thanks dude.
Quote: "But I'm definitely going to enter the hinted map-making competition coming up in the summer. You in for that Jon?"
map making isn't really "ma' thang" but depending on how its laid out i could give it a shot, any chance of a link to this hint?
Quote: "but is that the industry standard for hand-poses?"
i really have no clue, lol. A good initial pose is to have the body relaxed, and the fingers curl (?) back like that naturally, which is good for having simply a hand bone to keep it simple, because that pose can act as holding something or just idle for walking etc.
but if your going to rig fingers i guess it would probably be alot easier to keep them stretched out, so there is less work to get the bones into place, and more space between the fingers to not make envelopes a pain in the ass.
Quote: "Jon Fletcher, are you self taught? If so, could you recommend any good resources on learning Max and ZBrush."
Yeah I'm self taught, but taught a couple things (hardly enough to call it as if educated). I cant really think of any really good resources for learning those programs, other than taking on simple tutorials from places like http://www.tutorialized.com, ZB however is the kind of program you just have to mess around with again and again, at least in my opinion.
so yeah, sorry i couldn't be more informative.
