Posts by Ginger Lord

It's just over 13k, including the rough interior, underside etc, the brief was the model a car with the best use of 15k polies. These days its pretty much use 15k polies and make it look good. It's not the greatest mesh, but thats what happens when you have an assignment like this after about 8 hours of lessons on XSI.

The wheels are bugging me, I couldn't get a decent size blueprint of the CCX so I've been using the CCR one which is mostly the same, except for the front and the rear which I've done by eye, I guess the wheel size must have changed.

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Transition from car windows to car base is way too small. Needs more depth, same with those doors.

What do you mean by "more depth"?

Edit: Phew, the rear wheels are actually an inch large than the front ones, I made the rear ones bigger, then realised to do the same at the front would be a horrendous job.

Edit Deuce: Does this look better now, it should be correct proportions now:

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Bit of artistic licence with the number plate holder, never seen a front plate on a CCX, so using a CCR style holder.

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Couldn't resist the orange, even though my heart wanted black.

When I think Orc, I'm picturing a low tech grunt, clothes fashioned from rubbish, bad pointy teeth, piercings, face paint and of course, green skin.

Much like these fellows:

http://www.cvetkovicart.com/gallery/Ork%20fin.jpg

http://www.gucomics.com/mythic/e3assets ... mArmor.jpg

Maybe Warhammer has got to me too much.

Its a great model, but when I think of "Ork" thats nothing like what I think they'd be like.

I agree the black car looks the best, but in a render it loses all the detail

I'm only being marked on the model, textures are bonus marks. But I do want it to look nice as well

Shiny models = higher marks

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Can't decide on a colour, any ideas?

Needs a manual gearbox.

A-Level Media studies is a joke, half the people in my year that took it got 90% plus overall. They weren't the brightest bunch either.

Annoyed a lot of us when they got their three A's and were awarded a prize for it, usually in Media Studies, Pyschology and Music Tech. When we all suffered doing proper subjects like Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science etc

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Its not on Amazon.co.uk to pre-order yet

Early WIP of our first uni assignment in XSI, a low poly car. No proper textures yet, its not part of the brief but gains extra marks. First "real" model I've done in XSI so forgive the horror

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11k so far.

Like I said, very WIP. Still got lots left to do, bit of an interior as well and then set up a simple scene. I just whacked a default HDRI render on it for shits and giggles.

Having a beard won't get you into Uni...

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You list PS as one skills, so maybe show some textures by you?

Surely just because you have Photoshop skills doesnt mean you make textures?

I started blocking out my portfolio, I'm lazy and suck at webdesign so used a Wordpress template, so here we are.

Problem is, I don't know what career I want. If any in the Games industry at all...

/hijack.

nVidia have a utility where you can set the fan speed, I usually have mine at 30-40% for 2D and 60% for 3D. It also goes faster when it reachs certain temps as a safety.

Turn the volume up.

This post is open again, the animators we took on board did some work and then have just gone missing.

Teaboy.

Congrats!

Yeah, considering Sony can't get any 1080p games to run at acceptable speeds on the PS3, I hold little hope for the 360 to be able to do it.

More of a "we can do this too" thing.

I love the way the shoulder pads are hilariously over sized, makes the kids look like their wearing corsets.

I guess it balances out that in general we get paid more than Americans

Bit that annoys me though:

+ Wii Sports

- Only one controller!

That means you literally have to get another to have some real fun.

Ugh, shafted again on price.