Quick-Crit 2008-2009

[Heathen]

That's nice, but its offtopic. Get back on plz.

who the fuck?

Hush.

Haze was terrible.

[NinjaFish]

WHAT THE FUCK? What do you mean man. I mean, I just said get back ontopic. Just because he is an older member does not mean he can break the rules.

[rossmum]

Another thing I notice about most of your renders is that woman's facial expressions. They seem rather...robotic. Try to put more emotion into it, rather than having her just look at something with a somewhat bored face.

HL2 citizens have the faceposing range of a brick. It's either very subtle or they look like they just stepped out of The Idiots of Garry's Mod. The only characters who have tolerable faceposing are the main ones, particularly Alyx. I don't want to ruin the picture with a grin that would put a chimpanzee to shame or an angry face that looks like it just stepped out of Loony Tunes, so I keep it fairly neutral.

[SnaFuBAR]

Yeah, Way to much detail for a spartan.

Oh my lord.

e: btw, disaster, your UMP is p bad. look closer at your references, they don't look like that.

[Disaster]

Oh my lord.

e: btw, disaster, your UMP is p bad. look closer at your references, they don't look like that.

That came out wrong, What I was trying to say is that the detail on it doesn't look like something that would be on a spartan. And it seems to cluttered. I don't see much wrong on the UMP. Would you care to clarify?

[Roostervier]

That came out wrong, What I was trying to say is that the detail on it doesn't look like something that would be on a spartan. And it seems to cluttered. I don't see much wrong on the UMP. Would you care to clarify?

Wait, is that what you used for your modeling reference? Never use something that low-res. Also, please tell me you have other references too. A few side shots and several from different perspectives work best as you can properly work out proportions and such.

Here, about a minute on google:


It's a tad blurry, but it's higher res, and I can make out some things that I couldn't in your reference image. Just go out and search for more pics of it.

[Disaster]

I have other pics. http://hkpro.com/ump.htm


And just so you know, thats the low res model. I'm working on the one for the normals bake right now.

[Roostervier]

K, was making sure you had better references than that pic you showed. Anyway, I realize it's the low poly model, but if it doesn't look like an ump, then it doesn't. I'm not around guns often enough and I don't model them often enough to be able to tell you what's wrong with your model. Just wait for snaf to reply or something.

[killer9856]

A base I made just the other day. I want to know what I could do more to it, like the top part. Any advice?

[rossmum]

It's too thick, too boxy, and the random jaggedness makes no sense. Forerunner architecture is elegant, that's not.