Great idea for a thread! Reminds me of my failed sketchbook at Conceptart.org which contains a grand total of four drawings, harharhar! Not sure if they count as awful, though. For each drawing I spent hours constructing the perspective and then rendering them. That's how I tried to make up for my inability to draw in a…
See if you can pick up a little set of pencils which contain a range of grades. Bal's suggestion to grab a few different brands is great, there's not really an answer to 'which one is best', it's more a case of which feel good to you. Personally, I use a little set with 7H thru 7B which is a pretty low cost WHSmith (UK…
I meant you could put the gloss map into the spec map's alpha channel, and the ao into the normal's or the diffuse's alpha channel to reduce the number of the used textures. Because the ao map and the gloss map is grayscale, it can be in just one channel instead of using a full image for them with 3 channels. Then 2 from…
The authors name is Josh Kao. I worked with him at Sony. theses images are indeed concepts for halo4. There are a few more images similar those in his blog, as well as many other awesome pieces, check it out. Hes a great artist. http://josh-kao.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-12-07T09:32:00-08:00&max-results=10 (this…
re: printed books - agreed! Especially since this is the third Vertex, we could put them on our shelves safe in the knowledges the 3 Vertices will form a tri. Naturally we will all be uncomfortable until Vertex 4 is released and we have a quad on our bookcase. Afterwards I'm afraid you'll have to change the name to Extrude…
Just remember the cardinal rule of RAID: RAID 1 is not a backup! RAID 1 protects against hardware (the physical drive) failure only. If you accidentally delete a file, it's gone on both of the drives. If a file becomes corrupted, it's gone on both drives - etc. I use a 500GB RAID 1 to protect my work, but I make regular…
Not bad for 10 minutes, the whole thing is definitely a bit "flat" though - there doesn't seem to be a consistent light source anywhere, which is probably what's doing it. http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm If you haven't seen it before, that link contains a wealth of info about painting light interactions and…
@Weiser_Cain: Maybe it would be a good idea to draw a picture of what you mean exactly. [ QUOTE ] If you think about it, breasts are really just lumps of fat [/ QUOTE ] Well, actually they are not: The breasts of young women consist mostly of glandular tissue. Because of this they are useally firmer than the breasts of an…
Today I've finished my version of Meat Hook. In my work I've used Normal Map for some guidelines on details, but the final Hook contains only a Diffuse Texture. I did not bake any others maps like AO etc. for a paint practice purposes and to feel that hand painting mood. Soft used: 3ds max, Zbrush, Substance Painter,…
I am having a bit of trouble with this. Im not sure what to do. I made this bag and the things sitting on it as different subtools. I wanna connect the things (feather, map, container etc.) to the ring. but to do that I need to merge the objects. Is this the right way to do it? or is there another way? like for the…