Good instincts to put your best work first. The apartment looks great. I quite like the lighting, though it looks a little over exposed over near the big window. As for the models and topology, the flower petals seem unnecessarily dense, and the glass table seems unusually low-poly in comparison. It looks like the glass…
Hi Aranoth! You seem to have a fairly good grasp on these questions already! With what V added, I think you've got everything you need. I would suggest you create a post in Pimping and Previews showing your early sculpted model (or even, a classic subdivision model made in C4D), try to bake this down to an appropriate…
The stuff warby explained is actually not that much work, you just have to make sure your absolutely 100% sure you finished your geometry and everything before you are going to bake, once you have the single final mesh with the 2nd UV channel you can bake as much as you want. For ambient occlusion, I don't know if anyone…
ohh boy... so many apps in which you can retopo these days... from max with its surface snapping ribbon tools and to its free scripts for it and payed scripts like Wrapit(looks really good check it out) to topogun or 3dcoat or even to blender with those looptools and bsurface(free addon for blender) to other software that…
Quadros are really really expensive video cards that are great at doing things like.... anti-aliased wireframes for complex CAD applications. When it comes to games related stuff, running realtime engines, shaders, etc they get outperfomed by even an average "gamer" card. You'de have to buy a $2000 quadro to get the same…
"Considering that you can sell artwork through their system with a simple click on the button, on which they reap profits, I would say yes." No, that is completely false and the law agrees. DA is not liable for the stupid things people do on their website. It's called Section 203 Safe Harbors. They are only required to…
Hey guys, Well I think I'm about ready to call it done for the time being. The reason is that I need to test my work in order to get results for my dissertation and then obviously I've got to write it all up. I know there's a few things that need fixing up but overall I'm fairly happy with it and hopefully at the end if I…
The problem is, anyone who is extremely happy with the mx518 wouldn't have seriously tried any of the newer mice that came after it. Maybe at a friends place, colleague's desk or at a shop just for a few mins and decided "no thanks", because they could't get used to it so quickly. Anyway I came from a mx518/G5 background…
The soda machine: You have a shot from ZBrush showing 2,400,000 polys. That's not impressing me one bit. The above image is fewer polys than your soda machine high poly. So I wouldn't put that kind of info up there on your high polys. Your low poly on the soda machine, has a rediculous amount of unnecessary verts. 512…
Thanks Renaud, its a standard scanline with a some lights and normal shader. i would have loved to use a realtime shader for the final, but new 3dsmax doesnt like some shaders as it seems... really weird. vig, yeah I know :D I make a render with the normal only when I find the time. Shotgun, beatkitano I can post them…