The Creation Kit for Skyrim has been released and is available in the Steam Workshop In addition to the Creation Kit tools there is a simple and easy way for mod authors to upload their creations to Steam where they can be shared. "The difficult part, of course, is creating your mod. To get started modding, install the…
Well I agree with you @pior , that its not a huge deal. But I will point out a couple things. "all things considered being on top of the trending page on AS is very different from getting noticed by an employer" - I did mention above that "I dont think anyone will be missing out on work, directors and leads know what they…
i've been studying other game characters recently and I noticed that professional character artist do this method of extracting the eye lids based on what im seeing is that they have a seperate material around the eye (indicated by the white) thats stacked on top of the mesh can someone educate me on why they do this so i…
I love 64-bit for the reason alone of allocating more than 2GB of ram to an application. It is reason enough for me to stay away from 32-bit forever now. I'm not a fan of displacement maps. I like to actually see my detail in viewport so I know what/where to project over when I process my normal maps in max. With an x64…
Here's how to enable the 32 bit version of Windows Explorer on 64 bit systems, from Microsoft's website, scroll down a bit to where it says "workaround" for the instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895561 This should let you use all the thumbnail viewing utilities that don't work with the 64 bit version of windows…
About a month ago, I started looking for a lip-syncing solution that I wouldn't have to break the bank over. I had cooked up a script for Unity that would read a text document with lip-sync timings, and then automatically animate a character's mouth based on pre-defined functions. But the process of actually figuring out…
Of interest to most who will read this thread, I wrote an extensive tutorial that covers this topic and many other common baking issues. It's geared towards baking in Toolbag, but most of the Basics and Best Results sections apply universally. Check it out on the Marmoset site:…
I wanted to give some feedback on the newer Gamagori model in this thread since it's a bit more relevant here than the other one. I think these points should be considered along with the fantastic advice Pior gave. Unfortunately I think this is kind of a "side upgrade" it's better in some areas, but because of some…
Hey guys! 3d printing is opening up a whole new place for us digital 3d artists to make model kits of our own. I wanted to put together some kind of list or place for the ones I've seen that are put together by the artist(s) themselves and not the typical comic hero figure. If you've got one that's not there, please share…