Adam: imo the school projects you refer to (unrealistic expectations and timeframe) are usually to do with students overreaching themselves and trying to make lord of the rings with one man in three weeks. I know my tutors were always saying 'make something short and polished' but everyone went off and made some epic 5…
very interesting discussion so far, and the conclusions make a lot of sense.. theres a reason I put 'in what situations' because I anticipated theres no blanket formula to use. Pers point about timeframe surely does come into play when you start getting higher rez. squaring off a low poly model is piss, but getting into…
Cholden: Thank you for your detailed reply. You talked about the hidden content issue, and that makes so much sense to me. I will probably attempt an overhaul of the whole site to 'unbury' my work. I have a lot of people comment that they like my sketches overy my colored work - guess I'll just have to keep working on that…
This stuff is frickin awesome Eric, good job:) I checked out the tutorial video's on the Monsters site, but it would be awesome if there were some more character-centric ones, maybe even just some idle animations? Though I guess that may be difficult with the sailing of the good ship and all. What was the timeframe for one…
They didn't really give me a set timeframe for me to finish this. But I roughly finished this in 2 weeks (not working full time on it). I have a (fastfood -_-) job plus other hobby project I am working on so it needed to be done in whatever little time I had. I think if I were to work on it full time it would have taken…
Nice, that other Chris posted some good points before I was done writing. This is a pretty great level overall. I like the overall palette, feel, setting and soundtrack. The video itself: All of the best shots in this video don't have god-rays and are focusing on a visual point of the area. All of the god-rays shots are…
Here are some examples of the benchmark I need to hit, though there isn't a timeframe attached other than I need to have "enough". After I get used to some better workflows from the courses I should be able to hit the quality I need in 2-3 Days(20-30 hours) https://puu.sh/uZLhg/faad45b6c4.png…