavy development at the time. * The height map creates the terrain shape. * The alpha map creates a mask for the layer. There is a different alpha map for each…
Right now my focus is on gestures and portraits, I don't really have anything exciting to show when it comes to gestures yet, as they're little more than fat stick figures. But these are some of my first attempts at a more realistic portrait style, from the past week or so. The further down you scroll, the newer the art.…
Quad Draw in maya offers a variety of features to streamline the retopology process. The Relax tool smooths the distribution of vertices, maintaining even spacing without distorting the shape. The Extend tool lets you quickly add new quads by dragging edges, speeding up the process considerably. Additionally, the…
Texture projection method The main method of creating texture using AI is to project the generated image onto the model from several angles. Important This technique does not exclude a person from working on textures. AI is a tool that speeds up the process, not completely automated. Also, when working on textures, work in…
Along with learning to draw/paint, you'll probably want to learn as much about the world as you can. And to do it by just studying everything by making drawings of them, and thinking about how they work. Maybe do studies like, focus a fortnight just on copying tropical fish, then one on the fashion of a particular decade,…
That's a good idea, adding the basic shapes to get down the perspective first. I'll give it a try. I really do need practice and improve on my anatomy drawing but I think that should be a whole study in itself. Maybe I'll take a few weeks to study anatomy instead of the weekly drawings; of course after I finish the one I…
@Frawmus Thanks, I've been working hard at improving. Ya I don't really know what I was doing with r4 either haha. @Jack Thank you the gravestone was pretty fun to sculpt So I've been pretty busy with midterms and all. Not a lot of time to draw, but try to fit it in when I can. The more I practice the more I feel I need to…
A kind of "lazy mouse" feature for the brush would be nice. Other apps like Zbrush let the user turn on a lazy mouse feature that smooths out brush motions over a certain pixel distance. When the person draws the actual drawing cursor drags behind it in a smoothed motion. This would make drawing curves really easy and with…