shhh... off topic post
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Le Mans Master
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From: Los Angeles Ca
lol... yeah 'scott_fx' wouldn't be fitting if i was jobless!
what i'm currently doing is what is called a 'cg supervisor' i give direction and help troubleshoot cg elements that ultimately get presented to our client. i'm working at a small company doing commercials. My new gig i will be either a lead modeler or senior modeler on transformers two. I will be in charge of modeling some of the robots in 3d space then it will be handed off to texture artists to make my model look like it is made out of metal and plastic. etc...
if i think about it when i get home, i will try to post up some of my work from a few movies i've worked on to show you what exactly i do.
what i'm currently doing is what is called a 'cg supervisor' i give direction and help troubleshoot cg elements that ultimately get presented to our client. i'm working at a small company doing commercials. My new gig i will be either a lead modeler or senior modeler on transformers two. I will be in charge of modeling some of the robots in 3d space then it will be handed off to texture artists to make my model look like it is made out of metal and plastic. etc...
if i think about it when i get home, i will try to post up some of my work from a few movies i've worked on to show you what exactly i do.
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Jun 2004
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well, the way i did it was to get an internship in the tech dept to which i got hired on and worked nights for ~18 months. then i impressed the right people and moved onto the match moving dept where i tracked cameras for about a year. during that year i begged for scraps and the other artists respected that and would throw me a bone... the rest is history i guess.
lw3d is a little dated right now, it's not used as much but a model is a model. you'll find more work though if you know maya.
lw3d is a little dated right now, it's not used as much but a model is a model. you'll find more work though if you know maya.
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Los Angeles Ca
it's easier to email me :-)
here is some of my work from past movies:
flags of our fathers:
apa
lst1
bulldozer
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Hai Peng (i didnt do the sails though)
here is some of my work from past movies:
flags of our fathers:
apa
lst1
bulldozer
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Hai Peng (i didnt do the sails though)
Last edited by scott_fx; Jul 16, 2008 at 04:25 AM.
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did you build the entire ship? What sort of techniques did you use? Is that wood actually polys, or a displacement map... or? whats the polycount on something like the first image?
Sorry for the third degree, this is something I'm very interested in.
Sorry for the third degree, this is something I'm very interested in.
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Le Mans Master
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as far as techniques. i mainly only use 4 techniques.
- always start with a primitive and extrude.
- i use a latice religiously to 'bend' the cage smoothly
- and i always use 'templates' to snap my cage too in order to get accurate curves.
- I build everything rough and then do a final 'smooth' on the geo
other then that, it's just knowing proportions and being able to intelligently build a mesh that won't be any denser then what is needed
