It's a start.... at least you don't see the evil corportaion president that lays off everyone responsible for the 3ds because they did a really bad job at marketing. Releasing prematurely and bla bla. Most companies here would've been like... fuuuu the people, we'll make up by laying people off, take the revenue and be…
if i can't do one thing, I do another write or draw, etc. Try new methods, mess with different stuff. I drew a pretty okay picture with crayon the other day, but it gave me the motivation to draw more. For me it's a matter of picking myself up off the floor and not being lazy as hell If all else fails, i watch a movie. or…
Ooooh yeah more tool ideas!! On top of this awesome concept, something that would complement it very nicely would be the ability to select a certain 'rhythm' of edges along a loop (like : 1edge on, 2 edges off, 2 edges on, 1 edge off) and have the 'increase along loop' tool respect that rhythm for the rest of the…
I'm not sure but I believe once a photo has been processed into a texture it's considered something different. Though at the last studio I worked at they were really scared about where the artists were getting their textures, so officially google image search was essentially off limits. If you can copyright textures from a…
Compared to taking a educational course at specialized schools and unis it certainly is (Those are usually only worth it to have a completed education to show off to the state and some industry networking). Clearly a better investment in terms of actual skills. But with running costs, you're probably better off not taking…
Epic at GDC showed off how they captured the lighting conditions on 2 spheres, one matte and one gloss, translated that into Maya to recreate the lighting situations and baked a map off of that that helped to eliminate lighting information in the diffuse. How they did that I'm not 100% sure but they might have used HDR…
alvaro beautiful technique! that being said, same with other comments be careful of such ambitious poses. similar to perspective, if something is off people will give the side eye. forum is a great opportunity for the bystander eyes to let you know "hey... something seems off.." Make a friend pose this way (even if its a…
interesting concept and good start so far, i dont think i would go with the particular horn style you have blocked out here though. also id add a bit of fleshyness between the muscles, when they are super bulgy with no soft tissue between they automatically tend to look "fake". also id work on the muscular anatomy a bit,…
Thanks! I did check my values a lot. My choice for keeping away from strong shadows is that the mist surrounding him is also giving off light. So while the focal area up front is giving off the strongest light, there is still other light all around him waist high filling in the shadows. My idea was a white-grey-black…
Live and learn I guess. Kinda confused on the keyframe version. Your still moving those by hand? Or is there a script your running to explode? Maybe I'm reading too fast and missing the tool your using. Ive been putting a modifier on top of the stack of edit mesh that I can turn on/off. On = Height and NM. Off = AO. In…