That mosquito is ace.

Might do some pic dumps from time to time of interesting 3D illustration I find unless there's any objections to using the thread that way. May even dump some of my own stuff one day. The bar is currently set intimidatingly high though.

acemuzzy wrote:

I was a bit bored at uni and wrote my own software ray tracer - I'll see if i can find my pics / vids from that. Not quite as fancy as your stuff im afraid. Zero artistic talent here, your stuff is all far too swish!

I can't write my own raytracer! I got told to once for my own good and i was like 'no thanks vray is fine!'.

I think if you know your dot products you'll be okay, maybe. But yeah my stills are very low on tech skill, it's only since doing realtime things and writing shaders that i'm aware of the fancy code stuff. So you writing a raytracer is very much as interesting as anyone else using vray

Also this should be exactly where everyone dumps their 3D shenanigans at whatever level, dump it!

Iunno if i should just post whatevers on my deviantart here in stages since i doubt anyone will go over there..

erm, another thingy

I find poser absolutely horrible but it does have one huge selling point - Affordable, agreeably licensed stock models, thousands of them. I've exported more models from poser as .objs than i can count

heh, or my musical remix ;p



and one more for luck.  Man i had too much spare time back then.

Have you ever tried Houdini? That looks like some proper geek out stuff, node based, pretty technical, but you can make some awesome stuff with it. A friend of us (works at Guerrilla as well now) is off to Korea to do some talk about it. He and his team got nominated for the oscars as well. Think most of the explosions you see these days are based on his code, he worked at sidefx for a while.

I miss 3D a lot, I don't find the time to do it properly in my free time. Had so much fun making our game earlier this year, but I really needed  Gunn being there to keep me motivated. As soon as I'm on my own I just keep uhhming and ahhing and find it hard to decide if I actually should move that vertice yes or no. Have a few ideas about low poly environments, interactive and based on childhood memories. Still want to go back to it,  but find it hard to decide on a visual style. 

Hopefully once the focus from my current job (retail) goes into the background, and my daily life will have more focus on my current study (bike technician) I find some more free time (and more importantly, motivation and certainty) to go back into Blender. I started using that last year, was quite impressed once you figured out how it's logic is.

I don't think I want to do this as a paid job anymore though, the things I liked doing didn't usually go well with what a company wants. I see it as a way of painting, doing some art, and I find it hard to see it as a day time job. Ruins a bit of the fun.

In C++ - I'll dig out the code, inelegant though it is!

Edge detection for targeted anti-aliasing was another highlight I just remembered .  Hours of time thrown at it!

Nina wrote:

Have you ever tried Houdini? That looks like some proper geek out stuff, node based, pretty technical, but you can make some awesome stuff with it. A friend of us (works at Guerrilla as well now) is off to Korea to do some talk about it. He and his team got nominated for the oscars as well. Think most of the explosions you see these days are based on his code, he worked at sidefx for a while. I miss 3D a lot, I don't find the time to do it properly in my free time. Had so much fun making our game earlier this year, but I really needed  Gunn being there to keep me motivated. As soon as I'm on my own I just keep uhhming and ahhing and find it hard to decide if I actually should move that vertice yes or no. Have a few ideas about low poly environments, interactive and based on childhood memories. Still want to go back to it,  but find it hard to decide on a visual style.  Hopefully once the focus from my current job (retail) goes into the background, and my daily life will have more focus on my current study (bike technician) I find some more free time (and more importantly, motivation and certainty) to go back into Blender. I started using that last year, was quite impressed once you figured out how it's logic is. I don't think I want to do this as a paid job anymore though, the things I liked doing didn't usually go well with what a company wants. I see it as a way of painting, doing some art, and I find it hard to see it as a day time job. Ruins a bit of the fun.

