Hey guys, I just graduated from FZD and for the next few months I'm going to be working on my portfolio. I struggled with learning how to do the art side of concepting very hard as I've always been very math and logic brained so I thought maybe I could offer some advice to people who are like me. I am going to try to make…
Found this one while browsing.Registration is free and gives free access to chapter 1 of Starwars Creature design artist Terryl Whitlatch. http://talesofamalthea.com/ http://vimeo.com/36183731
Hey, I have not posted in awhile, but I thought Polycounters would maybe find this interesting! Here is a breakdown of how I'm making the art assets in my game -- I think it's a pretty novel approach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bez-9AnW3kI
I've also tried to watch as many tutorials as possible, but many of them actually skip the parts that are critical for me, do them differently or just in a way that I can't (with another software for example). Eat3D and Gnomon are a bit too expensive for me, as I'm just a student without income, so investing 60$ in a…
A dirt simple tut on how to get some damage effects on your armor or mech, or whatever: It's the method we're using on our game Clan Commander: http://www.exisgames.com/forums/ This model is the result: http://www.exisgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3VsHpZGPME
As you probably know, the VertexLitGeneric shader in Source doesn't allow a specular map when there is a normal map. Instead, you must dump the specular mask into another map's alpha. Here is a new video showing you how to do that quickly inside Max without having to open up a bitmap editor. You can automate this with the…