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Re: [Portfolio Review Humble Request] Brian Choi - Character Artist
I personally see nothing wrong with having a variety of styles/specs in a portfolio. If you've got really well done low poly/diffuse work it shouldn't hurt your chances landing higher spec stuff assuming you've also got something in your portfolio that showcases those skills. It really goes both ways. If you've only got… -
Re: [Portfolio]- Pookhan (Environment Art)
There's a lot of piece specific advice possible, but you need to take a step back and examine these two issues: 1. Noticed all the normal maps appear to be diffuse textures with default crazybump settings. This is directly telling potential employers you don't have an understanding of generating normal maps. They also… -
Re: [WIP] Disc Launcher
So it's been a while since I've updated- I've been up to a lot. I created a first person mesh of the disc launcher, cutting out all of the back and a large portion of the right side of the gun that you don't see. And pushing the detail since the mesh is right in front of you. The workflow I used for normal map creation and… -
Re: The Swamp
No worries, mikhga! Zbrush is an environment artists friend. Highly recommend. And baking for environment artists is a point I have quite a lot of gripe with. Environments use tiled textures and I find Zbrush to be the best for that. So noooo baking for environments. I find this point to be stressed to much for beginning… -
Re: First time sculpting - Rock question
I'll be making a video tutorial regarding that tomorrow or a day after. The tutorial will feature : Maya/3dcoat/Xnormal/Mubox/Meshlab/UDK/Cryengine. To summaries the tutorial : Some base rock models will be sculpted in mudbox (can also be done in 3dcoat) Then I'll export those basic rock models from mudbox to 3dcoat where… -
Re: Gears of War Smoke Grenade
This has potential to be pretty nice. Your normals seam fine to me, but you need to work on the diffuse and spec. Right now it's all very monotone and flat looking. It needs more contrast, more colour variation and grime it up a bit. Your spec needs to have some brighter patches in order to help sell the metal materials. I… -
Re: [Modo] Vehicle production pipeline for games - Baking Maps
So you'll want to do a bit of prep... this reads as a lot, but it'll be second nature in no time. Set up the edge padding value for your bake. This is in the Final Rendering part of the general system properties of MODO. You'll only need to set that once... 64 should do you fine. Also set up the size of the bake, for this,… -
Re: Tank Girl WIP
Many thanks for the comments guys! Bitmap,Pliang: It's rendered in 3ds max, with the standard scanline renderer. I'm using a standard material, with diffuse, spec, gloss, normal, alpha and light (ao in self-illumination) maps. I think the SSS look is coming from the lightmap, it has a slight red tinge for the fleshy bits.… -
Re: Witcher Dryad
Uh, John, I think the "combined map" part of the image is just Slipstream showing what the diffuse/spec/normal look like together. Slipstream: Pretty cool model - I like the proportions and the poses, and the colours are pretty nice too. Nice breasts - they don't look like implants, as we see a lot of around here :) My… -
Re: Texture Sizes: UE3
If people are telling you that you can downsize your textures without any noticable loss in detail its because you dont have that detail to begin with, it doesn't really have much to do with currecnt hardward/engine specs. If you were allowed a 4096x4096 but there wasnt any noticable difference between your texture at that…
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