I haven't posted here in years, but when I heard I wanted to post my experience with Kevin. Back some, 13 years ago. Polycount had a 24/7 Google Hangout shared between some members of the community here. Everyone there was so wonderful, and kevin was apart of that. I remember he spent a few hours with me teaching me his…
Although Chinese New Year has already gone and all... I've been working on something in the spare moments I have at lunch when I'm not at the company gym haha... A statue for the Year of the Rooster theme :) The idea to do this literally unfolded with my neighbouring artist "James Mason"... Me: "I have no idea what I want…
Hello everyone, I have been interested in being a 3D artist for quite some time but never took the dive. I got inspired by the video table tennis - expert in a year and I wanted to give it a shot. Since I am now considering a career change I think it is time for me to put in the hours and move on to my next challenge. I…
you could skin the drop to two joints, set them up with stretch and squash, path (maybe surface) constraint the joints and bake that out the joint animation. match the tear drop rig's root with head joint of the character so the two matches up during playback. something like the video you can skin the tear to a single…
I'm getting to that point where I need to get a new copy of max, but now they have that subscription system that is $1500 per year (ouch). It was painful enough to pay $3500 for max so many years ago, but I think I got my value out of my copy of max 9! Looking for a low cost or free alternative to 3ds Max. But my biggest…
Our countries going to shit :( Its incredibly frustrating that we are paying to get the country out of debt when its the banks and government themselves that should be bearing the brunt. Fuel prices raised by 50% over the past 4-5 years (due to rise another 8p/litre next year), housing prices skyrocket, Train fares also…
This is probably going to be a scatterbrained mess of a post, but I'm going to try to make it somewhat coherent. (FYI this is my first post on any of the polycount forums.) Also, this might not be the place to make this post, but I'm gonna give it a try anyhow. Just let me know if I should post this elsewhere. So, for a…
Yeah,I loved it this year,kicked alot of arse. Especially us lot sitting on the pathed area by the gossip bar and just offering random people to come and sit with us and drink beer. Met lots of people and gnerally had alot of fun!! Also V invited me back next year so i might be able to make it,whoot! John
Here I'm just showing all the parts I plan to model. Once these are done I'll start with the main structure. Top - Bottom: 1: Centre Bearings 2:Tail Bearing 3:Crank 4:Gear Box 5:Brake Handle 6:Balance