the best way to learn 3d is to have a personal project. start from learning the pipeline from concept to creation. start small and simple. make a cartoon guy or a simple room with a few items in it. if you suck at texturing, spend time making a few projects about texturing. if you suck at modeling make a few focus projects…
Thanks guys! :) Here are some more WIP from today. I'm stilling holding up but I think the forms is not really representing the concept right now. I might want to use lattice tool later on and get the more comic effect than the sovjet-realistic look or the 50s style. Hm, what does polycount think? Do I need to change…
I feel like I can anticipate one of the new tools in IC.Shape 2.0. Anything to see a girl smile. From MAXScript menu, create a New Script. Copy and paste following code, then from editor menu Tools choose Evaluate All. You'll find the command in Customize User Interface... under category IllusionCatalyst Tools, named…
I've been doing 3d for such a long time it just started to become boring to me, this was the last thing I made that was a high poly character: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/229/8/3/yuri_character_sculpt_by_frell262-d46vx32.png I still really like hand painting low poly characters but that's so cliche its probably…
In the end I would like to see as much processing power as is economically possible. If that means they drop compatability or, assure no Piracy with internet always connections or, Absorb the huge profits Game Stop would have had without growing actual development in any way. My biggest fear is that all the jaded gamers…
ha-ha yea the roof has been a bit up and down i think maybe when i finish making the guttering etc it may fit a bit more fingers crossed lol. first attempt at something like this so want it to be good enough for portfolio. i cant seem to solve the column issue, i have changed smoothing groups so i may just try remodeling…
Ben: adding caps, numbers and symbols will make it more difficult, as will having something that's not in a dictionary. edit: as per your link, the difference between asdf and A5_f is 22.8 HOURS. And that's for an extremely short one.