thanks mate...

O_O

I cant really see any difference to the original pic.

Looking mighty good bud.

Why don´t you try a MR-based GI solution?

I´m sure it´ll be a bit taxing on your resources at render time, but if you work with small renders before throwing a big one, you could achieve pretty good results bud.

I suck at mental ray mate hehehe...

Looking great! This is a super thread to follow along with. Any tips for UV unwrapping and painting?

Witchy... Uv map are tme consuming just use a lot of planar projections and make the map as flat as possible. As for paint I use maya for the basic layout of different colors than bring the file into photoshop for adding details.

So do you map each projection seperately or do you take them and adjust them into a single texture map for taking into PS? I find laying out UV's very difficult, all this cutting and sewing always seems to go strangely wrong. I have the UV map tut but I am still not quite getting there.

You have to break up the parts your trying to lay out to get a nice flat map, using planar projections.. once you have them all projected yes you have to do a tone of sewing to do.

Like I said it a very time consumming...

Pretty Much done.. will start my last model for my new reel this week.

Closer

nice job :)

Thanks Mike..... good luck tomarrow=)

cool kurt :D
whats tommorow mike ? - if you dont mind me asking ?

Looking very good, Kurt!

i had to see.....EXCELLENT work my friend

Thanks mate.. still some slight color differences. if i have time i'll try and get them closer.

NICE, how did i miss this whole thread!! Anyways, great job kurt! I love VIVI :D.. he was originally just called the black mage in FF1.. or it was black wizard. Anyways, he was a awesome little dude.. Other than that though, i notice that your model could be squished down a bit, and also has a straight back, when vivi actualy has a major hunch, as you can see in that refrence picture that vector provided :).. lookin realy good though kurt.

Whoah- way to go. you are definitely "the man"!! top notch fer sure!! :wow:

could we get a peek at your UV's?:D

H!

yes yes !! that would be great to see the different maps

bump Kurt can we see the Texture maps??

Are you using Maya Cloth to do the clothes?

it looks like he modeled the clothes. as far as i seen work of kurt he usually models the cloth, maybe because maya cloth usually does not fold so nice.

i'm sure he modeled the clothes by hand......

Few of the maps... And yes the foldes are modeled....

pants

thanks kurt