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My name is Marc Jacobs, I am 17 years old and I live in the Netherlands. My love for 3d began quit some time ago, when I first saw Toy Story. I just loved the idea that people could make a computer generated world and make it look like its real. I soon realised that with the stunning technologys of today and in the future, artist could just create a world and nobody would see the difference between this world and that one. A sort of Matrix effect. Its that idea that appealed most to me.
When I was 13 I first tried 3d Studio Max R2.5 , but rather than experimenting with it I played games like Quake and Unreal. Sometimes I would make a simple scene but it sucked like hell and I began to get bored from 3d. I was, and stil am, to lazy and thought that it would take weeks to make something descent. Playing games on the other hand was much more fun to do, so I left my 3d studio max alone for quit some time.
About a year ago I started to re- explore Max again and this time I spend much more time and gaming faded away. My love for 3d has always been there, even in my Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament period but I also thought I couldnt make such thing, because I would fail anyway, how hard I tried. But I began to understand that making something descent actually does take a lot of time and so I began to download a lot of tutorials on how to create particle effects, water, fire and more stuff like that. I always liked the idea of an exploding sun by a big asteroid, but soon I realised that my true love was to create characters. But I always thought I didnt have enough experience or I just hadnt got the talent that was needed. So I laid the character building idea away for a while and did other stuff with max like creating oranges or making a sun. Stuff like that. I also learned a lot about lights and textures, but I still didnt dare to make a character of some sort.
About half a year ago I read in an article that a group of young game developers neede people with 3dsm experience so I volunteered. Unfortunately for me at that time, they wanted me to make models and that was just the one thing I had absolutely no experience in. So, very determened, I turned to the 3dcafe website and dowloaded a lot of tutorials about moddeling and I came to realize that the method called box modeling was a very easy and fun way of creating a game character. But the ony tools I used were extrude and bevel. So the models were still a bit rough and had a relativly high poly count. And after creating eigth different game models with poly counts between 2000 and 5000!! I realized that creating high poly characters would be more fun because of the no restriction formula. The higher the poly count, the better. I asked a lot around and finaly I came to realize that the cut tools is the magic part of moddeling.
So on day, about two months ago, I sat down on my big ass, started my 3d studio max programm and began moddeling, with no concept sketch at all. Then one and a half month later, about 25 hours( schools is taking very much of my time) I finished my first complex poly character, with no name. It is the model that you see in my gallery named creature. I think it look quit nice for my first one and I intend to make lots more.
Right now I am drwaing and learning anatomy. I am drawing new concepts of heads because they are the most important part in a character.
Well. This is about it. There is nothing more that I can inform you about me and my moddeling history but there is one thing I can insure you guys, I intend to use my programms to its limits and become one hell of a moddeler.
And BTW, dont forget my motto and golden rule, because I can say it out of experience. Even if you dont have talent, like me, remember this: One can achieve very much, if one sets its mind to it
See you later folks,
Greetz Max4d
Comments (1)
as07
ok this is the improvement! i think you need too strengthen the intensity of the skylight and adjust it to the bluish colour(if can don't default settings, try to get the more young blue colour) also for granite i think it need more shading and more adjustment in diffuse edge and specular setting(light) try to add scene with volumetric lightning, volumetric fog, and glow (all with low intensity too get more believeable and highly lightning result that make the scene more realistic as this simple i think it's not hard too add such thing, and for wall just use displacement with procedural texture will be fine, Brazil work fine with displacement so don't worry about it, don't forget to waste your time in wall shading!, anyway hope you get excellent result as nitro115 results!