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Re: creating specular maps
Creating your own specular maps is a much better practice. I would render an ambient occlusion map in xNormal and overlay my UV layout on that in Photoshop/GIMP/whatever, then paint my specular map on a new layer(s). You can blend in the ambient occlusion map where needed too that way. Good luck. -
Re: This is a first... (organic cereals)
personally I found the images in that (semi-silly) anti coke article to be sensationalist and disrespectful to the original subjects, photographers, and situations. there are better ways to convert people to your cause. Even the dildo photoshopped into the retro ad wasn't funny - it just seemed like immature vandalism of… -
Re: PixelMapper
I might have to write a photoshop action for this that will convert any greyscale heightmap into a basic color map to go with it. Replace brightest shades with snow tile color, medium bright with rock tiles, grey grass, dirt, etc etc, blah blah. Could speed up the creation of maps for this even more. Cool project slum! -
Re: Portrait's need some work.
the only way to fix the problem is to draw more seriously, if you want to improve, and this might sound corny, but take a sketch book around with you and draw draw draw. once you're comfortable with drawing peoples faces it might be time to come back to your wacom, scan in a few sketches and mess about with them in… -
Re: my 1st born and 1st real person head model.
hey man, good start I wouldnt call it done just yet though, keep analysing the shapes and comparing them to the model. overlaying in photoshop and flicking between the two helps a lot. The spec looks wrong to me, way too harsh I think, I'd be careful about trying to match a photo that was taken with flash -
Re: Mudbox gallery up!
Well I've seen most of those renders on various forums, Jacques Defontaine work (Hellboy, Ben Kingsley) were rendered in Modo and Kolby's Hulk was a Photoshop paintover if I remember correctly. I'd imagine the others are the same. I was so dismayed after clicking on that mudbox email this morning, hoping the beta was now… -
Re: Crit my Textures: To hell and back!
Here is another update. Gonna start work on the next one, but continue to crit. I Fixed the tiling, the crack in the wall can be turned on or off in photoshop. Tried to make the bricks bit more 3d but still retain that "covered in stucco" feel. I also added subtle textures to the wall and bricks and upped the contrast and… -
Re: Guildwars 2 Stuffs!
Saw these over at conceptart.org and thought i would share... Jason Jaun is the artist. "Builded in Maya, Zbrush, and Photoshop Polygon Count: 3500-4500 Triangles, Tree Creature is 7000 Triangles Textures: 1X1024X1024, Tree Creature is 2X1024X1024 Arenanet just released some GW2 official videos, and these are parts of the… -
Re: Does using a tablet improve drawing skills?
no improvement here, i only work faster and easier than with an ugly mice. I use a wacom intuos 3 for all the work, to model with my 3d app, photoshop, zbrush, etc, i do all with wacom XDD I wish i could do the same as with a real pencil, my wacom is not so wonderful. -
Re: Maaragroth (LizardKing ) lowpoly texture problems
Yeah it can be confusing if you're not used to texturing that way. Baking in a lightmap as a layer you can use in photoshop might help you to determine where features are. Follow this tutorial http://www.bobotheseal.com/tuts_vertex_bake01.htm It's a bit old. Instead of needing texporter you could just use "render to…
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