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Re: Where do you start?
This is a copy/paste from a post of mine on a similar thread 2 days ago. It's aimed at the poster from that but general enough to apply to anyone. The main thing is just doing. It. Start something. Streamlining your workflow comes later with experience. Plan it out. Search for some ref images for ideas/Inspiration. Or go… -
Re: Looking for portfolio and website feedback
So it's kind of silly to repost so soon, but after posting here and looking at my website on a different computer and just having some reality set in I've come to the conclusion that my portfolio needs to be redone from the ground up. Somethings I've decided to work on and change in both my website and portfolio include:… -
Re: How do i make a specular map?
Thanks EarthQuake, it's been a joy reading more in depth about PBR and the importance of reflection and layering. I'm beginning to wrap my head around this stuff now and I'll have a better idea of what I want rather than slapping on random values and maps too late in the pipeline to accurately represent the object I'm… -
Re: I am lost with the topology
They work for some things and others they don't. They pretty much are a must for animation but not every part needs to be video. Long explanations of basic things most people already understand don't need to be recorded while I stare at an unmoving cursor. I also don't care how busy your day was or what your cat was doing… -
Re: CryEngine 3 - wow. (+questions)
The general consensus is, is for pure ART, cryengine wins, though it's can't hold a candle to UDK and its kismet system for rapid game play and system prototyping. You end up with the design team being blocked by programming requests to implement systems they want, while in UDK the design team can easily go into Kismet and… -
Re: 2013 VFX Demo Reel
The animation rate for the fire seems high; try slowing it down a bit and see if the fire looks more realistic. The smoke for the explosions seems sparse - in many parts you can see individual sprites. Rotating the smoke over time can also help to give a more realistic feel. The ballistic trails of smoke also don't feel… -
Re: Does music hinder you or help you focus while working?
It does help my focus. Sometimes I model to music on from a twitch streamer and the only hindrance that comes up are the more obnoxious joke/parody/"meme" songs, and trap. All else - including gangsta rap, nu metal, dubstep and italo disco - are fair game. Much of my procrastinating involves being too lazy to even start… -
Re: Baking normal map problems
I just realised that you mention above that you didn't match UV/SG splits. This is necessary if your baker/engine do not have the same tangent basis(unsynced) which Max/UE do not. Those black lines on corners are classic missed rays due to a non-averaged/unsynced bake with no UV/SG splits. It's good that you're trying to… -
Re: Post Apocalyptic Diner
Hi, my name is Aaron and I am the creator of the diner illustration. Honored that you were inspired by my picture, which contains both 2d and 3d elements. The model was from TF3DM.com. I feel that yours is an improvement in the texturing, but agree with clinington regarding materials. Some cold colours might help to… -
Re: Modo vs blender for pure modelling and texturing
You can sort of save selected. One of the Luxology staff wrote a pretty solid plugin to do it, as a stop-gap 'til they implement "proper" save selected (this apparently requires a major overhaul of the entire save system as it's not built to handle that at the moment - think it's planned for 801 but people have been asking…
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