Thought I'd have a go at doing a car for university, here's where I'm at so far. I'm not sure whether I'll be setting it up for realtime or just rendering with mentalray yet.
tsup fellow polycounters been messing around with rendering normal maps on a sss material in MentalRay its still very WIPy though. Oh and my apologies for the shameless huge name ( it just lookes cooler like that on my fb page :p ) and this is a old matte paint i revisited.
We have Leigh Russell teaching us Maya these weeks! My concept for the scene and character! What I modelled this afternoon We have a budget of 30K faces for the character, and I spent ... 1.3K, which is twice as much as I'd personally use. He needs fluff, of course, but other than that I don't really know how to spend that…