Quick Crit thread 2012

To be honest the guy didn't have a thread. Or if he did I couldn't find it. He just posted it in the "What are you working on" thread.

This is the guy: http://www.wesley3d.com/Index.htm

Here was his post: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showp...postcount=7821

From what I understand the t-pose was replaced because generally a character didn't have their arms at a 90 degree angle. It made people who do sculpts be able to make the muscle structure a lot better (as our muscles look different at 90 degrees rather than 45) and like you said, to try to avoid texture stretching.

Again, I haven't ventured in to the sculpting stuff too much, so my knowledge is rather limited.

Welll if you're looking to get started venturing into that kind of stuff Pixologic released a Zbrush-Lite style program a while back for free.

http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/

Alternatively, Blender has a sculpting feature, but it requires a bit more setup

I've been playing with Mudbox for texturing. I haven't played with any sculpt stuff though. I got it for free with the whole student thing. My dad uses Blender's sculpt features for some stuff. It's certainly something I would like to look in to at some point.

mudbox is awesome

Meh. Having troubles skinning the Arch and its normal map. I'll figure it out later.

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...10192691_o.jpg
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...97912324_o.jpg

http://www.brameulaers.com/tutorials..._tutorial.html

Cool tut. I'm trying to get use to zbrush. Especially for sculpting details onto the bricks.

First time working on anything in a while. The firing animation has a special overlay, creating variance between otherwise generic looping firing animations. Ideally it will look like the user is attempting to control the continuous recoil. let me know what you think

The actions seem a bit feeble. Get some more force behind it and it'll look sick.