Heyo, Pretty new to the 3D world to be quite honest but have been working at night every day after my normal job to do as much 3D as I can push. Have been learning loads of new information and it's all hitting me pretty well :) Primarily have stuck to 2D stuff building out textures, UIs and concept work... I'm always…
Hello Polycount, I'm promoting my level design project today, cp_zinkenite (3 stage/dustbowl-esque). I hope it's not too forward to make a new thread about this instead of posting in the tf2 items thread, but this is a major release and represents a significant amount of effort and environment work, + time spent in…
A master material set would probably help but for me it's all in the planning. If you want something cohesive, stop going off and doing whatever you feel like doing at the time. Put together reference documents (like a design doc. Feelings and colors and references to existing art and games for you to draw on), and a…
This was my first big Gear character at Epic. This image was what I used to show the high poly vs the low poly. I did this for awhile to make sure I wasn't losing too much and to also see exactly what is lost in the low poly. High vs Low is labeled. This is the new Hoffman for Gears of War 3. The Head is from Kevin…
You will need to study more wood textures as most of your diorama will consist of different types of wood. It's a good start having that blocking out but your plank and log setup looks too artificial. Everything looks too straight, both the planks and logs need to look more irregular (i.e one log is sticking out and longer…
I was kind of bothered by how un-Disney it was, actually. Or maybe what I mean is un-Alice. Or at least un-Lewis-Carroll. Definitely un-feel-good. The story and dialog was stripped of everything that made it endearing and unique and turned into a tragic and gloomy trudge through a video game plot ( ) with more violence…
What kind of degree will you be getting from this new education? What degree will you be getting now? I had the same dilemma when the first course I studied ended. I felt that it was too early for me to start working as I figured that a job would dampen my interest for cg(I was 21 back then). I kept studying and my…
Lol! I genuinely laughed out loud at "Cock Rocket". Gonna be 'hard' to justify not going with that. @Jacque and @Tital: I'm all for a deep discussion about purpose, motivation and setting. For now I'll only defend my decision by saying that this is not a "big" game. I wanted to experience the entire process of making and…
Welcome! Good plan living as close to work as possible and sticking with the west side, nothing worse than commuting across the bridges. The east side is where fun goes to grow old and have kids. The north end (where I live) is where fun goes to die... But if you're going to buy a house or condo you're looking at a…
Thanks for the kind words Fireborn, I'm glad you like how it turned out. The more I look at the image the more I'm happy with it. I'm glad the sky looks nice and hopefully gives off that heavily charged sort of atmosphere; I was pretty confident that once I painted the sky and other glowy bits that it would help sell the…