[ QUOTE ] I'm not really a fan of the series, but I'm wondering why they chose to not cell shade the environment. I really dislike it when games do this. [/ QUOTE ] In animation, backgrounds are typically painted, and only the characters and objects which they interact with are painted on cels... well, unless we're talking…
miauu's Drag&Drop Pro makes file handling in 3ds Max faster and smarter by adding intelligent drag-and-drop functionality for assets, proxies, and materials. What can it do when you drop files from Windows Explorer into 3ds Max? * Automatically relink all missing textures on file drop. * Instantly open dropped proxy files…
Hi folk, I wanted to ask you about time management of yours. How exactly do you arrange your time every day for studying and working with 3D? Maybe you are using scheduled daily routine, or maybe it more spontaneously? Can 3D artist arrange your day without fatigue, or it's impossible thing to do? For example, one half of…
Hi, How do you motivate average 3D artists to raise their quality bar or how were you inspired by your leads, if you ever needed to? I think many of you have some thoughts from either side. There's also a specific case to my question. I have a problem with a character artist who doesn't want to learn (by theory, i. e.…
Hey Graffiti, digging the new panel. Yet I'd be curious to look at your mood board/inspiration. Also, what is the purpose of this piece? Portfolio? Practice? Material studies? Level layout? This environment could fit any number of those qualifications; (understood it's still a wip) yet I wouldn't say any of them are…
Hi Hijlkema, This is really cool, great job. I like the props and the texture work for sure! I feel like there is a story to the scene, but in order to tell your specific story, it needs to be pushed a little more as I don't quite see a zombie/infection environment. It looks more like a group of houses foreclosed in the…
Its a nice start, needs some polish though. Like the others have said, the lanterns are a bit dark at the moment. They look quite dull and don't really have that glowy appearance you'd expect. Something like this: Also something I like about this image, the water is flat. In your image the water is choppy and it creates a…
Like everything, photos have it place in texturing and it is pointless/stupid to not use them. It's not whether or not use photos, is how and when to use them. Few examples: 1. All rocks/plaster/bricks.wood etc. are excellent candidates for photo source and generating maps out of them. Even most detailed sculpted normal…
Nostradamus: cheers! Chief benefit to me: it's visual. From an art background, I just understand things so much better when I see them laid out- some examples: you can clearly see the connections between things, and how the 'flow' of code works- especially when you view the graph at runtime any logic being called has a…
What is your renderer ? Your images are really dark, especially the ground and it looks like the house is floating in space in your first renders. Even by night there should be some ambient lighting. I like the style you're going for, reminds me of this : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/yE023 However, in terms of style,…