this model and the mini tutorial pics are great! I checked your video tutorials about Deep paint 3D. It's work until maya 8.0 and old version of Photoshop or work in a newer versions of maya and photoshop? your technical is impressive.
Alot of polycounters start from the buttocks. If your learning 3d just start following basic modelling tutorials. If you want to make games download Unity or Unreal Engine and start following the thousands of tutorials available in their communities or on youtube.
hmmm, I might just have to do a tutorial on that. I was thinking about making a pretty big portfolio piece and I haven't made a tutorial in a while so I might be able to kill two birds with one stone.
Very nice! I agree with having more video tutorials from you. I would pay double for such good information/tutorials. That pit scene you were working on was just too good. (shaders and all) Go Canada!
To increase your texturing skills, I would strongly suggest you to take a look at racer445's tutorials : http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photoshop/how-to-hand-paint-convincing-metal-textures/ http://www.nextgenhardsurface.com/index.php?pageid=racer445
Since you're talking about reactor and I think Maya is reactor-less? I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say you're using max? http://www.escalight.com/tutorials/3dsmax-tutorials/earthquake-part-1.html
I think that you will learn much more with Video Tutorials. The money that i spend for Art School was thrown out of the window. @School i learned maybe 3% of my complete knowledge. 97% is selfstudy and watching Video Tutorials.
@imbueFX first, thanks for that informative post. Will your tutorial for beginners cost anything? Don't know how 3dmotive works. Or is it more like a monthly subscription? I think your tutorial would be THE place to start for me. Cheers, Sharky
Here's a tutorial for doing the rounded normal baking in 1.5.0 beta. http://www.mightybake.com/tutorial-rounded-baking/ . Object courtesy of @malcolm. Here's a quick preview of each of the different directions. Suface Normals Geometry Normals Rounded Normals (New)
www.c4dcafe.com has a multitude of free tutorials, there is also a good bodypaint dvd on sale but you might be able to figure out whats what buy doing some of the tutorials, I use c4d at work and max. Nice community too