Cerbera

I've been doing 3D for quite a long time - about 15 years at the last count. I started as a hobbyist, in 3DS Max, and moved to Cinema with R11. Around 5 years ago I decided to 'up my game' and began furiously working in Cinema every day, specialising in SDS modelling more than I had been, and getting the skills I thought were still missing - UVing, texturing, lighting, rendering, animation, xpresso, hair, cloth, mograph, dynamics, connectors etc... It has only been in the last year or 2 that I have considered myself adequately competent in enough areas of the program to begin to offer my services commercially. Of course there are still areas which need work (and one or 2 areas I haven't even started - Python, I'm looking at you ! !), but you gotta just keep chipping away at them, until one fateful day you wake and and you know EVERYTHING !* *Spoiler: That day never comes :) As a beginner in this, you are on a good road to making a solid career, but my best advice would be to make sure that you wait until you are sufficiently skilled before you start trying to make money from it - if you launch in and take jobs without all the skills in most of the areas you may quickly flounder under the weight of customer expectation, and harsh deadlines / change requests. Not only do you have to be good, but you also have to be fast, and of course you can't rely on forums to solve all your paid problems, so you must have the confidence that you can do something well before you take it on, rather than taking on, then realising you can't cope, and desperately asking for someone better to tell you how to do it ! It's surprising how often that happens... :) That said, you got a pretty decent result, and I don't underestimate the amount of work that went into it, so your skills are certainly coming on, and you should keep going with a view to going commercial 'soon'. Get that core set of disciplines learned, and you will be well on your way... CBR

Yeah, it's all very good. You'll be getting an email from me shortly too...

Hello, and welcome to all... this :) Your apples are very well textured, and the machine they are in is pleasingly rendered. If I did have a criticism, it would be the obvious one, that C4D can't really do liquids without plugins, so your apple juice looks predictably like ice when it transforms to 'liquid'. But you have done quite well within that limitation. Also if it was me, I would get out at the end faster - less coloured logo cards, and less time spent on them. Otherwise - it's a pretty decent job - well done ! CBR

I get a lot of my jobs here.

Sorry - didn't mean to bring the mood down :) We're having fun in the meantime, right ?!

Awww - the miracle machine with the broken brain :(

That is deeply impressive. Well - just deep in general. I suspect if I ever got started in that I don't know how I'd ever stop...

Just checking you are aware that this functionality is already in the HB modelling bundle... I'd hate you to be doing all that work unaware that a lot of us have already excellent retopo in C4D...

I'd say...cautiously no. Credit card companies almost always have some kind of buyer protection, and I would bet they are a lot easier to get hold of and deal with than Paypal are. My experience with them on the few occasions I have actually needed to talk to someone has been... well.. I'll just say 'less than stellar'.

Fair play. It's certainly not obvious that that's how you pay by card, is it ?!

No worries...

Well, despite what it says, that's paypal only at the moment, for reasons you can only find out by contacting the site via their contact form, I would have thought...

You shouldn't have to buy it if you are only using the demo - it is free in that instance.

MS Paint ?!! You're not doing yourself any favours there :) Go download GIMP - it's free , and in some cases better than photoshop ! CBR

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