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Re: Do most studios solely use just one 3D package?
Don't say this, some scrub will get this idea in his head and "learn" every piece of software without actually learning how to model...but he'll be able to boxmap spheres in all of them. It's better to learn one piece of software intimately while learning all of the advanced tools and techniques available for modeling,… -
Re: Skew you buddy! Making sense of skewed normal map details.
Nice one Joe, lots of good examples and tips :) I just wanted to chime in with a point that I didn't see anyone else making here - you can always just edit the vertex normals instead of using a cage or adding geometry / splitting edges etc. This can actually work really well for situations where you have bevelled edges… -
Re: Studios' mindset when hiring overseas: Portfolio or Network?
Well I don't know where you live right now but it depends between what regions you go. The general rule would be that studios don't hire a junior with no experience from outside of their region. Like if you're a junior in Europe, then no company in the US will be able/want to hire you. Same other way around; no European… -
Re: Why is exporting to xNormal so painful
@Eric Chadwick: I haven't used blend shapes in a while. May I ask if this is your personal workflow? I'll do some tests tomorrow, thanks for the suggestion. @Joopson: Yeah, this is what I usually (try to) do. After I think I'm finished with the lowpoly, I duplicate all meshes and make the cages, and do some test bakes.… -
Re: Vahl's work thread (aka wtf have I been doing) - Large pics
thanks all :) swizzle : upper right is specular :) what you thought was spec is the actual gloss map (3 point shader features colored gloss, which allows for great effects) warning : big pix so this is a one week experiment, I don't have much time to do a full scale enviro because of work, so I have to try and go as fast… -
Re: Sketchbook: Zott
I've been working on a fishmonger character who I'm also building a scene for. His name is "Gar". My plan with this guy was to work on my anatomy and to try out making clothes in Marvelous Designer and then feed them through the MD>Maya>Zbrush WF to add some sculpted details. I'm also planning on retrying hair cards for… -
Re: Portfolio Review and Advice
Wow I cannot thank you enough for your insight. You're half life 2 reference really put it in perspective for me, I really wish I had thought of that scene when I was building the project initially. When I was creating the scene I thought it would be interesting if I had the skylight cast shadows through the holes in the… -
Re: zBrush--Dynamesh
Oh, and a couple things; Firstly, you don't have to worry about smoothing groups for a base mesh. Smoothing groups only matter when you've created your lowpoly model that receives the baked maps. Second, Dynamesh is dark magic. Beautiful dark magic. Before Dynamesh, if you had wanted to make larger changes to a base mesh,… -
Re: V Costin - Anatomy Diggin
Hi everybody! After doing all these separate parts as exercises, this time I am starting a full body character. In this pass the goal was to make a base mesh, refine a bit proportions, put some anatomical landmarks, first as a sculpt by using reference and refine them using a table with values as a distance between these… -
Re: [Help] Machinima production issues character modeling
Hello XK9 Infinity, I'm not an expert, but I've made some character models before. It looks like you're making a next-gen character? A good concept always helps in the beginning. When you're concepting, your drawings don't have to be pretty. They just have to convey to the modeler (yourself in this case which makes things…
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