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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
pior said:
I hope that one of the big actors (manufacturer+publisher) would pull a 4Dchess move by releasing an intentionally underpowered but sleek piece of hardware in the 250USD ballpark (like a Steam Deck lite, roughly equivalent to the original Switch spec-wise) and granting a seal of approval to new (and old) PC games running well on it. This could push gamedevs to go back to barebones visuals (PS2-era), slashing developpment costs tenfold and bringing back a necessary focus on gameplay and clever visuals.
There's a lot of sense to the idea of slashing development costs - reducing risk to the studio when a project fails being the main benefit from a business perspective.
however ..
Shareholders are interested in growth, not profitability. Cutting costs by 90% isn't useful if it means that your total revenue falls - even if you 10x your return on investment.
I do think some version of this could work though..
Going from a 30m a year project with 300 people to several 3m a year projects with 30 people each and shorter dev cycles (1 vs 3 year for example) seems like it could work and would actually insulate your company against a couple of total failures in a given year.
Games would be smaller and thus command a lower price but you're talking about 50% less per unit so to meet the same ROI you'd only need to sell 20% as many copies
Obviously, staffing 10 projects at once is going to be something of an issue (enough to kill the idea dead I think) ..
poopipe
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Alexis
✨ Meet Alexis! 🔥
🔹This is a personal group artwork
A blend of style, attitude, and timeless charm—crafted with passion and attention to detail. Hope you like this piece as much as we enjoyed creating it!
Let us know what you think in the comments! ⬇️
🔹 Credit:
- Concept: @lera_kiryakova
-Modeling: @naghi_hamidi
-Grooming: @nimasayah.cgart
-Texturing & LookDev & Lighting: @pejman_rajabii
🔹ZBrush-Maya-Arnold-XGen-Substance painter- Nuke
@maxonzbrush @substance3dart @autodesk_me @foundryteam @autodesk
🔹This is a personal group artwork
A blend of style, attitude, and timeless charm—crafted with passion and attention to detail. Hope you like this piece as much as we enjoyed creating it!
Let us know what you think in the comments! ⬇️
🔹 Credit:
- Concept: @lera_kiryakova
-Modeling: @naghi_hamidi
-Grooming: @nimasayah.cgart
-Texturing & LookDev & Lighting: @pejman_rajabii
🔹ZBrush-Maya-Arnold-XGen-Substance painter- Nuke
@maxonzbrush @substance3dart @autodesk_me @foundryteam @autodesk
Naghi
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (95)
Although it's late, but still, I want to jump into this challenge.
Here is the simple White Box I've done. Next step will do the broken stair's model, after that will do floor's and wall's model.
Here is the simple White Box I've done. Next step will do the broken stair's model, after that will do floor's and wall's model.
cheesechen12
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In The Sky | Cockpit
Hey! I am new at Polycount. Wanted to share my last work.
This project is 100% my own work — everything was done from scratch in over four months. All scene parts been made in UE5. Hope you will like it!
This project is 100% my own work — everything was done from scratch in over four months. All scene parts been made in UE5. Hope you will like it!
More stuff and details here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0lr43e
Original concept by: Nick Keller
Original concept by: Nick Keller
AbsFlame
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Re: Hello, I made this environment with blender. Please leave feedback
This is london ? It does look realistic. Does need more ambient things like fog. Or clarifying and doing more things.
grumix8
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Re: Gina (critique welcome)
@iam717, thank you 
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Phew, think that's that for the time being: Artstation
It took a while trying to figure out the lighting and rendering in UE. Various exposure settings nearly killed me. Makes me really appreciate how friendly Blender is =D It was made all that much harder because of ill-timed hardware adjustments that messed up my screen settings - what are the chances it would happen now?
In any case, one serious headache later, I got things working and ready to call it finished (for now). She really could use some props (like an Automag to heroically aim at things) and some NaPali enviro assets, but I'll just have to put it on the list of things to (hopefully) do in the next iteration.
I've read prologue from Unreal manual and thought it would be a shame to make the Prisoner a "stoic space marine convict" type of character in terms of facial expressions. They seemed to me like someone capable of having fun as a normal human being, despite whatever experiences landed them in prison.
So bonus EEVEE renders:
Side-by-side (kinda makes me want to try making a lowpoly character, a Nali maybe, with vertex animation):
Some days ago I came upon UnrealRedux project (by Krull0r) and my whole model suddenly felt so... bland. Like an unnecessary high poly amateur cosplayer. There is still some stronger style to be found for this project, something that would make it a little bit more like Unreal. Wish I knew what that was.
Some exploration from before I started on the model:
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Phew, think that's that for the time being: Artstation
It took a while trying to figure out the lighting and rendering in UE. Various exposure settings nearly killed me. Makes me really appreciate how friendly Blender is =D It was made all that much harder because of ill-timed hardware adjustments that messed up my screen settings - what are the chances it would happen now?
In any case, one serious headache later, I got things working and ready to call it finished (for now). She really could use some props (like an Automag to heroically aim at things) and some NaPali enviro assets, but I'll just have to put it on the list of things to (hopefully) do in the next iteration.
I've read prologue from Unreal manual and thought it would be a shame to make the Prisoner a "stoic space marine convict" type of character in terms of facial expressions. They seemed to me like someone capable of having fun as a normal human being, despite whatever experiences landed them in prison.
So bonus EEVEE renders:
Side-by-side (kinda makes me want to try making a lowpoly character, a Nali maybe, with vertex animation):
Some days ago I came upon UnrealRedux project (by Krull0r) and my whole model suddenly felt so... bland. Like an unnecessary high poly amateur cosplayer. There is still some stronger style to be found for this project, something that would make it a little bit more like Unreal. Wish I knew what that was.
Some exploration from before I started on the model:
stray
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Re: LOW-POLY ART
^creepy horror themed mascot vibes from this one for me but it works so well. (if it were me, i'd expand on this even if this quality and make a small demo for shiznits and gigles.)
iam717
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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
9:20 no kidding, D2 was my go-to PvP game for years. I was in the top 0.4% of crucible control players. Aztecross, IFrostbolt, TrueVanguard, everyone said PvP was underserved. They left a golden opportunity to rot. Not to mention hackers ran unchecked for like 2018-2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOPkVBih_9U
zetheros
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Re: flickering on trim sheet
On resolution-dependency, I recently saw this neat breakdown of the water shaders for Zelda Wind Waker, specifically how the Wii remaster ran into this problem (at 2:18)
https://youtu.be/8NL9Cc05CYk?t=125
https://youtu.be/8NL9Cc05CYk?t=125
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros
Got sick because I went outside to touch grass.
that sneaky grass, its a trap i tell ya with all those flowers and sh!t. neat updates.
iam717
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