It almost been a whole year since I first picked up 3ds max. At this point I am very good at modeling and knowing my way around 3ds max. I am currently improving my photoshop skills and getting down a good flow with baking my high poly models. My problem is I havent created anything worth noting and this only say to me…
To get better cant be only fun. Its hard work. You have to find the balance to get better. Do a day learning how to model and two days fun modeling. I can say i did to much fun sculpting the last 10 years. My skill stuck on the same level.
I also did a M37 Shotgun the past few days, from the tutorial I think you're talking about.. My model is: 4,132 Tris 2,198 Verts 17,000 is way too much for a game. Did you not bake out a normal map from the high-poly and optimize that down to a low-poly?
It has been a long time Polycount, but if anyone still uses this I realize that I am kind of working in a bubble and Polycount was good for feedback back in the day! I am trying to make stupid fun history videos with over the top nonsense where if you aren't paying attention you might learn something. Using UE5 (I was a…
So Im currently doing my internship as a 3D artist in Stockholm, Sweden, and we recently wrapped up a 10 day job for a 45 second commercial that is currently being shown on swedish television. The material was shot in Africa and me and a colleague were responsible for putting all the 3D inside it. "AMF" is a swedish…
I did two interviews (remotely). The first one was with the studio co-owner and art director. We mostly talked about my hard surface portfolio which is where my resumé links to. He did briefly touch on the characters and suggested that it was a positive to have someone who could switch to doing characters if needed. I've…
This is awesome, thanks for this! Years ago I did the conceptart.org intro course that was all about studying/recreating classical paintings in greyscale to better understand composition and value used by the masters. It was probably one of the best things I've done to level up my ability to see. I've long since lost the…