ah good, glad you're enjoying. i'm gonna take a little break from these because my sound card is totally going nuts. you might notice i kind of will start to yell sometimes randomly, i'm just watching the audio input as i talk, while trying to do the tutorial, and it's kind of stressful. the bass and volume are just…
[size=+3]WOO HOO!![/size] We got picked up by Stardock's Impulse store! it's on there now. http://www.impulsedriven.com/raycatcher Jason- thank you. you can stroke my fur any time. yeah, it's equal parts exciting and stressful. this release hit me out of the blue so I've got to do a huge marketing push.. and we're at…
hi there Bartalon this tools is very interesting, simple and break some tedius tasks in maya. there are two suggestions i like to make . first a button to (select objects with Material) and some way to identify the shaders that have textures applied. to finish is a bit stressful when you move the windows to some place and…
Hey guys. thanks for the kind words. @conrad - yeah it's marmoset for now. I'm gonna take it into UDK and do some shader work soon. @Kapoff - I agree that lens flares are pretty cool as long as they aren't overused. Like a Michael Bay film ;) Here's the rig so far and wires. Here's the stress test on the model with the rig…
Yeah, i tried redoing it in a scene without any lights or anything else for that matter and still the same thing. Chronic: intel core 2 4400 @2ghz Really doubt that one, unless i'm on the verge of a meltdown and my processor is about to die. Thanks for the suggestions guys, just really need to take a break from this, not…
Wonder about this too. Especially considering I work with typically 120 lm/sm2 and anything higher is a stress to both my eyes and my color monkey colorimeter. Even at this brightness any white windows explorer background is a pain to look at imo so I use a kind of gray "contrast" windows theme with nothing pure white in…
I can't stress how desperate some people are to have a tool like this in 3DSMAX. I've used this for about an hour now and it works really well. It struggles with angles other than 90 degrees, leaving small facets on the edges, even with high resolution, refining and smoothing. With enough tweaking you can polish It out.…
Meditation is essentially that. You shut off your brain, and just relax for awhile. Devoting 10-30 minutes every morning to a little meditation will do you a world of good. I sort of wrote it off as hippy-commie-bullshit till last year, when I sort of fell into it by accident. It's good stuff. Helps with stress outside of…
Here's another one I've been working on, this also very WIP. This one just has one directional light so far, I'm trying to really limit how many lights I am using because I find it easy to get carried away and then people get stressed about performance. Still very WIP, but it roughly captures the sort of feel I'm trying to…
Kabir if I could add to what Slosh said, I would just stress how important it is to do personal projects outside of your client work. By doing this you will be able to explore exactly what you enjoy creating the most, and your style will naturally evolve from that. Filling up your portfolio with projects that are in the…