Making Of: The Giant - Page 2

Corsair970 · 16-09-2007, 04:20 PM

Oh wow... that was quite insightful! A question, what tools do you use in Maya during the blocking in stage? I always have a ton of trouble trying to model poly-by-poly in Maya, could do it fine in Max, but I can't seem to find the right tools. Sorry for the dumb question

benclark · 16-09-2007, 04:23 PM

not a dumb question at all, basically I just use extrude edge

then use the regular move tool and the MoveNormal tool to place the points. Nothing fancy really.

TychoCelchuuu · 16-09-2007, 06:18 PM

The append polygon tool is also a good poly-by-poly method in Maya.

CaptainCock · 17-09-2007, 08:17 AM

very interesting. Still haven't read everything but what I read thus far us superb. Thanks for writting

Craig Lewis · 30-09-2007, 05:10 PM

Great write-up. I'm sure this will come in handy.

Retro-Cow · 30-09-2007, 06:07 PM

Wow, a great read, thanks.
One thing I didn't get though, may I ask why the blue hue on the specular?

Dekard · 30-09-2007, 06:22 PM

I kind of got lost when you spoke of the "Hard Surface Sections" so your hard surfaces are simply mesh smoothed not taken into zbrush and are just made up of many smaller pieces on top of the larger base mesh for those pieces? Correct?

benclark · 30-09-2007, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Retro-Cow

Wow, a great read, thanks.
One thing I didn't get though, may I ask why the blue hue on the specular?

Blue just works really well for skin. It contrasts against the warm skin tones. If you use redish specualr it always makes the skin look flushed and works against your diffuse. Theres really no reasoning behind it other than it looks good

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Originally Posted by Dekard

I kind of got lost when you spoke of the "Hard Surface Sections" so your hard surfaces are simply mesh smoothed not taken into zbrush and are just made up of many smaller pieces on top of the larger base mesh for those pieces? Correct?

Yeah. The hard surface sections just refered to all the little armour pieces, they werent taken into Zbrush, I made the high res versions of these parts in Maya

Sentientv2 · 14-04-2008, 04:57 AM

Alchemist. Not sure if you have seen this tool, but I think if you could harness it you might get higher yields of your time using it, especially when it comes to your low poly remesh.

digitalRaster - NEX
Make sure to check out the videos for QuadDraw

Natace · 15-04-2008, 07:35 AM

Wow nice work! I loved the design of your giant as well, although for a giant he looked rather puny. Looked more like a goblin who wore his goblin style party hat on the wrong part of his head :P

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benclark Industry Artist 2,317 - 495	not a dumb question at all, basically I just use extrude edge then use the regular move tool and the MoveNormal tool to place the points. Nothing fancy really. __________________ www.benjaminclark.net My Sketchbook

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16-09-2007, 04:20 PM	#11 (permalink)
Corsair970 Senior Member 151 - 9	Oh wow... that was quite insightful! A question, what tools do you use in Maya during the blocking in stage? I always have a ton of trouble trying to model poly-by-poly in Maya, could do it fine in Max, but I can't seem to find the right tools. Sorry for the dumb question

16-09-2007, 06:18 PM	#13 (permalink)
TychoCelchuuu Senior Member 294 - 30	The append polygon tool is also a good poly-by-poly method in Maya.

17-09-2007, 08:17 AM	#14 (permalink)
CaptainCock Senior Member 230 - 20	very interesting. Still haven't read everything but what I read thus far us superb. Thanks for writting

30-09-2007, 06:22 PM	#17 (permalink)
Dekard Frequenter 84 - 220	I kind of got lost when you spoke of the "Hard Surface Sections" so your hard surfaces are simply mesh smoothed not taken into zbrush and are just made up of many smaller pieces on top of the larger base mesh for those pieces? Correct?

14-04-2008, 04:57 AM	#19 (permalink)
Sentientv2 Frequenter 91 - 22	Alchemist. Not sure if you have seen this tool, but I think if you could harness it you might get higher yields of your time using it, especially when it comes to your low poly remesh. digitalRaster - NEX Make sure to check out the videos for QuadDraw

15-04-2008, 07:35 AM	#20 (permalink)
Natace Senior Member 163 - 19	Wow nice work! I loved the design of your giant as well, although for a giant he looked rather puny. Looked more like a goblin who wore his goblin style party hat on the wrong part of his head :P

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