Thankee guys! I see your point... I'll do something about the lip. Keep you posted!

Btw, I hear from a lot of people that my renders are too dark... I'll check my screen brightness.

Chrz

Hi,
I've dropped the Walther P99 for a while (if anyone remembers my last post) and made a first attempt at a human head. I'm pretty content with it, but I wanna hear from the pros. So please feel...

Thanks Niasyn.
I suppose that makes you the authority on how this thing should look ;).
Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to play with maya these days (I have about two months left to...

Thanks, Orgeeizm and Mayatjuh.

As I said in an earlier post, the blurriness is caused by the Depth of Field. I used that on purpose to get the photographic effect - if I render without it, it...

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Brian, about the "rubberish feel": the actual P99 has some sort of polymer coating, giving it a sort of plastic-like appearance. The grip in fact consists of a lot...

You can use several primitives for the mesh, as long as you join them in the end so they become a single object. Have you ever textured anything? It's exactly the same technique.... Bumpmaps don't...

Ow, about the tutorials... No, none that I know of. I'm sure they're around, but I just sort of messed about until I liked the result :).

If you're any good with Photoshop (or something similar)...

The quick response time of this forum never ceases to amaze me either...

Thanks for the comment, Alienscience!
The blurriness on the handle (and the slide) is caused by the DOF (something I...

Hi there!

Maya never ceases to amaze me... This is the first time I have effectively used bumpmaps (and nothing but), and I have concluded that they rock.

This model (of a Walther P99 -...

Looks great... Very nice clean mesh! I've never pulled that off before... I like his sort of WWII German haircut!
Reminds me a bit of George Stobbart from Broken Sword...