Elentari on 22/11/2009 at 05:21
Ok, so I have been champing at the bit to get going making some of my OWN Thief art (strange motivation, but it works, doesn't it? lol).
I have finally dropped PSP and picked up Photoshop. And in the year or so since I have, I have not regretted it. Its actually easier, in the long run, than PSP ever was and the results are much much better. So far, so good. I can't exactly say I have 'mastered' it. . .far from that, but I can, at least, move around comfortably in it and achieve more or less what I want to achieve now. I've gotten tired of tutorials so am learning slower on a 'as needed basis'. (Sorry, but tutorials to make things you don't need or want to use just strikes me as annoying. Tutorials because you need to accomplish something similar is another matter.)
However, I can't draw worth beans at this point, so making my own thiefy art, or anything else, for that matter, is still out of reach. The next idea was finding something that would help me make original art. What comes to mind? 3d Oh joy. Now there's a pandora's box to be opening.
I know plenty of you have some sort of 3d art skills, so I'm hoping for some advice on where to start. I suppose I need to pick a single program and start working and move on from there. But which program? Bryce? Carrerra? Do I start with learning to make my own models? or do I start with a simpler program (like Bryce) and just learn to make scenes and learn modelling later?
Oy, so many choices. Where does one start? Where does one find tutorials to help the very new get into this sort of thing? (Short of going to school for it, which is not an option, thanks. :P)
And no, my interest is not JUST thiefy type art. . .I want to illustrate my own stuff too. I just figure the Thiefy stuff is a good place to start - I already have an idea of what that looks like. My stuff I would have to decide. :D
I know I can use Poser for figures, but I'm not entirely sure if thats a good place to start or not. See? So much to do and where does a body get started without drowning in info-overload?
