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Re: ELEVATOR TO THE MOON!!!
The tricky bit about doing a space elevator is developing some sort of cheap and easily mass-produced carbon nanofibers capable of withstanding the enormous stress of being a centrifugal tether. Also, whomever tries building one is going to have to do so with the agreement of an equatorial nation - it won't work quite… -
Bertie the pipe bomb
We got our personal projects going in school we're we get three weeks (half time) to do our own project. To further my skill in texturing I decided to go with my favorite Ashley Wood character "Bertie MK". During this this I will create high-poly, low-poly, texture and rig everything so a bit stressful but pushing hard to… -
More Wiring Parameters problems
hi everyone just to add to everyone's joy of wire parameters i'm having some trouble with them to. i was really hoping someone could help me out i've got a custom rig set up for a character with wire parameters, however i'm having some problems when it comes to animating the thing. i did a test run through of what i wanted… -
Smothing group artifact? Halp?
I was setting up my UV cage and applying the renders to my Low ploy, making sure I had no ray misses etc etc. Once all was well I applied my smoothing groups from UV shells using a script called TexTools (handy wee thing). Once I did that I got these awful artifacts(See picture below) that I've never seen before, what are… -
HL2 singleplayer mod - "Handle With Care"
Howdy. Longtime semi-lurker here. Anyway, I recently finished the second episode of my single player HL2 mod "Handle With Care," part of a larger experimental mod series called Radiator. Reactions have been kind of all across the board, ranging from "Meh, this sucks" to "This has changed my life forever" - but I'm curious… -
What do you consider a "cliche" model?
Hello polycounters. Today i have a question that may of been addressed at some point. What is a "cliche" model? I am in college and for one of my classes we have to create 3 high quality portfolio peices, but the teachers is really stressing on the fact to make sure it's not a cliche piece. He wants to see something… -
Project looks dark on different monitors: What do I do?
So I have a project that looks great as far as lighting/shadows on my monitor and other monitors. However, on other monitors it looks too dark. What should I do to avoid this? Is it impossible? I have a feeling this is why video games have a brightness slider at the start of a new game.… -
Interview help?
Hey all, as most know im job hunting and ive just been asked for an interview next week, im shitting it. Its: 1. My 1st job interview 2. My 1st job interview Currently my lifes going to shit lol, and Im probaly going to keel over with the stress so any good tips to help me wing it? Im going to aim for a junior/entry… -
Re: Scaling internal art team while juggling outsourcing
I'm itching to talk about what we're doing here. But we're a publicly traded company, and there's stiff competition in our space. So I'll point you to past experience when I was in game dev, and when I was freelancing as a lead. Outsourcing initially appears very attractive for scaling production, and trying to make the… -
Re: Successful 3D artist without drawing skill?
Critique can be nice, but you can improve so much on your own - especially in the early stages where you're still feeling embarrassed. Here is what I've done to improve since I first started getting serious about drawing/digital painting many years ago (there's no secret to it): -Do first painting ever. -Compare to much…
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