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Re: Becoming Character Artist... Kinda
There are low end character jobs, but they aren't very fulfilling, and this stuff is increasingly outsourced. Example: tons of clothing for MMOs. Retopo and refinement of stuff from marvelous designer. Of course, there are also non AAA jobs in mobile. Here and there you'll need some ZB. But the games you work on may be… -
Re: Judging ability, Self Promotion, and Being Humble
I had this thing going with cloth and was never happy with any cloth that I had done. It almost made me want to give up doing characters altogether. I found the only way to get over this was to research the subject thoroughly and practice the hell out of it. I have been doing this for about a month now and have made big… -
Re: Im gonna be an enviroment artist!!! but.....
There,added this thread to my favs,turning into my personal education thread,which is cool and I feel almost special,oh and I know I got a great set of teachers . Thanks for the link eric ill have to give it ago. as for the warning Rorshach,yeah i noticed those tuts used striaght photos and so did I,however right now im… -
Re: 2D chain texture
@5rettski Observation and speculation can be informative but sometimes the best way to learn is to actually recreate the effect by starting from first principles. It may be helpful to break this problem down into it's constituent parts then work through solving each of them individually to build up an understanding of the… -
Re: Perception of Reality vs. Computer-Graphics
1) Kids are dumb 2) Possibly we place an unreasonably high value on something we know to be the best currently available - just because something is "the best yet" doesn't mean it's actually good, but we don't consider that at first. 3) What would you expect the brain to say? What makes a conistent style and is breaking… -
Re: Cloth folds topology help
On a practical note, you'll want to check in with the rigger or art lead for stuff like this. I'd probably follow the folds pretty closely, but some prefer more evenly flowing topology even at higher poly counts as it's also a question of time/effort needed on their end, so there's a spectrum of viable solutions, there. -
Re: Can you vertex paint nanite meshes?
As mentioned you can vert paint nanite meshes, but you have to "apply" the vert paint which will make every instance of the mesh in the scene take that exact vert paint (any different vertex data breaks nanite instancing between meshes, ie be careful with spline meshes as each segment is not instanced and so on), so if… -
Re: Sketchbook: Max Davenport
lol well practice only helps you improve if you practice the correct things. Start practicing the right things: anatomy, lighting, materials, etc. -
Re: What tip will you give to someone in order to become a good 3d artist?
practice, practice, practice Learn the rules before you break them Using good reference, shortcuts and automation isn't "cheating" be humble stay calm and read polycount -
Re: Sketchbook: Kevin Rodriguez
maya modeling practice, I didn't have a lot of time today this is about a 40 min practice session. I still consider this 4/6/18 practice.
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