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That is better than most of the student work I have seen at my school. Hilarious. Thanks for starting my day with a smile.
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ErIog posted:The best part is that it feels more professional than lots of other animation reels I've seen. Yeah, the skin shader is pretty nice and they've actually put some effort into the facial expressions, the little guy has some character, which a lot of student projects tend to lack. The story lost me a bit though, needed a happy ending 
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Just received word that I passed my 3d studio max ACI test. Now I am certified by Autodesk to teach both Maya and Max fundamentals. 
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mashed_penguin posted:I can not unsee that facial expression... Hey, speaking of VFS, I was considering attending there. Any suggestions/tips? If you have AIM I have some dumb questions to ask ya (I'm on as ceebee3d)
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EoinCannon posted:The story lost me a bit though, needed a happy ending Hehe. hehehehehehe.
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ceebee posted:Hey, speaking of VFS, I was considering attending there. Any suggestions/tips? Sure I can help you out, I don't have aim though, I can probably set one up I guess. If you have MSN i'm at mashed_penguin [at] hotmail.com In general I would say its a good school if you want an intensive one year program. However it is very much a get out what you put in place (same as any CG program). It gave me the environment to make a reel to get a start in the industry. Some of the staff are great, some of them have been teaching for so long they have forgotten what it actually means to create something. The new head of department Al was the VFX mentor when I went through. He is pretty awesome and I'm sure its only going to get better with him calling the shots. I actually just started teaching a nuke compositing course there part time now. So I guess that means you have to take what I say with a grain of salt
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Heintje posted:Ahhhh internet: This is amazing. Anyway here's a low-poly I started some days ago. It's a chest. Rendering in 3DS Max. 
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^^ oo nice shader. Sculptor guys, check this insanity out: http://www.mudboxhub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=357
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Heintje posted:^^ oo nice shader. Holy poo poo, this is actually insane. Anyway here's some progress:  I'd like some tips on how to improve it. So far there's only normal and diffuse maps, I'm not sure how should I setup the specular map, or other shaders.
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wow. insane indeed. with that and Go being included it's looking to be a pretty sweet. they must have been getting alot of feedback on what people wanted in the program over the last year.
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Elentor posted:Holy poo poo, this is actually insane. I would use occlusion to return a darker value for the grooves. Set this as a multiplier or mask for your spec map, what this means is that you won't have shiny bits in the deep cuts. If you think about how a material wears, this makes sense- the exposed bits get smoothed and the cracks stay dark and rough. It would also be good to add yet another multiplier to spec, this time do reduce the amt for areas that have a 'different' material, just to introduce variation. Yet another point of variation would be to map the glossyness or roughness of that spec highlight, again to differentiate between different parts of the box. Aaaand yet another thing to do after all that is introduce a simple bump map for certain bits, this will break up your spec even more.
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Oh that ZB4 video just makes me so happy. In other news the CG Challenge is up The theme? Secret Agent! This ought to be fun.
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Also, top 75 finalists for Dominance War IV is up: http://www.gameartisans.org/dominancewar/finals/2009/top75-3d.htm Pretty amazing poo poo this year.
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Heintje posted:I would use occlusion to return a darker value for the grooves. Set this as a multiplier or mask for your spec map, what this means is that you won't have shiny bits in the deep cuts. If you think about how a material wears, this makes sense- the exposed bits get smoothed and the cracks stay dark and rough. Thanks Followed some of the tips, and rendered in Marmoset Engine.
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Elentor, that's a cool chest. Have you used any photographic textures on it yet? Some photographs of woodgrain would look really cool in the diffuse map. Here's a WIP of the project I'm working on. I posted a WIP of the girl's head earlier in the thread. I've started texturing it but obviously nothing else. Just about everything is still being sculpted all at the same time so it's a bit here and there. It'll be brought back into MAX fro rendering so some of the straps and hard pieces will be less wobbly. There's a fair few buttond and bits that haven't been brought in yet. 
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EoinCannon posted:Elentor, that's a cool chest. Have you used any photographic textures on it yet? Looks pretty good. I see a lot of anatomy issues though. Right now she looks very stick figurish. I'd bust out the anatomy book and push the leg anatomy. Women tend to have more developed legs than that. Also it appears that her shoulders are wider than her hips and it should be either equal or hips being the widest on a female. Put more wrinkles and distress on the backpack as well as the roll up blanket. There should be creases where the straps are pulling it tight. I dig what wrinkles you have so far in the pants and boots. Are you sculpting in zbrush or mudbox?
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le capitan posted:Also it appears that her shoulders are wider than her hips and it should be either equal or hips being the widest on a female. They might be shoulder-pads.  Oh and it looks awesome EoinCannon. I'm very jealous.
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le capitan posted:Looks pretty good. I see a lot of anatomy issues though. Right now she looks very stick figurish. I'd bust out the anatomy book and push the leg anatomy. Women tend to have more developed legs than that. Also it appears that her shoulders are wider than her hips and it should be either equal or hips being the widest on a female. Thanks a lot for the comments mate. Yeah, they're supposed to be shoulder pads. It's not very period accurate or anything but that's what I was going for. I defintely agree that the overall proportions are not quite sitting correctly though, she's supposed to be fairly skinny but yeah, not quite there yet. The whole backpack and blanket area is still pretty much a basemesh from max so I haven't tried to work in a clothy feel to it yet, defintely on the list though. It's all MAX and ZBrush, just about everything is UV'd so it's all going back into MAX either as high res or low res with displacement or normal maps. I'm going to use all the different costume elements to explore the mapping options in ZBrush.
