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http://i.imgur.com/XkNah.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TyYPH.jpg
I really hate this image, But i did too much work for it to not get a thread. Especially since i made the map specifically for it and spent about two hours compiling it due to its massive size.
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Use super dof, simple just kinda kills a picture.
still its pretty fancy.
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Super DOF crashes my GMod.
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Turn off your HDR lighting.
it was either that or something else close-by in the settings menu.
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turn off multicore usage
then again with those graphics I doubt you have more than one core ~lol~
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That's on maxed-out graphics.
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You such a pink floyd addict.
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Source is very annoying when it comes to graphic settings. If it thinks you have a card that won't be able to run something it won't even show the option.
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It also seems to think that max graphics is suitable for gameplay with my crappy onboard. It's not.
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Kinda wasted time with that map since you could have used a piece of wall and material tool.
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But i needed that Skybox, it is sex. Plus i plan to improve it with more features from The Wall movie, perhaps some fascist decals and such.
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That skybox doesn't look very good combined with that fog effect.
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Yeah i realized that after the fact and couldn't get the angle again.
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First of all, the man's hands are not portraying any depth of gripping onto the bricks. Use reference for climbing. Compositionally, this is an utter shitfest that I or anyone can bare to take witness. I can't help but notice that big white lens flare at the right of the picture. It has no point to exist, especially in the juxtaposition when the clouds in the background begin to overlap the lens flare. I don't know what the fuck this is supposed to be. Was there a nuke or a big bang? And then it's gone. This is half assed and a poor attempt to portray....anything aesthetic. Just because you go on gary's mod and start placing random valve props in some grotesque manner does not mean you can produce art. This lacks anything artistic, and I can't bitch enough about this horrible mess of pixels and polygons. LEARN TO DRAW!
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But...this isn't drawn? Why would he need to learn how to draw?
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miss david you can slouch provocatively all you want or you can tell me what you want
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I'm going to assume some woman on the other side of the wall is giving him worst blowjob he will ever have. v
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what makes you think it was a womanI'm going to assume some woman on the other side of the wall is giving him worst blowjob he will ever have. vv
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Yeah well you're an asshole.
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I like you
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Oh and you misspelt VALVe and Garry's Mod.
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hint: it's not VALVe
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Sometimes the truth hurts.
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Sometimes you can be an asshole. That's the truth.
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Oh cmon! Just stop bumping this thread
This guy has a strange ability to get thousands of comments under every crap he posted
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ziva i was not expecting you for until another hour
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Well don't post it on the internet if you don't want people to make comments about your work. Criticism can be rough, but hopefully something will sink into your head after reading what I had to say.
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Wacha gonna do when the wall is comeing to you!
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You're still overly caustic and mean.
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wow is it me or do I see a line above the fog in the first picture.
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i do not know who anette is and why you are so proud of hanging her
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Don't like?
Don't click.
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Didn't even need to start the video.
I instantly played the song in my head.
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Since when did posing on a video game become so artistic.
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Because you can learn a thing or two.
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Why should we learn anything from you?
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ive taken this up my buttocks and proceeded to thrust
you are my chile for now
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Because I clearly know more than you and have been working in concept art for the last 5 years. I think I have some experience. And don't act like I'm the only one who critiques people's posts because I'm not.
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Since this was the Screenshots section
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While it's not cool to rag on someone about something so innocuous as a GMod screenshot, it'd be equally uncool to lie to you about the quality of your shot. It's not very good. GMod relies heavily on technical skill, but it also requires an innate understanding of what "good" looks like. Both of these require discipline, a concept to which we are usually averse when sitting in front of a computer game. To that end, I would suggest the following:
1. If you don't have Photoshop, get it. Truly impressive editing is impossible without it.
2. Improve your posing technique. Posing is annoying, and it always will be, but you must be willing to struggle with it at first. Figure out how to control ragdolls, the process by which they are positioned within the environment/frame, posed to a loosely accurate version of their action, and then fine-tuned to give the shot life. You want this guy to look crazed from his time behind the wall, or desperate for an answer, so make him look that way. Modify the face-poser presets to achieve slightly-exaggerated versions of the emotions you want to capture; a little bit of excess in an expression makes the face *pop* a bit. Press his hands right against the wall, and Photoshop his fingers into the bricks later. Clip his knees into the ground just a bit, and then use a grass brush later on. Sink his head to make him look dejected, or pull it back and make him scream to the top of the wall. Every subject within your shot should look fully committed to whatever is on their mind, or the final image will be boring, and you'll end up having to read about it. One good way to improve your grasp of proper posing is to watch a sweet movie. Watch one of the Mission: Impossible's, or The Matrix, or Air Force One, and study how people interact with each other, shoot at each other, express fear or excitement, etc. Take all of that theoretical whatnot, apply it to your poses, and they will improve.
3. Improve your camera skills. In the case of your shot, we have a man who desperately wants to be heard through a mile-high brick wall, yet almost none of the scene's gravity reaches us because the framing is poorly considered. Consider how the camera strengthens or weakens your subject. Watch movies that won awards for cinematography. Look at concept art for games and films, and develop your understanding of which angles provide the best view of different scenes. Try your hand at lighting in GMod, as well. Study how light improves or removes your subjects' presence. And ALWAYS zoom the camera; FPS fish-eye ruins any shot.
4. If you want visual effects, produce them outside of GMod. See Step 1. The cleaner your slate when editing a GMod shot series, the better. Teach yourself how to green-screen within GMod; without it, complex editing is trickier, and even more time-consuming. Use depth-of-field gently, and bloom rarely.
Above all, do not get discouraged. Our hobby is lame enough to make self-made "critics of the art" difficult to take too seriously. :P
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