Metal is actually pretty easy to do with PBR. Since metals generally reflect almost 100% of light that hits them, you simply need to make your specular color the final color of reflections you'd like to see. For example, you'd want a light pinkish color for clean copper, or a bright desaturated yellow for most types of…
Ok first off, scrap that website. Use Polycount's great folio guide/wiki: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Portfolio I personally would suggest using ArtStation from here forward. Regarding your work, it looks like your modeling skills are headed towards the right place. I will be 100% honest, none of your work is AAA…
Although your models within the trolley scene are really nice, I dont really care for the composition. There are far too many grays and blacks within your scene to the point where they start to wash out everything else around them. I know that you want your focal point to be the trolley, only because how the lighting is a…
I think its a good start but if you want this to shine i think there are some things that need to be done, so first i think that a thing that is detracting from this is that your tires and mirrors and barrel seem to be pure black and read as the same material same as the recess where the lights are located. the model: so…
I can't fully understand the dialogue but just from his body language, I feel like we've all had those moments while working on an animation :) Overall the biggest thing that sticks out to me is that I can see where your keys are. Most of the actions with the body will move and then when they are done moving, stop and stay…
.. one last comment before I head to sleep: Communism as a theory and ideal works just about as well as any pure theory. In groups of about up to a few hundred you can hold it together, but at a certain critical mass of humans, our less than idealistic traits come to light and tend to trash the ideal system into something…
Bike looks pretty good. Major issues I noticed. 1-bars need some sweep, would be very uncomfortable to ride a bike with completely straight bars (each grip should sweep back at 5* angle) 2- spoke lacing. Lacing radial (straight out) is fine for front wheel. The only torque applied is from the brakes, and you have none.…
Before you go optimizing smoothing groups, consult your friendly neighborhood engine programmer, shared vertices may or may not be used at all by the engine and your model exporter may ignore your hard work. The engineering term is Vertex Indexing and there are some reasons not to always use it. ALL vertex data has to be…
Hey, don't lose hope, keep on truckin! Here's some ideas; 1) Take out the Pilgrimage Pavilion. It's not up to professional quality. You need to learn how to make colours work together, how to lead the viewers eyes, scene composition. Right now the prop placement is a bit of a mess and I really have no idea where to look.…
Heya and welcome to yet another PARPG news update. We hope you had pleasant holidays and wild New Year's Eve parties :-) Some of us just returned from their holiday break and now it's time to find out who's still around and can help us to release our first techdemo in early 2010. This said: open source enthusiast…