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My husband taught me something to help me organize my UV’s...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:05:12 -0500

UV Layout

Shelf Editor

My husband taught me something to help me organize my UV’s and I thought it would be great to share with everyone else.

What my husband helped me set up was shelf buttons that would move a set of UV’s over, either left or right one UV unit. Now in my picture above I have grouped similar objects together. Metals, wood, plants, etc all together and shifted each group over.

The mel script to do this is as follows.

To the Right: polyEditUV -u 1.0 -v 0 ;

To the Left: polyEditUV -u -1.0 -v 0 ;

Up: polyEditUV -u -0 -v 1 ;

Down : polyEditUV -u -0 -v -1 ;

To save the script on your shelf just highlight the script in your script editor and drag and drop it onto your shelf.

To rename the new buttons you can go to the little arrow to the left of your shelf and select shelf editor. The second image shows you what I’m talking about.

Hope you guys like it and make sure you take a look at my husbands site. :) He’s pretty awesome.

progress… progress

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:15:11 -0500

progress… progress

So I haven’t made it too far today. Played around with the...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:05:17 -0500

So I haven’t made it too far today. Played around with the petals on the daisy and changed up the crate. I want to start playing around with the ground next an hopefully I can move on to texturing rather soon. Those things shouldn’t take me long at all.

Not much of an update at all but what the heck.

New year, new tests and new projects. Started on some other...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:16:00 -0500

New year, new tests and new projects.

Started on some other projects and then my computer died. Lucky for me I didn’t loose any files. I back-up like it’s Y2K everyday. I now have two separate back up drives. Paranoid much? Maybe… Maybe. I finished up some logo design which I’ll show once the companies site has launched and one other project is on hold till I finish this one.

Anyways this is just a simple, easy to model, composition I’ve had in mind. Now once I finish up a few things. I’ll go nuts texturing.

Happy Holidays Everyone

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:17:56 -0500

I’ve been MIA the pass month. I traveled down south to Argentina to be with family but now I’m back. I have a few projects I gotta get done before I can move on to some personal 3D stuff. I’ll post pictures of stuff I’m working on as soon and I get some approvals.

Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and wonderful New Year filled with lots of happiness and people that love you.

Cheers

~Alex

Gotta try the new one out.

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:05:29 -0500

Gotta try the new one out.

My turntable and my textures …

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:25:00 -0500

My turntable and my textures …

Added little grass sprouts, a leaf and pebbles… now...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:37:00 -0500

Added little grass sprouts, a leaf and pebbles… now I’m truly done.

Yay, he’s finished. :D It took long enough. I think I...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:17:00 -0500

Yay, he’s finished. :D It took long enough. I think I might add a leaf in there just cause the base seems a bit bare and just a few minor tweeks here and there and I’ll be rendering out a turntable. :) Happy with the final result can’t wait to start the next thing.

It’s coming along. I’ve learned a lot with this...

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:59:34 -0400

It’s coming along. I’ve learned a lot with this last attempt and it’s great. Hope you guys like it. Cant wait to finish em up. :)

I finished two Gnomon workshop tutorials, one for my toads eye...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:40:39 -0400

Eyeball

Subsurface Scattering

I finished two Gnomon workshop tutorials, one for my toads eye and one just to get some subsurface scattering going. The tutorials are free and available on their site. I really enjoyed them. They have a bunch of different free tutorials so you should check em out.

I also came across Suren Manvelyan crazy cool pictures of eyes. They are so beautiful. Human eyes remind me of the visual effects used in the movie the fountain, so pretty.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:38:03 -0400

My feelings towards texturing at the moment….

I’ve been wanting to print on fabric for some time. So I...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:23:00 -0400

I’ve been wanting to print on fabric for some time. So I made some decorative tea towels. I bought some Irish Linen, sewed and then letterpressed them. I first tried it on the little Adana but the impression wasn’t even. So I ended up using the Morgan. Only issue I had here was actually aligning my fabric.

The end result wasn’t what I wanted but still turned out k.

Slowly you become your project.. it consumes you…. Do I...

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:50:40 -0400

Slowly you become your project.. it consumes you…. Do I look like my toad yet?

So I learned how to use Polypaint yesterday. I went and found...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:10:07 -0400

Front

Back

So I learned how to use Polypaint yesterday. I went and found some ok pictures and created a square tiled texture so I could go into zbrush and paint it on my toad. Now this is only going to be the base. From here I will export the texture and take it into Photoshop and touch it up some more. Ty said that a lot of people use this as their texture but is always best to touch it up in Photoshop.

That’s it for tonight… :3 I’m le pooped…

:3

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:14:41 -0400

Wow this is really well done. Maybe sometime I will have to try and take a crack at making a frog.

good job artcauser

Thank you so much creativity!! Thanks for the support, it really means a bunch :)

So last night Ty went to show me how to texture and magically my...

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:14:00 -0400

Playing around with mental ray.

left before ZBush right Low rez Zbrushed

So last night Ty went to show me how to texture and magically my UV map was gone from my ZBrush model. :( blaah. I also managed to delete 2 sets of low rez geometry. Lucky for me ZBrush actually has a function to reconstruct previous low rez geometry based off your higher rez model.

Now I’m just taking the new Low rez model and redoing the UV’s. Ty sais it isn’t such a bad thing, mainly because my model did change a lot in ZBrush and I’d probably get some stretching in my texture. It’s also a nice recap on UV mapping.

I also made a base and downloaded a script to generate some rocks for the little guy. Ty played around with a mental ray render as you can see from the above image. This is just the low rez model with no textures or any displacement maps. Still looks pretty damn awesome. :D

I still have to put new big eye balls. Can’t wait to give him crazy hypno-toad eyes. LOL!!

The Toad So for a bit work got crazy and Mr. Toad was just...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:26:00 -0400

The Toad

So for a bit work got crazy and Mr. Toad was just chillen. Now I’m at it again and that makes both of us happy. I’ve been doing a lot of high frequency detailing but I still need to do a bit more low frequency detail. I always seem to get lost in the little things. I enjoy the little things though. Still need to add wrinkles and more details on his hands and face. Isn’t he cute? I just wanna kiss him. I love toads :D

Hmmmm… I

An Update…. So It was my friend Kristens birthday a few...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:18:00 -0400

Oh Em Gee!

An Update….

So It was my friend Kristens birthday a few days ago and I decided to letterpress a card. At first I had this crazy idea that there was no way I’d be able to complete in one day so I just scraped it and did something easier. Here are some pictures. I drew out the border. Hmmm.. It was nice using the press, I miss it. :D

So I’ve been slowly working on refining my beautiful toad...

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:35:00 -0400

So I’ve been slowly working on refining my beautiful toad in Zbrush. I really have been enjoying how easy it is to add detail in Zbrush, but there are a few things about the program that are driving me nuts. I might just be my tablet or maybe it’s both. I have to figure it out. I know I will, just not at this second.

Anywho, I’m very happy how toadster is turning out.

~L8TeR