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New portfolio piece- Fire Hydrant
So on my week off from school I decided to get off my laurels and do a model for my portfolio. The model was done following a tutorial by Ben Tate. Him and his brother Chris put out some of the most concise, well done, and easy tutorials I've seen to date on 3ds Max modeling. I will be unwrapping and texturing this as time… -
Re: New portfolio piece- Fire Hydrant
I did the japanese way just say the part until...(see what i did there ;) ) what i meant to say is, that the hydrant eventhough yours looks very different, very high quality compared to the tutorial piece, it is such a famous tutorial piece, that it gives a certain subnote to a portfolio handed in for appliance. The first… -
Re: New portfolio piece- Fire Hydrant
As far as the model goes, its looking pretty good. As far as it becoming a portfolio piece, I would be hesitant to have anything in my portfolio that is based off of a tutorial as it really doesn't show much creativity, and shows more that you can follow directions. I still think that going through this asset from start to… -
Re: New portfolio piece- Fire Hydrant
But still even if it's not a piece that is taken from a tut perse, it's a subject that is covered by tooo many too known tutorials, therefor... -
Re: New portfolio piece- Fire Hydrant
I made a recent thread about using tutorial pieces in portfolios, there's some good advice in here. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93880 You do a great job with it though, nothing looks off, good luck with uv and texturing. -
Re: New portfolio piece- Fire Hydrant
He's just reiterating on the point that a following a tutorial for a piece you plan to display on your portfolio isn't a good idea even if you took some creative liberties with it. It's still just a fire hydrant. That brings me to a new point that wasn't mentioned yet, which is that I would try to avoid using anything so…
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