Well actually i was referring to the shading on the handle (but i guess i did decently since people didn't notice it ), it's supposed to have a bend on the middle like that. That's a great bit of advice though, thanks! Rather different from my usual modus operandi (draw outline, fill with colors, shade and detail), but definitely worth trying out.

@Joe: Oh lawd, is dat sum FUTURE CHESS? Nice, i like the designs of the pawns.

I thought it looked better with the higher quality lighting model (more like Tron Legacy than original tron)

Also, you must understand that the laptop I rendered this on is a school laptop, and is therefore bogged down with numerous antivirus programs that don't really do their job but I can't disable them during a render.

Merry Christmas!

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Animation finished rendering, 14 hours in total
Watch in 480p plox

Sure, but I've been doing 3D work on a laptop without a graphics card and still getting short render times You can cut out a lot of hassle by just baking everything and rendering fullbright if you still want it to look like it's using a 32bit lighting model.
Note that I was referring to the handle too

My first non-Cortex Command wallpaper.

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That's a lot better than the first you posted a page back.
The lights are a bit too bright and cluttered for me around the center but otherwise it's great.

School project, doot-de-doo.

Yes. That was drawn in Java. Why? Creative project for Programming class, of course.

If I was your teacher, that would be an instant A.

Well yeah, it's a WIP, but who cares?

A very compact SMG I'm working on, firing small rifle rounds for use against lightly armored enemies.
Based on this

Those look like rifle rounds.

Owait, you said they were rifle rounds. Derp.

POSTING WHILE TIRED IS BAD.

Ragdoll.... You did that using Java's paint class? o.O

Rag is clearly master Java artist.
Fluttershy looks fat, though. And the left front hoof is somehow wrong.

I didn't technically "draw" anything (though I did add and edit some things), I was using a source picture and essentially doing a rough copy of it by plotting out the basic shapes in MSPaint with overlaid colored points and then recording the Cartesian coordinates to create polygons.

Basically, something like this;


Not much skill involved, it's mainly raw labor and good management.

Oh man haha I haven't done polygons yet, so I thought you were using drawLines and such. XD