Hey Samoyed, welcome to the comp :D Giger is fun, one suggestion I'd make on your current layout is to rotate your throne 45 degrees, no leader wants to sit and stare at a pillar all day!
The layout is rather stark; the white background and text-only banner are the biggest contributors. There's no reason to have thumbnail links to other projects on the right side of the page in the project pages; it just reduces the area for the actual images.
Nice work Racer, Thanks for posting/streaming these videos, always appreciated:) Wouldve been cool to see you layout the uvs...but alas, cant have everything. Now get some final renders up!
@DawnHeart Thanks, Im a little unsure about the values on Syndra. Here's a brighter version (dont mind the missing magic effects) I still have that uneasing feeling like there's something off about the layout.
for art: photoshop maybe also add headus uv layout to the list windows boosts: direct folders/qt tab bars slickjot for modeling/sculpting/etc i don't care as much, there are several options.
I would have upped the size of the uv pieces near the back of the gun as its closer to the viewer. the panel which surrounds the tv screen thingy seems tiny in the layout looks great still though
maybe you should have some sort of fogging in there to help us distinguish depth. The layout looks like it could be good, but some fogging or something needs to be added so we can see better.
I'm thinking Performance? Gotta sacrifice a little to keep FPS up. But if you compare the same argument to games like Gears, (and this is of course Conjecture on my Part Kevin) then maybe it breaks down to layout and design?
Mop - Thanks for the Crit bro. Went and redid the lid with a normal map. One of the reasons my renders were looking blurry was I had filtering on. Turned that off and everything is looking crisper. Here is the layout.
yeah, I have to fix that stuff still. i have only worked on it for a few hours. That will be the final stuff to do, right now im just getting the layout set up. Thank you for the advice