First thing I noticed is the size of the hands, they should be much bigger on your sculpt. Look at how thin the wrists are compared to the hand itself in the concept. Definitely push the contrast there! You also might want to do a neutral pose closer to the concept, with a little more hunch in the back. That will sell his…
Hey guys, There was a feature I always wanted in 3dsmax but never actually found anything acceptable as a substitute for and that is an actions history window. I really like to see what actions I am doing to prevent accidentally moving and doing collapses and welds as I try to work fast. I know you can open the maxscript…
Hi there folks, I'm new to Polycount (and Maya, to be frank) so go easy on me, please. :) I've been working on a 3D character for a VR game (using Unity) that I'd like to give a surface that has an active, liquid quality to it. The closest thing I could use for reference is the skin on the Searchers from a game called…
Hi everyone! I'd like to share one of my portfolio projects: a hairstyle created for Replika AI - implemented and rendered in the Unity engine. This is a real-time hair asset created using Ornatrix for 3ds Max with the "Branching Workflow" technique. This method is excellent for creating natural-looking hairstyles with…
In my experience for character blendshapes the principal or lead character artist will create the benchmark blendshapes and the pipeline along with a tech artist to support on setting up the tools, and the character art team will use the pipeline tools and benchmark assets to create the blendshapes for their individual…
Hi there, I'm trying to make this satellite and I have run into a small problem. I don't know how to make a round frame for the wings! Ok just as I was writing this I came up with the idea of adding edge loops too make it round when smoothing and it worked. However I still think there is a better idea. Does anyone know? I…
Alo polycounters, tis been a while! I recently finished up on Tony Hawk Project 8 (PS2), and am taking a break. Thought I would give characters another go, this time with a focus on next gen polycounts and learning normal maps (hopefully) Final target tri count is 5 - 7 k. Hows my topology? Is it starting to look like her?…
Hello, I was just thinking about a new project for my self-teaching and I came up with a project idea of making first person models of a gun and hands , with custom rig and textures and the also making animations with them. Now I would like to ask you if you could provide me some tips, guides and general help about this…
First of all, thank you so much for your reply! Those are really great questions, I'm basing it off a 2D concept art provided by a client actually, so I don't know much about the characters backstory except that they've been in fights and they're in a post apocaliptic setting. As for reference photos, this is one of the…
If you don't have an usage applied on your nodes, check that your identifiers match. The error that you mention means that the output node can't be matched with one of the input node. Therefore the effect can't be created because Painter is unable to find a way to connect your graph. We recently updated the doc, check it…