I feel like I'm being portrayed in a very negative light in this thread :( Just trying to get better, guys... First, thank you very much for your time and explanation :) I wasn't "fudging" the gun. This was my second weapon and hard-surface model overall, so I was (and am) still very new to this. I only asked them to point…
lol of course you should practice more traditionally and definitely practice anatomy! If you want to be a good character modeler, or even a good person drawer, you need need need to practice anatomy! A good way to practice is signing up for some life drawing classes, sit somewhere and sketch gesturely people walking by.…
The metagame shifts in starcraft1 even now, top US pros were recently commenting on how surprising it was that in the year since SC2 the tactics and things are still developing for the original. Listen to some of the State of the Game podcasts as they have some enlightening things to say regarding tactics and how people…
A good idea for you would be to stick with one overall reference for your M4 though mix matching your parts isn't a bad idea, it can get disorienting with many different references. Also with individual parts it is a good idea to find multiple shots of said parts at different angles so you get ideas of scale, thickness,…
your online portfolio is broken and unuseable in Opera (perhaps in some other html conform browsers as well) - well and it makes a bad impression on me. I had to launch bloated firefox for this because it did of course worked there. also publising under a website as flicker give it a bit of a hobbyist feeling ( just like…
hey Dana, its late so forgive my bluntness and I hope none of this is taken as offensive. - First of all, you need to pick a focus. You have characters, props and environments on you page and that just tells me you don't know what you want to do. I suggest picking what you enjoy to do the most, get a few more pieces done…
You'd be surprised how common "bad" UVs are in animated movies. Bad just by game standards, an artist in that field will find a lot of our principles very alien.