Meloncov's Sci-Fi Illustrations

[Scarecrow]

Excellent. Both Studio MAX and Lightwave are top-range packages. I used MAX professionally for five years before my company switched to Maya a couple of years back. I cursed it at the start but now I adore it - especially the marker-menus.

What is it that you do in school with DOGA? Is it just the animation club or is part of your corriculum?

Crow

 

[Meloncov]

What is it that you do in school with DOGA? Is it just the animation club or is part of your corriculum?

Its just a club.

 

[Scarecrow]

It sounds cool. How does it work? Do you get together as a team and produce images, models and animations? Does someone set a task or a theme?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing what you produce in Lightwave or Studio MAX.

Crow

 

[Meloncov]

We're working on a short movie together. Currently, we're in pre-production, doing the modeling, scripting, and storyboarding. As organic creatures are nearly impossible to do well in DOGA, and we don't have the time or recources to use a more complex program, we are creating a drama about robots. The last image I posted is the head of the protagonist.

 

[sedarfaery]

I must say, you have quite a bit of talent. All your renderings are just beatiful. I wish I had the talent to pull off making digital art this good. I took some courses at my local college, but it was just too hard to understand.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

We're working on a short movie together. Currently, we're in pre-production, doing the modeling, scripting, and storyboarding. As organic creatures are nearly impossible to do well in DOGA, and we don't have the time or recources to use a more complex program, we are creating a drama about robots. The last image I posted is the head of the protagonist.

Sounds cool. Will you be sharing this flick online? :hopeful:

 

[Meloncov]

Sounds cool. Will you be sharing this flick online? :hopeful:

When it's done, yes. Optimistically, that'll be near the end of this year. If you want to look over our shoulders, the groups site is academyanimation.schtuff.com.

 

[Meloncov]

I took some courses at my local college, but it was just too hard to understand.

My secret is that I have focused on mastering one very simple program before moving on to anything more complex. Only now that I have mastered DOGA am I trying to learn the far more advanced Lightwave (which, BTW, it the reason that I haven't posted a whole lot new lately; I'm struggling to learn the basics of the new program and as such have little worth displaying.)

 

[sedarfaery]

My secret is that I have focused on mastering one very simple program before moving on to anything more complex.

I guess I should try that myself. What program did you start with?

 

[Meloncov]

I guess I should try that myself. What program did you start with?

The DOGA L series. It's a set of three programs; the first very limited but ridiculously easy to learn, the other two progressively more difficult and powerful. Almost everything on this thread was done in L3. It's a good system, and its a good program, though even L3 has a tough time with organic shapes.