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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game Models
Mirai did have soft selection, yes. You had to define its radius by selecting elements on the mesh and it was pretty fancy from what I remember. Surface- or volume-based depending on your choice, lockable too - I think. 3ds max gained these features over time. Maya had its soft selection tools revamped at some point, not… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game Models
The actual models that go into animation are still done like what's shown in the OP: manageable base model created in a very clean way by whatever method most suited to the shape required and/or defined by what the software supports - and then subdivided as needed. What's changed is the complexity of everything going into… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game Models
Per-pixel displacement at render time was a thing long before sculpting and definitely used on these late 90's and onwards films to detail surfaces. Pixar Renderman had it pretty early IIRC. So what you needed was a displacement map that contained the detail you were after. You could paint that in Alias Studiopaint onto…
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