I'd suggest digging up a lot of ref before digging into the materials. Here's some to get you started. http://www.gwpda.org/naval/hclaspht.htm http://www.mackinnon.org/gato-diagram.html You'll notice a lot of metal and not so much char'ed beat up wood. Wood wasn't used that much because if it was wet, it would swell and…
Here are some low profile cards that are worth consideration: 9800 GT $100 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187061 4650 $156 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129144 I would say the 9800 is probably the faster card here, for cheaper. Depending on what CPU/RAM/Etc combination…
What is FPAA? FPAA stands for Fake Photoshop Anti Aliasing. Now if for whatever reason you cant have anti aliased edges in a screenshot that you took, this little hack will allow you to have smooth edges edited in, in Photoshop. Here are some examples. Download the Photoshop action, so you do not need to do jack. =D…
So my computer died this morning when i tried to change the texture settings in portal. Looks like its just the video card as the monitor just turned off. Tried another monitor and no go. Computer is ancient, I haven't spent a dime on it since I bought it in 2002 or 2003. Got some old parts from my brother to bump it up a…
Ok guys it time to start. (I just got home from work:)) the winner of the poll is..... "Medieval/Fantasy" The first part is going to be some 2d prep work. As a little warm up before we dive in to 3D Your first objective: is to make a ref sheet look for things you wish to put on your character and draw your character's…
Hi, my name is Leslie Ann and I work for Demiurge Studios. We are currently searching for a talented environmental artist to work on our next-gen projects. The ideal candidate will have the ability to create believable, evocative environments in low and high-polygon budgets. Experience in creating both realistic and…
I've never seen somebody place the wire of a tac light over the heatshield before. I always saw people flipping the end the wire is coming out going towards the front of the barrel (opposite that you have it) and going under the heat shield. As it stands right now you are interfering with anything else you might put on the…
Thanks toilet_bear and Torch. Thanks Konstruct. I will try to get a nicer render done eventuall. I did attempt to do separate render passes, but my (way, way underpowered 5 year old) machine chokes. I figured I had two options: 1 - use low-res geo with displacement maps. 2 - render the high-poly straight using mental ray…
Many memories with Halo. One of my friends had moved down to birmingham but he happened to be coming back for a few days so he came over and we decided to play a bit of Halo. We decided to call round for some old friends, we'd all kinda drifted apart what with everyone moving but most were still in the same city. It became…
Hey everyone! Thanks again for all the very kind words! Sorry for not being around much...hard at work and all that :) We are currently working on a solution for the concavity and convexity maps exporting as the AO and we will hopefully get a new build up with a fix for that soon. We are looking really hard into this at…