Hi Everyone, as you may know, F.E.A.R 3 just launched and it's getting some decent reviews! http://www.whatisfear.com Exis had the pleasure of working with Day 1 studios on this great game. I can't say enough good things about day 1, they're a dream to work with. We were able to create a lot of really nice assets. I want…
This is about characters which will be rigged and animated later for games/tv. Do you build a low-poly base model with correct topology in maya/3dsmax/modo and then go to zbrush/mudbox to sculpt at high res, and bake maps and back to low-res in maya/3ds OR or is it quicker to start in a program like zbrush (which has more…
I really want to like using the crease tool for my sub-div modeling, but sometimes it is challenging to get it right. The right shape of the following image is the base model. the left shape was achieved by using edge loops. The left shape with the edge loops is the look that I'm trying to achieve using creasing, and maybe…
99% of the time my name gets mispronounced - both name and surname. At a previous job where I was sending out letters to lawyers/clients I had people call me by phone to inquire if a male or female because they were not used to the spelling so to know how to properly address me in the response. I even had a professor spend…
I've heard upgrading to Win10 is super convenient (sort of like Vista to Windows 7), but I'm personally always paranoid that I will lose everything in some freak accident. It might be wise to have all your software / OS installed on a separate drive, and have all of your projects and other archives saved to other slave…
Use Main Menu > Animation > Bone Tools, if you need to reposition bones or change their size. Scale is an inherited property just like position and rotation and when you skin something to a bone that has been scaled, that scale transfers. 99% of the time that messes everything up. Also before you apply skin to your mesh,…
My general life advice is don't ever take debt for art education, worst life decision of 99% of the people who do (always some exceptions). Gnomon is good, but not good enough for the price it charges. The premium they have to charge students for their BFA after having to go through all the legal hoops to get their program…
Technically, commercial use is ok if its specifically for steam workshop items. Same thing with the $99 3d coat license on steam, and previously the substance designer ones (though they changed that with their new indie licensing, which is awesome). As far as comparing it to LT, Modo SE is more feature rich and carries a…
as a parent. this is absolutely about bad parenting. i'm not saying i'm the perfect parent, or that nothing ever goes wrong in my house or with my kids. but they ALL know not to fuck around with knives, sledgehammers, and guns. they even (quite responsibly i'll add) decided they didn't like nerf guns anymore after one of…
I don't know blender but cage matches are picky and its kind of an opaque problem. If your cages are still getting rejected you should still be able to get a clean bake with the red indicator or with just using type in ray offsets. Try making your cage file a little bigger, not too tight to the model. Sometimes on smaller…