Quick Crit thread 2012

[BobtheGreatII]

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.

[t3h m00kz]

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

[BobtheGreatII]

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.

[neuro]

mudbox is awesome

[PopeAK49]

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

[neuro]

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

[PopeAK49]

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

[ICEE]

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

[t3h m00kz]

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

[Rainbow Dash]