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Re: zBrush: High Poly to Low Poly Techniques
I'm with @pior on this. All too often artists new to the 3D pipeline post things like: 'UV unwrapping is so boring, is there a button I can press that will do it for me?' or 'My sculpt look terrible, how can I make it look better?' or 'Why do the out-of-the-box Substances not make my asset look AAA' An understanding of the… -
Re: Life choices : crappy job + art at side or any other job + art on the back burner
Sorry, I don't have time to read all the posts, but I can tell you my experience. About 14 years ago I started going to art school. After one year I realized if I were to finish I would accrue massive debt. I left school. But I fell into a situation that was similar to what you explain. I was working the night shift and… -
Re: 3 Valve Announcements coming!
Yeah I know I'm being all entitled and crap they don't have to announce anything. I just feel that their general silence is to me at least, boring. I remember the original HL2 E3 demo in 2003 and the super amazing HL2 EP2/TF2/Portal combo trailer, they just blew my socks off. Now my socks have stayed on for far too long.… -
Re: Game Art for Comics
I think it will only benefit characters that will always look a certain way, environments you will revisit over and over, or hardware like vehicles or weapons. Other than that, the amount of work that will go into creating new environments, new characters, new outfits just won't be worth it in the long run. The stuff you… -
Re: Beefs Hand-painted Textures
So some quick things. Your shapes feel somewhat lumpy as if you're not confident in what values you are putting down. Everything feels very soft or lacking definite form because of this. To get started I recommend a few things. Some of them are free, some of them will cost money (and are 100% worth every penny.) FREE *… -
Re: Need some Guidance on Working as a 3D Modeler
Sometimes if I feel slow at modelling its because I'm concentrating too hard on the shape and the translation from 2D image to 3D while worrying about good topology. Sometimes you have to just let go and just model, try not to think so much. Start pulling verts around and see what happens, don't worry about topology as… -
Re: State of the Industry: Why you should or should not give up.
A: As I realized how much time I was giving to my 3d modeling and programming practices. It is my passion, and there are no buts, ifs, or why to it. There is only What, When and how. In other words, I wouldnt reason with it just for laziness sake, if I have two arms and brain, I will follow and show, What needs to be done,… -
Re: Beginner starting off
These are all excellent starting models. I would suggest following this tutorial made by Polycount's very own Millenia. It is an older video so the texturing pipeline is pre Physically Based Rendering. Follow his tutorial from High Poly to low poly modeling, his UV methods, and how he bakes that detail down. After UVing… -
Re: sort of motivational post... sort of.
Thanks for the awesome motivation Lee! What you said is very true. I'm not a pro at anything yet, but I think I can tell you guys that if you put your minds to it, you can do anything. There is no secret to becoming good at things, all it is is determination! Its quite funny to compare my first figure drawing for example,… -
Re: Future of 3D modeling
I dunno nekked, no matter how cool this all sounds I can't get myself to believe in a complete rework of the way game engines operate. I am all for hoping for a much more generalized used of voxels for highpoly creation, but hoping that realtime (= OPTIMIZED) 3D will be like that anytime soon, I don't think that's really…
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