At 12/2/09 03:42 PM, RNNR wrote: So you're going to render it, that explains a few things.

When you unwrap, what resolution do you unwrap in? Also, as long as you don't really focus on the model with the camera, you can fake depth fairly easily with no complex geometry or even normal maps with a detailed texture.

The frontdoor for instance of O'Brien's (in my thread), has no normal map but does appear to have depth.
I'll admit being a texture artist is a job in itself though, hehe.

I render my templates at 1024x1024, although I know people who can make a girl wet with just a 512x512

where the hell do I get this stuff from o.0!

I could use a bump map and give some depth that way and try and rough the model, but I don't think it would go far enough for what I want.
I guess I could just sacrifice a ton of polys and render time and just do some work in Zbrush.
I'll try it today and see hot it goes, (something tells me to expect a computer crash by the end of the day)

The link in your sig was irresistible ;)

Clicky Clicky >:)

At 12/2/09 03:22 PM, havegum wrote: Since no-one has done it, I'm gonna be a bit bold and post the art forum rules as well as the general rules.

To next time

since were having fun with posting screen shots of the bbs, I'll join in.

the motherload!

At 12/2/09 03:07 PM, RNNR wrote: Updates.

Should be finished today, export, import and placement included.

I'm liking this,
They serve scotch their, right?

At 12/2/09 02:33 PM, RNNR wrote: On your Mech Repair Bay: what is the focus of the piece? There's a lot going on on the right, with one mech being repaired... aaannd, there's a door on the left.
The mechs are only half in the picture and the door is in all its glory...

I notice there are two lights, but the light itself seems to be coming from a few meters down from the source. They also drown out the texture on the floor.

I'm missing detail in the modesl. Things like scratches, dents, decals. I imagine a repair bay being a busy place which is used a lot, so make it a bit worn out. The red/blue warning lights(?) near the door also seem a bit tacked on, so something to 'transfer' them to the wall would make it look much better, again probably scratches or dirt or whatever.

How do you texture btw, do you unwrap your models and texture them in Photoshop?

Well I do unwrap, and I texture the maps in photoshop, but sadly as you can probably tell, I'm not that good at painting maps. It's a skill I'm trying my best to improve. Used to be I'm just slap flat colors on models and call it good, but not anymore.
I did try and rough up the Mech that is being repaired, but it only worked so well. If I loaded the model in zbrush and worked on it there I could do a hell of a lot more, but I'm having troubles with normal maps in zbrush and putting out the model from zbrush would result in a ton of polys (seriously were talking in the hundreds of thousands.)
I alwats have troubles with making scenes look "used" I try and rough them up as much as possible but they do tend to always come out so clean. I'll get to work on aging the place right away.
The lighting could use some more work to bring out those darkened places, I admit.
And on a last note for this one, it really isn't meant for a still. This is actually for a camera pan. when I came up with this project 5 weeks ago I didn't really have any environments. so I took the time to do one.And since I was already working on the Mech I decided this could go along with it, add some animation to the welding sparks and a cam pan then I had another short piece fir my demo reel.
\The cam pans to the upper right so you can see more of the "fixed" mech.

At 12/2/09 02:38 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: The arms are quite misshapen, especially your right forearm.

Still better than my piece though.

It's odd that suddenly people take intrest in my thread, I'm so used to being one of the unknown regulars around here. It's just odd.
Well on this one the Radial and Ulna tend to bend a little when there not suppose to. it does give the forearm a warped look, doesn't it. I guess if I had rotated the hand and wrist a little it wouldn't have that deformed look.

At 12/2/09 11:50 AM, RNNR wrote: sAnd now for today's entertainment.

wow, after that, I know this is going to be a great day. :P
always start off the day with a good laugh

At 12/1/09 10:56 PM, The-Evil-Bunny wrote: and the 3th

Nice, keep up the good work!

At 12/1/09 10:39 PM, The-Evil-Bunny wrote: ain't got scouted yet but i wanted to share my newest creations with newgrounds anyway =)
sleepy time
let me out
care for a bath

thx for checking them out ;) and please c&c =)
kind greetings from belgium.

some nice stuff, but you should give us more pics and post and less links,
it's more fun that way

oh god....

kill it! Kill it! Kill it!

At 12/1/09 10:29 AM, Re2deemer wrote: some good points

Ok, fair enough, But we need really need to get some stuff going,
we atleast need to get our sub-themes going so we at least have some sort of direction or focus with our concepts. Cyberpunk alone is too broad of a subject.

At 12/1/09 11:30 AM, havegum wrote: dat guy got filter raped

Go Gumby, go Gumby, it's your birthday....

fuck, wrong page.

I probably deserve a beating or something now ..... :'(

At 11/10/09 11:00 PM, Captain-Ben wrote:

At 11/10/09 11:03 AM, Fro wrote: Hey guys. I personally think that this user should be scouted.

He's either just good at copying characters exactly (which in my opinion is lame and not really scout worthy), or he traced/ripped them because i can find images that look exactly like that form stills of the shows.

haven't we already gone over this once before?
I already turned this down once anyway...

At 12/1/09 12:38 AM, Synnxile wrote: man y'all are so talented at art. starting to dought mine a little. the thing is, i'm not good at thinking of something and drawing it. I mix things up..and find out what I see inside it, and bring it to life.

Can anybody do that?..if so then wtf am i doin'?

well rather than thinking up things to draw why don't you make friends with a writer and have him give you concepts and descriptions to draw out for him?

