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Weapons and Armour - The Wallace Collection, London, well worth a visit
The Wallace Collection.
If you're in London and you like weapons and armour this place is worth a visit, its free (donations), very central - MAP and one of the biggest collections in the world and not many people go as they all go to the larger museums.
It was bequeathed to the British nation by Lady Wallace, Sir Richard’s widow, in 1897. The Wallace Collection is displayed at Hertford House, formerly the principal London residence of the marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace.
https://www.wallacecollection.org/explore/collection/arms-and-armour/
If you're in London and you like weapons and armour this place is worth a visit, its free (donations), very central - MAP and one of the biggest collections in the world and not many people go as they all go to the larger museums.
It was bequeathed to the British nation by Lady Wallace, Sir Richard’s widow, in 1897. The Wallace Collection is displayed at Hertford House, formerly the principal London residence of the marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace.
https://www.wallacecollection.org/explore/collection/arms-and-armour/
littleclaude
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Re: artstation/portfolio review advice
not really sure what to make of what you wrote, just saying you hate most of my work is not going to go down well is it? 
you do realise that the vehicles are a little chunky because they are not designed to be high res. I think stylistically they look pretty good. I think maybe
you only like photorealistic stuff? nothing wrong with my food pack( IMHO), just need to improve the presentation a bit.
hey man, i like the android characters, pretty wacky and they got 3d printed and placed around london. no pleasing some people
you do realise that the vehicles are a little chunky because they are not designed to be high res. I think stylistically they look pretty good. I think maybe
you only like photorealistic stuff? nothing wrong with my food pack( IMHO), just need to improve the presentation a bit.
hey man, i like the android characters, pretty wacky and they got 3d printed and placed around london. no pleasing some people
Ruz
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Re: artstation/portfolio review advice
Bizarrely, I got contacted today for a possible role, fully remote, here is hoping it goes ahead
Ruz
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Re: Weapons and Armour - The Wallace Collection, London, well worth a visit
I've been there & more! Here are some refs I took, feel free to use them, anyone & everyone.
Don't forget to support the curators by visiting in person / donating / buying their books!
zetheros
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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
you can try and get a chance, or not try at all and get 0% chance
zetheros
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[Paid] Tech-artist for five or more beautifully animated skyboxes
This is Richard Löwenstein from the small Indie game development team spieleschreiber. We are based close to Munich in Germany. We seek a tech artist to create five sci-fi nature-themed skybox backgrounds for a Unity-based shoot-em-up arcade game on PC.
One in-game theme has the female pilot hero approaching her home planet's sun in her spacecraft. The skybox should display a vast animated sun surface scene reminiscent of a modern version from the classic shoot-em-up game Axelay or our recent release Reshoot Proxima 3 for the classic Commodore Amiga platform
We are searching for a high quality shader and environmental expert available in the short-term for delivery of the sun Skybox and at least four further Skybox sceneries within 3 to 5 months.
I am looking forward to your reply, including a budget estimation.
Richard
buzzybee
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Re: Looking for Critiques on Likeness Sculpt of Hayden Christensen
There are a lot of things that are not where they are suppose to then compared to the real guy
My suggestion is to start slow and try to get big shapes in relation to each other first
Will be a good idea to find more and better reference rewatching the movie and saving as much ref as you can will surely help with that Then simple sort them out and pick the best few for your main then you can start tweaking the head
carvuliero
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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
Its really shameful, considering many of those laidoff were seen as the industry's best and their portfolios are often seen as the industry standard.Alex_J said:when the shareholders and CEO's pilfer the majority of profits it's not "stretching themselves to thin" to have hired too many people. It's just greed. The game is to make as much money as possible for the people at top, and the artist and other employees are numbers which serve that game. It's not like profits are razor thin and some sorry empath in a suit is feeling very sorry but there is no other way for the company to survive than to let a bunch of people go.It's bad business run by anti-social people. In a just society these sorts of people would be in prison or corrections facilities. People need to stop believing the bullshit. If your boss is making 1,000 times your salary, the first and most obvious thing to do to keep a company afloat in hard times is that person who is earning more than any person could ever be worth would pay back in to keep the employees. It's human behavior 101. Don't excuse anti-social behavior.People starting their own studios should be forming employee owned cooperatives and try not to let boundless greed ruin a good thing once there is some market success.At least the public facing AI tools I am aware of aren't particularly helpful at the moment, but of course the goal is to eliminate people from the workplace, that is obvious. People cost money which is antithetical to the anti-social personality disorder persons primary obsession, which is to have all of the money and for nobody else to have any. It is a zero sum game for them so there is no good reason to try and play with them - they don't play well with others and they never will.The big studios might be prestigious because the best people work there, but they kind of aren't because the worst people run them. When interviewing for jobs need to be looking at it from top down perspective, not bottom up.
But it didn't make a rats ass of a difference when the company finished with them, they peed all over their top tier work.
I mean the piss will probably help grow a plant and bear fruit, but why are artists beating each other over having crazy standards to join these company's when they are pretty okay with discarding us once we don't matter anymore to their profit margin?
We should flood them with the worst art we can possibly make though honestly I don't think they really cared about how good our art actually was.
The artists in the company's set those standards because of how much they loved the company that pretty much stabbed them in the back.
I still feel that its important to better ourselves as artists, but its vital to realise that this is an industry using us as a resource and many companies can be much worse at doing this than others.
Our being top tier likely meant nothing to the company's bottom line.
This was an interesting thread,
https://x.com/wyrmforge/status/1749629559233032229?s=20
Starts with the ex-employee in tears and some ghoul suggested they go work in fast food.
To be honest, I don't think though that it will be difficult for those laid off who have years of experience to find work, but if they've been with riot for this long they really ought to consider starting their own studios since it wouldn't be very difficult to acquire funding given their profile.
Still don't think there is merit in making rip off garbage like Palworld which is more an exercise in influencer marketing than game development.
A collection of linkedin posts worth looking into,
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7155588677773996032?updateEntityUrn=urn:li:fs_updateV2:(urn:li:activity:7155588677773996032,FEED_DETAIL,EMPTY,DEFAULT,false)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7155579839624687616?updateEntityUrn=urn:li:fs_updateV2:(urn:li:activity:7155579839624687616,FEED_DETAIL,EMPTY,DEFAULT,false)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7155151456629583872?updateEntityUrn=urn:li:fs_updateV2:(urn:li:activity:7155151456629583872,FEED_DETAIL,EMPTY,DEFAULT,false)
NikhilR
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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
I'll never understand it. If I am on a boat with two other people and there are six cans of spam and one person is making a case that they deserve five cans and the others can share one can, it doesn't matter what they say. They are going for a swim and the rest of us are sharing the fucking spam like normal humans.
In one of those linked in post:
"Companies just are not valuing the people that make them them."
No shit! The only reason kids aren't dying in mines is because some angry miners fought with guns and violence first and then forced laws to be made second. Why are any employees anywhere talking about caution over burning bridges after being laid off while their company shareholders enjoy record profits? It's a shameful lack of basic dignity. Should be a riot.
Alex_J
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