The BRAWLยฒ Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawlยฒ-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawlยฒ-tournament
R.I.P - Paul Steed
We are deeply saddened by the news that Paul Steed has passed away.
At this time, the details of his death remain unclear. Paul leaves behind a wife and children and our heart goes out to them during this difficult time.
At this time, the details of his death remain unclear. Paul leaves behind a wife and children and our heart goes out to them during this difficult time.
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may his soul rest in peace, thoughts go to family and friends
http://www.jacehallshow.com/blog/friend-jace-hall-show-paul-steed-passes/
Same for me. Sad news indeed!
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If I can ever be half as good an artist as Paul, I will be over the frickin' moon.
R.I.P. bro
Conor have you tried the way back machine? http://archive.org/web/web.php
- BoBo
Condolences to friends and family and everyone who knew him.
RIP
I also am one of those that got into this industry looking up to his work and his "thinking outside the box" column articles.
very sad news indeed!
Back when I was a student doing a video game art course, I met Mr Steed at the Australian GDC. My classmates and I had spent the previous six months or so putting together a game demo and we were showing it off to folks at the show and generally getting positive lip service. Someone managed to rope Paul, who was a guest lecturer, into playing our game. I asked him afterwards what he thought of our work and he said that it was "decidedly mediocre". He wasn't rude or anything he just told me the truth without any sugar coating and I have a lot of respect for the man for that. I think that encounter had no small impact on getting me to look at my own work critically and helped me along the path to where I am now.
Ave atque vale.
wow.
at a loss for words.
see you in Valhalla.
I'm really curious how he passed? He seemed like a healthy guy...
Paul thanks for the "polyselect" in 3dsmax neat trick that you gave me for unwrapping, i became the best at it.
All my blessing.
R.I.P
Thank you for everything Steed.. RIP Bro
It's fine but It's always lingered in my mind, I guess It was his way of saying quit or to get better, then he would forgive me!
I got better, thanks for the push Steed, R.I.P.
Condolences to friends and family who knew him at his best.
RIP, and my thoughts go to his family and those close to him.
I was already working as FX Artist in the Austin studio on Faxion Online. Paul's team needed some help with their prototype console game and since i'd used UE3 before the creative director "leased me" to Paul's project for a expensive bottle of Bourbon.
RIP Paul, it was great working with ya!
Also met him once at a IGDA meeting here in Seattle when he was a Microsoft for a bit. So at least I got to thank him in person for the book.
He also was a straggler in Sub-D, liked to use splines sometimes.
My condolences go out to his family and friends.
I'm not sure they can share it but at least 1 PC knew him back in the ID days.. there was this one incident about a fight. I just bring it up to show he didn't back down. Maybe the entire story can be told?
R.I.P. Paul Steed
RIP, sir.
Man I'm bummed.
Hopefully tomorrow brings better news.
peace
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He was my modeling idol when I was just a little noobling at Polycount. I learned how to do lowpoly modeling and animation by picking apart his character models for Quake 3: Arena, as well as reading his blog.
This is a sad day indeed.
May he rest in peace.
Now, I have an idea sort of, to celebrate this man, why not hold a competition (no prizes, just honors) in his name? Making a crackwhore, or a quake 3 spec character would seem like a proper way to pay respect and tribute to this man.
I'll second this idea. I wouldn't have improved as much as I did without studying his work years ago, especially all of Quake 3's art, so it'd be nice to do that sort of stuff again. Plus it'd give newcomers an idea of what it's like to work with those constraints, so that's always fun.
RIP, Steed.
do we know what happened?