Not sure if this is the right place to post as this place is for 3D art, but hopefully it's fine. Today Autodesk released a new update to Maya, and with it came a strange hidden feature my buddy and I managed to dig out: 4D modeling. It is not mentioned in the release notes and there is no documentation of it (so far). I…
Autodesk announced 3dsmax 2012, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at what's new. There seem to be a lot of new features here is a look at the ones we think will impact you the most. Out of the box the single biggest change to our every day work flow, is to the UVWunwrap. Hands down this is going to effect…
[Graxus the Monk] My first project is attempting to make a "game-ready" character. The character is a male, half-orc monk. He's one of my friend's D&D characters. I think he's pretty neat. This is a pretty big project for my first go, but I'm hoping I mess up a ton of stuff and learn how to fix some things in the process.…
Hello Polycount! Here is an article/tutorial I wrote yesterday and basically it's about creating a turbulent-like movement for particles without using a vector field or similar. It felt better reposting it here rather than just linking to my website (good or bad idea? layout got worse). I'd love to hear your thoughts, if…
Hi Folks, A new update of my fan project Star Wars - Redemption is here, and this 2.7 brings new cool things to the demo. Improved lighting on Mevenn, this goes from a very simple thing (to the point I don't get why I didn't make it earlier). Simply put a spotlight dedicated only to light Mevenn in her blueprint. Without…
I feel the version in the previous post is closer to the original, but it could be the material and focal length throwing me off. How proficient at 2D painting are you? You need to step back when you start to run into circles then iterate through possible changes quickly when you return. The way I go about this is to take…
Hey, it looks pretty good man to be honest. Sometimes when you have been working on an object, since you have worked on every little detail on it, you naturally see every tiny flaw in it. The perception from a fresh pair of eyes will always differ. With that said, I see you are using marmoset for rendering. Unless you are…
OK so here's a basic breakdown of how I built one of the structures for the game. As a preface, none of this is terribly earth shattering. Many artists work in a similar fashion, this just shows how I go about it. The first thing I made before building any of the structures in the game was to establish a texture set that…
You have some really nice stuff! Overally I think you have some good skills but you need that final push to make things better. I'll try and go through every entry * Bathroom - remove this, it's really lackluster compared to your other mini dioramas * Peacekeeper and Troublemaker - I like these, but I think your…
Day 2: So over the night I decided to make a program that would generate triangles, 'rotate' them and make them spread out so it look like an explosion. I created this in around 30 minutes in a language called processing, mainly because it is quite easy to create the effect I wanted with toxi's toxiclibs library. Here is…