I thought it was a great ending to the series. SPOILERS I thought it was pretty weak when the Weasley's mom ended up killing Bellatrix Lestrange. Really, the only kind of magic she ever does is when she's preparing dinner, and then she's able to take out the second most powerful dark wizard on her own? I thought it should…
**Now with images!!** Hey all, This guy is the farthest I've gotten with a character amid a number of stops and starts, half done sketches and muddy disasters. I've learned a lot working on him but feel I've hit a wall and am in dire need of outside perspective. He's based on a guy from a Diane Arbus photo, though I lost…
Here's a quick example of something I'm currently working on and my approach (the heel in the high poly at the end was modeled separately, but uses same approach) It's not finished and I'm still working on getting the crease details looking best possible, but I hope it helps. I don't know if there is 'best' approach, but…
Update #1 - Wall Tiles I'm trying to be smart and modular about this - so environment tiles are clearly the best way to go. (Not going to lie, I'm more of a Character, Props, and Weapons kind of guy - building entire environments is definitely exploring outside of my usual scope) Step One was planning and laying out…
In general, modular modeling makes for very boring environments. You have to expand beyond that to create something interesting. I'm not saying don't do modular, I'm saying thats not the answer to your question. what makes an environment interesting: tell a story. tell several stories. anything that you can convey to the…
Danr knows what he says listen to him. NNStga's are nintendo format based on the same compression methods as the .dds format. One of the options is 4x4 compression. Basically the best compression i've ever seen in my life. Any studio producing for the DS that isn't using it should be smacked upside the head. One of the…
I finally could finish this project this weekend. Since the last time, I implemented the shrine in my environment and, once again, tweaked the foliage mix for the meadow. Then I set up shots for the single frames and video with some cinematic cameras. While rendering I stumbled over some new problems with some flickering…
Good to see you progressing with this rifle, aside from what others said about things that you can improve, I noticed that your thing under the barrel to "slot in" the bayonet is not accurate. You see the indented part suppose to be all the way to the end, so that the end of the bayonet handle can fit in nicely, but yours…
About to hit homestretch. Played with tons of designs for the blouse but ended up keeping it pretty simple. I did the design by hand in photoshop and I don't feel super confident about it -- i'm not so great at reproducing these mendhi designs -- but i think it looks good enough from my camera distance. Also added in a…
Oh boy, i had left my thread very unattended... and seems like the post i had intended to place in the beginning of the year was left as a draft. Well, the damage is already done, i suppose. But, i managed to finish within the given time! Continuing from the last post, now that i had a silhouette that i liked, it was time…