cheers for your advice - i think i do need to spend more time planning the model before i open maya! I find myself thinking, "oh it'd be cool if there was a .... in there..." etc and spend time doing...

Hi, So i've been using Maya and learning for a few months now, and it seems to me that you can do so much with textures and in the hypershade than i first thought!

I wonder whether i'm getting too...

i feel mac pro is the way to go (hey, i'm a poet and i didn't know it!) (beginning to sound like a dr seuss book now)

I expect i will go that way - i have an old ibook G4 i can sell for about £300...

Appologies if this is in the wrong section, I'm looking to get a new system but i'm having a really tough time choosing my options!

I've got £1500 (ex VAT) to play with.

Do i either:

a) Buy...

thanks for responses!

I'm looking to model it as i'm still learning and haven't got round to doing texturing/displacement mapping yet! :blush:

Zbrush i haven't got much of a clue about.
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sounds a bit too involved for a newbie like me lol!

I'm going to look into shattering a big flatish cube to create the sort of shards i'm after and then arranging 30 of them into a suitable...

what about 'shattering' a huge cube - would that generate some nice organic blocks that i could then place into shape?

Hi, i'd like to model some cobblestones into a scene i'm doing. A bit like this:

http://store.cgsociety.org/product/000316/pic02.jpg

I want to model them rather than make them by texturing a...

thats exactly what i was looking for thanks!!

hi guys

i've been following the free dog modelling tutorial and been having some fun learning how to do it.

My question is are there any other resources on the web for similar 'profile' type...