I have been painting my textures myself for sometime now and it has become something I really enjoy. I know there are artists who prefer to paint their textures in layers and some that paint their textures in one go without layers like this guy: https://vimeo.com/28014827 I am kinda curious that if he paints everything for…
I'm working sniper which will be my first real 3d model for my portfolio or maybe a game in the future but this is kind of new to me because i have never made a complex 3d model like a gun before.I am looking for some advice on a few things, but especially UV Layout and texturing because this by far the most complex thing…
after replying here people asked me if they could have that script with the spinner that lets me smooth surfaces without the usual hassle in 3dsmax. The picture I posted back then was: http://www.renderhjs.net/bbs/polycount/tips/quarantine_map_smoothing_groups.gif its a common task for me fixing the smoothing groups of…
I'm looking for someone capable of making good hand painted textures. I want to redo all models from a game prototype, and it needs a solid style, similar to those examples: http://www.ryanmurraydigital.com/uploads/4/7/6/5/4765382/2854256_orig.jpg…
Hello everyone, this is a hand painted model that I have been working on and I would really like some criticism and critiques. The model is 418 tris. I used Maya for the modeling and UV mapping, while I used Photoshop for the texturing. I used the concept by FirstKeeper from deviant art, here is the link to the concept:…
Disclaimer: Some of this is dependtant on using object space, and wont really work with tangent, but i tried to keep this as application-un-specific as posible. You can always follow all of these steps and then convert your object space map to a tangent space map in the end using xnormal's converter tool, but you will get…
WOW what a bunch of amazing entries this go around. I had a hard time myself voting, so I voted on them all! This time our voting has changed up a little bit to make it easier on everyone. Simply like the entry/entires you like the best on facebook with the link provided below and you have voted! There will also be…
having recently been alerted to a workaround to performance problems i've experienced in running marmoset and photoshop on my trusty windows classic themed setup, i switched to the default aero theme for now and to my delight found the performance problems solved. however, now my eyes are bleeding, this theme is just awful…
The name is different depending on the country in which it's published by the adventures are the same. I was a *HUGE* fan of these books when I was a kid and was going to buy all of the books back in December but figured I'd wait until I had all of my Christmas shopping done. My girlfriends mom got me Where's Waldo NOW?…