Simple clay render combined with a 3 point light setup will get you far! This can be done with any render avaible for 3ds max, I personally use V-Ray since its also the renderer I use at work, however you could do a super simple setup with the default scanline render: 1 - Assign a standard material to your mesh, you can…
it's a madhouse! every man for themselves... decided If I was going to wait no longer! as skipped a few to many generations before pulling the upgrade trigger already. ( real antsy considering I have been patient on a tri SLI Fermi setup since 2010 ) And SLI seems to be falling to the wayside with anything above 2 cards…
This thing got away from me. I know the exact moment it happened. my ears were sticking out to far from the head and I tried moving them in to get a better overall position. A) I had stepped down subdivision levels B) my higher subdivision levels all remembered the higher points after the move. So when I smoothed out the…
Doing an explode bake doesn't mean you need to use a large number of seperate mesh chunks, and using a continunouse mesh chunk for everything that doesn't animate(or just 2-3 larger chunks) doesn't mean you shouldn't do an explode bake. My general rules of thumb: 1. Use as few mesh chunks as possible 2. Use separate mesh…