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EoinCannon posted:Elentor, that's a cool chest. Have you used any photographic textures on it yet? I used some, but I avoided it. I didn't want it to look photo-realistic and I'm actually avoiding it, trying to find a nice style, etc Your model is looking amazing so far, in my opinion.
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Elentor posted:I used some, but I avoided it. I didn't want it to look photo-realistic and I'm actually avoiding it, trying to find a nice style, etc I think right now your box lacks a distinct style and a half-realism look. You can't really tell what element or material it's made out of. Parts of it look like they should be wood and parts of it look like some kind of fantasy marble/stone or something. Using some reference or photo texture when hand painting it would definitely benefit it. Since it's a simple box you really have to rely on your painting/reference to make it look appealing to the eye. As much as I hate using reference and photo textures, you should either pick cartoony or realism, and rely on the shader and various maps for a distinct "style". In my opinion a diffuse should be either cartoony or realistic, anything inbetween and it just kind of looks thrown together or incomplete.
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A WIP of the face texture, I haven't delved into this too much so it's still pretty messy. The hair will be actual hair, not what is mapped on at the moment She's slightly retarded around the eye area but I can fix that when I pose the face. Rendered with mental ray Waffleimages seems to be down 
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Let me know when you start recognising a pattern in this CGTalk challenge.
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But everybody likes motorcycle chase scenes. The challenge is 3d only right? So i'm guessing these are just composition roughs?
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Yeah those are early concepts. The time when they should be trying out different things, not the overused cliche crappy james bourne impossible III fantasy they're trying to live out via Blender and Lightwave. There is a 2d section in the challenge as well (and animation). tuna fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jun 14, 2009 |
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Yeah seriously. I told myself if I enter this competition I'm staying well away from that poo poo. I had a quick idea that was sort of gouache paint colours, south of France scene with an inconspicuous old French man who sort of turns in to / folds in to a Citroen 2CV. I'm not sure if I'm crazy but I might draw up a concept. brian encino man fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jun 14, 2009 |
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I like how the theme is supposed to be Spies yet none of them actually look like they're actually good at being Spies.
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I don't really keep up with CG communities anymore because of that kinda stuff. All of the work at those dark-background-light-text forums, while technically very good, is so devoid of imagination and originality. They all reference the same sci-fi looks, the same creature designs, the same action movies, the same fantasy artists... Instead, I've started reading the blogs of cartoonists and illustrators and Pixar designers for inspiration. If I lived closer to Stuart Ng Books, I'd probably spend days browsing there and disregard the internet entirely.
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I guess the dominant 3D style is kind of a symptom of the video games and visual effects/film/tv industry being the main source of employment for 3D artists. Art directors of many video games and hollywood films seem to prefer a cetain visual style so people want to show that kind of style on their showreel. I get the feeling a lot of 3D art is not done purely for art's sake, it's still more about showing technical skill.
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Some davinci-esque flying machine thing I'm modeling: Actual model is only 5cm tall, 20cm wide, it's on my desk. http://www.xs4all.nl/~anvile/temp/flying_machine02.jpg (vray DoF) http://www.xs4all.nl/~anvile/temp/frying_machine03.jpg Big files, so it's on own hosting. I know they look shopped to hell and back, but i was just messing around with looksbuilder. Pretty easy to use, that.
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The other recurring pattern seems to be Inspector Gadget.
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DefMech posted:Instead, I've started reading the blogs of cartoonists and illustrators and Pixar designers for inspiration. Any good links to blogs that are fun to read? I'm always looking for good ideas to
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DefMech posted:I don't really keep up with CG communities anymore because of that kinda stuff. All of the work at those dark-background-light-text forums, while technically very good, is so devoid of imagination and originality. They all reference the same sci-fi looks, the same creature designs, the same action movies, the same fantasy artists... Instead, I've started reading the blogs of cartoonists and illustrators and Pixar designers for inspiration. If I lived closer to Stuart Ng Books, I'd probably spend days browsing there and disregard the internet entirely. I can't see how the guys find time to do this stuff on the side. I'm too busy getting work done and when I get home it's like.. I have no time to start some big grand personal project. And it's not exactly like I can take a big character from one of my jobs and stick it on a personal site either.
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EoinCannon posted:I guess the dominant 3D style is kind of a symptom of the video games and visual effects/film/tv industry being the main source of employment for 3D artists. Art directors of many video games and hollywood films seem to prefer a cetain visual style so people want to show that kind of style on their showreel. I get the feeling a lot of 3D art is not done purely for art's sake, it's still more about showing technical skill. if i had the time i would do a totally boring scene of a dude in a suit with an id tag sitting at a desk doing paperwork 
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Speaking of interesting styles, this guy does amazing, charming 'miniature' landscapes.
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I actually finished that train station one I started months ago. It's changed a hell of a lot since then and turned into an interior now, but it's done! First thing i've ever finished that was not someone elses idea/a photo and not done just to learn something either.  I used the new environment fog in vray too, which is amazing. cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jun 15, 2009 |
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Emergency file/rendering question: I'm using 3d Studio 9 and rendering an uncompressed AVI file. The clip is using some very large images which are slowing down the render process significantly, so what I want to do is stop the render (currently at 80%) and downsize these textures, then finish rendering the last 20% as a separate clip. Before cancelling the render I made a copy of the output AVI to preview, but I can't seem to play that video back on any machine - they all say a variation of "file unrecognised". It looks about the right size and MPC recognises the image size but not the frame rate. My question is if I press that big ol' Cancel button is it going to finish writing the AVI and make it usabe, or is it just going to drop everything and leave me high and dry, in which case I'd be better off waiting 9 hours for this thing to finish? Alternatively, any thoughts on recovering the uncompressed AVI? MPC, Vegas 8 and Zoom Player all said no.
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