Hi: My name is Markel Milanes. I'm a 3D artist specializing in modeling, texturing, lighting, high poly to low poly pipeline and PBR texture creation. I have over 6 years of experiences in the game industry working in mobile games like Batman Blackgate and The Unfinished Swan, as well as triple A like The Sims 3 Pets and…
Not much major progress to report as of yet, begun blocking out the stands before I create the higher detailed pieces which I can just swap for the blocked out placeholders. First completely blocked out stand: Main issue at the minute is the overall scale but I want to get everything roughly blocked out before I start…
The first day at my current studio I took a swig of coffee, accidently aspirated some and involuntarily coughed, spraying a mouthful of coffee all over my cintiq. Another time, I gave Chaoseidolon a 20oz bottle of homemade beer that he kept on his desk at work. One night it exploded sending shards of glass and beer in a…
If some group charges for a mod, are they not a game company at that point? This could be opening a can of worms. If someone releases a mod that does the same thing or even slightly better than a another mod being charged for, does Epic have to stop allowing the free version? Better yet the above with a twist. A free…
I started modeling working in inches because of the Source engine, but I've since learned to interchange between centimeters when I'm doing external work and decimeters when I'm doing personal projects. Since it's a decimal place away from unity in one direction and unreal in another, it's an easily interchangeable…
I don't really understand the workflow of blending handpainted with PBR so I can't really choose a tool for each part. I'd imagine that I could swap my current PS work with 3D Coat, since they're so similar and handle basic diffuse without problems, and then use Substance Painter to achieve the more sophisticated stages,…
If you use a point constraint, you can animate the weight that a constraint has with a object. For your baton example, You would have 2 point constraints setup on the baton, one for the giving hand and one for the receiving hand. The giving hand will have it's point constraint keyed at 1, and the receiving hand will have…
Well, I realize that some of the things I added to the dumpster were not on the reference photo, but I'm not aiming to make it exactly like the reference. I wanted to add more grunge to it, mostly with the dripping or leaking sewage liquid. I appreciate the determination to stick to the reference picture, but I also wanted…
Damn it Adam, just when i think i've got it all sorted out. You raise some good points, and I gotta mention i can't stand hippies and i'm starting to resemble one. Despite the light heartedness of this thread beards really are serious business and i shouldn't be so easily swayed. I'm gonna have to sleep on it... literally,…
it's a plain DVD drive, no combi. i don't even know what an HP drive is. i don't think it's AVG because i had UT2K4 installed on the old HD with AVG and it was fine. i can't copy the DVD to my HD cos, as i said above, it keeps bleating 'can't read from source' when i do. and it's not anything to do with disc swapping…