I would watch those paint by number videos. Once you are finished watching them, then watch videos about individual tools. The #1 most important thing, in my opinion, is establishing a workflow for yourself. That way modeling difficult shapes will feel more fluent and you'll feel like you have more control of your work.…
I'm really not fond of over the top custom brushes, I share kawe's sentiments and i think its probably a lot better to be able to paint and create things with a simple brush before jumping in the deepend and using crazy assed brushes. Ryno - i've been wondering about environments with that approach lately, I really love…
[ QUOTE ] Oh oh, make if thats the case and you're having problems importing files just make sure you have quads and no tris! For some reason mudbox will triangulate all polys as tris if you have a single triangle. Maybe theres a setting somewhere to turn this off if so i dont know about it. Anyway a quick fix to this is…
i have the same issue with maya. or i mean issue like this... http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=39&t=606978 maya has a problem where ALL uvs bleed during render, i can not fix it unless i render playblasts (from the viewports) so i dont get transperant gifs :( once i go software (or even maya hardware) the uvs…
@Maher: If you press "N" in the UV editor and open up the side panel, there under "Display" you can find a checkbox to show the stretching of your uvs. Dark Blue areas are unstretched while green, yellow, and red show a various levels of stretching. (This menu is also where you can enable the built-in checkerboard grids…
I went LCD. Cheaper, looked just as good (to me) I have yet to have someone sit in my living room and complain about the color. Maybe my friends have crappier tv's or are color blind... or maybe regular people who don't get caught up in tech specs and flaming fanboi threads don't notice. /shrug The lifespan and burn in…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/05/MNQJTO9FM.DTL&tsp=1 also "Today it is known that absinthe does not cause hallucinations, especially ones similar to those described in 19th century studies. Thujone, the supposed active chemical in absinthe, is a GABA antagonist and, while it can produce muscle…
With the increase in awareness spread by media, people have become pretty much conscious. They want to look good and stylish, all the time. In order to make people stylish and trendy, you will see that many brands and fashion houses have been selling amazingly designed products. The demand for branded and designer products…
To tack on to what zachagreg said, there's plenty of good content online for a helluva lot cheaper. Paid: Gianpetro Fabre for texturing. Simon Fuchs for advanced modeling and hard surface in maya and max/ zbrush as well as texturing in painter CGShrimp hard surface modeling in blender Artstation Learning: Joe Seabuhrs…
a) There is no black in the image, any way you slice it. Colour picker will prove it. b) It will appear darker on certain monitors or view angles (old/cheap/badly calibrated TFTs?), thus the blueish-violet tint will look more intensely blueish. c) The dress probably looks different in real life under a white light source…