Probably shouldn't listen to his advice.. I don't have any concrete advice since I haven't seen any textures on this yet. I did a breakdown of what I would keep an eye out for in another gun thread. It could be useful. http://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2486613 I would say your best bet is to create a work in…
Unless Im totally mistaken having spent the last hour messing in zmapper (and looking briefly in the zbrush forums). A: You can't use your highest res as the projection. Which kinda defeats the point. B: You can't create or modify a projection "cage" especially when dealing with models with different topologies. What makes…
Hey everyone, I thought I would end up with 3 guns for my portfolio before I started applying for jobs, unfortunately the company didn't have anything else for me to do after 2. So now i'm looking for modeling suggestions for my next piece, they say to model for the job you would like to get, and my dreamjob is bethesda,…
I just finished high school and have been doing 3d modeling for a good portion of my life. I was looking for a college or university to maybe see if I can perfect the current "skill" I have but I don't know the first thing about getting into such establishments. On another note, if you did or still are getting an…
Hello dear users So as I Bake I see some extra useless details on my object, How can I get rid of them?(It's really tricky to modify and fix it in Photoshop! especially with Normal Map) Though I've already painted skew, same with offset, And set different min offset and max offset, But I just get different results with…
So I got this enemy type character that I morphed up in DAZ Studio. I exported him into 3ds and I want to try optimizing him. Before I start to retopologize him, I want to do something about the texture maps. There are 5 big texture maps in the folder. One with the limbs, one with the torso, one with the head, one for the…
Yeah I encounter this kind of thing often, like when I had to stop working on my reel to go to Walmart and work there for 40 plus hrs a week and then go home and find out my sister wants to jack up my rent even more and then I find out I have to dish out 200 bucks to buy new tires for my car in order for it to just start…
Dynamesh is a great tool. I use it all the time. But knowing when to use it(and Zremesher) comes with experience and once you establish a workflow that suits your current needs/project. As an example, here's a sculpt that I did this weekend. The workflow I used is the one I spoke about above: utilising subdiv levels…
After months of not beeing able to do any creative work for various reasons i realy want to get back into the habit of doing frequent, hopefully daily creative work and in the hope of posting some of it to motivate me I will also start this digital sketchbook here. I have an education as a traditional wood/stone sculptor…