Yup what Xaltar said. Also try to avoid harsh white (or black) backgrounds it really does assault peoples eyes and wash out details. Go for a nice natural color like gray. Also if you're interested in lighting characters these links might be of interest to you? http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=51209 (A little…
Let's start in reverse with #3. Atmosphere: this is completely in your control and it's up to you to decide. What atmosphere are you going for? Industrial? Something like Portal where it feels like a lab environment? You need a clear and cogent idea of what atmosphere you're targeting before you can decide on materials and…
It says it's scanned, so it's from a real surface. Here's their preview render: Could be replicated with a Cellular or Voronoi pattern, using varying cell sizes. For…
Hello, I am total noob in photoshop. How to save out huge texture file with less resolution. I have 3 files the resolution is as you see in the picture. This is file size i have all of those: So i created New file: It has 4 channels RGB RED - Contains file 1 GREEN - Contains file 2 BLUE - Contains file 3 And RGB shows em…
Revisiting an older model of a stubby flintlock pistol. Goal is to have a nice low-poly model for handpainting :3 Here's my thread: Sylized Stubby Flintlock Pistol (WIP)
Auto High Poly (maya 2016 EXT 2 ONLY!) Hi everyone! So after a loong time of messing around with mel I've finally gotten the time to put this together to share with the community! Just take my script and make it a button on your shelf! After that the rest is easy, just follow the instructions below (animated gif!). Notes:…
So I have started writing my own DX11 Tesselation shader, at a hope of looking at how they could be used for VFX. I started trying to get some basic tesselation working in Maya 2014 with the DX11 shader with viewport 2.0 and I am having some trouble with the domain shader. I think I am passing the right data sets through…
I always hated to use a wheel as a middle button. It's small, it's harder to press and sometimes it rolls instead of click. Recently I saw this mouse from Logitech and just loved it. At last someone made a mouse with 3 real full scale buttons on top. And it also has 12 additional small keys under the thumb. I've been using…
Hi All, Im trying to set up a custom skeleton rig in 3ds max 2010 64bit and im trying to follow this tutorial > LINK < Im upto page 2 where i have to create a SplineIK Solver to control the spine i create the 3-Pointed Line and then proceed to create a SplineIK Solver from the bottom of the spine to the top then connecting…
Haven't seen any posts about this here, but Wacom has been teasing a bit more information about their upcoming portable Cintiq in the form of these really tacky comics: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.577535292298640.1073741857.152601378125369&type=3…