At 12/1/09 12:40 AM, CloudEater wrote: That's good cos I thought she might have been talking about something else.

naw, why would she be talking about anything other than pizza?

Took a while to get my scanner working again, but here are the concepts I was talking about.

At 12/1/09 12:25 AM, CloudEater wrote:

At 12/1/09 12:12 AM, Captain-Ben wrote:

At 11/30/09 11:58 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: It's coming...

That's what she said

+1 meaningful post

She's talking about the pizza they ordred right!?

um yeah, sure....

-1 meaningful post :P

At 11/30/09 10:03 PM, FatKidWitAJetPak wrote: Hmm i say we get this a bit more organized or else this will never get done.

I agree. and no you don't sound like a jackass so don't sweat it

ok we have a main theme, Cyberpunk.
lets get some sub themes going, we need them

I think for the level design we have pretty much 2 choices wasteland or city.

my vote on this one is the city.

We also need a theme for the enemies to keep them organized. I liked M-buddy's Snail he had going, so I say we go with the animal theme. It's a pretty solid idea, we can make a small list of critters, robofy them and call them the baddies.

I was setting in class and some old megaman baddies came to mind, so I went with it.

I have some sketches I'll get up in a few minuets

And finally we need to get a user ship.

Now I know that BomToons may give us a template and none of our pieces match the template, but we can deal with the bridge when we come to it. As for right now we need to get to work and have something to show.

At 11/30/09 11:30 PM, exzeta wrote: Hum... i made a drawing. And i want you to tell me hows my shading
Here
Sorry if i am breaking a Rule.

I think you are breaking a rule, lets check
hmm
yup
no excuses!

At 11/29/09 10:05 PM, Gore-Hound wrote: i didnt make that pic dude
i found that pic on the net

these lines alone are enough to form a lynching mob here in the Art Forum.
or at least a thread locking.

BMK, ReNea, ToaS, MindChamber.... some blood needs to be shed...

At 11/29/09 06:11 PM, havegum wrote: Why am i Gumby again?

because you have Gum in your User :P
Just ask Snowy and M-buddy, I tend to do this to people

ok, now were cooking with gas!
I sat do a bamboo pattern in all the white space, even the panda white space
kind of cliche I know, but they still look nice

At 11/29/09 04:46 PM, havegum wrote: Hey! Were newgrounders!
Anyways, I'm gonna ignore that last sentence and give you an advice: Make an example or idea or scetch or anything of what you want it to be, because the description didn't really help me figure out what your problem, try using the "Enter" - button abit more...

I'm going to start calling you Gumby >:)

At 11/29/09 04:42 PM, havegum wrote: hah! Beat you to it!!

I got beat by you?!?
damn....
thats 40 lashes in the town square for me then :(

I agree that we should follow any template given to us by bomtoons, but at the same time, us waiting on a template is a very stupid idea. if we don't get all our planning done now along with all of our concepts we'll be out of time later.
besides it isn't too hard to change the hit state in flash, so, um yeah.

At 11/29/09 04:39 PM, LostPrince wrote: Hey guys, so I just got myself four 8 x 10 canvas's. I have an idea of doing a "strawberry fields forever" with an exploding strawberry... I don't know though if I should have all the canvas in 4 different sections but all are together, (the same image of the strawberry exploding over the four canvas). Or should I do just one, and no idea what to put on the other 3 that would go along with an exploding strawberry. Help me please, (pics will be provided once done).

I got an idea, take one and paint in big red or orange letters these words. "RULES!!"

At 11/29/09 01:50 AM, M-Vero wrote:

At 11/29/09 01:48 AM, Kinsei01 wrote:

P

Emotifail
Okay I'm gointa bed....

The Damn System Screwed Me!
...
.....
kk, night

At 11/29/09 01:35 AM, M-Vero wrote: Me thinks it'd be best to make a list.
---We need a solid plan out of the level progression, looping depending on what part you are on. I like the idea of going from nature to city theme.
---We need to start picking what concepts will be worked on more and what falls by the wayside, we have a lot of variety to pick some from courtesy of Re2deemer
---We need a solid player ship design, I don't know if we have one yet and I don't feel like looking cause it's 1:30.
for now I think that's what we should focus on.

Ai, Ai, Sir.
So a list it is.To recap what you said...
-So we Need a level, possibly one very long strip or a easily looping parts that we can assemble in to a longer strip.
-We need to choose and finalize out enemy concepts
-we need to Choose and finalize our player ship

For my own opinion I like the city concept,
I have yet to take serious thought of the other concepts so I have no opinion at this time, Sir

P

At 11/29/09 12:43 AM, M-Vero wrote: Well, I did something...
Snail update

it also doesn't help that a third of the team has become unable to work

ok M-Buddy. my personal computer may be out of commission like 2 dollar whore after 2 for 1 nickel night. But I still have access to other computers and programs.
So we need to get the ball rolling. Just tell me what to do and I'll start working.

At 11/28/09 08:01 PM, Snowman wrote:

At 11/28/09 07:47 PM, darthduba wrote: Got a new drawing pad. It's a wacom Bamboo. It's great.
I already did some quick scetches and this is one of it.

Anatomy is out of whack

And why didnt you add to this thread?
or this one?
or even better, this one?

boy Snowy, your on the ball today, nice catch.

I say go with it bud :P
just means no one is on lol

ouch dude, perspective is a nice thing to include in some pictures, especially this one....