Good work so far, it looks like you've already picked up on some problems already. The house stone texture is very dull, theres not much going on there. You can try a hand-painted approach which will come off pretty nicely. Something along the lines of this but more cartoonish. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HZsgqNs7mQc/0.jpg Also…
That head is really good Everything looks really good, id widen the obliques a bit so theres a tiny bit of an hourglass shape from the ribs and obliques And the legs just dont make much sense http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cw3nwHF2m1g/S87toyOJHnI/AAAAAAAAPNs/LLRSfDbiL4w/s1600/img_3148.jpg you can see the thighs in that picture…
Ha! I see what you mean now. So, that sort of lightning can usually be baked fairly easily with max and maya. Most of the time you will get the option to either render this to texture, or to vertices. I never actually did it in Max but in Maya look for batch bake > MentalRay, there is tons of things you can do, even…
Nice man, I really like Ryan Lang's stuff as well. Something to be a bit careful about though with his work is that he showcases his personal work a lot and his concept stuff is a bit more hidden. (professional portfolio - http://ryanlangportfolio.blogspot.com/ ) This is pretty common to do with pros who are in the scene…
Okay first off thx marq4porsche for the foliage tips! I was going for a "monterey cypress" look on the trees but Im thinking of switching to leaf instead of conifer because I just couldn't get it to look right if anyone has any tips on how to make the trees look more like monterey cypress please tell me. Anyway I decided…
Even though you are going for a stylized look you still have to use real world anatomy. I would look at some dreamworks or pixar characters since that is kind of the style you are going for. Tangled http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wjOeNTRwpT8/TTyLiOyJtjI/AAAAAAAAAes/28ZEikZwKkw/s1600/Tangled.jpg Brave…
AAAAARGH, I rendered the same problem piece today and it's come out perfectly! Must be a bug... Still going to have a look at Mental Ray though, hopefully it's a little more consistant.
Aaaand done:) . Guess its time to rush for the january contest. Hope they are interested in single items aswell :D Winter warior's cape by mihalceanu and TheBladeofEvil'sBane