Hello everyone, I'm having some pretty ugly aliasing happening on my textures, I don't believe it's really an issue with my hard edges as it happens to details that are only present in the textures(diff/spec/norm). I have spent the past week searching the forums and google for every possible bit information and trying…
Yeah, it's a tool investment IMO, Weta have some magic tools in development, of the top of my head they have this ;) * Manuka: Manuka is the flagship path-tracing renderer used to generate final frames and is able to produce physically accurate results based upon specific spectral lighting profiles. * Gazebo: Gazebo is the…
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Hi, I have been very busy doing the last tweaks on the project It's been very hard for me to tweak the illumination, i think i have reach on a sweet spot right now for quality x performance. It's not perfect.. i know that, but this is the very best i can do now. So far, the changes are: * 8 new props for kitchen, there was…
Here are some of my favorite Maya hotkeys. Most stuff is crammed around QWER so I don't have to move my hand very far, very often: * Alt + D : Delete history (on selected object only) * Shift + Q : Toggle Wireframe on Shaded * Ctrl + Q : Toggle Selection Highlighting * Alt + Q : Delete most recent construction history…
Well, I've suspected something like that - they're a bit confusing from the beginning, and i probably need to make some more informal introduction into these tools. Let me then introduce myself first: my name is Alexander "Joss" Khalyavin, i'm Maya tech artist/developer with ~16 years of Maya experience. Autodesk Maya…
Check out the work from CGMA student Christen Smith , who shows us how he created an amazing modular set that he did Anthony Vaccaro’s Organic World Building class with CGMA. Intro Looking back, I believe my last article with 80.lv was almost 2 years ago on the Dead Space Cockpit, which in hindsight was at a very high…
Check out the work from CGMA student, Pedro C. Prieto, who was just recently published on 80.LV. He shows us how he worked on this amazing UE4-environment inspired by Helder Pinto‘s Arbor Vitae in Clinton Crumpler's UE4 Modular Environments course. Intro Hello, my name is Pedro C. Prieto and I am an extremely passionate…
Autodesk announced 3dsmax 2012, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at what's new. There seem to be a lot of new features here is a look at the ones we think will impact you the most. Out of the box the single biggest change to our every day work flow, is to the UVWunwrap. Hands down this is going to effect…
So, a promise is a promise.) Here I am with more stuff, that hopefully you guys will enjoy. A word of caution: this post is image heavy(~7mb). I'm planning to use this hi-rez images(around 1080p) for my portfolio, but If you think that the pictures are inappropriately big - let me know and I will resize them for you. It…