Posts by Vinny Testaverde

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Its for a larger scene that im working on. Its too highpoly for a game though...

next time you go give me a call

the problem with the second one is that its just a head floating in white space, it needs to be brought down and interact with the picture plane some how...

but yea the scribbles are nice though, makes it feel more alive and gives it movement.

here is some photography I did in london, I figure instead of taking the stupid picture of me near each sight I would attempt to do some nice photography of the great city:

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Watch the womans baby will be like a head crab or something...

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you have to copy and paste them into your browser and then dowload them

its like a russian image shack

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etc...

looks cool btw

layout is much easier than you think in CSS and making and mainting a site is a breeze after you learn it (it isnt hard to learn)

please do the internet and yourself a favor and use CSS. Use a xhtml strict or transitonal doctype.

http://www.w3schools.com/

http://www.csszengarden.com/ are some good resources

well, I'll post my zbrush guy:

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and rendered in max+ mentalray...

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I used zmapper for the normal mapping, the mesh that i used for this rendering was at the 2nd subdiv level which was ~10k polies, I could have exported a ~3k poly mesh and it would have look only slighly worse

on 6 subd level is was over 2 million and thats the one I worked with.

Zbrush

I also hear mudbox is a software posed to take over Zbrush, haven't tried it out yet

ferret: ty i'll have to join in for the ms paint thread.

anyways the Art Students Leauge is an art school in NYC open to anyone, you can take just one class or enroll and even earn a degree. right now I am just doing one class, but will take many more as I love the place... My school offers drawing classes but not during the summer or on weekends so I am taking classes at the leauge now

heres another one:

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This is also good because it forces you think and be creative, which is always something good, especially for young kids that will play this game. theres a billion and one games where you just blow shit up, this a very nice change.

it also opens up like tons of new creative and funny ways to kill enemies, GJ valve!

ah dude thats a million times better than the gravity gun

more stuff from drawing class:

20-30mins each

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this one was 10 mins

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btw: I think we should have a ms paint sketch thread? whos with me?

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Im not sure if this was my first map but its the oldest I could find, apparently I knew about r_speeds:

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no offense, but its really not good at all.. but you said that... so you should do another one similar and work out the idea better, learn from your mistakes ya know... your designs will only get better with practice.. if you keep making works that you think is ugly, it always will be be confident and keep it untill you get somin your happy with

thanks min... heres some more

here some more figures with some new techniques...

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these two were a 5 min and 10 min poses

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[Blocked Image: http://jonmdesign.net/drawings/drawing14.jpg] heres a pastel I did a week or two ago.. i dunno maybe like 20 mins or so.. first time working with this medium

yo i gotta get in on this...

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unfinshed self portrait i dunno 15-20mins pencil and charcoal

just did this at my life drawing class at the NY art students league

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20 mins or so.. charcoal

"Fire in The Crucible" by John Briggs

A great book for anyone in any type of creative industry. He tries to get into the minds of the the most creative people in the past 2 centuries or so... Einstien, Mozat, Woolf, Picasso, Edison, Tesla... everybody you can think of. He uses modern research on creativity and links that with the lives of creative genusies and its all a nice easy good flowing well written book. Highly recomended.. I finished it about 2 months ago

now I am reading

"Art Mind Brain - A cognitive approach to creativity" by Howard Gardner

About half way though it.. So far I can't put it down... he started off by going into the works of many famous psychologists, philosophers, art historians etc.. You learn a lot about the work of Levi Strauss, Piaget and other lesser known scholars.. and now hes going into the creativity of childern and everything.. really great so far, lot of great insights. Im guessings hes going to wove those subjects together later on...

Operation Flashpoint had to have had something like that....