Nina! Long time no see, great to see you back with us, hope stuffs been okay. We arent all doing a hell of a lot atm really although im about to start a project and deeeeefinitely if you can find a lil bit if free time and i will be there to oversee it cause ill be working all ours of the day, the exact way you approach modelling could be super helpful for what im on about, yu might like the idea anyways. Also even if now, we still got some of the boys talkin in skype chat from time to time so pop in the conference every so often! I think people would be super glad you showed your face

@muzzy fuck me man that is awesome stuff, way beyond where i was at doing my uni project work. You might find this quite funny given our roles in enjoy but my main piece of work i did was an artificial intelligence for unreal tournament style bots, and youre there writing youre own raytrader - nifty as anything

acemuzzy wrote:

Tada!  I was well pleased when my own code wrote this - no Direct X, no shaders, no graphics card, just raw "write this colour to this offset into video memory". This was how I earned my geek stripes back in 2001

it took you 12 years to get from that to this....
http://www.positronicarts.com/games/unity/bounce/proto2/WebPlayer.html


my 3d modelling skills start and end with play-doh...

acemuzzy wrote:

...that is the full extent of my artistic talent

Wot? Apart from the award winning Edge game? : P

Nina wrote:

Hey Gunn, good to see you again as well. Am mainly using the laptop these days, think it doesn't have skype yet, will get that fixed. Bas is still busy doing sfx for a documentary so is keeping the super pc for himself most nights haha. Definitely interested in your ideas, even though everything is so uncertain for me at the moment.

No worries! You could be terribly handy for a few things but, ill get by. I just your pretty intense style of modelling makes it very strong, you gotta get every last bit perfect. Brofist bas for me also btw, or whever you guys do over there, hope his work is keeping him lively and deffo say thanks again for the tracks he volunteers for enjoy, they were perfect, really if only we had time to get stuff like that perfect

For anyone that works with vector art - infinite zoominess apparently: http://www.madewithmischief.com/


//player.vimeo.com/video/68531946

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monkey wrote:

Have you started using C4D yet Live? I'm looking to learn a more complete 3D package and not sure what to go for. My options are slightly limited in that I can only go on versions of any software that might not be completely legit. Modo looks ok and not too tricky for beginners. Can't get a working copy of Maya which was my first choice. Might just go with Blender. Help.

Liveinadive wrote:

@monkey Yeah I have been using 3DS still but trying to do more and more in C4D. I highly recommend cinema4D, it is a fantastic bit of software. Do you have an industry in mind that you want to go into/develop? For games it is 3ds all the way, motion graphics go for c4d etc. I have struggled to find a wink wink nudge nudge version of vray for c4d but c4dr14 is easy enough to get. Cgpersia is your friend.

Live, you're my sexy 3D hero. CGPersia came up with a version of Maya that actually activated and a whole load of other shit that's caning my broadband connection as we speak.

The project I'm thinking about doing is a strictly free time thing and might be a bit ambitious so we'll see. It's a children's book thing for tablets. Basically a load of animations with button prompts to play the next one. Something like this (with the exception that this was done by a professional studio, not one novice in his free time).



I can do the code wrapper for it easy enough. So all that's left to do is learn and then do all the modelling, rigging, animation and rendering. Easy. Although none of it is going to be especially complicated - more like a 3D version of Spot the Dog, quite simple models and animation, so hopefully it's not too ambitious to try it all.

Anyway, from a bit of research Maya seemed like the best bet for this sort of end-to-end thing, and I did use it once briefly in the dim and distant past for messing around with some animation so thought there'd be a shorter learning curve to it. Plus I've already got a load of acquired learning material for it to help me along. It seems a bit easier to move assets back and forth between it and ZBrush as well and ZBrush is something I can at least use a bit if I need to.

I haven't started any of this so if any one wants to chip in with why I'm wrong about any of it or got some better suggestions then feel free. I know people spend their whole careers doing something like rigging so am I being naive with the work I'm taking on?

Sounds good dyna. Always hated zbrush interface, too dark.

I dunno where to put this but as its 3d and the reason ive been gone for a few weeks

Liveinadive wrote:

I had to use 3DS today briefly after about 5 minths of using Cinema4D.

Christ Max is ugly as fuck!
It also takes an age to open heavy files.

I really dont want to have to go back.

The load times are why I didn't rush back to it...

That said, I tend to use the open source alternative to just about everything.
Even Photoshop. And I accept that's the best in it's class...

Wish I learnt Maya though.