Al's Organics
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Actually, you're both right. What I do is smooth the finished mesh...but manually with the Eraser. This enables me to leave certain lines unsmoothed, delineating the major muscle groups, folds in the neck, detail around the eyes and nose etc. This provides much-needed definition in such a low poly character.
I don't leave the lines black as on this pic. What I do next is to select the entire mesh (with Hidden Geometry turned off, so it's not selected) Then I use the smoothing dialog box, racking the slider up till those black lines disappear. However, I uncheck the Normals box, producing crease lines...precisely as in the Subdivide toolbox.
You can see the difference this makes to an untextured low-poly head. I much prefer the creased version...and it's even more effective at a distance.
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A little hand painting in Pshop...and the finished critter.
Now to use the Remember UVs script and put it in a few different poses.
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That's awesome Alan.
Sheep or pig next?
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Already done pigs "Sooooeeee!" So it better be sheep.
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Those are brilliant looking pigs, wow. Great work Alan.
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Awesome work! The art of low poly modeling at its best!
As Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -
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Wow!
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@numbthumb said:
Awesome work! The art of low poly modeling at its best!
As Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.i love this guy - from "wind, sand and stars":
"It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of a human breast or shoulder, there must be the experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness"now i know where the inspiration for all these boats / planes / cows come from!
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Hi Alan,
this cow and pigs are very beautiful.
I found on the warehouse of your cows much less realistic: the plastic inflated seemed.
You put at the disposal of all your animals?
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They are amazing Alan and very realistic. Great work
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Bravo! Nice to see someone taking the time a care like this. I've got quite a big soft spot for cows... Great work.
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@unknownuser said:
I've got quite a big soft spot for cows
I'm gonna bet your wife does not visit this forum.
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That is really amazing work.
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Thanks guys...they've started breeding.
I'm learning to love HDR environment maps. It sure beats arranging a ton of scenery.
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Sorry to be a silly moo
& go off topic, but can you tell me the name of the font used in your guide please?
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JGA, it's Flux Architect. http://www.dafont.com/flux.font
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@alan fraser said:
JGA, it's Flux Architect. http://www.dafont.com/flux.font
I also have Flux Architect BUT there are no lowercase characters only CAPS...
Architext is a fuller ttf...
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@tig said:
@alan fraser said:
JGA, it's Flux Architect. http://www.dafont.com/flux.font
I also have Flux Architect BUT there are no lowercase characters only CAPS...
Architext is a fuller ttf...
http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=2581Ah yes...I have that one too. Grant Marshall developed it based on his Dad's architectural hand lettering. I wonder what he's up to these days? he used to be a prolific contributor to the original @Last forum, but gave up SU years ago in favour of Modo.
I loved the watercolour effects he used to get from his models.
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