While I take umbrage to the implication that programming is easy, I freely acknowledge that art is much harder to teach. At the end of the day, an artist needs a certain degree of natural talent, as well as practice, in order to make decent art. You can teach almost anyone to write decent code. And as far as employment…
I've been in the same situation as you and I thought I was really working hard with no results. Then I set a goal and started really busting my ass. If you have time to sit on the couch and watch tv or play video games, you aren't working hard enough. Are there any IGDA or other meet ups in your area? Get your ass there, I…
coolness i love that rhino cgchat entry, awesome. id suggest rethinking some of the colors, specifically the red text on a gray bg, and blue text link colors on the gray bg. dunno if you are using css or not, if not, they can be changed super quick by using an externally ref'ed stylesheet. I prefer css to defining colors…
Zbrush Resources MasterThread I thought it would be cool to have a central place for people to post quality zbrush resources that make our lives a bit easier Alphas: EAT 3Ds 110 Bolts http://eat3d.com/forum/tips-tricks-and-free-videos/110-free-custom-bolt-alphas Rick Baker Wrinkle Alphas…
I'd start with modeling. You can't really practice texturing without models, and having to find models online everytime can be pretty annoying, its easier if you can just do it yourself.then learn how to unwrap properly or else texturing your stuff is going to be a huge pain in the ass. I wouldn't start with a tree, i am…
notepad.exe! HTML is really simple and the amount you need to know to make a portfolio is miniscule. Just enough to put a title: <h1>MY PORTFOLIO</h1> some text: <p>all about me yadda yadda</p> and some images: <img src="gallery/render01.jpeg"> then you add some equally simple CSS to make it look pretty and your done. You…
Does Blogger support CSS? You could try something like this: <div style="float:left;"><a href="foo.html"><img src="foo_thumb.jpg" /></a></div><div style="float:right;"><a href="goo.html"><img src="goo_thumb.jpg" /></a></div><br/><div style="float:left;"><a href="hoo.html"><img src="hoo_thumb.jpg" /></a></div><div…
assing a shader for each object you like to have its own texture... rightclick onto the object assing new shader.. or hide the objects/faces you dont like to paint on... use the uv shell selection tool for... or create uv tiles to seperate materials... and use the up arrow key to unload the tiles... [ame="…
zelzaan what you descibed apart from small things here and there is depicted very well. He looks pretty bad ass :) i know this might be difficult to do now, but for the ultimate bad ass if you made like navy coat with a bit larger thicker "collar" woud add an old school macho feel!…