You got a lot of symmetry going on in there, which makes you able to just model some of the parts once. Most of the core structure seems to be just half the building symmetrical, so you can cut a lot of work in two just there. For the bigger pieces, like those long stairs, just break them up in parts if needed to get the…
Your edge flow looks alright. From what I can see you are on the right track. What you could do, it is a bit more time consuming but more accurate, is modeling the part separate. Iron Man is an assembles suit where pieces lay over one another. The hard part about it is separating the right parts. Of course Marvel comics…
You have this hang up on modular set pieces like it's a big problem? Every project I've been a part of have had modular pieces with the simple convention I was talking about and there was basically no problems and no enforcement. Also keep in mind, modular pieces are such small, small bit of a game art production pipeline.…
in the meantime 5 part speed modeling/texturing tut. Hand painted textures made entirely in blender's texture paint mode. Based on concept by Tamara Bakhlycheva aka FirstKeeper http://firstkeeper.deviantart.com/ http://firstkeeper.deviantart.com/art/Weapons-concept-04-284014517 Took me about 3h. 2x speed TUTORIAL LINK…
Loving the Darksiders Door! With the jungle piece though, I'm not sure its style comes across clearly enough. I can't tell if it's supposed to be realistic or stylised, and I think that's in part due to the amount of detail in the textures. In particular, the tree bark and statue diffuse have a lot more fine noise over…
@Gloriousczar, thanks man! appreciated! There arent plans for much facial animation apart from the eyes/brow, as for the mustache, I made it part of the face for ease of painting mainly but I tried to keep the topo as close as possible to what you advised. I really dont have much experience with facial anim but do you…
I can forget about amassing enough cash to buy my own island and turn it into my own little paradise. It looks like that has been done for me! Oh wait its in a part of the world that has worse weather than I have now... Do you think we could get them to relocate their island of Man farther south, say... to the equator?…
1.1) Yes. With some padding. It's not a bad idea to leave some free space for possible future changes. Obviously not that much, but I've often come to regret it when I left no space at all. Since not all parts of the car will change with different paint jobs, you probably could add three more paintjobs (if that's about…
nah it all depends on how they comp the 3d.. I have a feeling that the effects tends to break apart easier when you bring things in front of the tv, the most effective movies I find sit inside the screen with just occasional elements coming forward. Could just be personal taste though. Also, I think post converted 3d…
I like the nearly finished version of your first attempt. What materials did you have in mind for the different parts? The barrel of the newest version (7th) indeed has nice shapes. Are you looking at any reference when working? Struggling to come up with new shape ideas is often solved that way at least in my experience.…