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Re: Yet even more hand painted textures...
emulating others people work for education is fine, even flattering so don't worry about that just note you are learning to make reality off a representation, (copy of a copy) So no one wants you to look at a texture and replicate it, not from an integrity stand point but as a model for learning. The paint overs/examples… -
Re: Photography tutorial for textures?
This is really a backwards way to think about it. If your bloom is blowing out your bright surfaces, you should adjust the bloom, or the tone mapper, not the other way around. If you do bloom in HDR, set your bloom threshold to an HDR value (like 2 or 4) so that only things that are *really* bright, like the sun, bright… -
Re: ANSWERED: How to combine normals?
That's a lot of questions all in one post. You can have many materials in one normal map. A lot of what defines a material as.. well, a material.. is in the specularity of how light plays off of the surface, which is why computer scientists invented the Specularity and the Gloss map (and other stuff like Metalness which is… -
Re: Has anyone moved from a commercial modeling app to Blender?
The setup that nervouschimp mentions in post #46 is my setup. I have been mostly on Max+VRay and Maya+VRay pipelines. But never modeled in either of those 2, I had used Silo for a looong time. Had tried out Blender numerous times throughout the years, but it was just way too awkward. Anyway, some 3 yrs ago I started… -
Re: The Just for Noobs Learning Challenge Part 1
my advice here to everyone, is try to segment your time into the following: day 1 - gather inspiration, hit google hard and find all kinds of fantasy/medieval reference, male, female, monsterous, human, goat, whatever. just get everything that has that feel to it and cram it into a folder. day 2 - refine your inspiration,… -
Re: handling bigger scenes in 3dsmax
I have to echo Rob on how crazy Xref's can be in max. We made the mistake of including them in our pipeline for one game, and it burned us pretty good. I personally won't go near them again. They even tried to woo people back by claiming they where fixed in 2008 but all the same bugs (and some new ones) existed and where… -
Re: Foliage Environment
I fully agree; when people think of Speed Tree or other tree modelling apps they automatically think of a magical Make Art button. This couldn't be further from truth, since trees that are automatically generated by Speed Tree tend to either look like crap or be useless for real-time rendering. Getting nice results… -
Re: Looking for Some Tough Love
Web page design and resume aside... I would work on creating more finished work, full fledged environments with lighting and composition. Your textures could use a lot more love, really get in there and work the details. Look up other artists texture flats and see the detail that goes into them, and try to get to that… -
Re: Looking for Critiques on Likeness Sculpt of Hayden Christensen
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Re: Hand Painted Face -Critique Needed
This is getting really long because I can only type so fast and more people keep replying while I do. Just skip to the bottom I TLDR'd. Now I'm being criticized for I choose to word it, just because I said 'softened'? There was a hard dark edge there before and now there isn't but that's definitely not called softening.…
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