As mentioned, comes down to personal preference. IMO though, I see Maya more as a organic/freeformish kind of modeling app, and great for rigging and animation. While Max to me seems more like a structural and precise app. Still, both can be used to create modular assets with the same precision and vice versa. And there's…
Skel/Interp actor use an Environment Light (visible in the properties of the actor), this a sort of cubemap that merge all the incoming lighting and compute the dynamic lighting on the object. Static meshes don't have these env light, also static meshes are good for props, not for character because lightmap are not…
d1ver: Thanks! I think we all started new jobs shortly after that UC entry. Hmmm coincedence? I removed the resume a while back, because I'm not currently looking for work. I may put it back up with stripped out personal info. Thanks for the feedback. toxic_h2o, cholden, chrisradsby: Thanks ! Jessica Dinh: Thanks! I like…
This went around work earlier today, I'll just post what I responded with: (This was in response to, "They don't have much more tech than we do, just better artists!") "No doubt their env art is amazing. They (at least once) went on texture/reference vacations to Fiji. . . and spent a very long time, making high poly…
Hey mate, This is extremely interesting! I was considering importing everything as a reference and disabling what I didn't need. Would this have a similar effect or am I being optimistic? I've used proxies in the past but not looked into the redshift ones yet, I'll look into this before I start rendering as it's taking…
Byren: Thanks for the kind words man and you're super welcome! I doubt there is still a lot of people using the first version of Marmoset, but in any case... Ro-Bo: Hahaha! ¡Gracias mi amigo! ;-) anglorum: Thank you Anglorum! You made a killer entry in the env category! I love your den, thanks for posting on this side…
Snowfly : I dunno, it's hard to explain. It's like a sum of many little factors : usually I zoom/pan/rotate all at the same time with the stylus (Maya nav style), but in Z I somehow have to start pressing a key, release it and go on with the motion to pan then zoom, reach the border of the screen if I need to rotate ...…
have a quadro 4800 or sommit at work and i am distictly not impressed, yes it can push a few polys.....but shaders, im not convinced that its any better than a gaming card if not worse, and considering the gaming card setup you could easily afford for one of these bastards, which i havnt tested the best im comparing to a…
sup holmes, that folio be poppin, but I'm bout to drop some dope wisdom up in this b: - Too many samey shots of the subway. Consider having an area in the subway env where the light fixtures are broken and the surfaces are lit only by bounced light. - Overall diffuse colors for different surfaces of the subway have too…
Thanks for the kind words Joakim. Means alot. I'll definantly reorganize my portfolio and add a bunch of that env stuff. I wouldn't mind working as an environmental artists as long as i was supplied with concepts of what they needed. I'm horrible with coming up with concepts for environments. Ben: Yeah, I see what your…