Pixelgoat- yeah I think your right. Ill definitly go and bulk up those hands and knuckles. Geezus- Is your school AI(art institute) we show alot of our work there. Yeah Ill go and touch up more details on the chest and back. Especially the back..
well totally depends on what you are heading too, valkyria chronicles hast some pre hatched textures that combine quite good with the post effect hatching in the shadows, you can do both parts in unreal3, well not in ut3 as you (or at leats i know no way how to) can#t touch the shadows exclusively, but you could hatch dark…
thanks guys! I'm having some trouble: I really don't know how much detail to put in here.. should i model all the straps or would that be overkill? and what about the breast armor? usually i let the diffuse define most of my work, but once i started doing it this way it was hard to decide: nah that strap is so small, i'll…
Cheers for all the nice comments guys :) Rens: I agree that the boots look alittle plain compared to other surfaces such as the helmet, will need to take that into consideration on my next character ;) Jeanshade: The Scavanger dude finished up at around 4.6million polys, alot of it was kinda wasted, but eh..it was still…
Mudbox is a stripped down, no frills version and very user friendly. In a few min you'll be sculpting your brains out. But once you get used to ZBrush especially V3 you'll love it. The learning curve is kind of high at first but once you get your hands dirty and read a few tutorials you'll be up and running. It scares most…
thanks for all the encouraging remarks, and definitely for all the advice given. I've taken everything on board and made an update: Some things are a little off and embarassing (theres always something to be done differently :/ ) but I'm happy with the end result on all things so... @Autocon: Thanks again, I've now got all…
Actually I thought I read that if you use the Composite material in 2009 only that inside that material you could specify layer type as in Photoshop IE multiply / screen / overlay ect. Autodesk had a video of this on their site, I think its the Composite material, although it could be mix? pretty sure its composite. edit:…