Welcome to Polycount Imogia. Well, I see potential in your models and textures but I think if you do a few things it would greatly improve your work. First off, I think you should ditch deviant art as a way of showing your 3d art. It could just be me, but I find the presentation you get through it to be really bad for 3d.…
MoP: I mentioned sampling just as a comparison to something reasonably comparable in our own cultural context--the fact that he's Chinese and coming from a very different cultural understanding about this sort of thing still stands. As it happens, sampling is perfectly legal when the sample taken is so short or…
This scene looks great! The night time version could use some lighting love though, it's really underlit and underexposed. It might help to look to some professional lighting for inspiration, for example https://litawards.com/winners/winner.php?id=2981&mode=win…
Different shaders use different specular lobes. Disney GGX is a commonly used one. Im guessing that’s why you’re seeing vastly different reflections at glancing angles… tools are probably using different ways to calculate how a roughness value will scatter the “rays” of light, and simulate the scattering of light that…
it was always characters but yes, eventually if you really enjoy stuff you "fan" out to the other aspect of the creation pipeline which is a good change of pace and could help with the "main" choice. For drawing anyway i took and environmental idea and made those into characters so meshing the two works for me here is an…
I'm not a user interface designer, but did once have an interest in going that route and did research into it, so I'll give my 2c. On the programming side: You'll probably want to start out by learning how to create animated HTML5 webpages, as it's become somewhat common to use web languages for games user interfaces these…
Here's some top image results from google to start with for comparison. http://www.heartlandasphalt.com/ESW/Images/asphalt.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Ground_frost_damages.JPG/1920px-Ground_frost_damages.JPG (this is very common in my area, note the contrast!)…
Valandar, that "Excellent" of yours would be something very subjetive. I don't know traditional or 3d sculptors without pencil skills. The guys without tradional skills always do poor sculpts, and they have more difficulties in the procress of learning, and that's why they end learning some basics. We have different points…
well i happened to have extemporaneously and at length commented on the subject of concept art in this thread, i think you might find some of the comments useful: http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=74051&an=0&page=0#74051 at MoP's prompting i think i might expand it into a proper article with more…
Everytime I tell myself "maybe I shouldn't make this thread", I find some new example somewhere on the internet that tells me "no, there's something really bad about bloom". Bloom isn't new of course, it's been used as early as the PS2 days. But I can't shake this feeling that after reading Marmoset's article on PBR and…