I have some questions/suggestions for OP, and some of these might help everyone else too: First, where are you now currently and where are your from? (apologies if I missed this) I ask because that can change your situation, like if you're in the US now and are on Visa, I think leaving school means you have to leave the…
Hey! Good start! Welcome to the world of organic topology. This is going to sound a bit harsh but I would suggest starting over at this point. This model has lots of weird topology and your edge loops are not going to deform properly. When the shoulders move for example there should be a flow of edges... almost like a…
Thanks for the input! I actually didn't rig the arms in this example I just happened to add all the bones when I added the skin modifier and so the envelopes created happened to catch those vertices and the animation on the bones already included the arms moving. Believe it or not I don't really have any trouble rigging a…
Meh I have meet to many people with money that don't buy games because you can get them for free. I think the problem with games as a consumer, is when you buy the freaking thing take it home and it doesn't work. My ex son spend almost over one hundred dollars trying to mod his xbox to get pirated games to play on and…
Think about what all this would mean. You want the government to pony up the money to pay for R&D, but where does the government get that money? You and me. I for one don't want my taxes spent on creating new technologies when all the profits from those efforts go to the car companies and not back in my pocket. Second,…
[ QUOTE ] In fact, a sci-fi or fantasy genre *could* have product placement so-long as that product is recreated in a way workable for that environment: If Coke were to want some real estate in a certain sci-fi game their Coke product would have to be redesigned to fit the sci-fi theme. An example would be to redesign the…
Blender for example has an additional option for symmetrical edit: Toplogy Mirror.. so even if not absolutly symmetrical the edits are mirrored.. IDK Maya good enough to tell when it uses this..