When it comes to any university course you should understand that everything is self-taught. I went to Abertay, and I know of people who have studied in pretty much every games course across the UK so I have a good idea of what the general opinion is of them. Now, the best thing about Abertay isn't the course itself, it's…
http://www.animationmentor.com/ Animation Mentor focuses just on animation, it mostly follows a feature film workflow with most of it's mentors coming from Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks and BlueSky and most of it's top talent students landing jobs at those places. It's fairly pricey but what you get out is top notch. I know…
Progress Update 04: Hey, only really got one or two things to say this week. I've been working on the door pretty consistently - often changing the design as a whole pretty drastically. Originally, I was going for a design similar to what is in the above images, as it's heavily based off of the games as a whole - for the…
My dad had a copy of GameMaker for the comador64 and we made a few games together back in the mid-late 80's they where mostly educational games cooked up to help me with school and get me interested in computers. It worked I was hooked on computers, art and games. Then the consoles started to roll out and you couldn't…
Hi Ruz! Thanks for appreciating my work! I was working at EA in 2023 until my contract ended in July. I'm hoping to rejoin, though there are a few alternatives but it is a tough market so I'm not sure where I'll end up. For the moment I've been upgrading my artwork and exploring some alternative business ideas where I can…
Previous & Table of Contents This setup tints the specularity looking straight on and leaves it achromatic at the edges, which is accurate. How about a rough plastic now? At a first glance, this might look OK to some of you, but it's actually got too much specularity around the edges. If you observe some real-world rough…
The Boltons are on their way to planet Earth to destroy the human race, however when they arrive the humans have been destroyed by their own creation of Robots... What is Boltcraft? Boltcraft is an arena based RTS game wherein the player controls a single customizable robot in battle against enemy robots using weapons,…
SENIOR ANIMATOR WHY DOES THIS ROLE EXIST? Sparx* is seeking an Senior Animator is responsible for creating animated sequences of characters, objects, and cameras. They should be proficient with key frame animation and have strong fundamentals such as posing, timing, and spacing. Also be able to take direction with ease and…
Hey all! We (Gavin and Jamie) have started a small side project as a way to learn new skills, give purpose to our personal work, and generally explore ideas. We have been actively posting on social media about our progress and/or experiments and figured a home for all of them may be a good idea so we can elaborate and have…
This is it folks! Everything starts here! :smile: Way before I entered the great world of CG and 3D animations, my former dream was to become a Traditional animator and one day work in big traditional feature film studio (Disney, Dreamworks and even Japanese studios). Times have changed. 2D movies aren't so popular right…