I have no stability issue with 3dsMax for sure. Yes, it crashes once in a while. But, generally it is very stable even with 100+ million polys in the scene. At work, our average scene is more than 10mil poly wioththousands animated objects. In terms of rigging, we also have done crazy amount of rigging in 3dsMax from…
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PaK I'd suggest taking two types of lens if you're using an SLR or digi SLR. Get a wide angle lens and a really decent telescopic. Wide angle for ref shots and the zoom lens for actual texture shots. Zoom in as much as possible, this way you'll get very minimal distortion. Most new cameras come with a lens that will do…
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Telltale found the niche and got into through having done many licensing-games and then scored a publishing and funding deal with gametap, they distributed sam & max exclusively to begin with. Without that deal they would've never been able to do it. With what money?, they've been wanting to make psychonauts 2 for quite…
Whats up guys. I know my way around photoshop pretty well when it comes to making textures for 3d models and stuff but I've never really done digital painting/concept art. This basically my first digital painting. I'm liking how it's looking so far but I'm having trouble painting believable reflection on the armor. Though…
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-When creating the base rig, in the modify panel select an arm/leg bone and enable 'use up node' This will create point helper vectors at the elbow/knee -There are no spinners/sliders to control foot roll. You would have to rig this yourself with custom attributes. -You can add a single digit in setup mode and use the…
well, I don't think you ever stop learning anatomy. It's definitely an ongoing thing. Here's my arsenal: Andrew Loomis Books: free online or get a reissue from amazon for roughly $30 George Bridgman: these books are awesome, they're cheap and his way of drawing is pretty similar to sculpting I've found. Scott Spencer:…