If you head to Autodesk's Area, they have a bunch of tutorials for Softimage. You can find a bunch at http://www.i3dtutorials.com/view/Tutorials too. As for reference models, you should be able to use a mdl decompiler to get the smd, which you can then import.
Good start would be to check out this tutorial: http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/fpstutorial.html If i remember right, all those assets are free to use, even commercially in your own projects. Remember to google too and search from youtube..
That hydrant looks exactly like the one created in Ben Tate's tutorial herehttp://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/model-a-detailed-high-poly-fire-hydrant-in-3ds-max/ Is that the case? If so you might want to consider removing it.
I'm finding I can get my concepts down but I'm such a noob at the photoshop tools that I can't get a good finished product. I'm checking out the idrawgirls video tutorials and also looking at the FZD tutorials on youtube, but it's slow progress.
Thanks for the tutorial, I don't own B2M so I cant use it and with Substance Designer, its limited in texture size and I am waiting since a long time for them to change that. I will have now a look at the tutorial, lets see...
Hello ! :) Many people ask me a tutorial for create similar brushes.. I just added a new video tutorial : [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1_YIo0MDs"]ART - Custom Brushes for Game Art - YouTube[/ame]BERTRAND REMONDIN - PortFolio .
Your best friend in sculpt mode is the filter settings. Best tutorial I've seen for learning nDo sculpting is the AK tutorial here: [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHa-h2S-NNY"]Complete nDo2 Breakdown - The AK - YouTube[/ame]
I knocked out a quick tutorial. In retrospect just pointing you to the Subdiv tutorial thread "how u model dem shapes" as Throttle Kitty suggested might have been easier. Anyway, should be pretty straight forward I think.
Have you checked out the tutorial videos on refractive materials? Tons of tips there about how to do gems and glass and other types. https://marmoset.co/resources/
So, I was doing a chest tutorial, like some people advised. But the end result is the same. I got this weird triangles on my normal map. Maybe smb knows what is it about? What am I doing wrong? Followed the tutorial (the only thing I changed is not manually creating topology but using decimation master for it).