3D Total "Making Of"

[Gavin]

Hey Guys,

Just recently I submitted my final DW2 image into the 3D Total gallery. It got accepted and I was offered to make a "Making Of" article. I took the offer and the article is now available on 3dtotal.com

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/making_of_thrull/making_of_thrull01.asp

It's a fairly quick run down, just wanted to give a heads up to anyone who's interested.

Thanks!
Gav

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[george.vas]

Thanks for sharing Gavin... ...good read. :thumb:

[Spacemonkey]

nice one Gav! Glad to see I'm not the only one who resorted to quick and dirty posing methods :D

[Gavin]

Thanks guys!

Yeah, Spacemonkey...glad to hear I wasn't the only one as well :D
Quick and dirty but it does the trick, heh.

Gav

[FredH]

Gavin --> Here is the link to your article:
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/making_of_thrull/making_of_thrull01.asp

Nice work Gavin:) You really pushed yourself with this one. He turned out great!

[_Vincento_]

Congrats Gavin, you've done a really nice Character, and your making of is good to read.

_Vincent

[Taehoon]

3dtoal is ROCK ~~ Great devotion Gavin~

[Chasarsis]

Thanks Gavin! That's offers some really great insights :D

[onelung]

Nice tut, great character as well.

[Vikkie]

Gavin that is awesome! thanks

[Frozan]

NICE! great way to show ur stuff is always in a tutorial.

[BluPanda]

I just flipped through it, and i very much like what you have shown. I do have a question about this "light map" your speaking of. I'm not familiar with it, i can infer what it is but id love for some more details! Pm me, or post or something, i like your method.

[Gavin]

Cheers guys, thanks for all the feedback!

BluPanda: I setup some lights in my scene and, with the character selected, I open up Max's Render To Texture menu, select "Lighting Map" (there will be a drop down menu with a few options which include Lighting Map), set the size for it and click "Render." It'll take all of the lighting information of my model with normal maps on it and just bake it into a texture.

You could also probably set this up with the Projection modifier so that you can project the lighting information of the high poly mesh imported from ZB onto your low poly model. I haven't really found a need for this and doing it would probably cause my computer to billow out smoke.

Hope this helps a little,
Gav

[kungfuslime]

this is really useful, thankyou for making it. I have been having a real headache recently with trying to figure out how to make characters when I am going to sculpt them. I could make low poly characters to an ok standard but this should help me alot to improve my skills along with some stuff that Dreamer sent me.

thanks!

[shadowmonkey]

sweet nice one Gavin,I do love this charater and was wondering you process for it.Many thanks for posting and nice work.

[DreameR]

~ Yay. You so kewl

[Aftermath]

Thanks Gavin for the Making of Tut!!

[JacqueChoi]

They somehow need to make space for this, in the Triumvirate of Awesome.

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/13/awesome1aa3.png