EoinCannon posted:

That all looks great for sculpting
I would go through and get rid of the tris though, they won't subdivide very well and you will probably get pinching and stuff.
Are you going to export the clothing separately and use it as a subtool? (Assuming you're using ZBrush)

Yip Yips posted:

It looks like you compounded your issue with tri's on the shoulder blades

Sigma-X posted:

This guy's work is loving amazing holy poo poo:
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/work-progress/13593-anthro-character-project-wip.html

Ever since cgtalk bought out game-artist.net game-artist.net has been going to poo poo. Like half of the contributing good artists there were mods and they all got replaced by cgtalk mods and 90% of the work is loving terrible.

Hellbeard posted:

Well... I'm gonna keep pushing the diffuse texture some more. Here's what I got so far:


Maybe I'll start on the props for a bit...

EoinCannon posted:

Learning to UVW map "by hand" is worth the time and annoyance.
MAX has heaps of tools to make it easier than it used to be

Sigma-X posted:

Painting distortion-less squared shapes onto a spherical projection seems like it'll be a pain in the rear end. Do you have some ref for the missing greebles?

Sigma-X posted:

I'm personally not a fan of painting 3d shapes into a normal map, I think you get a better result with modeling it - I keep painted normals as textural details only.

Also if you don't know how to UV unwrap I would strongly recommend not cutting corners on your modeling - these are all things you need to learn, they're not something you can half-rear end and dodge forever.

mutata posted:

You could always model the greebles on a high res mesh and bake them onto the final mesh later. Best of both worlds. 3D painting programs are good for dancing around distortion problems, too.

Tw1tchy posted:

Actually yeah, TV industry is C4D's main niche since most of it isn't hyper-realism, it's 3D text and animations, or big simulations. C4D has Mograph and Modyamics and all that which are made almost specifically for it. I like it for games modelling since it's fast and simple!

TranceParadox posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3BMwHHxv5A

concerned mom posted:

To make them watertight?

concerned mom posted:

That's even worse. Why make low poly watertight, it's a waste of triangles unless you're working on an engine that needs watertight and pretty much none of them do! He *might* be trying to teach you the correct way to weld and cut vertices so they display right, but frankly its the wrong way to show you if he is.

Dick Trauma posted:

Oh man, I think that was the first 3d accelerated game I played, on my old Performa. How did you decide on using it?

uglynoodles posted:

I've learned to never, ever start anything in Zbrush and make basemeshes in Maya first, UV, then take it along for some fun Zbrush sculpting.
If I'm somehow wrong and there's a nifty workflow I can use for this, please let me know because I'm loving Zbrush but it loves polys.

I've begun learning 3DCoat for its retopologizing stuff and that's been... fun, with a gazillion poly model. I've been working on my dinosaur.
The retopo'd tail I made initially was crap so I had to remake it in Maya and attach it, but its density was much less than the rest of the model and so I fear it's connected a little janky. The retopo'd arms and toes were similarly poo poo so I'm in the process of rebuilding those.

Here are my wires. Any suggestions are helpful.



My instructor said for me to aim for 10k polys. As it stands right now, with both halves it's only ~7500. I figure I can do the eyes, eyelids, front arms, toes, teeth and tongue with the remaining, right?

KiddieGrinder posted:

Stuff4and5 posted:

Texture painting in photoshop is a bit of a pain, I can't set down straight lines and such on my models. Does Illustrator have some kind of 3d paint feature? Or is there another program I could use that would be as effective?

Ccs posted:

I bought a dinosaur animation tutorial from 3DMotive recently. The rig works, the tutorial is pretty useful, but then I turned on wireframe-on-shaded view. WTF is going on with this topology:





It almost causes me physical pain to look at how it's constructed. Why would they do something like this?!

Odddzy posted:

You could have grounds to sue in some cases, they have to enforce their contract with the guy, not you.

Ccs posted:

Wow, that's crazy. Is it really so difficult for people to just make an original raptor model? It's not like they're super difficult to sculpt or have to capture a very specific likeness. This kind of model isn't even great for animation anymore because the eye is built into the geo. It definitely looks like it was made for an older video game.

The rig is also quite bad. A rig of this complexity should be around 16 mb maximum. But for some reason this rig file is nearly 100 mb. It's crazy. They did some weird poo poo with nodes and not deleting history properly so it just kept swelling in size.