This is really cool. :)

Thank you.

woah!
this is amazing!!
do you work with 3-d programs a lot?

yes. professionally for about 20 years now. a LONG resume in computer games companies.

oh my goodness, thats amazing.
my dream job is to be a CGI artist, or work with 3-D programs...
I was wondering... what kind of schooling did you have to take, and what kind of work were you looking for after you finished school?
I've wanted to find a college that i can go to for this kind of thing, but i literally have no idea what kind of courses i have to take XD
Next year (ill be in grade 11) I'm taking 2-D and 3-D animation, thats basically my starting point XD

You want to look fr placwes like Digipen, and the Academy of Art College, but they have bad instructors. others would be Massive Black workshops. But since you are still pre-college, the first thing y9ouy need to know is hujan anatomy as god as you can, as well as lighting, you need solid fundaentals in representational illustration, design, and animation. You need to immerse yourself in the hard and possibly boring stuff such as research, drawing, cramming, and otherwise getting nearly photorealistic in pencil sketches, especially in animals, portraiture, aned the like. THe "easy" route" I took, was because I gew up alonjg side 2D art, but had a good set of artistic fundamentals. There is no easy route now, because of som many ultra talented folks already in Hollywood. THe Utmost in drafting and craftswmanship is required. IF you are serious, look for any ARC (Art Renbewll Center) recommended art school, and from there go into 3d. Because 3d is based on the best of 2D fundamentals. Hope this helps.

Scott

sweet! i will take all of this into consideration!!
thankyou so much ^^

If you want to get your feet wet with 3d modeling (for free), I recommend Wings3d (esp for its wide variety of file import/export formats), and to a lesser degree Google Sketchup. (quick and dirty- free version output not as useful [seriously gimped]).
I would also suggest looking into Second Life- you can do everything with a free account, and there is a wide community of users of all build skill levels that can assist, encourage, and inform. There are simple in-world 3d build tools, and a wealth of information about the more advanced 'sculpts' that you can import from 3d programs (there is an exporter for Wings3d).

Very cool. I'd like to see more from your portfolio if you can share it.

The others are models based on other peoples 2D designs, I may post them but it's more professional work rather than artistic, if you know what I mean. Lots of tanks and real world weapons.

This is very nice, I love low-poly stuff, I am sad to see it going away! (I know that sounds silly, but you probably know what I mean.)

And low poly was so much easier.

Do you know George Howell, by any chance?

THe name does not ring a bell, Sorry.

You probably shouldn't, because I said George when I meant Greg. :P

He writes furry fiction and also made some awesome Quake 2 skins back in the day: http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~howellg/main.html

Back then I was the only person to use their RL name. Everyone else had cool or funny Gamer tags. So Still , no clue.

Scott

Cool! I wish this could have been released. I loved your were-lady in Q2!

Doing a new one as a semi customizeable Mesh Avatar for Second Life. Probably doing a Male as well to complete the set.

Awesome. I can't wait to see it!

You make the best werewolves, by the way, both on paper and 3D models.

Will you post screens, or will I have to pick SL back up?

Pick up SL, because I would like to earn your coin XD>

Scott

I like the skeleton esp- would love to have seen finished. UT didn't have as many prime years of play in which to accumulate *good* user-made models as Quake 2 did...

It was also hard to make UT models as the catalogue of animations needed for a user model was around 26 different sequences rather than the 7 for Q2. So that was a limitation as well as making the rag doll, as that acted differently than the animation skeleton, It's very complexity added time, and a learning curve to the effort, so you didnt' see many that werent' made by already industry pros. as it was I "Helped" in several of the models, such as the UT Trainer Girl, Bender, and the Redheaded girl in lingerie.

Sure wish this had been a part of UT04. It looks like it would have been the second time your model was my favorite available for a game.

More bad ass ^__________________________^

This is really great work, something I look forward to achieving in my later career with 3d

do you think the mesh will work with blender?

All mesh works with blender as blender has a bunch of importers.

and the bones to make it move?

I think so.. But that would presuppose i still had these files, buit these are from an old set and I may not have them any more.

used your Models for UT 2004 and Quake 3 Arena Even converted them for Start trek Voyager online If you don't have the files I might have them on Disk for my game skins files.

Well the technology has moved on.  silverone has pushed me hard to to adopt Z-Brush, and make figures there. I can always down Rez something . But I have learned a lot in the 13 years since that figure. I found I did still have the model, but it looks pretty icky compared to what I can do now.

well back then the Engines could only do 136 Polygons now they can do 2500 Polygons

Player models have definitely come a long way. Quake2 in 1999, where I did the original Female Werewolf with an AK-47, the character limit was 600 polygons ( plus 200 for the custom weapon). Unreal Tournament 2004, where the above model was intended had a limit of 2000 polygons or 4000 triangles. Now most character models are around 200,000 polygons or 200,000 triangles. You can see the polygon progression, just by comparing the various editions of Tomb Raider. Now you see why I have to migrate to Z-Brush for character models. Also, it seems like very few games allow for character modding any more. Concentrating on animation, and occasionally Second Life these days.

maybe you should address the complainers about fallout76 I tried to explain why the program is doing the dancing pie thing.... the did not seem to get hardware limitations brought apon my MS systems... and the internet trying to get everyone running so they all can play together.