telescope

This was the model sheet i send in for the competition whilst i didnt win i learnt a lot about using 3ds max especially in baking texture maps and to model efficiently. Prefer maya though :P probably becaus e that is what i learnt at college, but 3ds max does have some nice touches to it.

Inspiration for new piece

Well once all the work i am currently doing has been finished i have drawn up a concept using inspiration from Isacc to create my latest bit of work. It is suppose to be a small outpost that is guarding a nuke/bombing area of some sort with a big explosion in the background!

Latest on the telecope

Ok, the idea is that the telescope has to be 8000 tris, which is quite a few but when your high poly is 350,000 its a bit of a task to do!

But i am finally ther mine is clocking in at 7500 which is a good number as i can still add a few bits and bobs to it and opacity maps are allowed so those chains will look ok as planes!

Latest on the project

Well, everything apart from the canyons in the background has been unwrapped, so this week i will finish of the texturing. Alot of people on forums have suggested moving things around as they felt everything was in one long line, which it was, so i decided to see what it was like to place the objects in different places.

Another thing was that everything looked 'new' so i tried to add some fading of colours and wear and tear, the clothes also looked flat and cardboard like so i put some gravity and wind in to the scene and did a simulation until i was happy with the outcome.

Tron and telescope competition!

These are for two projects that have been going on the Tron one is for Polycount however, i was not able to finish it due to work commitments, however i do aim to finish the telescope one off and send that in! But yeah both have various specs to stick to, which i enjoy as it makes you more creative with what you got!

new image and texturing

Whhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooo, ok given myself two weeks to complete this, i hope i can make it. ~It is doable with my time after work. So just need to pull my socks up!

Going Amsterdam for the HAFF where polished off is an entry into the competition so fingers crossed we will do well in it!