Hey guys. I've been a bit busy as of late, not slouching. Anyways I hear what you guys are saying. I don't have much proper traditional anatomic training. And with my model I really didn't care much for any anatomy. (Sacrilege!?) I know I'm supposed to know all the rules in order to know when and how to break them. I…
Hey nice to see another new grad here. Anyways, I don't think 10,000 tri's is "reasonable" for a character as you have her right now. Unless you are intending it for the next, top of the line gaming company, or possibly a cinematic character model all together. As it stands, you still don't have clothes on her and at this…
Thanks again everyone for the kind words, really appreciate it :) Sorry for the bit of a delay, work got in the way but I got around to getting 3 wireframe screen shots of some of the collapsing Sandlantis stuff I did as requested. I will take a look back through some of my level files and see if there are any that would…
I think you posted your submission twice. So you wanted a brutal critique, well here goes. "Don't be so hard on yourself!" In fact I think your submission is pretty good. Let me elaborate. Presentation/Background/lighting I wouldn't say your presentation is bad. It tells me everything I need to know. If you're hoping to…
I might have mispoken about getting bored with hard surface. I really like it and there's definitely A LOT of room for improvement in my case. I'm nowhere near the level of people whose art I follow. I just came to a certain point in my learning curve where I don't learn as much and as fast as I used to and I think that is…
What has it got to do with who invented subdivision and when? And FYI Pixar has plenty of custom 3D software that we have no idea about. What the developers of widely available apps did at some time is irrelevant. Anyway, this whole issue is completely tangential to the original topic of comparing Blizzard and Pixar... Why…
So... I ran some more tests with modifiers and all that yummy stuff. This is a little written tutorial of what I did and what happened. I can assure you that it was faster in 2009 :) (at least 3x faster), but I bet 2012 is much better than 2010 and 2011. By the way this is a very cool technique, might come in handy :).*…
With a color. ;) You might have triggered someone to make that for you, or they might see this as being a small issue. You know the names well enough, you just now associate them with there material slots. Once you got that you can then start to get an understanding of each one and why they are needed and what their limits…
Thanks for the love guys and understanding, there's some amazing resources from all of you so thank you! When the students get to see these products whether its a Drop ship, Batman Car, Aircraft Carrier and so they realize its a team effort and it becomes quite apparent that for many in this industry you have to learn to…
Sounds a lot like the concept behind TF2's Soldier class. So what makes this design so much more solid than this one you've whipped up? Well, I'm almost certain that it's in part to the Soldier having a fleshed out concept before anyone did any modelling for him, as well as having a solid art direction to follow...…