***PLEASE READ & REQUESTS***
 

Hey All

To everyone that posts here, please keep the links, photo references or any other type of resources posted here topical to this forum and website, and please report anything that is considered or you consider immaterial or otherwise to Site Admin or Moderator.

Also if you do answer a post, try and add a link as you go it will then save on wasting the threads with 'thank you's' all the time, your 'resource' is your 'thank you'

to keep the resource lounge under control, please put all your requested resource thread ideas in here, so if theres a subject matter that you feel we could do with then pop it in here and we'll see what we can do....

Cheers
Jay

hi

i'de like to see some next gen ,well they're current gen now, game character tuts that show how to create normal and specular maps ect, using mudbox,

Do you want references or tutes? If its tutes on normal mapping Mike Mckinley already has one in the downloads section.


Jay

hi

i kind of want a tut that starts off with a low poly mesh, then is taken into mudbox and sculpted on, then explains the whole baking normal and spec map thing, and how to import those maps into maya

Ah a tute so I gues you'd better put that in the DVd area. This is the resources lounges which is basically for links to textures, photos etc, not really to advertise other peoples tutes otherwise its pointless having this site. It does say under the resource lounge header what this particular lounge is for.

Perhaps you should post in the Members lounge or the comments and suggestions area

Cheers
Jay

hey jay - i'm wondering if it would be worth making the some of the threads sticky - such as textures, shaders, blueprints - so they don't get lost after 30 days. just a thought.

Hey Arran

Done :attn:

Jay

cheers mate! :beer:

Hi,

looking for head refs for a japanese male, checked all the links and loads of refs but none that can be used for an oriental character.

cheers

gubar

will have a look around for you...

Jay

Thanks Jay,

spent most of yesterday looking, no luck... googled for ages on various Japanese celebrities but still no luck. Looking for someone in the age range of 40-60 preferably.

cheers

gubar

did you try www.3d.sk ? I just went over there and typed in Asian and it came up with loads of stuff. I know you have to pay a small price for the juicy stuff but it may be worth it.

Jay

Hi Jay,

my subscription expired about 2 months ago and I'm pretty broke at the moment so won't be renewing for a while. Got a load of stuff I saved when I was a member - but none that fit the bill unfortunately.

cheers

gubar

ahaaaa!! I just got 3d world this month and it has a ton of 3d sk refs on the disc, including a male and female asian type on there (I kid you not) and in their 30 -40 years. Just for the record the front cover is by the legendary character artist Francisco Cortina so you cant miss it!!

hope that one helps for sure
Jay

Nice one Jay I'll check it out during the week,

cheers

gubar

Any one have facial animation links, resources, phonemes, expressions etc...
i used to have some links, but it seems i lost them.

thanx.

Dont know if these help at all

http://animation.about.com/od/flasha...tionphonem.htm


http://www.garycmartin.com/phoneme_examples.html

http://www.marksimonbooks.com/work3.htm

Hope they do in some way.

Another

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mELVWr-jlxY

Theres more links in the related vids section, the ones with this guy seem pretty good.

amazing flash app for facial animation or shape modeling

http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/artnatomy.html

and the keith lango tuts. simplly amazing.

http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/lipSync.htm


http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/

and of course jason osipa's book.

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Staring-F.../dp/0782141293

Hey Vlad

Just paste the links into the animation thread, thankyou sir!

Jay

request for scenery and skydomes and skyboxes (but i dunno if anyone still uses skyboxes...)

good one Chirone!! Of course we do. Will pop a new thread in.

Jay

tis done!

Jay

request for muscle diagrams
Does anyone know of a site where I can find muscle diagrams? I always struggle to find them and in particular a anteater muscle diagram (or an animal of similar build)

oh and heres a good elephant bone layout (african female)
http://www.biologycorner.com/resourc...antanatomy.gif
for mammoth one layout just such for 'mammoth anatomy' in google images
good example- http://pasleybrothers.com/jeff/image...th_diagram.jpg
no luck with any pachyderm muscle diagrams though :(

and a little warning, dont search for 'mammoth muscles' with safe search off *shudder*

did you try the human anatomy section in the resource Lounge?

I'll pop a new thread for animals anatomy in there too, then post your links in there

Jay

Yeah I tried that but all I could find were endless horse diagrams :(

has anyone found any resources for free stock footage? ...not timelape! :P

Footage + hdri
 

Hi,

if anyone knows any sources (preferably free) where one can get footage bundled with HDRI for tracking and rendering that would be great,

cheers

gubar

Hi guys!

I just watched through your "Realistic Eye" tutorial, and it was pretty darn good! I wonder if you would consider making a tutorial or two on Photoshop texture creation for model-building. I was pretty impressed with the demonstration of luminance, bump and specular map building via Photoshop in the Realistic Eye tutorial. But, ... you sure blew through that stuff quickly.

Maybe it's just me, but I think a lot of us could benefit from some lessons - particularly that might start with the objectives or properties of good bump and specular and luminance maps, and then the rest of the tutorial on how to get those kinds of goals accomplished in Photoshop. I've always wanted to know how to build decent bump maps - how to desaturate and improve contrast, etc., but the fact is that I don't really have any idea of what I'm shooting for to begin with. Surely I'm not the only person just aimlessly banging away at this topic. ???????

Hey Forester

Thanks we are glad you enjoyed it. Yeah we can do a texture tute for sure. We do have to bomb thru stuff from time to time to get stuff out. As you may or may not know, some of us guys work full time in the industry and time is not always on our side. Anyway excuses aside I will have a chat with admin on a good texture tute.

cheers
Jay

I know this is a maya site but good tutorial for photoshop texturing are in short supply..........dave

Thanks! That would be great! No hurry.

+1 for texturing tutorials. :)

Im sure there are some links out there we can find

Im currently updating the resource lounge as there are lots of dead links, so bear with it

Jay

That sounds like a great initiative!