I work as a web programmer and have a similar idea to yours, but I haven't made up my mind yet. IMHO you could keep saving money and playing more with art, letting to make this decision later. Try to do more characters or environments ( whatever interests you the most) before you jump into your 6 months of full time…
Pretty much every workflow typically involves creating a block out. Proper planning will save a lot of time and iteration. It's much easier to tweak a block out than your high poly, low poly, or both. Texturing in Photoshop alone is almost objectively slower than using Quixel or Substance at this point. Quixel and…
Unfortunately i was not as lucky as i thought and the fried harddrive managed to mess up my body sculp. but i had a save hiding. so i took a diffrent approach to minimize errors and i removed bodyparts and exported to Mudbox for details on the body. i will fix the uv mapping later and connect all the parts and add the…
Cornell note-taking system was recommended to me in a business class and I use it sometimes. I also use colored pens. After, I memorize the notes by writing them over and over again while reading them out loud, at least ten times for each point. I also make acronyms for long lists which has saved me during tests.
Feng Zhu is awesome but there are lots of alternatives. For example: https://artrenewal.org/pages/ateliers.php Average price for a year at one of those ateliers is $8,000 or 4,000 euro. Plus you don't have to move to Singapore. With the 21,000 euros you would save you can buy all the DVDs/online courses/whatevers you want.…
You used to just be able to just save a default material in ZStartups and it'd replace the red wax. I can't seem to find any reference to exactly how to do that online, so maybe that's no longer an option. EDIT: Found it. It's probably the method that MikeZoo mentioned. A little more convoluted than I'd remembered Courtesy…
Nice results! I want to share a small tip about editing several maps the same way, that saves me a lot of time. When I start editing the first map I start recording an action in photoshop. When I'm done with editing I stop the action. Then I simply select the next layer, run recorded action and watch some magic :smile:
I agree with Tobbo, the best way to combat this is to post your art everywhere. The more people that have see your art, the more likely stolen works will be recognized. You could try to do some universal branding, like a giant logo in the background that's barely visible. Name your images with your name in it, if someone…
K so I took a look at the video that you linked, and what he does, is to put the mask texture into the alpha channel of the reflectivity map of the weapon. So probably you get the entire gun glowing, because your alpha didn't got saved. Open up your texture in your image editor, and check if the alpha channel is still…
Does anybody know why my asset wont show on CK. It just gives error Marker_Error:0. If i try to add other object from the same folder (original models) they will show just fine. I think its some bad export thing with Nifskope. Because i saved working model through Nifskope and it didn't work after that anymore..