Inspired by thread about Obi-Wan's lightsaber I decided to do something myself as PBR practice :) I made my hilt based on simple small foldable tripod for camera :) Comments and critique appreciated. [SKETCHFAB]48686f2ff7f348deae386186e7081b30[/SKETCHFAB] Here are screens:
@Noren Thanks for your feedback. The Main area was planned to be a bit more open space without trees so the view of the mountains would be visible as I had posted my main camera there. But yes, the angles with the shadow cast by the trees look better. I tried some shadows from volumetric clouds but after experimenting it…
Under the tools palet/menu find the deformation tools and click unify. This will set your model in the center of the zbrush canvas at an ideal size. Turn off all symmetry under the transform menu at the top of the zbrush interface. Mask the corner of your model that has the detail. Find smart resym under the deformation…
How many people actually try, 100%, to make a living from doing such things? Not impossible but the stigma is that you will be a starving artist. I went to an art school for a time and constantly heard from teachers about getting into painting and sculpting and being a starving artist. You know, Pixar sculpts their…
I think you made a smart move. I also think it would be a smart move for you to take the art classes at your community college. Take classes like drawing, sculpture, painting (color theory), ect... You'll find out how valuable those basic principals are later on. Keeping motivated is hard for some (me) so do the contests…
Just tried it, and the Spline IK is a very good addition. Note that the important part in step 5 is to replace the XYZ position sub-controller with a path contraint (or use a list controller like seen in the image). He probably started to write that, but then jumped ahead to the bezier float. Or maybe that used to be the…
Welcome to Polycount. Great start, keep going! It takes a while to get 2d skills up to game dev industry standard, so all I can say is keep at it. Compare your work to concept artists who are already working at studios; to be hired your work needs to approach (ideally meet) theirs in terms of content and quality. Here is…
Hello, I think the best way I can explain what's happening is with an example screenshot; http://i.imgur.com/q77kf5R.jpg So as you can see, I created a fresh project and put the Dull Steel smart material onto a section of my mesh, which worked fine. After that, I tried applying the Varnished Oak material and it only gives…