Use a skylight @~20%, two or three spot lights one of them @90% with shadows (this is your main light source), others @20-40% no shadows. Turn on light tracer for GI. Thats what ill normaly do for my typical lighting set up. Unless someone else has a better lighting set up witch im sure someone does lol. Looking good so…
Created the girder sections from parts I already had. Next stream we'll be doing the last of the VarA kit parts and that will be the base complete! I can't tell you how much the workflow has sped up thanks to using trim sheets and sticking to a fixed scale. It's taken me one 40 hour week (counting all my updates for this…
Difficult to articulate exactly what it is unfortunately, but something about the face makes her look rather old. Late 40's, at least. I don't know if that was your intention, it certainly isn't the usual interpretation. My best guess is that it's being caused by the prominence of the cheekbones and brow, combined with the…
not an app, but I just got one of these. http://adonit.net/product/jot-pro/ -just a stylus where you can actually see where you are drawing. Really nice product if a bit of a weird solution. It has a nice weight and feels like a pen. Works well in sketchbook as long as I don't draw too quickly. That's more sketchbook on…
Remember on top of your regular income tax....Self employment tax is 15.3%..also need to take into account cost of opperating...Software..Hardware..etc....also, as a freelancer, you are not always going to be working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks (or however many weeks are in a year).... 20$ isnt going to add up to 45k a…
Yeah, I'm not trying to actively bankrupt him, I just get that little voice in my head after that forum explosion "maybe that kid killed himself after his hero told him he was filth & was going to hell". There's a roach in that salad and I can't eat around the roach. Your perspective, at best represents half of the country…
Congratz man, what studio are you at? I read an article about salaries in the US, there it depended more on how many years experience you had, if you're a lead you got a little more but not so much if you hadn't six years of experience, after that it goes way up. Saw a job advertise for Environment Artist with a pay of…
Update: Since I've not gotten the quality of applicants I'd hoped for, I'm going to bump my offered rate to 40$usd/hour for 20 hours of work, or $800usd total for a color character concept (front & back 3/4). Update #2: I think I've got what I need for now. Thank you all for your interest, I'll update this thread as my…
maybe this advice isn't for everyone but: I've just started as a contractor but I've made it a habit of being very frugal and saving money so I have enough funds to go a good while without work. I find it less stressful to commit myself 100% to finding a new job rather than trying to do it while working. Working 40 hours a…
I had a cool record player...bad to give it away when I moved. The thing was like 40 years old. The records didn't sound better as an "crisper" or whatever you expect from old vs new technology. They just sounded differently, but in a good way. The sound was never perfect and you would know it was played from a record and…