Find a project you can be passionate about and means something to you, I usually have a learning objective or goal. It feels great when you do get the encouragement from others like you did on the barrel but honestly it's not going to happen every time. It gets discouraging and you have to find it in yourself to push…
I think he's saying Bobo should push himself more? Maybe that he wants to see him try a different art style or something. It's hard to crit Bobo's stuff. I generally avoid these threads because it doesn't really do anything but stroke one's ego to get pages of "love it" or "awesome stuff"... but this is great. It's a nice…
About that 3 out of 20 thing, that is partially true. There may only be 3 really good people out of 20, and chances are small you are one of those, but those are the guys going to the big companies. There are good jobs for good people but you cannot forget that there are mediocre jobs for mediocre people. Still you have to…
The lack of keys seems worrisome to me, but it all depends on how the driver works with the game. For example...let's say your playing WoW...and you go from pushing buttons on the keyboard to cast spells to the chat bar. Will the driver know that you mad the switch automatically and switch the spell keys to characters, or…
good god... 3 days of weight painting but finally kinda done... but i cant take it any more... cant see that color scheme of maya any more:D also i pushed him down to 16k tris yay tomorrow im gonna start animating! also i blocked him out in traditional today for the fun of it and to distract myself final rig: and the rough…
@PeterK Thank you! I see what you're talking about and I now noticed how it does seem too clean and tiled. So I made the changes to the woods' and doors' textures by adding more dirt and stains to it that fit the condition of the environment. I'm not sure how to push it further but I'm liking how it looks much better. Hope…
Man that is a really cool gun man! I love the sculpt and its shapes. I think though the colors right now are really flat on the gun! Both in subtle hue shifts in the texture but also with only steel and red mainly it is not that interesting. Also rendering the prop over a only black background is really not inspiring. I…
Lovely job on the texturing! The bakes came out very clean, and the wood is well done (which can be tricky to pull off). However I feel its grain may be a bit too harsh of an angle? Your uv's are great, the but packing could be improved, there's a lot of wasted space - which translates into missed potential quality to push…
i believe you can, its called good ux design and communication of concepts. you don't need to push rules down people's throats if it is the options available, presented well enough that they get it, then they will take the appropriate path. given appropriate structure i believe most people will conform appropriately and…
Made a little bit of progress this weekend, not as much as I would have liked but any progress is good progress. I've made the high polys for the body, butt, and barrel area. Additionally I've redesigned the bolt area slightly so that it looks more functional. I've decided that it could work as a locking mechanism of some…