Serious [Review] Art of The Week

[Deleted member 5162]

first ever scene build using GM black and soft lamps and stuff :grinning:

a very good scene build for your 1st try

 

[deathwolf]

i change my submission, less dead space:

 

[Dicknose]

the red/blood on the rim of the piece was a mistake but I think it fits

 

[john]

It reminds me a little of the HL2 Beta, I'm not sure why

this is so good but the fact that hand is in a distinct DEFAULT POSE really bothers me, same with the way that guys arm is so slack. hold your hand up like you'd explain something to someone and you'll realise that hand position, angle- the fingers, it feels really odd. wish it was pointing or grabbing or doing something emotive of anything else. sorry for butting in just wanted to give some feedback. it really could be CREME if the guy was more naturally expressive. probably blur the background a bit too so that you don't see the low poly sign behind so well.

 

[Mute]

It reminds me a little of the HL2 Beta, I'm not sure why

usin gmod or SFM?

 

[Deleted member 7576]

usin gmod or SFM?

he uses sfm I'm pretty sure

 

[Ricsow]

this is so good but the fact that hand is in a distinct DEFAULT POSE really bothers me, same with the way that guys arm is so slack. hold your hand up like you'd explain something to someone and you'll realise that hand position, angle- the fingers, it feels really odd. wish it was pointing or grabbing or doing something emotive of anything else. sorry for butting in just wanted to give some feedback. it really could be CREME if the guy was more naturally expressive. probably blur the background a bit too so that you don't see the low poly sign behind so well.

I know, but animating hands is so fucking god awful to do I hate it so much. I also had to raise his hand up so high because I wanted it to still fit into the photo, since I wanted every pose in Donnie‘s bio to have the same dimension in terms of how I crop them.

usin gmod or SFM?

SFM

 

[Viper]

he be standing

 

[Deleted member 7099]

I know, but animating hands is so fucking god awful to do I hate it so much

here's some tips for all source filmmaker fellas to make hand posing easier and get better results

while holding down control, draw a little circle around the fingers. if it doesnt get all of them just select the remaining bones with shiftclicking.

make sure you select the first bone of any finger as pictured

right click in the yellow circle, rotation mode > local. make sure it's set on local. it's on world by default.
now you can easily bend all the fingers how you'd expect them to bend just by rotating the base finger.

this was all done by just rotating the singular bone. this method words best on models with their fingers straight by default, as you can see on this model and on most half-life 2 citizen models the hands are already curved a tad bit and aren't straight.

with some fiddling, you can get decent results. keep in mind, some models just have shitty fingers. most half-life 2 models have absolutely terrible fingers and no matter how hard you try it's impossible to get something as good as you'd like it to be.

you can also use sequences to help yourself out a tad.

right click on the model group of the fingers you want to pose, click import sequence.

this window'll appear. click on the box that says idle and just scroll through the long list of animations there are. for example, i'll use the one for the fist animation.

as you can see, easy balled fist. either keep it like that or tweak it to your needs.

 

[MaXenzie]

if you want a mathematically correct balled fist, you can use the motion editor and edit the exact rotation of each digit to 45 or 90 degrees

then the knuckle

do it to each finger and you get a perfect balled fist with no unnatural warping

 

[Danny]

here's some tips for all source filmmaker fellas to make hand posing easier and get better results

while holding down control, draw a little circle around the fingers. if it doesnt get all of them just select the remaining bones with shiftclicking.

make sure you select the first bone of any finger as pictured

right click in the yellow circle, rotation mode > local. make sure it's set on local. it's on world by default.
now you can easily bend all the fingers how you'd expect them to bend just by rotating the base finger.

this was all done by just rotating the singular bone. this method words best on models with their fingers straight by default, as you can see on this model and on most half-life 2 citizen models the hands are already curved a tad bit and aren't straight.

with some fiddling, you can get decent results. keep in mind, some models just have shitty fingers. most half-life 2 models have absolutely terrible fingers and no matter how hard you try it's impossible to get something as good as you'd like it to be.

you can also use sequences to help yourself out a tad.

right click on the model group of the fingers you want to pose, click import sequence.

this window'll appear. click on the box that says idle and just scroll through the long list of animations there are. for example, i'll use the one for the fist animation.

as you can see, easy balled fist. either keep it like that or tweak it to your needs.

This is very helpful!

On the other hand though, hands are delicate and hard to get right sometimes but it really is just a matter of doing some anatomy research and paying attention to your own hands. Like, holding your hand out straight, how you ball into a fist, how you grab a pringles tube idk - it's all useful

Sometimes I find when posing that hands don't look right at all no matter what you do, and that's because some models just have dodgy hand positioning which were probably really only made to handle a gun in a particular position otherwise the model materials bend around weirdly sometimes

I must have googled firearm postures on google images enough times to be put on a watch list
Just keep throwing something till it sticks

 

[john]

This is very helpful!

On the other hand though, hands are delicate and hard to get right sometimes but it really is just a matter of doing some anatomy research and paying attention to your own hands. Like, holding your hand out straight, how you ball into a fist, how you grab a pringles tube idk - it's all useful

Sometimes I find when posing that hands don't look right at all no matter what you do, and that's because some models just have dodgy hand positioning which were probably really only made to handle a gun in a particular position otherwise the model materials bend around weirdly sometimes

I must have googled firearm postures on google images enough times to be put on a watch list
Just keep throwing something till it sticks

i pick up pencil
then i make it look like how i pick up pencil
i pick up cigarette
i make look like how i do it

this the best practice on how to get anything right imo, we do a lot of things subconsciously without looking at how we actually go about it
the artist truly becomes the art

 

[Ricsow]

@Danny

 

[Dicknose]

i pick up pencil
then i make it look like how i pick up pencil
i pick up cigarette
i make look like how i do it

this the best practice on how to get anything right imo, we do a lot of things subconsciously without looking at how we actually go about it
the artist truly becomes the art

Reference photos are a god send when you're trying to get a pose right

 

[dvn]

he be standing

???????
what is your secret????

 

[Viper]

???????
what is your secret????

i play vdieo game

 

[dvn]

i play vdieo game

you are a god

 

[Deleted member 5162]

 

[Civil Protection]

Not sure if it counts but here's probably the best screenshot I've managed to take in gmod so far

 

[john]

Not sure if it counts but here's probably the best screenshot I've managed to take in gmod so far

thats a man, a lamp and a can