Check out this thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137206 Part of my reply in it, but there is lots of good info from others beyond me rambling. I think you'll find the industry all depends on people's history, path, expectations, and things like that. It's not cut and dry. There's good and bad and it's…
3 point lighting is your friend. There is a lot of reading to be found on the intertron, but I'll give you the skinny version. I'll mostly talk in terms of Max however most of this translates to just about any 3D app and most game engines you plan on using. This is geared toward people who have tried to light a scene and…
Disclaimer: Some of this is dependtant on using object space, and wont really work with tangent, but i tried to keep this as application-un-specific as posible. You can always follow all of these steps and then convert your object space map to a tangent space map in the end using xnormal's converter tool, but you will get…
Hi, I’m Neil Gallagher and I’m one of the Lecturers at the University of Hertfordshire, I look after Games Art and Design BA & MA. Well done for posting here, I wish more students were like you before they go of for their interviews. You mentioned some great courses above, also check out the Creative Skillset website as it…
brace yourself this might hurt a little... firstly STOP PUTTING EVERYTHING ON AN F-ING TURNTABLE! i dont mean to shout but seriously it looks very very amateurish and totally fails to show off your work in a good way. everything about your demo reel says something about you as an artist and being lazy and using turntables…
The Photomerge tool in Photoshop is great for normal panoramas, but it cannot stitch fully spherical panoramas. (This will be added in CS4). Don't even spend time on the mirror ball technique, it's a lot of work and the results are not very good. You are very limited by the resolution of your camera, so at best you'll get…
As a whole they are an impressive amount of work! Anyone who can bang out this many props in a short amount of time deserves a pat on the back, considering most people work on a mailbox for weeks/months and they don't look nearly this good =) Crits: (don't be scared by the amount of text, they are all tiny and aimed at…
Autodesk Official VIdeo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0bIYyorjY0 Eloi's video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbrHCICnT4sPerformance update detail. https://cganimator.com/3dsmax-2022-modifier-modernization-includes-3dsmax-2021-pus/ Smart ExtrudeSmart Extrude Cut-through - removes geometric data when the smart…
I've finished the first draft. Only problem is that it's currently 200 words over the limit. Yikes! Gonna have to edit and cut this down a bit. What do you think? Do you like it thus far? Feedback appreciated! (Had to cut Vayne from the story for the sake of time and making it streamlined.) PROJECT: HUNT “Shit.” Vi gazed…
Hello! I have a problem with gradient from procedural layers. It doesn't work. When I am creating this layer I have an ERROR (Error: CPR ERROR: 000|#include <metal_stdlib> ). Marmoset Toolbag 4 v.4.02 (4020), macOS Big Sur 11.2.3 Message from console when I am creating procedural gradient: CPR ERROR: Compilation failed:…