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Re: Garrison - Battle Chasers fan art/ Hand painted
looks cool so far! what I would suggest is to decide on a light source, and paint the model accordingly! that way, you can turn the forms in space with the texture really nicely, for example the shoulder armors could look like they are being lit from above, and you could feel their roundness. Also with the face, try and… -
Re: Need help baking normal maps using Maya
Another thing that can really help, you mention 90 degree angles etc, a great way to avoid that is to simply not model everything with 90 degree angles in your highpoly. If you plan your highpoly so that it will be friendly to your low, with more gradual angles you can really help yourself out. Heres an example: With A,… -
Re: Annie Mei
Hey bkost, no, the retopo itself was done inside Maya (with heavy use of QuadDraw). I even made my jacket basemesh there before I started sculpting the detail inside ZBrush and ended up using a higher subdiv version of that basemesh as my retopo with a few changes (pockets). I then made my UVs and brought back the retopo… -
Re: getting straight unwrap from pips/cylinders
It's not guaranteed to look bad. It would help even in your middle example where you clamp to one axis. I really think you need to play with it some more. You and I both know you can't get rid of distortion but you can minimize it to acceptable levels. Here is an example taken from the projection painter demo which… -
Re: Adobe raises price of Photoshop 50%
That´s a bit too broad and Imo depends on what OS you want or need it for. If you need perpetual licenses, portable version(s) etc. What features and file formats you want/need. As an example; Affinity Photo is only available on Apple devices and Windows systems. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ DDS file format is… -
Re: How to remove that thick layer from the normal map?
editing the texture would be my first choice, but I'll mention one other thing which might be worthwhile to try for similar issues. In zbrush you can project the details from one mesh to another. So what you can do is retopo the original scan using any of the retopo tools in zbrush. This is just to create a lower res… -
Re: TextureLab - Web-based Substance Designer Alternative
I'd love to see SD alternative because IMO after all those years it's still amazingly inconvenient and artist unfriendly in every part of it but unfortunately from what I see that texturelab needs a lot yet to be just on same level with SD. For example SD transform node gizmo is tremendously inconvenient and here we have… -
Re: 'The Witness' Art Dump
I think the biggest lesson I could give in terms of architecture, is to learn how to use references. We had tons and tons of imagery, and everything we did, besides getting architect feedback, we would back it up with real world examples. And it's not enough to have several references but also understand them, what they… -
Re: crit my portfolio
I wouldnt say having mobile stuff is an issue, there are plenty of fantastic portfolio examples with heavy mobile-centric imagery. One thing is you don't really express what you are, or what you are focused on. '3d Guru / machine / monster' isn't exactly the best way to lead as the first introduction to your work and can… -
Defining procedural normals in a blending shader
Hey guys. I've been trying to figure out an issue I am having for a while and haven't come to a solution yet, so I'm turning to the lovely Polycount minds for some insight. I'll just keep the example simple for convenience sake, but essentially I have a shader that is vertex blending with an edge mask to give a nice…
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