It led me to a site called "Polycount" [Josh Singh Origin Story]

MagicSugar

http://joshsinghblog.blogspot.ca/2014/11/my-origin-story.html?m=1

I found an artist around my area who worked at one of the local game studios. His art was amazing. I reached out and emailed him to ask him for some feedback on my "Portfolio". He Ripped Me To Shreds. I was reading his reply at 3 am, and felt horrible, as if on cue, My wife sensed something was wrong and asked me what was up I said "I don't know if I have what it takes to do this." "This guy completely ripped my portfolio to pieces." and the thing that hurt the most, was He was absolutely right. I did not have what it took to work in video games, my stuff was amateur and sloppy. It was a huge slam to my ego. I had always been told by my High school art teachers, my family and friends that I was awesome at art, and here was a working professional whom I admired hitting me with a dose of cold hard reality.

Mstankow

I think the most important thing to take away from that specific quote is that he kept trying afterwards. I've known a lot of artists who despair and give up or go in denial and then their work never improves.

artquest

But seriously, I loved this blog post. It gives a lot of hope.

Bek

That's some crazy dedication. Definitely gives me some perspective.

weee

cool, to me having talents is partly about keeping trying what you love without loosing hope and every time you progress a bit, if you have that, you'll win.

Kwramm

Tidal Blast wrote: »

Is it possible that many artists just struggle with traditional modeling applications such as 3DS Max and would simply perform much better if they were mainly using ZBrush?

I remember reading about a film studio where a lead claimed that they prefer to hire traditional artists, and that they don't train them for Maya but for ZB, because it's much more natural for them to work in.
Can't remember the source for this though.

Neox

traditional artists are one thing, for film especially.

but for games, zbrush is only one part of production, you gotta be really really good to stay just in zbrush.

Torch

Kwramm wrote: »

I remember reading about a film studio where a lead claimed that they prefer to hire traditional artists, and that they don't train them for Maya but for ZB, because it's much more natural for them to work in.

Yep, at an old job it was funny seeing traditional artists open ZB for the first time and produce something amazing, even though they didn't know the program that well

Awesome article, have been following Josh's work for a while and he is super talented :thumbup: