a neat copper rendering in modo would be nice - with some nice detailed scratchy metalish textures mixed with painted signs and some bump carvings like texts on dog- tags. All flavored with a add of another material like rubber that that connects as a ring with the bottom and other entries and perhaps some stained glass…
The big advantage of spending time on envelopes is that you can save out the envelopes and apply them to another character regardless of the vert count. If you get a good set of envelopes it makes skinning any new character much quicker as you'll have less hand weighting to do. Aesir brings up another good point also about…
I don't see how either could be the case. Personally I feel Reach is actually too busy looking, the textures are too grungy. Although this is understandable. Reach isn't a forerunner made landmass, it's a naturally occuring planet, so it wouldn't look like things on the ring did. Pity though, I did prefer the slightly…
ha ha! Since God called attention to the sights, I just noticed that your rear and front sights are the same. . . which isn't right. The front sight has a post in the middle, but the rear sight, like an Ar-15, has a ring. you sight by lining the center of the ring up with the top of the post in the front. I can't hotlink…
[ QUOTE ] 60 people 'let go' at EA LA today. Many of whom pretty much gave up their summer working insanely hard on several projects. I know I was there. [/ QUOTE ] I was there at Gnomon when 2 of the EA LA employees that were doing Lord of the Rings anounced they'd be working 7 days a week 12 hours a day to finish project…
Hello all. I make rings from coins and would like to know if there is a way i can take an image of the coin into a PC and fold it with software to see a pretty close example of what the design on the coin would look like after being folded. So it would go from a flat doughnut shape into a cylinder with the top design on…
Hi, I've got problem with an animation in maya. I think it's just a fallacy. I just don't get what I'm doing wrong. I've got a ring whitch i want to rotate in 35° so it's a bit angulared. And then the ring shoud rotate in one axis (y object axis) so it's revolve around itself. But maya don't accept my entrys... I know I'm…
RappaTools3 is an advanced toolset that comes with a great variety of tools for the artist working in 3ds Max. The main focus is to speed up the workflow and to reduce the click count. It offers a wide variety of tools, everything from selection tools to rendering tools. It can help you through the entire process of…
One other thing most people do is to expand the range of shapes/expressions beyond Osipa's set. It's actually pretty good and he can get some amazing results with stylized characters, but as you move to more realistic stuff or even scanned talent, it starts to get limiting. But the general principles are pretty strong and…
UPDATE: I have an update! SUBHEAD: Unexpected Pitfalls So I got sick of microslop's shit for the very last time in November of last year. I didn't post on microslop's forums that I was switching to linux, and then keep using microslop's products. I just did a buncha research about which distro would be best for me and…