I try to get atleast 4-5 REM cycles by sleeping 8-8.5 hours per night. I try to be in bed by midnight, and up before 9. I avoid caffeine so I can fall to sleep easier at night. I don't enjoy being awakened during the deepest stage of sleep, because I have a difficult time shaking off that bit of paralysis that sets in…
It is realtime...And I don't want to be using Global Illumination, but I suck at lighting :-P and it makes it faster to light (although not to render). The scene is less than 10,000 triangles right now, that's not too terrible for a scene...Frankly anymore, that's on the low end of things. The only unique textures are (or…
Pedro: Thank you very much. I'll keep the white look, I think the same as you! ElysiumGX: Yeah, I do agree with you. In fact I wasn't so satisfied with her. I think she she was looking a bit childish, then I decided to restart my project in another approach. Please take a look. There's no textures yet, just part of my old…
Well, Maya. :) A program I have been allergic to ever since first opening it. But I am rather successful these days at avoiding it entirely so what gets my blood pressure up a bit instead is Unreal. Hate is too strong a word for it but everything in there seems to take so much time: please hold while we're saving or…
Anything in particular you would like to know? My workflow is pretty standard--Blender for modeling, sculpting, and unwrapping, Substance Painter for texturing, and Marmoset Toolbag for rendering and baking. As for tips... It was my first time making gems and before I had started texturing I was wondering how would it…
MagicSquire 3.1 & 3.2 updates are live! – NEW! Right-click on the brush to quickly move it to any group, pick group by name – NEW! Directly drag’n’drop .abr and .tpl files on the panel to load them as groups! Works only on Photoshop CC and higher – Added new option in the menu – “Optimize brushes” that rebuilds brush…
Thanks William, and as it happens, after a break for the holiday, I picked up Quixel Suite. I've been banging through sorting out the pipeline for it and have run into some really weird problems that I can not seem to sort out how to fix. I think I've reached the point, that after three days of trying different thing,…
Still plugging away on this guy. I've retopo'd and baked alot of it down to a 8k mesh. Still have a few problems to solve and my color work and map stuff needs a lot more attention... Retopology in Zbrush worked much better than in times past (not sure if they did more bug work on that) and when I had a double skin that I…
I can't see why there are "pores" on the skin when the anatomy still looks like a piece of melted wax. Howard- I know this is for school and you are on a time constraint, but if this were me, I would withdraw from the class and return to fight another day. Even the most powerful armies in history have used this strategy to…
Thanks for the detailed feedback; I know what time is worth, so thank you for sitting down to make detailed notes. From the feedback so far, looks like my best bet is to tear down all my 3D assets and rebuild my portfolio from the ground up, rather than swapping around as I have new material. Aside from the detailed…