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Re: Career as a Character Artist
Dear Arqus, you wanna feel a bit more confident? I'm 30, married. I've started learning 3d one year and a half ago after wandering and keeping away from my passions for all my life. I wrote on a piece of paper that I would have a basic portfolio in 1 year and my first gig as a junior 3d artist. Both happened this year :) .… -
Re: Image Heavy-Textures, props, and Personal - First Post (sorta)
XSI was more of a program i had to learn because that's what came with Pandemic. However, in my experience with 3ds Max, Maya and XSI, XSI has proven to be the fastest modeling program. Every single function is mapped to the keyboard. Every Cut, bevel, and extrude operation is just a keystroke away and after thought rather… -
Re: Maya UV Tools?
Hey Brian, sorry for that comment. Its obvious there's a lot of work in there, 10k lines of code is no joke. It was worth it for me. I'd say the reason for that comment is a lot UVNinja is accessing Maya commands through MEL. My issue with that is a lot of maya's UV commands are a bit unreliable. smoothUV sometimes explode… -
Re: Question about displacement maps
Thanks for the feedback. Good, bad, or indifferent, it's always welcome. A few points if I may. 1 - I'm Irish, so by nature we don't ever 'Hollywood' it up. And I certainly won't be pretending to be 'more energetic' any time soon. 2 - I work 60 hours a week. Spend about 20 hours a week on personal work. And put these tuts… -
Re: (What would have been) My Blizzard Student Art Contest Entry
Just got an email from blizzard, I didn't make the prize pool for the contest, but I got a lengthy chunk of feedback from their lead prop artist Eric Browning. pretty cool. he also did a paintover for me! "Hi Elliot. My name is Eric Browning, Im the lead artist on the prop team. I wanted to give you some feedback on your… -
Re: portfolio dilema
@justin: it seems that my school (art institute of fort lauderdale) is SLOWLY leaning away from demo reels. they just now started to tell us we wont be needing an actual dvd to send to companies anymore, because companies dont want them. generally, they like to have us make demo reels to show during portfolio presentation,… -
Re: AT&T's new datacaps
What AT&T is doing is dishonest in every way. They're trying to convince people that an X Gb pipe that is maxed out is somehow more expensive than when it's utilized at 100% instead of 80% or less. Bandwidth is like a room. For every person that is added to that room, it divides the share for all occupants further. When… -
Re: Need Improvement : Techniques?
Maybe try thinking in levels of detail. A good mix of shape and detail is important to a visually appealing asset. For example, first you think about all the big shapes and get it looking interesting and balanced, good silhouette, maybe a mix of smooth and angled shapes, etc. It sounds like you feel you've got this part… -
Re: Research Vehicle and Environment
Thanks for the props guys ;) Kevin, not too bad for your second semester using Max ;) Now, onto the asshole tearing: The grass and green shit all along the buildings are far too uniform to make sense. It would generally be heavier near the bottom and work it's way up if it were this thick. I know you are doing this… -
Re: How is it viewed over all? (downloading mesh and mixing it with yours to create something new?
What do you think about this course? I think there is not much point to this kind of lengthy videos tbh. It's great that the artist took the time to record and upload everything (it takes a lot of effort !) but It can basically be summed up as : model core geometry out of Zspheres (which is indeed a fantastic tool for…
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