Battle of the Super Modelers!
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With a title like that, how could this go wrong?
http://gamerecruiter.com/artcontest/
It seems as though they ripped the specs straight out of Dominance War. Seemingly, they've taken advantage of the fact that Fred is against holding the rights of artwork and you can now resubmit your Dominance War entry for this contest as well.
Thoughts?
http://gamerecruiter.com/artcontest/
It seems as though they ripped the specs straight out of Dominance War. Seemingly, they've taken advantage of the fact that Fred is against holding the rights of artwork and you can now resubmit your Dominance War entry for this contest as well.
Thoughts?
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Isn't exactly accurate or honest, especially when their rules mirror the DomWar rules so closely, except for minor differences with the theme of the two. They have prizes though...so I guess thats a plus...otherwise it just seems like an attempt to mimic DomWar for their own benefit. :shrugs:
How many places have more 3D character artists then they do prop/enviro/level people?
well that limits it alot more than dominance war.
how come they got the big guys to support this. I woulda thought dom war would be the one they would support.
is it wrong to trick everyone into thinking character modeling is the only cool thing to do, and then watch their faces when the industry doesn't need them?
Seriously and this is a big misconception when kids are in school. They think they can be character artists because of all these contests and whatever and then when they search for jobs there is nothing but environment openings.
A nice contest like cgsociety did a while back on grand space opera would be cool.
Maybe we (environment) guys can come up with a nice proposal for a contest for this fall or something.
Then again there is the make something unreal for us.
if you´r _just_ a "super modeler" you´r a poor poor unimportant nothing
Two forums will probably make your wish come true this summer... but what do I know;)
A new annual challenge....
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I'm with you. I wanted to do the Dom War this year just because the contest is so fun, but I could care less about characters.
[Edit] Ohh, I'm excited to find out more about what you're talking about there Fred.
anything that stimulates the game art community is ok with me.
sure, its a rip off of the dom war, but you don't have to enter it. The prizes are legit and it just gives more people the chance to get cool useful swag for being good artists.
And yes, an enviro contest would be the shinznitobamsally
It's kind of like telling someone who likes tuning up motorcycles to go supe up a car, sure its roughly the same thing but not really their bag.
...and I think it would great if such alternative comps could feature more original briefs than what is currently seen in character comps. Modelling a prop (either char or env) can be quite dull if there is no interesting context to put it in so I think it would be nice for gameart comps to sliiiightly bend in the direction of storytelling for instance. Or, more interesting design rules than the usuals 'aliens allowed this time! Go mad!!' or 'no cyborg parts because the brief is postapocalyptic'.
The early cgchat comps were great in that regard. Maybe it's just because of them being pre-next-gen tho.
Oh sure, I mean I could do character stuff, and and have done it in the past professionally. It just doesn't appeal to me as much as environments.
Of course I probably shouldn't bitch since I'm rarely one to do 3d work in my spare time. I'd much rather be hanging out with my family playing with the kid, or drinking wine with the wife. Or doing Judo, stickfighting, mountain biking, or an any of my numerous hobbies. About the closest thing I get to doing 3d is whipping but in Team Fortress on the Mach4 servers.
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back on topic,
i love the rules to this contest.... just make some shit!! haha topics are lame...
Our current AD has a env. artist background, and I can sure you that he's great @ putting everything together and leading everybody in the same direction. Beside that, I personally don't like the "job stickers"(sp?) you can find in this industry and hopefully, I've the chance to work in a small company which allows me to work on the game graphics, whatever it is (env. assets, characters and even lvl building when it's needed (!).
To be polyvalent is the key for me
To come back on the topic : I don't understand why this is North America restricted...
An environment exclusive contest is long overdue I agree.
Anyhoo, FredH just tickled us with an idea of an environment artist contest so lets see where that goes.
1 x 2048 Specular Color Map which are both optional in this contest.
why 2 speculars?
Thanks
1 x 2048 Specular Color Map: Is the color of the spec.
I believe the reason is, it's a recruitement comp, so there is no point gathering the info and stats of artists in china or korea if relocation is next to impossible. Plus, the prizes they have can only be delivered on our side of the globe. This is why DomWar goes with cash prizes and makes hardware and software prizes optional. It's always harder to get companies to give chunks of money rather than software prizes that cost virtually nothing for them.
Personally, what I never understood was why Quebec was excluded from the Blizzard competition #$%^#$%^ This one has me really curious since I did some checking, and there is nothing that prevents quebekers from receiving prizes from other countries.
lol
Thanks Vig!
All outsiders are uncivilized terrorists thugs. They don't want to support our jihad by giving us cintiqs.