I posted this earlier in another thread. My answer to you is tutorials, a lot of tutorials, and practice. A great tutorial I highly recommend is Environment Creation In Unreal Engine 4. Which you can find it here: https://www.uartsy.com/course/environment-creation-in-unreal-engine-4 Also, I highly advise listening to game…
Just started book 2 in the Honor Harrington series. First one was pretty good, and there looks to be many more. [ame="https://www.amazon.com/The-Honor-Queen-Harrington/dp/0743435729"]Amazon.com: The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington #2) (9780743435727): David Weber: Books[/ame]
[ame="https://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367740068&sr=8-1&keywords=gurney+color+and+light"] Gurney Color and light - THE color guide.[/ame] Here Lipedal I too will return with contributions of pixels.…
No, but I use this ancient script to manually update PSDs with a single hotkey. // Updates all file textures in the scene//// If nothing is selected, all gets selected and all file textures are updated// If something is selected the script assumes that this is what needs to be updated //// In the script editor the updated…
Ignoring the professional aspect of it, live figure drawing is just an enjoyable activity in itself. It's a bit of a lonely persuit and at the end of the day getting good at figure drawing won't set the world on fire, there is very little original in it, but personally, I just feel better doing it. As for anatomy books;…
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=079195 "I started working on Avatar 3 years ago and was working with Zbrush 2 ( that means no subtools!!) I had to work on a fairly slow laptop so that I could work directly with Jim Cameron on the mocap stage. I was really green as a 3D artist but jumped in with both feet,"…
admittedly way below your budget but probably some sort of animator's holy grail: https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Life-Disney-Animation/dp/0786860707/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524520857&sr=8-1&keywords=disney+animation+the+illusion+of+life if what they're offering there is still printed like my 1995 edition then it's a…
Thanks everyone! @JONNYquid- thanks, inspiration is key. What kind of scene are you going to start on? @kwshipman- Oh, good idea. Getting those Goats ready will be my next focus. @JoshSchmitt- I don't know about almost finished as I plan on getting vehicles, characters and fleshing the tower out. How have things been? You…