Quick-Crit 2011

[Rainbow Dash]

I don't have any exact portals in there. Or any portals at the momment. They don't seem to help anything as much as I would like. Regular portals do okay, but I still have geometry culling everywhere....

Hm... 3ds Max says 50,692 triangles.

Although it seems that sapien thinks otherwise... guessing scenery?

Put exact portals just about everywhere you can, and then if that doesn't work go onto regular portals.

Halo can only render around 50k~ tris at once, and bsps are rendered multiple times for reflections, lightmaps, and so on, so that's why your count is higher than the actual model file.

Have fun portalling.

[DarkHalo003]

ban darkhalo for trolling

Ban Selentic for being a jackass.

Is that your entry for the Competition Bob? Looks interesting!

@Warsaw: Interesting concept and it's very neat. Pencil right? If I would have had a pencil, mine might have been neater/dimensional, though my rough-rough drafts usually mean I have to scribble some pretty ugly so I don't forget them. My mind is a blackhole when it comes to creativity; I'll forget it if I don't reinforce the idea. :/

[Warsaw]

Eh. It's poo compared to what I can do now. But yeah, I'm the same way. If I don't draw it, I'll forget it.

[Nero]

@DarkHalo003; We all do that at one point or another, but most of us take out a new page and recreate it in a more presentable manner.

[ExAm]

Eh. It's poo compared to what I can do now. But yeah, I'm the same way. If I don't draw it, I'll forget it.

If I don't draw I get shitty, but after ten minutes of warming up it all comes rushing back. It's crazy how much the life drawing class I'm taking has helped me with figures, too.

[Warsaw]

It's not the skills I forget, it's the object. If I think up a weapon design or a character's appearance, I need to draw it or I won't remember what it looks like.

As for figure drawing, it is definitely all about the practise. I learned through observation and 8 years of trying to draw people. Now the only things I really have issues with are the occasional perspective on arms and muscle groups. I've got feet down, hands down, and faces really down.

[DarkHalo003]

If I don't draw for a while (like seen), I get very bad with perspective, very lazy, and almost timid when I want to try make it 3 dimensional, sort of like I panic when I begin to move into a 3d perspective.

[Warsaw]

I'm only afraid to progress on a drawing when the lineart comes out so nice on the first try. Tonality can kill a picture.

[ExAm]

You should try crosshatching more. You do a lot of side-of-the-pencil rubbing stuff, and crosshatching can give a ridiculous amount of extra form and texture to a piece.

[Higuy]

Something I did in my 2-D art class a few days ago.



I also painted it with water colors, however have not gotten a picture of it.
Also, you can totally tell I half assed a bit of it, but it was still the best in the class :P
It was based off a photo of Cuba in a 1999 issue of National Geographic.