For almost a decade I had this amazing piece of concept art of a futuristic looking "Rollerblade-Helicopter" in my "inspiration" folder. On the day I saw it I promised myself: "That is so awesome ... one day you will build this thing in 3D". I would love to credit the person that originally came up with this design ...…
So my computer died this morning when i tried to change the texture settings in portal. Looks like its just the video card as the monitor just turned off. Tried another monitor and no go. Computer is ancient, I haven't spent a dime on it since I bought it in 2002 or 2003. Got some old parts from my brother to bump it up a…
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A lot of it has to do with personal tastes, when looking at concepts try and figure out what you enjoy about it. Is it the shape? The way it is rendered? The colour?. It gets pretty abstract for me at times. Like I'd enjoy how a person would render worn armor with a couple strokes (and then realise I just enjoy simplistic…
Sweet stuff dude, I always liked the shapes of the real heli. Yours looks pretty accurate as far as I can tell. Anyway regarding your HP and polycount question: I'd rebalance things a bit. You've got big shapes that could do with more segments (exhaust!!, window edges) and then you have tiny details that really don't need…
^ I really hate to say this but i am in the boat of very low memory and i have to separate a LOT of tools and export them all one at a time is horrendous. Seems your under-powered laptop suffers a bit from the same? Would go the route of exporting and working on each item separately in it's own .ztl file before exporting,…
Cool article, and I think it brings up some really good points. That said, can anyone cite any economic data that shows the video game industry will crash? Atari 2600 doesn't account for GenX+ Millenials who grew up with a controller in their hand. AAA can't crash. It can however EVOLVE. Even if consoles crash, AAA games…
@Chimp i think the difference is what we expect from art station. your expectation seem to be that its like some ones homemade fan webpage, "i upload fun pics check dem out lol!!111", like 9gag or reddit or something. and i agree, with that expectation isnt it weird at all to see them cater to the most popular stuff. my…
It looks very cell shaded, not much in the way of extreme highlights or color to make the piece "Pop!". Without that depth of color while the mesh may be lower poly there is nothing to draw the eye or make me say wow. Be more extreme on the fur, make each "chunky strand" pop and give it detail, provide heightlights for the…