I spent most of the day mulling over my warhammer 40k art book and pics I found on the net, but I just couldn't really find a set of armour that called to me. I think a couple of the things turning me off are how the suits just don't actually fit human proportions (in the majority of images), so going for a realistic face…
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Of course my father's machine crashes all the time but he sucks at maintaining it. [/ QUOTE ] WHY should anyone have to 'maintain' a computer? Why can't it do that itself? Why do we have to defrag? Why can't it do that itself? Why shoudl we have to organise where things ar stored, thats the point of…
Game, company and everything else aside here´s a dungeon i puzzled together with pre-existing assets (and the help of a gamedesigner of course). So none of that is mine. Pretty much just the look and feeling. ;) Anyway. I was browsing the net and heard about some new dungeon being released for the game in the upcoming…
Hey everyone Joe here. I wanted to start a thread with all my VFX wip's on the site but let me tell you a bit about myself first. I graduated from Full Sail University back in Oct. 2010 with an emphasis in VFX. Not long after I worked at EA Tiburon in a contract position doing effects for their football titles including…
Hey guys, I've recently found myself in a position of needing to pick-up some 'mad Maya skillz'. What I'd like to do is find some learning material that will teach me the tools used to create a character from scratch in Maya: modeling> unwrapping> texturing (well, applying/tweaking materials anyway)> rigging/skinning. So…
Hey guys I have to create a demo of a game I am designing. It is a platformer/puzzle game where the player switches to a "design mode" to create gadjets like The Spore creature creator orbanjo kazooie, nuts and bolts, or even fantastic contraption. Then switches back and can use the gadjet in the platformer mode. I am not…
i know its kind of random to ask some one to Mentor you but With the Industry Been so Broad With so many specializations i find it really hard to Get the answers i am looking for from my teachers and or Google searching where i have to Sift through 7 different ways of doing something that hardly relates to what i want to…
Hi all, Something has been driving me nuts ever since I started using Maya - I actually enjoy using the app but this one problem alone spoils it all : Is there a way to completely hide the manipulator? I would love to be able to move verts around freely (as well as edges and faces) but most of the time I accidently hit…
Hey there. I wil try to be short. I read a lot of stuff about normal maps - here and in other forums but there is still a lot more left. Currently I am trying to bake normal map for my character and i have a lot of cylindrical shapes. I read Ben Mathis tutorial about the normal maps and simply to prevent the wavy lines…
Alright this is my first post related to my own work here! I hope this is the right place to post haha.. Im not applying for arenanet simply because I still have alot to learn. This is one of the first characters i've modeled that i have gone so far with, and to say i am quite happy with it. Unfortunatly juggling school…