Hello, time for an update :) I've been having more time recently to work on this, so I'm really hoping to get it done this month. I've been on it on and off since March and I'm very ready for a new project, or to focus on some smaller projects and painting. The main things I've done recently are to re-do the palm trees,…
Thanks for your reply Mark, I've actually managed to 'fix' the problem for 8 of my 10 errors. The error magically seemed to disappear after I removed the mentioned attributes from the character set and just added them again. I don't remember if I had shut down and restarted Maya before I added them back to the character…
Trondheim The Great Hall of Trondheim was my first large task for this project. The concept needed to be grounded and striking to the viewer. The idea was that this hall housed all the yarls of neighboring towns when raiding season came about in the summer. It did not belong to one yarl in particular but instead was…
And back from holidays, So I did check on an approach to the skeleton and skin in the questions section with: A couple weeks back on 'Last edited by Kel-Shaded; 10-31-2014 at 02:41 AM..' And didn't get a no at least, So this is the way I'm going. Essentially combining the rules for the Character and VFX categories. And as…
5) "bonus" first since it's easy: that's z-fighting. Two coplanar faces give this artifact where neither "wins" in rendering since they occupy the same space. You only need to make a tiny move to avoid it in most engines. In your case you might not need that face at all, since it's from your interior floor part and would…
So... after holidays, power outages, our house being swept with a nasty flu, and a death in the family... I finally got some more work done on this thing. I'm especially happy with the trees. 100% handpainted textures and it's one of the rare times I totally love how something I made turned out. Tore out the old bushes,…
Escape. Yep, the sun is coming back and we're in for a few beautiful months where you can get outside and not be punished for wanting to be outside. I can't wait to go camping again. Instant funk-be-gone. Through the dark months, I do it in small ways, I get up early when everything is still quite and just bask in the dark…
My general advice for portfolios that work the best- create the portfolio for the job you want. Most art directors when looking at portfolios look for things the resonate with the project they are working on. For example, if your portfolio has a few top notch gun models, an AD making a real world FPS game would be more…
Hey guys, it's me again. xDD Just posting my final update and the mesh files. After baking several times, recreating the lowpoly of the lid from the hipoly a couple of times, I've realized the lowpoly might not follow the curvature of the hipoly enough at some places and this is what's causing those artifacts. Those…
As for Leilei's request concerning mirroring, here's how I'd like to see it done: Mirror Geometry: this command will mirror an object over a world-coordinates axis. If the object overlaps the axis, the overlapping portion will be deleted and replaced by the mirror. All vertices within the merge tolerance along the axis…