Quick-Crit 2008-2009

[Bastinka]

Very nice kid, fine detail on the eyelashes too? Smashing!

[Hunter]

i probably should, but im too lazy to look up a bunch of refs on google image . anywaay *image* *image*

i need to animate dis bitch

i need to unwrap dis bitch

Why have you made the barrel ect more high poly? It is not needed. The amount of sides you have before was decent, maybe they did not give the best silhouette, but now you have too many...

The first version you had was fine apart from a few topology problems. I hope you backed it up. Revert to the older version. Make it high poly and texture bake the bastered.

[ExAm]

He's probably just extruding those parts out of each other, subdiv style. This is bad.

[PenGuin1362]

If you're going to be lazy, than no one cares. Go back and do it again properly, because right now, my shit has more aesthetic appeal than that.


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[Reaper Man]

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It's been a while since I submitted anything. C&C.

Pretty well executed drawing, but it's far too low contrast - it's all shades of gray. You need whites and blacks too to make it really pop. What sorta pencils did you use to draw it?

[kid908]

Pretty well executed drawing, but it's far too low contrast - it's all shades of gray. You need whites and blacks too to make it really pop. What sorta pencils did you use to draw it?

I really need to get a new scanner. There's alot more contrast on paper. For that image, I used General's Woodless Graphite pencils.

The paper is suppose to be white, not gray, same with the white areas of the eyes.

[Reaper Man]

I really need to get a new scanner. There's alot more contrast on paper. For that image, I used General's Woodless Graphite pencils.

The paper is suppose to be white, not gray, same with the white areas of the eyes.

I meant what range of pencils, 2B, 4B etc. Hm, have you tried adjusting your scanner's exposure settings?

A quick play-around with the curves tool in Photoshop gives this much more pleasing look:

[English Mobster]

Let's play a guessing game.
I have modeled a gun from Star Wars. It is not in the movies, but it IS in at least 2 (maybe 3) out of 4 incarnations of a very popular Star Wars video game.

It was very hard to model because the particular game dates back to the early 2000s, and, although had about as dedicated of a mod following as Halo did, the weapons were severely low-polygon and were very hard to find good refs for.
Firstly, regular renders to appease Snaf (No smoothing):

With wireframe:

Secondly, good-looking renders because I think it looks nice.

With wireframe:

[BobtheGreatII]

Heavy Repeater.

What do I win?

[Heathen]

A second post!!