Haha! That's slightly disturbing.

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Excellent start dude. If you get too good I might be temped to start working with zbrush.

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lol... it's amazing dude! no more sweating the small stuff! polygon count be damned!

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Cogito, Ergo Sum

He could still export to normal maps, then lower the poly count. The new zbrush has new texture tools that rock.

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um...by 'he' do you mean me? cos i was the one you replied to!
anyway am trying to learn some traditional art as well...i figure it'll help my modelling

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Cogito, Ergo Sum

Writing is hard.

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

Yeah I had a Giggle attack the first time I enlarged the upper lip or swelled the lower jaw of the generic head. Its weird how a small adjustment can turn a face from heavy super villian to wimpy super geek. its all in the chin!!.
Traditional skills will make you a better modeller for sure. not just in zbrush either. and if you havent got a wacom tablet zbrush is pretty much designed for it. you will suddenly become obsessed.

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ah would love to get a tablet, once i can afford one
what's the price range like?

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Cogito, Ergo Sum

even though the intuos 3 or now the intuos 4 are both highly recommended. the old intuos 2 tablets are perfectly sufficient for this kind of work.
I havent used the "bamboo" range of budget wacom tablets but i would guess that they probably work something like the intuos 2.
For $79 its worth getting one for sure and if you can afford an intuos 3 or 4 go for it. even just for painting textures.

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hey that's not too bad actually..... will try and get it once i'm done mucking about with the mouse!
i'm of the "suffer first, take it easy later" philosophy (eg: i suffered hard on an acoustic guitar for almost 1.5 - 2 years before i even bought an electric )
but yeah even though i know nothing (yet) of painting textures, i can easily see what you mean.
i used a Noise brush/tool and painted over this bizarre model i created, and my jaw literally dropped.
the wretched model practically came alive with skin-like texture!

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Cogito, Ergo Sum

I use a Graphire 3, and its perfectly fine for retouching and texture editing work. Maybe a little clunky for outright painting though.

See if you can pick one up on ebay for cheapness.

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