If you didn't unwrap it prior to the bend, you can get pretty good results by using the pelt tool followed by relax. Just put a seam down the side and around the caps, use pelt to pull it out, then relax to revert it to a squarish shape. then you can use the align-vertical/align-horizontal tools to straighten out the outer…
how do you create the first result? how are you planning to do the second? so naturally this would be an ideal candidate for clothsim. so you would start with the planar surface that is unwrapped and then you simulate it it into place. the uvs will stay as they are. but yeah the uvs on the first thing really look broken.…
Normalizing isn't going to fix the bad skewing/distortion you have. You need to relax your islands, at least somewhat. There's a lot of artistic tradeoffs you can make between perfectly relaxed uvs, and skewing the uvs to better align with the pixel grid. However, the amount of skew you have going on just isn't going to…
Hey muzz thats some top notch stuff, great studys in your sketchbook too. A thought on your sketches. On the ibuki sketch you went from a "don't fuck with me, or I'am ready to pounce" to a more relaxed pose. In the last sketch thats mainly because her weight is resting on her ass rather on the right leg. Maybe try to relax…
you may want to avoid the chicken wing arm pose. it drives me nuts. i only see super models doing that while in a cat walk. normal people in relaxed natural pose will never have their arm posed like that. you can see for yourself on your own arm, relax and look at mirror. here is a image Tom posted which explains the…
They are all pinned down.If you pin a vertex in peel mode you can move it while the algorithm works in real time so to speak.Usually you only pin a couple and move em to straightem or make a part that was big smaller.I never ever used pelt, i mostly use peel or lscm but sometimes i still prefer relax :p but anyways, i…
To Bellsey and the rest of the Autodesk team, you have been doing a terrific job of responding to user feedback on Maya LT. It has come a long way in the past year. I agree with Boonta, the price changes are especially helpful. The main features I am waiting for are: A "Send to Cryengine" feature with unlimited polys…
With their huge an talented team, they should ship 3 games per year at least... Where is half life 3!!!. At least i figure out you may work relaxed, pretty relaxed. Dota 2 is nice, and cs go passable... nothing really good compared to other games. They must give a big jump with their newer titles. When i look towards…
That kinda works, but it gets real messy real fast. All it takes is forgetting to deselect one of them once, and the relax will include it. Not to mention that the selection/deselection process in and of itself takes a bit of time every time I want to relax. I ended up writing a maxscript that does an Unfreeze and…
Taking the weekend to relax and look for employment, but cranked out this(its actually a part of a fully animated teaser) which is a project inspired by the game Pseudoregalia. Unless I pick up commissions or employment later on, I'll be cracking away at an animation that explores the setting in depth.