Ive been a self taught 3d environment artist for over 10 years professionally and never had to draw a single thing. In fact, I would say I cant draw haha. But I did spend a large amount of time honing the skills that were directly applicable to the position I wanted, which was 3d and enviros. Never had a studio ask if i…
Blog Entry #1 - Grass Objects For the past two weeks i've been working on vegetation. A slow process considering i'm overhauling everything! But I thought i'd start on the obvious and make some new grass. Step 1: The workflow for making my grass is a little time consuming initially. You start off by making a simple grass…
Looks like I won't be able to make it in time, but I did have a good bit fun increasing my pipeline speed. But it's my fault for not noticing the contest until two weeks before the deadline haha! I'm going to continue working and posting my progress here (unless things get deleted or moved). I could have probably submitted…
[ QUOTE ] I'd like to know why American fuel is so much cheaper than British fuel? [/ QUOTE ] Two reasons spring to mind. First, America buys in volume. I mean, *really* buys in volume. I don't know what percentage of the world's oil is consumed by America, but I expect it's between a third and a half. When you buy in…
Hi all, looking for an environment artist / studio to produce a collection of 25 low polygon western 3D models (combination of buildings and props). Paying $1000, $200 in advance and then $200 X4 for milestones. Standard for 3D models to follow Turbosquid StemCell standards:…
Welcome to the Concept Thread for the next Monthly Community Noob Challenge! Here I will post a few concepts for both the Environment section and the Prop Challenge section to be voted on for the upcoming month. BUT, for this month in particular, the challenge will change to host two Prop Challenges ONLY. Remember to vote…
Thanks for all the advice! After reading it, in addition to the EQ's thread on hard edged seams vs smooth seams, I have decided to redo my model smoothing and UVs. To summarize (correct me if I misunderstood something): - I'll have UV seams on every single edge I want to be hard - I'll have no smoothing on every edge I…
Creating and assigning new user properties is such a persistent change and there's no need for it. I've already suggested (at tech-artists) you use a custom listview comparer as the info is already contained in the list itself, check the code again for other suggestions (functions getIDCount and getItems; the rest is just…
@dzibarik The floral relief pattern is the only photo-derived part of the gun. I dropped into the Royal Armouries while visiting Leeds a few months ago, and seized the opportunity to get some nice photo-reference. I began by extracting a single diamond shape (containing a subset of flowers) from the photograph and used…
This looks great! Here are some crits. fr16 - the neck feels broken because the head is still looking straight. It's ok to let the head follow the body and lose eye contact a bit. frame 18 - I think you need a better pose. move screen left more, lift that back leg up and really show the force that is about to be put into…