80's cartoon Post Mortem: Tell us what you learned...

#77

Its your model, you can do with it, whatever you want.

#78

Hey vshen one more time, that is the coolest looking Ninja Turtle ever, great job.

I’ve posted a few of mine into my gallery and 1 to the 3D Stills. Just follow the guidelines for that thread, make sure its finished and all the rest and should be fine.

If you see me vote its because I don’t think mine is a high enough caliber to win so I vote for the best. If you don’t see me vote its because I think mine is good enough to win but my vote would be too biased to be fair. That way I let you guys decide if I deserve it. I won’t be voting this time because I think mine is good enough. I see all of its errors and flaws but I still judge it good enough. So I leave it up you.

One last thing I learned. Make sure you know what crashes your software better than any other feature and be sure to save before you crash. No problem right? :beer:

#79

I like a few others did throw a vote in for my own model, and I do understand how that looks , in fact I’m usually the one urging people not to vote for themselves in this type of thing. However on this occasion I was exceptionally happy with how the robotech model I submitted turned out, (I should have posted more pics of the toy for comparison) and I felt it needed a vote. If this offended anyone I apologize as this was totally not my intention to offend.

Thanks and excellent work from all!

#80

I learned that no matter how hard you try to keep a thread on topic, it always seems to digress… :smiley:

-Rage

#81

What I learned

  1. How much I like everyone here. Even though its a competition, peeps are very nice when it comes to c&c, and sensitive to other people’s differences in skill level. It lends to an environment of positive encouragement really helped to drive me to finish the model on time.

  2. I need to upgrade to x64, had memory & crash issues despite having 4 gigs (which I understand a x32 can’t use or recognize it all).

  3. In making a model with a complex costume that hides the body, it is important to have a “dummy” body underneath to remind you of where the underlying limbs are in the pose. This is important for getting the cloth draping and folds to look right.

  4. In an asymmetrical pose with lots of cloth, symmetrical modeling is pointless with the exception of the face. In this case, pose first, then detail.

  5. Next time I need to insert more polys into areas I expect to have lots of detail in the end, ran into problems where the polys were too homogenous and I didn’t have enough polys to hold displacement detail for the decorative dress drim/complicated cloth folds unless I went above 7 subdivisions. eek!

  6. Related to #5, when sculpting for cloth I need to think ahead on where the wrinkles and folds will be and prepare the base mesh differently (more detail) before moving on to zbrush.

#82

Yes, but mostly for the body in general i think its important to make the mayor proportion sculpting first with symetry, and only when it looks good and almost finished, then you can rigg/pose the character and do the last final details and forms of muscles more bulged or stretched etc without the sym…but knowing that the proportions are the same and saving lot of time with the symetry sculpt.

Another thing…the next time i will try to organize the proyect more like…

week one: concept and research.

week two: base modeling.

week three:sculpting.

and so on to the finish result.

i say this because it happens to me that when i think that a step of the process will take 5 hours, it will probably take 10 or 15…and because i always let all to the last minute…shame on my:surprised. This happen to anyone here too?

…

#83

Well i learned how to manage zbrush more than before…:cool:

this past week a also learn how not to pay income tax, did you know income tax is voluntary act is not mandatory? the truth will make you free

jeje je cool no more income tax

#84

but if you don’t pay income tax and then no one else pays income tax. whose going to maintain the roads, railroads, water purification, take the garbage to the landfill, provide public transportation, pay off the national dept, provide school for children, build and maintain national and state parks…the list goes on and on and on…

-Rage

#85

Nope, never, I’m always on time… lol :D, almost held a straight face.

And jhasse, do more research. I don’t know who is giving you information but it takes a lot of legal defense and mucho dollars to fight off the courts when you go this route. You will get thrown in jail for not paying your taxes.

That’s what happened to Wesley Snipes.

The supreme court ruled back in the 30s, I think it was the 30s, and yes you have to pay taxes. Unless of course you make below the poverty level but that’s not what it sounded like you were saying.

#86

Well, this was my first challenge. The theme selection forced me to enter. I couldn’t say no, I’m too weak. I heard voices in my head from my 80’s child personality. I would lo ve to participate in a challenge similar to this one.

