For the statue, surfaces that face up receive more sunlight and get a bleached, powdery look. Use the dark stains and streaks sparingly to fake some shadows. You can also use the grime to emphasize details like the drapery, fingers and face. You could take a similar approach to the boat, lightening the top surfaces and the…
It's two different approaches. You could sculpt on the smoothed version of a subdivision modeling mesh, but that's then locked at the highest subdivision you ended up using, and, like you noticed, that's quite high indeed in order to be able to sculpt freely and not run into problems (although you should still work from…
X-Convict- Glad you like it man. I owe the look of the last render to your awesome material tut so thanks again. mLichy- Thanks :) portergraphic- Thanks for the tip about the Data Center, it was pretty cool seeing a new version of the crystal palace. GOBEE- As a big Halo fan I will take that as a wonderful compliment :)…
I think i just realized your plan for those "rivets" on the grip/frame, Do you anticipate baking those floating cylinders straight down to that curved surface? If so, You will have some major skewing, and likely end up baking the side of one those cylinders down to the LP. because the face angle of the LP at those points…
The modifier stack is dependent on what is below, even a minor change can upset things up the stack. This becomes doubly important if a higher modifier is based on selection, which happens if you had some faces selected and applied modifier. Like if you did a soft select and then applied a noise modifier it would only…
I met you and yer wife @ the NS Xmas party in vegas! Also as a pro Photo retoucher & wedding photographer I can say that while it may look a little fake, it isn't for sure. Its had work done, but that doesnt mean its fake. Look at the other photo of the woman walking past. You can see her reflection in the concrete, and…
I don't mean to be under-appreciative and I welcome the different methods that you are proposing.( btw xgen looks sick), It's just that my question was about something pretty specific which you don't exactly find at face value on tutorials. I'm not using splines for the hair on purpose and I have a hard time finding out…
Sorry but i have to reply to both of you in so many questions, i got jumped on as if i am a representative or something so don't blame me for yet another wall of text, you asked for it :) if we had remained to the selection features comparison we wouldn't have gone through all that. I have tried to split by placing a name…
The objective of this project was to redesign a character from a fighting game, once finished the character had to be of realistic proportions. Due to being a huge Legend of Zelda fan, I chose to re imagine Link (from the Super Smash Bros series). My thought process was to move the realism into the design of the project,…
Don't want to fire up the heat here, but Ace-Angel pretty much summed up the public opinion voiced on forums. If that's all based on facts is on a different page, but it's what most die-hard fans think. The fact that EA high-ups don't seem to read/reply/act upon these is still really frustrating. Often enough I figure the…