While handpainting textures is very noble, and really cool if it can be pulled off, it's not really practical to handpaint everything in textures anymore. The results/time it takes to just use photo textures as a base pays off in the end. Again, not saying hand painting is bad or anything, just way more reasonable to do…
Ive been handpainting most of my textures on my most recent pieces my sweet tooth model is all handpainted so is the wasroom models and this current one im doing but i have noticed a few things that i dilike about hanpainting all my models i use a mouse so its alot of work. i just started a Gears of war scene that i will…
[ QUOTE ] While handpainting textures is very noble, and really cool if it can be pulled off, it's not really practical to handpaint everything in textures anymore. The results/time it takes to just use photo textures as a base pays off in the end. Again, not saying hand painting is bad or anything, just way more…
Thanks for the feedback guys! Looking at it again after a night of sleep I have to admit that these standard tribal tattoos do look a bit cheesy I do want to give her the tattoos but will handpaint them to look more like the concept and so they will look less tribal. I'll post a pic with and without tattoos when I am…
[ QUOTE ] There is almost no contrast on the thing. Everything almost appears to be made of the exact same material. It also seems to lack some Ambient Occlusion. And the normals don't seem to be popping as good as they could be (which makes the AO that much more important in this case). It also looks like you have…
I modeled it in Max using Powernurbs. Ashley got emails every once in a while to make suggestions, and I could easily work his tweaks into the geometry. The factory used the nurbs data to output 3 prototypes, all collections of those small bits in the screengrab. They assembled the prototypes and Ashley handpainted one of…