I already had decided to go for a 3d Aioros, but knowing myself, I needed a deadline to make me work really hard. I usually start but don't usually finish works or take too long to complete. Thanks to this, I've been able to see where i can arrive to. I've got a better result than expected. I'm really happy with it. So just with that point, this challenge has been worthy.

As it rewards to the deadline... the first thing I thought was: Oh shit, I could have gone to bed before if I had known before. (I had already finished the character)
Tuesday afternoon the thought was: Oh shit, I still have three days to improve the scenario, think, think.
And then back to the computer and the hours of uncountable and exhausting crative fun. I work better under pressure, but I really enjoy it. And the scenario improvement really really worths it. So, I can only thank you for making me see I can do good things In a short period of time.(I still haven't had a 3d  professional job, so lack the experience)


Furthermore, I've learnt I still don't know how to go from zbrush to 3d Studio Max using displacement maps. (you can see it the hair tests) So I finally exported high resolution meshes.

Apart from this, some other details about how to avoid problems when modelling and getting results more efficiently.

And but not least (maybe the most important), a throne with two skeletons as armrests should be in the IKEA catalogue right now. IN THE HEADLINES¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡


To sum up. I love the whole experience. (my mother doesn't, she thinks I changed my timetable drastically in a bad way [and I did]. She is my first 3d widow [don't know if you name it like this in english])
#87

first watch this movies:
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Zeitgeist, The Movie

let me know what you think?

#88

income tax is a voluntary act, the IRS they just want to confuse you to believe that is the law, even my economic teacher and logic teacher admited that income tax is a voluntary act because all of us are protected by the constition the our founded father left us. IRS is only administrative deparment no thing more they don’t have the right to take your money and nothing else because their is no law for them to do what they do.

about wesley snipes all lawyers knows the income tax is voluntary act they just get paid by IRS and Judges too to shut their mouths to miss leaden to believe people have to pay income tax.

take care

#89

i learnt that i never have enough time :slight_smile:

#90

Well, here are three things I learned from this challenge:

  1. I learned more about how to use ZBrush displacement and normal maps in Lightwave.
  2. I learned more about my current computer’s limits! :wink:
  3. I learned that I’d better pick something harder to model next time! :slight_smile:
#91

This is so way off topic it’ll be the last I say on it but you sound like you still need to be warned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
If you don’t trust Wikipedia then here is the 16th amendment on USConstitution.net.

It has nothing to do with the IRS. The 16th amendment was ratified on February 3, 1913. That means long before we were ever born congress passed the law and then the states ratified the amendment as part of the constitution. That means it is the law that there can be an income tax. Your teachers are dead wrong and will get you thrown in jail. I too bought into this nonsense years back but if you do proper research and not conspiracy crap you will see it is not voluntary. Those guys that preach this idea, including the ones I originally listened too, ultimately get thrown in jail themselves.

#92

Man I tried SOO hard not to reply to this recent shift in topic, but it’s way stronger than me.
I just wanted to add to this, Wyatt.

Using common media tactics, it is possible to “prove” virtually anything you want to. What people need to understand, especially when dealing with propoganda such as zetegeist or Michael Moore films, is that what they DON’T tell you has much more meaning than what they DO tell you.
Also, Zetegeist was a really stupid “film” IMO. If you look and listen closely, there is virtually no solid scientific or factual evidence to backup their cases. Verifying and checking up on these so called “facts” on the internet is an exercise in futility, because the fist few pages of results you get link to conspiracy sites anyway who all recycle their info between them.

-Rage

#93

Guys…

Stay on topic.

-R

#94

ok guys let stay on the topic, roberto is right. You win Harris :curious:

#95

je je je ok let stay on the topic, ok :wise:

#96

I think the major thing I learned was how to use mentalray. I use other render programs at work, so it gave me a chance to explore mentalray. It’s nice that max ships with such a great renderer. I’m also proud of the fact that I stayed with the project for the duration. All too often I get sidetracked or lose interest, but I’m glad I made it to the end! Great job everyone, you guys kept me going :slight_smile: