There's a lot of great ideas coming out for the TF2: Polycount Pack contest and its only been TWO weeks. With the deadline 22 days away its going to a lot of fun and very inspiring to witness all the new creations as they pop up in the Contest forum. This time around we'll keep it short & sweet with 3 entries from week 2:…
Hello - This turned out longer than intended, so please bare with me. I wanted to introduce myself and didn't find a New User topic/sticky so I decided to make a new topic. Apologies if this is in the wrong section. Anyways. Having recently graduated from Colostate and started working at a local Biomedical Research…
No major US media stations are covering this and it's ridiculous. I don't care how controversial this topic is, this is something that Americans need to be aware of that the military is doing. The only reason this is even news is because two Reuters employees are among the dead. This literally happens to thousands of…
Link [ QUOTE ] New Nintendo patent may provide Revolution insight Rob Fahey 15:23 28/11/2005 Virtual Console functionality may be detailed in recently granted US patent A patent granted last month to Nintendo by the US Patent Office may give new insight into the "Virtual Console" system in the Revolution console, which…
CREATING PROCEDURAL JAPANESE CASTLE In this tutorial you will learn how to create a procedural Japanese castle generation tool in Houdini 18. How to automatically generate interior and exterior using point instance. The method allows to add portions that can interact with the player (e.g., opening the doors) Provides the…
ESA to downsize E3? Industry sources bolster reports that E3 may undergo changes; details due from ESA Monday. By Curt Feldman, GameSpot Posted Jul 30, 2006 10:09 am PT GameSpot has learned that tomorrow the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) will announce changes to the format and scale of the Electronic…
apart from quick ideas/sketches... I was brainwashed back in art school that working small promoted timid anemic practices. Like concentrating on localizing details instead of working out overall landmarks/values that would better suggest a strong composition. ( where anemic small scale promoted tunnel vision motivating…
Thanks for all the kind comments guys, I really appreciate it. We've been putting a lot of effort behind this for a long time, and it's great to see that people are enjoying the site. Membership is steadily growing since we launched so I want to thank everyone that has joined. I've included some information below in case…
Riding the Jet-Bikes In this scene I just had to adapt the jet movements to the camera view, but I wanted to give an extra touch and used the same trick to force the pilot hands to reach dummy boxes linked to the edges of the steering wheels. So, when moving the steering wheel, the character limbs were following that…
SKELLS This is a copy across from my university's work forums. I've been spending a couple of months on a hard surface vehicle/mecha project, due to conclude its development cycle in May. I'm a 3D Modeller with experience on producing hard surface mechs for set timeframes. An it My intended goal is to produce a mecha…