Besides the human study I've also been working on these 2 short little animations this week. It's nothing special, but I'd just like to share them. I'm starting to like animation. #1st Assignment: Pixar Animation Appearantly the guys over at Pixar are given 1 week for 1 second of animation for their feature film projects.…
Vertex animation as far as I know is pretty expensive on resources. It's a great way to capture a sim like cloth but it's probably not going to be widely adopted for real time games anytime soon. Yep, I would strongly urge you to use them too. When you rotate the arm above a T-Pose you lift the clavicle which brings the…
I turned off the ceiling light and trying it more with desk lamps which I need to model. The lighting can't be for the benefit of 1 camera angle as the menu will include the whole room. This is the kind of look I am after…
The work itself is looking like it's off to a great start, but I think you might be able to use your UV space a little bit better. It looks like you probably kept everything at the same 1-1 UV size vs actual size which makes sense in real-life (and I've been guilty of doing this) but I've been finding it better to bump up…
Yea all of the FFVII characters where broken up into segments with 100% of the verts in that segment being weighted to the bone, 1:1 weighting. Some "rigs" didn't have bones and where just well placed object pivots linked together to form chains. I forget if vertex weighting was even possible on the PS1, it might have been…
Edited : Just as reminder, about scaling in Zbrush : obj file format has no scale variable support to define the model scale ratio zbrush apply some math Scale in Zbrush : 1 unit = 1*2 ( global scale is always 2.00002) if you have a cube of 1'1'1 and a scale of 1 in maya, after the importing in Zbrush Now if you have a box…
Overlapping UV's. Offset all but one piece 1 tile to the right/left/top or bottom. With pieces you want to move, turn on #1. In #2 type 1 and hit enter. It will move those pieces 1 tile to the right. That way they land perfectly on the tileable image but aren't in the renderable space. You can also switch the editor to UW…
You get lynched for bumping, you'r technically already dead :/ To fit the 1:2 or 2:1 ratio you need to first fit every thing in to one of the half of the 1:1 UV space. Lets say the lower part. When you'r done fitting everything together you mark all the UV shells and select the scale tool. Then you want to scale in just U…