heys guys im a student and im starting school again and decided to get back into 3d with a prop. I usually texture in UDK but i decided to try a trial of marmoset 2 and try to texture for PBR. Wanted to do something small and focus more on texturing. Its really frustrating at this point, and im lacking the realism that i…
Today I pulled a little prank on a fellow student, I simply changed the Maya viewport background to a nice bright pink colour (Window>Settings/preferences>Color Settings>3D Views>Background and wallah try to pick colours that are so bright, it hurts :D !! ). I also did this in Photoshop for the background (paintbucket…
Hello guys! Well, My name is Janderson Salgado and I work in game industry for 4 years. Now I'm creating a store that me and others artists have a proposal to create a huge library of quality base meshes at low price (and free or almost free for students and enthusiastic). We really want do it right so we need your…
Hey guys! I've been lurking on a lot of the 3D forums and I'm just starting to post a bit. I'm a student at the Art Institute of Seattle studying Game Art & Design. I'm always exploring different art forms and trying to improve, but I keep most of that to my blog. In here I'm only going to be posting things related to game…
I need your help! Please take 5 minutes out of your day and click on this link, vote for my submission, and share my entry. I'll buy you some chocolate if you do. I'm already in the top 100 People's Choice awards, but I need another big push! I have submitted work to "The Rookies:" a contest for students and grads to show…
I am fairly new to 3D modeling, I took a 3D modeling course in college last semester and learned maya. The professor taught normal/spec mapping using crazybump. The school had a subscription so I used it for a while and like the product fairly well, but I was wondering if there are (most likely)any better programs for…
Hi there fellow Polycount members! My name is Antonio Karlsson , and I am a student at the PlayGroundSquad University in Falun, Sweden. We are doing basic video game characters, and we have just spent about 4 days to create a game character which should have game friendly topology. I was told to go to the Polycount forums…
Hey guys, This is my first post on the forum. I am currently a student studying games design and I am having a problem baking out an ambient occlusion map for a brick pillar that I have modelled. The problem I am having is when I project my hi res model onto my low res model, the low res model shows through as black blobs…
Hello everyone. "jezz already 30m passed trying to create just 2 simple paragraphs." well lets see this is my first sketchbook, "nice we are going somewere" i created it because for people like me that are trying to learn from themselfs this is the best way we can get some feedback i guess, so i ask you guys Critic my…
I have been given two cyborgs to make for my Character Module and would like to get some feedback on what ive done so far please be as brutal as possible if it will help me get better. the First Character is below The First Character above has been completed according to the other student who's design i am working from and…