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Re: Bulb in gaming asset
Lightbulb?
Single sided is the common way to create this. The inner surface of an enclosed glass object is usually not rendered in a real-time renderer, because they usually render only the closest layer of glass.
Single sided is the common way to create this. The inner surface of an enclosed glass object is usually not rendered in a real-time renderer, because they usually render only the closest layer of glass.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Portfolio review
Thanks a lot! This is the best feedback I have gotten! I agree with most of your pointers and I will try to keep an eye on what you wroteMark Dygert said:It definitely looks impressive on the first glance, you have some really great looking assets and there is obviously a lot of hard work put into all of it. So you have some skills, dedication and some good looking portfolio shots, especially for a student. So nice job!
BUT (there is always a but) you have some things that throw up yellow and red flags. I apologize if this comes off as a little rough, don't be disheartened, I really do like your stuff.PROOFREAD!
9 spelling mistakes in the Fjord project description, that's a lot of red ink. I have no idea what "regrrdi optimization" is. I googled it, google doesn't know either. Written communication skills are critical when interacting with everyone, writing documentation, and communicating in chat. Also the last line "All comments are well accepted, I hope you like it!" This comes across as "a little needy and starved for attention". Managing those types of people can be draining.Hiring managers tend to focus on two things:
1) Does it look good.
2) Is it well built.
You not really answering that last question very well. Lets see some more topology, lets see some uv layouts, tri counts, texture sheets. Material graphs in unreal. All of these things give me confidence that you can build assets correctly and I'm not seeing them.
Sanctuary Ruins
First impression: The slowly panning beauty shots are great, its a good looking scene
Second impression: The description gutted me. This could absolutely be worded in a better way."Concept: Jose Vega..." "...It was really fun exploring the assets from Quixel..."Cool, you credited the person, but the concept isn't yours, bummer. That's ok we often work off of concept art, but which assets are Quixel and what work is yours? Maybe hide the Quixel assets, or turn off textures so it's clear what work is yours. Was this a level layout exercise, lighting, composition, camera work? What was the point if not asset creation?
Maybe say something like "This project focused on using pre-made quixel assets so we could focus on composition, level design and rendering. I created several assets myself and here are the break downs..." and then show breakdowns, topology, uv layouts, material graphs ect...Dremel
First impression: This looks good, especially the materials!
Second impression: A lot of the reference matches your textures. So again I wonder "what work is yours?" Can you sit down with Substance and generate textures like this without photos? I don't know your portfolio doesn't tell me. This is a bad place to be.The tri count and wireframe worry me a little. it seems excessive for a prop. The 5k cord looks like a auto-crunched spline that probably won't LOD well because each loop is it's own geo. Having a more solid mass of wires with one or two loops sticking up would probably be lower in tri count and LOD better.Omni Scatter
First impression: It looks good but its a tool, it doesn't need to look good, it needs to fill a need.
Second impression: I need a bit more info about how you created and used it. Are you building randomly generated biomes in Unreal? Scattering in Houdini and importing the whole thing? How did you create this tool, how might it benefit others? What skills did you use to build it? Code? C++? Python? Node Editor? Does it have a user interface that you created?Site N-8
First impression: Looks good
Second impression: That topology on the cloth tubes, looks auto crunched and is still excessive. I could probably get that exact same look with half or a quarter of the polygons. The chains are probably insanely high poly, like the rope bundles?
At this point I stopped, I would pass. It looks good on the surface but the answers I'm getting from your portfolio about "how was it made" either aren't there or are red flags.
Keep working on new projects, keep flushing out your student work with new things. For a student, you have a really good start, but you're not quite there yet and unfortunately the industry is full of very talented people who are all looking for work, and a lot of them have a lot of experience.
Focus less on pretty shots and more on the nuts and bolts of building assets.
Those are my thoughts, feel free to completely ignore them if you disagree, hopefully this is helpful and nudges you in the right direction, good luck and I look forward to seeing more from you in the future.
The only question I have is: as a student looking for an internship, I feel like I match my level of experience (this is not to say that I should not strive to grow) but isn't the point of an internship to refine my skills?
Anyway thanks for the feedback I appreciate the time you took to go through my work
stefa
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Re: Looking for retro games with an old rigging technique
Nothing much to add, but this did remind me of Paul Steed's book that got me into max and character modeling:
He mentions only briefly about their particular animation system for q3arena at the very beginning of the book.
RIP Paul.
He mentions only briefly about their particular animation system for q3arena at the very beginning of the book.
RIP Paul.
pxgeek
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Re: Looking for retro games with an old rigging technique
There's this game, Pandemonium! (1996), it was ported to the PC in 1997 so it uses that segmented body animation technique, but it wasn't originally built for the PC.
