Thanks guys ! Yeah that could be lovely indeed. I gonna see what I can do about these rubies. Appreciate the feedbacks. Thanks I really appreciate. I will. :) Yeah now that you say that... I actually put some of my AO on my diffuse but I also have my AO active in marmoset so I guess that's why it's too dark. And you are…
I've got tons of small pencil sketches laying around that i'll eventually get uploaded and put together so i can update this image, but for now here's a sort of clue to the direction I'm going. His body is being animated by a large octopus strapped to his back and wrapped around his limbs, his lantern is an old diving…
Great start so far but there are a few things I would change to your highpoly before projecting. Some of your shapes need to be exaggerated more. Ultimately both ends of the piece. The back end looks like it has more curve and depth to it compared to your highpoly. It looks very flat atm that could help it a lot. The other…
okay... concept number one: supposed to be a character from a fantasy land. His people are a small tribe with a Spartan/Japanese type culture. ie. Military in nature (explaining the bulging muscles) and based on respect and honour (couldnt show that, but the tuft of long hair is kinda' like the japanese thing). Basically:…
One of the biggest giveaways that things are 3d for me is how the shadows fall and wrap across a surface and they've done a pretty good job here - there's some lovely shaders in softimage developed by the guy that produced the animatrix and tekkonkinreet anime and used by ghibli that uses vertex maps to control how shadows…
Only had time to go over the front, my anatomy isn't the strongest either, but theres a few fundermentals that can be corrected here. I know my hand writing isn't the greatest, so here's a few notes to go with it; Pectorals should be slightly shorter then they currently are, also flatter on the bottom (yours seem to…
Thanks everybody! I'm hoping to get to that this weekend, but don't hold me to that...I'm wrapping up some last minute deadline stuff at work this week, minus a day since CA signed me up for SXSW on Friday (doing pretty much the same song and dance, come by and say hi!), plus I'll probably be in San Antonio for at least a…
Hahaha, thanks you guys. It's nice to know that there's a lot of technical and moral support. I've definitely pretty much followed the steps pior outlined (thanks again) - I watched the first few chapters of a basics gnomon dvd, then set it aside and started exploring. The non-linear nature is really wonderful (once I…
I like you're crazy thinkin, you might be able to use the align highlight or align camera and then snap a light to the camera... But I think that will get messy. I also like Eric's idea of using conform to wrap a piece of geo around another. But what I normally end up doing, is just copy some geo, push it so it floats…
The crunch time we have here is totally optional and its possible to go an entire cycle without having to crunch. When it does happen its normally a few extra hours, maybe some work taken home on the weekend. Things have always been scheduled well and we have enough games under our belt to have a pretty solid formula.…