Hi guys! Long time no post! (I mean, art related...) Maybe some of you know that since october I joined the great Fishing Cactus crew here in Belgium... We are now around 15 plus a few cool kids as interns, working on a lot of differents projects and making epic bbq's... Sample here, fortunately since 2009 the bbq is 6…
I'll pass along some advice I was recently given which seems to have really improved the overall layout of my portfolio. I'd look into using a website other than Carbonmade or anything that uses lightbox as their image viewer. You're not able to save the screen shots you uploaded, which hiring managers tend to do if they…
look for the post on how they do the snow in unhcarted 2. its basically a similar idea, and you are saving on budget lemme explain. so yeah you have one large scale nrm map. maybe its a 1024 or 2048. well your tiling textures can be as small as 128 if you want, as the combo of both maps on top of each other will give every…
I think the point is not how to bake/render/paint fur to a low poly mesh. The question is, what kind of model do you want to make? Do you have a specific target in mind? If, like your post suggest, you just want to make a lowpoly model (simple polygon surfaces) that looks furry, then consider looking at some great examples…
Hey Rick, nice of you to sum up this in one post. Especially with 3ds having pitch black as a default render background color ... I have to sortof disagree on the perspective view tho. Perspective is required for body shots, but when it comes to head closeups otrho can be better. A matter of preference I guess. Talk to…
Well, that textures definitely come a long way, my only crit for now is to at least add some geo to the tip of the nose. At that res, you could afford a handful of tris to make a decent shaped nose. Just take a good look at the Quake 3 lady posted above, stellar example really. Also, I'd like to point out that this is…
Nobody can know anything about the past. If the government is covering something up, they are just as likely to be the ones posting crackpot theories as anyone, making it harder to tell what really is true. I didn't believe the WMD stuff for a second, and all I had to do was watch CNN and use my brain. The government is…
DAMMIT! Had a post all written out and had to look up the spelling for a word and hit command r instead of command t, refreshed instead of a new tab, and lost it. Essentially... Moral or not, legal or illegal, dead hooker or illegal mp3... The world is moving at an insane speed right now. Politicians are too set in their…
Sorry about the lack of capitalization in my posts. I think a major problem is I've never "paid my dues" so to speak and followed a tutorial to fully create a character that I didn't design. Perhaps it's my trying to go right into making my own models from the ground up that has been the biggest obstacle in my way. I'm…
Hi there, The first thing that i see is the basic material definition. Materials are very simple and i get it, you wanted to go for that pristine look in most cases. But pristine doesnt mean perfect. Some of your mats have imperfections but they are evenly distributed and procedural, instead of being in the most used areas…