Go to 08:50 to see a close-up of a character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3vJsaAE0SU&t=530s
RN
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUzgVapnc3URe: I'm interested in learning how to create simple design sketches but don't know how to start.
IMO unreal blueprint is easiest entry point to game programming that there is
i began with unity and c# is supposed to be easy mode, but working with text code is just pulling teeth to me. I hate it.
after a few years with blueprint I can work in text code a bit (c++), but 99% of what i do can be done in blueprint so i just stick with that
to learn there isn't a lot to it, it's just like you learned art. start by figuring out a little project you want to accomplish, find some tutorials that answer some of the big questions, and just get going with it. If you have any programmers available it is a good idea to get them to show you debugging and troubleshooting techniques when you are stumped, because if you learn some tricks to speed that up, life will be much easier.
if you are only making small prototypes life is much easier, you won't have to fuss over organization or optimization or maintainability, etc. So if you can just learn the basics of programming you'll be all set.
how to work with animations and so on in unreal is very well covered by youtube so it shouldnt be a huge hurdle. but to make learning easier, i'd recommend to make a few tiny games where all of the output is text. Get a handle on basics of programming like that, and then you can focus on integration with assets separately.
i began with unity and c# is supposed to be easy mode, but working with text code is just pulling teeth to me. I hate it.
after a few years with blueprint I can work in text code a bit (c++), but 99% of what i do can be done in blueprint so i just stick with that
to learn there isn't a lot to it, it's just like you learned art. start by figuring out a little project you want to accomplish, find some tutorials that answer some of the big questions, and just get going with it. If you have any programmers available it is a good idea to get them to show you debugging and troubleshooting techniques when you are stumped, because if you learn some tricks to speed that up, life will be much easier.
if you are only making small prototypes life is much easier, you won't have to fuss over organization or optimization or maintainability, etc. So if you can just learn the basics of programming you'll be all set.
how to work with animations and so on in unreal is very well covered by youtube so it shouldnt be a huge hurdle. but to make learning easier, i'd recommend to make a few tiny games where all of the output is text. Get a handle on basics of programming like that, and then you can focus on integration with assets separately.
Alex_J
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Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros
Some more armour variation blockouts, an example of possible armour combinations in the second pic. I'll have to be sure these mesh well with the other material type armours. Currently, leather, chitin (placeholder name, Bethesda/Zenimax lawyers), and steel armours are planned. Artstyle congruity is something I care a lot about here.
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
zetheros
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Re: Photorealism Improvements?
Not an expert but I think you can consider all factors around 3 main topics to emulate a photograph: Light, Contrast(both darkness and color) and Composition.
You have interesting angles and good compositions but light and post process setups are clamping too much information. What I mean is there are too much whites and blacks but very few midtones are readable. You might be using too much contrast that causes this. Adding extra invisible lights (very saddle and warmer or colder than the main light) may help you to make those areas readable. Also making leaves and grass material translucent can help you.
Don't want to bother too much but great base to work on, enjoy!
Also this blog have very detailed articles for photorealistic cgi workflows: https://thecommonpoint.com/blog#light
You have interesting angles and good compositions but light and post process setups are clamping too much information. What I mean is there are too much whites and blacks but very few midtones are readable. You might be using too much contrast that causes this. Adding extra invisible lights (very saddle and warmer or colder than the main light) may help you to make those areas readable. Also making leaves and grass material translucent can help you.
Don't want to bother too much but great base to work on, enjoy!
Also this blog have very detailed articles for photorealistic cgi workflows: https://thecommonpoint.com/blog#light
pixelalp
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Re: Photorealism Improvements?
Wow, that link alone, and it's so great to have and to look over, thank you for the ideas and tips regarding softer lights and translucency!pixelalp said:Not an expert but I think you can consider all factors around 3 main topics to emulate a photograph: Light, Contrast(both darkness and color) and Composition.
You have interesting angles and good compositions but light and post process setups are clamping too much information. What I mean is there are too much whites and blacks but very few midtones are readable. You might be using too much contrast that causes this. Adding extra invisible lights (very saddle and warmer or colder than the main light) may help you to make those areas readable. Also making leaves and grass material translucent can help you.
Don't want to bother too much but great base to work on, enjoy!
Also this blog have very detailed articles for photorealistic cgi workflows: https://thecommonpoint.com/blog#light
I appreciate the link and your feedback!
Shmeadow
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Sketchbook: ztrztr
Hi👾 I like sci-fi stuff. Hope you like it too. https://www.youtube.com/@ztr3d https://www.artstation.com/prplbyztr
ztrztr
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