I'm currently working on some fan art which was intended to be for retrogasm. I have multiple projects I'm working on at once, yes I'm one of those artist.
Yeah, the American flag thing definitely was an obvious throw in. I believe that is taken directly from a few comic though. I don't think it was intended to instigate anything.
chai: http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=53986 there should be virtually no differece between mirrored or unmirrored, if done right. I intend on making a 3dsmax viewport shader and tools for it.
Hehe, the term is Sketchbook I'm pretty sure. And if you intended this to go into sketchbooks section then just ask an administrator to change the name and move the thread aswell. Nice work : )
THIS IS CRYENGINE 2 BUT RUNNING ON PS3 AND 360. Why they call it CryEngine 3 I have no idea but the only real intended difference is that this is running on consoles. Blame marketing for the confusion.
At the end of the day ... it really boils down to avoiding to shift-snap to front view as much as possible. An interesting way to test this out would be to rotate the view manually into what you think should be the front view of the face, and then shift-snap to front. If the view angle shifts ever so slightly, that means…