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Ah thank you Bob! very nice of you to say :D

i think we should also take a minute to appreciate the hotdog model, for me, that was the best part of the tutorial

Yea it's a never ending cycle, i think there will be quite a substantial jump in performance for with the new cards, although the price will be pretty heavy id imagine when they drop, i remember paying over 900 when i got my old gtx 690 years ago id wait probably 6 months anyway rather than buying any new one straight away, might be worth looking at a 1070, still a good card, cheapest i could find it was £399

People are buying up Gtx 1080's like a fat kid in a sweet shop, anywhere from the pretty standard rebranded vendor cards like the Asus, all the way up to the heavily modified versions, makes sense that anywhere selling these cards would increase the prices to capitalise on this, as for buying second hand, the answer is you won't, if you pick one up on ebay theres no way of telling if this is a mining card being used constantly for however long or if it's just a reasonably used card, if it's not a massive requirement to jump up to gpu rendering now, i'd wait on the next generation cards, ( which i have a feeling will be quite soon) once these hit it should drop the prices of the 10 series to something atleast half reasonable

It's working fine now, odd it was having a connection issue earlier, with some server error, i wish i'd screenshotted it

Hi, couldn't get on to the site, kept flagging up an error. looks potentially interesting but what would be the advantages / differences of this compared to something like trello?

ah thank you! mee too should be epic

Just a quick clay turntable, while the models being textured :D

Cake looks good, as does the new rasberry

Thanks Bob, it was a test of patience believe me i'm rendering out a little clay turntable to show it off a little better before its fully textured :D

Their waiting for you Gordon...in the TEST CHAMBER.. pretty sweet man, loved Halflife ever since i played the original as a kid :D

I'll chuck in a couple from my interceptor wip

Avid Star wars fans @Cerbera and i decided to create a thread where we can dump all our Star wars related artwork, (there's gonna be a lot of it) including wip's and completed pieces, ranging from the original trilogy right up through the prequels to the latest outings, ranging from Storm troopers, to Battle droids to Darth Vader :D Talking of which i'll kick this off with my Revenge of the sith version Darth Vader helmet, freshly rendered, i decided to be quite subtle with the wear and tear on this, opting for a little dirt on the eye pieces and elsewhere on the helmet to break up the surface a little, i've included a 3k version to show it off a little bigger, just click it a few times to get full size :D

:( sorry man i'll make sure i do better next time ;)

Done

about to be biting hot.

:D wait till you see it textured ;)

hmmmm ;)

Alright, one more before i crack on with the inside, the fun part is definitely playing around with the renders, makes all that tedious panel modelling worth it :D

Nice work Nerv showing us all up again;)

Thanks for the feedback Dave :D funny you should mention Ansel as i've looked at alot of his models on artstation in the past, especially the star destroyers, the sheer scale and amount of detail that guys puts into those is just insane! i'm not sure i could muster that much patience to do anything on that scale, it's been a challenge keeping this going, im quite eager to start a new cartoon character instead :D but i must press on, hopefully the finished product will be something to contend with :D

Thanks man, yea once i've modelled the interior, it i'll be textured and properly lit (not by me) with some nice close up shots of all the panels and little details you can't fully see from these angles, in the meantime i did a couple more, to get a better shot of the front and back.

Put a good stint in over the last couple of evenings, most of the outer ship stuff is done, a few bits of detail still i wana add, but i'll come back to that at the end, next up is a detailed interior, did a few 3k test renders, and a nice close up of the rear panel details, view these full size for your viewing pleasure :D

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Update time - pretty much done with the inner wing details, 3k renders attached, click full size and click to zoom to see them full size