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Re: Lighting & Rendering tips please :)
Offline rendering is a pretty in-depth topic, but here's some things that might help you out. If your uni has a digital tutors membership - they have a ton of intro level videos covering the basics of mental ray lighting. If not, check YouTube - lots of other artists record tutorials covering these topics (I found a lot… -
Re: Laptop Optimization Thread
Iada : true enough, but the fact that such things do not affect some users/machines does not mean that it doesn't affect others :) With multiple processes straining the GPU, it is only logical to attempt to minimize load as much possible . This is precisely why a power-hungry application like OBS has a tickbox for "disable… -
Re: [Portfolio] -Branden Brushett, Environment Artist
work on your scale. the size of everything is way off. makes it feel like some kind of disneyland world where everything is built slightly smaller. if you judge scale by that door back there, then the mailbox, newspaper stands, trashbin are way too big. the windows are too low. and everything feels chunky. another thing is… -
Re: Portfolio Critique
Sure. Ask yourself if you can look at the material by itself, without the context of the models/scene and be able to read what it is made out of? Its difficult to define clean materials. The temptation is to leave it plain. Preferring clean environments is fine, but even the cleanest things in real life have variation. Do… -
Re: Career advice
24 is not too old, I'm more than twice your age (...turn 57 in Feb next year) and even made a career change 18mths ago though out of necessity due in part to a workplace injury. Although non CG related it's a job that keeps hardcover overhead and food on the table which in turn similarly allows pursuit of my singular… -
Re: working at Rockstar
+1. Didn't see any environments here and think "wow, this guy could be working at Rockstar!", the weapons are better pieces, but what Shrike said is on point. Your two environments look really flat, lacking detail, lighting + said lack of detail makes it look like those old cg prerendered backgrounds. Worst bit is without… -
Re: Need help rendering for portfolio with maya 8!
What Brice said: viewport screengrab should be sufficient to show off your realtime models, and if you have normal maps and aren't using realtime shaders, make sure to turn on High Quality rendering. You can also turn on antialiasing for wireframe under Shading > Smooth Wireframe, although the wire will appear thicker so… -
Re: Characters Textures: Next Gen samples and sizes?
Ok then, sounds like the best compromise is 2048s X2 (1 head, 1 body). I can then always reduced them by half easily if I remember to leave enough of a edge around if each uvw group edges. I mean I have made character textures that size before, and reduced them. I know its more work, but it leaves more options open. Plus,… -
Re: Need Improvement : Techniques?
@CJE & Prophecies: My main struggles are in detailing the high res meshes. I seemingly can come up with pretty good concepts, and can shape them up pretty well, but I always hear "focus more on your high res". To me, that sounds like I should just put more work in it and practice. It's funny you say this because its… -
Re: Meet the Soldier TF2 video up on Steam
[ QUOTE ] I like the idea of buying a game and never having to worry about losing the install disks. Steam knows I own the game, so I can just download it with no questions asked. [/ QUOTE ] In addition to that, I love the fact I can play my steam games on any computer that allows me to install steam. While at home, I can…
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