heh you might wanna investigate why i get this when i try to access your website: This site is blocked by your employer EA Digital Illusions CE AB. Reason: The Websense category "Adult Content" is filtered. URL: http://www.ldaustinart.com/paul just a heads up
Awesome. I know this is a "games art" forum but, as an artist who is chained to my desk and digital media I love seeing "real" media being posted here. Personally, I encourage it and would love to see more on these boards. Even none game related stuff. Thanks for sharing.
How well do they work for digital painting compared to the wacoms? Comparable to the Graphires? For that price, I'd like to try their 6 x 8. I've been begging for years to get a Wacom, but damn they're expensive. I'm too embarrased to join any more sketch groups using a mouse.
So without a BA your screwed if you wanna work in the US? Cause the college I went to, that taught 3D, was formally a web integrator degree. Although I'll be getting a digital animation degree after my internship is done. My chances of sometime working in the US are shite, aren't they?
There are alot of nice tutorials here on the polycount wiki: http://wiki.polycount.com/Digital%20Sculpting It definitely helped me a ton. Basically it takes alot of practice, but you can use the help of alphas to get a nice random pattern to work off of. I think gnomon has a great DVD for this too.
Ah, gotcha now, thanks. btw, I saw this paper today. Nice writeup of how/why bloom/flares occur with the human perceptual system. Physically-Based Glare Effects for Digital Images (3MB PDF) Suffers a bit from programmer art syndrome, but the ideas are very readable.
There's a couple of issues I see initially with this. The A in first word is kind of an odd pose for the guys mouth, it looks a bit unnatural. There's also a bit of a twitch beside his nostrils at the end. You may want to use a digital camera or something to record video of the person saying the line it may help.
crazyfingers...really? He should lose the 2D section? Does it matter so long as the 3D is the first thing you see anyway? I dunno, the 2D work is just very cool. I'd think there is some cross over there, especially the digital painting stuff demonstrating a handle on photoshop.
XSI at Digital Extremes now. I'm sure there are still some die hard Max and LW guys still modeling here with those apps, and some of us use even more specialized modelers like Zbrush, Silo or Modo, but the pipeline has pretty much shifted over to XSI.
I'm surprised that you went with the A4 considering you're a laptop user. Unless you're not the type to do digital paintings on the go? I've even been thinking about taking my intuos3 to a tailor and have a custom case made, cause I have to watch out for my image