Polygons and whatnot (mostly polygons)

[choknater]

great great stuff biodg!

 

[neous]

see. isnt it more fun when people post things to look at o 3-

bio
2nd to last image is fav

morino
join our skype chat. usually everyone else is too busy to draw with me.
Also, i've never seen your art. link me

that way i know whether or not to dodge your collab.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I made a walk cycle for one of my characters in flash. It's not complete, but he's at least walking in this version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frh6bQqXm9U

youtube sucks. It doesn't give an option to repeat

I drew out the individual walk cycle, but when I was working on it, I ended up using transforms and modifying the same picture. Don't know if that is considered bad or not, but I think it works good enough for what I was going for

We were doing basic character animation in flash, so I wanted to give it a go with my own characters

 

[BioDG]

Thank you, choknater/neous.

@PsychoIncarnate: Looks like a convincing animation there. Good stuff. Modifying the same image is actually a more effective approach in this situation, in my opinion. Many movements don't involve the whole body, so it makes sense to keep certain things consistent. Many drawn animated works seem to make creative solutions out of tiny, static parts of their illustrations when needed, but I'm no genius on the subject.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

The legs walking have been improved in this version of the walk cycle

But the other stuff I changed aren't that good. Need to figure out the animation of the clothing better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLAyduhIxp4&feature=youtu.be

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Quick model for my texture mapping class. Mostly wanted to focus on the texture for obvious reasons xD
But, it was made from a concept we worked on at global game jam. We didnt have time to completely model or texture to our liking, so I decided to try my hand at it (I was not a modeler this weekend)

For once, I had fun modeling ; u ;

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

For some reason, Illustrator turned all my strokes into shapes when I loaded it up again.

I am NOT happy about that

 

[Geist]

Quick model for my texture mapping class. Mostly wanted to focus on the texture for obvious reasons xD
But, it was made from a concept we worked on at global game jam. We didnt have time to completely model or texture to our liking, so I decided to try my hand at it (I was not a modeler this weekend)

For once, I had fun modeling ; u ;

Were you allowed to use incandescence maps?
Glowy bits like that can't really be textured with diffuse maps unless you're baking the lighting on afterwards. If you use an incandescence map, the diffuse will output light on your actual object and make it look all pretty

For some reason, Illustrator turned all my strokes into shapes when I loaded it up again.

I am NOT happy about that

I feel bad for laughing, I've never heard of that happening
Seriously though that sucks.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I've got 4 back ups from different time periods I worked on it, and the same problem is happening to all of them

Edit: Actually, it may be fixable. While the strokes are shapes, the fill is in the shape of the original design. I just have to delete the stroke-shapes, keep the fill shapes and add strokes to the fill shapes

 

[neous]

Psycho, that has actually happened to me before, I ended up just resetting to defaults.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Well, here's the picture I was working on

Spoiler

It's not complete, but it's going to be harder working on it now that all the lines are gone. I'll try something to fix it later

It's part of the series with the character I animated


Edit: LOL, check this out. I edited the picture since than, and using photoshop I made it look like an old school picture of mine. With the funky background and everything. I'm still no better at making backgrounds since then, although I'm going to try adding a real backdrop to my animation

Spoiler

The right arm is more or less a placeholder...

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Were you allowed to use incandescence maps?
Glowy bits like that can't really be textured with diffuse maps unless you're baking the lighting on afterwards. If you use an incandescence map, the diffuse will output light on your actual object and make it look all pretty

I feel bad for laughing, I've never heard of that happening
Seriously though that sucks.

I had a self illum, you just can't tell toooo much because default renderer :'3
Gonna play around with it in a bit since it was almost 4 am when I finished it xD

 

[global-wolf]

The short film shown before Wreck-It-Ralph was posted yesterday and it is AWESOME. I'm wondering at the technology used to make it, so magical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTLySbGoMX0

 

[Geist]

The short film shown before Wreck-It-Ralph was posted yesterday and it is AWESOME. I'm wondering at the technology used to make it, so magical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTLySbGoMX0

Oh jesus all these feels
It's probably my favorite short film ever

Here's a behind the scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJLtujW6FY

There's a lot of techno-babble and pre-required knowhow but it should still be interesting to see the software at work.
It's a brand new proprietary program that generates 2d animation frames based off of 3d models.
It's like the future

 

[BioDG]

Wow that was impressive.

 

[Geist]

I want to do a painting of this profile pic.
It's just so magnificent

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Guys, we made a masterpiece today

 

[choknater]

"brilliant" - choknater

 

[Geoberos]

oo handle grip details~

looks more like a sowand tho

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Tis an honor Chok

Tanks geo xD (the actual non compressed diffuse looks better I promise)

Lol people have been saying that
I'll get a real render up when I add the spec

 

[HondaFoo]

hachackhack

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I know I already posted a version on this page, but after using photoshop, and adding some more pieces, and coloring it I think it turned out nicely

Spoiler

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Me gusta, psycho :3

What even, Honda?

 

[Geist]

lokii post maps :3

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

I'll post the maps later......my unwraps are always awful u x u but my textures were painted with love n__n
Pic is a tad distorted because photoshopping didnt mix with facebook so it made it darker/blurry

 

[Geist]

Now get some normal maps up in there :D

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

I do have normals u . u; and spec. spec is lowered because it was horribly distorting colors, but normals have been raised to well over 100 iirc
not the best image though u . u stupid fb blurrringggg

 

[Geist]

what resolution map?
was it a 256 or a 512

also spec shouldn't be distorting colors :l


OH and maya 2013 JUST got a brand spanking new interface patch, it can render realtime materials and lighting/shadows like marmoset toolbag can.
a guy who works at microsoft's game studio says it looks exactly the same on the viewport as the renders.

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Ahhhh Thas awesome
Gotta learn maya ASAP

It was just making everything too shiny for my liking so the colors looked off

And the map was 1024
It's more apparent in the non fb version of the picture xP

 

[BioDG]

Polygons are super sweet but I'm missing the drawings posts already :[

 

[Oneupsalesman]

^Here ya' go.

I'm getting better at using the tablet. I still need to clean a bit up, but it's just a little sketch for practice.

 

[Geoberos]

Still trying to hone different methods through fan art.
[COLLAPSE="Tablet Practice - MMZ"]

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[COLLAPSE="Sketch Practice - FF9"]

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[Oneupsalesman]

Nice, especially on the Mega Man Zero one.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

After experimenting with the paintbrush tool in illustrator, I've decided I need to get a tablet

 

[Geist]

everyone needs to get a tablet

your faces are looking better 1up salesman but you might find you're drawing the far eye a bit too small

 

[HondaFoo]

Ear is placed kinda low, as well

 

[Oneupsalesman]

^^ and ^: I agree with both, thank you for the feedback.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Anyone recommend a tablet? I'm thinking about getting the intuos 5 medium

Ok, I decided to go with the Intuos 5 Medium

 

[Geist]

I'd get the intuos 5 medium

 

[BioDG]

Nice leviathan, Geoboros.

As for tablets, I personally bought the smallest one available and I ended up using it just fine with no constraints. At work, I have a bigger tablet and I tend to interchange between them without a hitch. I feel like no matter what tablet you buy, your hand-eye coordination naturally adapts to it.

Either that, or I just got lucky with my first purchase. Hmm...