I've been wanting to get into animation lately. I was wondering where you guys get your animation referances and what you use. Physique vs. Skin ect... Also, is character studio a good route to go our not? I've been using character studio because its easy to setup a rig but sometimes I find it sort of limiting...
For those whom have had to do Game Announcement PR without a marketing department. How I guess? I mean. What do you strive for in your press announcement wording? What type of wording and pictures do you show from the game? What kind of Keypoints to list to grab your audience? Is there some sort of standard specific for us?
I thought I'd start a thread on this, as I've never come across anything that automates the process well. Maya's "layout UVs" is pretty crappy, although it can be a starting point to at least get your UVs to roughly the right size. Anyone got any cool methods for maximising their texture space, or does everyone still just…
we are looking to make a 4x4 km bit of terrain, preferably generated. what tools do other indies use/would use for this application? I have my eye on world creator at the moment, is this what we should use?
I'm traditionally a 3DS Max user and my aim is to produce some real time environment artist pieces. I've seldomly used UDK, with the only thing I know right now is how to switch the renderer from DirectX9 to DirectX11 and navigating a map. Apart from that, I'm completely lost as to how to import my 3DS Max files and make…
Thanks for tip El Burritoh :) I like your 3 way symmetry setup, I used to do the same thing in Max with mirror or symmetry modifiers. I've been using a bunch of Instance Radial Arrays in my work lately so I'm sure this'll come in handy at some point.
Hello, If you have to model a face. And you have only one image what you have to model. How do you approach this? I have a image from what i want to model a character face, I have similar but not same side view image. How would you recommend modeling in this case? Try to find similar expression face side view?