See this would have a much wider response than you would imagine. Did you ever read about all the high end laptop makers hating on of the netbooks because they were causing people to care less about processing power? When netbooks started to come out they all freaked out(and still are just less so) because they saw a world…
What software he is using doesn't really matter that much. A keyframe is a keyframe and the principles of animation are what is important. I tend to animate on 4's for 24fps and 5's for 30fps. What this means is every 4th or 5th frame I block in a pose, setting a keyframe on every bone. This is more of a 2d animation…
Hey Dualian At the moment its really hard to tell. From the side profile, yeah i can kinda see it but overall it doesn't "feel" like him if you know what i mean? The main issue would be judging from the screen pic of your sculpt is that you seem be sculpting on a super dense (or very high tris) base mesh. What I would…
In the late 80's I tried to teach myself guitar in the hopes of composing music and got interested in the idea of the engineer as the invisible 5th member of any great rock recording. I was computer illiterate at the time. So I bought a fostex 280 analog cassette 4-track ( never did spend the $$ fer ADATS ) and A Roland…
That part in the briefing when I said there'd be no prizes? Oh there's totally prizes. While we teased it slightly in a Tweet a while ago, we've been stupidly tight lipped about our prize for the Brawl Contest. The reason being: We meant it when we said art should not be motivated by a prize. We wanted you to participate…
Your latest update looks really solid, nice job working those critiques in there. UDK Lightmass is all about balance, there's no real "right" answers. You do have some peculiar parameters though. Firstly, your number of indirect bounces is at...50! That's probably increasing your build time and also having little to no…
I think music today is not memorable at all. I play in a video game cover band, Kirby's Dream Band.. and during work I listen to tons of podcasts about video game music, listem to VGM playlists.. listen to nerdcore acts and OCRemixes. The thing is, the composers of the past had MASSIVE limitations in what they could do.…
Hi @CallumBaws I'm running through an anatomy workshop right now and I feel your pain. It is a lot to understand and take in. Below I've done a quick paintover pointing out a few errors. I have provided a few reference pics of the arm and a turn around of a 3d scan that I have done a few planar strokes/outlined the…
It's a lot easier to answer now that I animate, like you said they have some kind of frame of reference even if it's way off the mark they don't stare at me blankly. Outside of the industry: What do you do? I'm a lead character animator. So what does a lead character animator do? I lead the character animation team, make…
Totally agree with Pope Adam on this one, I also go to San Diego AI. The classes are constantly updating a changing based on the changing industry and the teachers (the handful of good ones at least do) are pushing students that show passion harder than the people who don't think work outside of class is needed. Some of…