Tim knows his shit. Worth a read! https://www.polygon-academy.com/tips-for-artists-struggling-with-motivation/ Excellent replies in these! https://polycount.com/search?adv=1&search=&title=Motivation&author=&cat=131&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&within=1+day&date=
Hi! That's a cool bell. A critique I'd make, is that it could use some impression of thickness at the opening. Maybe a bevel at that edge in the normal map would suffice. On the horse I'd say it currently feels too front-heavy in terms of weight/proportions. Keep it up :+1:
I meant that AO is usually done as a separate texture or texture channel. Because you shouldn't see any AO on pixels illuminated by direct sun light for example , only in shades . So it's not included into base color texture usually. Cycles , same as any ray tracer in general doesn't need AO because same effect occurs by…
I was watching a video from Flippednormals and they were going over midpoints for displacement maps. I was always told before when using 16bit tiff to use 0.5 as the midpoint and when using a 32bit exr to use 0 as the midpoint, but that video was talking about values like -1 and even 1 if python was involved. I have zero…
When creating animated sprite sheets with 3ds max do you guys animate a higher framerate in max then have a script render out every Nth frame? Or would there be a 1:1 ratio in frames? Seems to me that, working on a higher framed animation then rendering every nth frame is like working on a high rez image that's gonna lose…
I modeled this after a Yamaha Bolt but it isn't an exact 1 to 1 because getting references for the engine was difficult. As Always, any constructive criticism is welcome!