5 years experience is mostly bullshit unless they are looking for someone to fill a senior artist position. I would ignore beginner positions unless you feel that it's your only chance. The risk it that you'll be used for mundane (but necessary) task. Then you'll be easily replaceable and won't learn much (from I have…
Not sure how to take it, but okay. Thanks for doing those mock-ups, but honestly I am not trying to insert anything too over-designed into things. I kind of like the pink/grey triangle because it's simple, it doesn't really have to mean anything. I have considered putting my initials into it, or perhaps adding something to…
Blender encourages a gizmo-less manipulation. Its much much much faster to press the move hotkey and move your mouse, than to click and drag on handles. This is something Modo users have known a long time, but Max and Maya users "dont know what they dont know" You can set up a max navigation style easily. The hotkey config…
Developing your own games requires business acumen besides programming and other development skills. I created my own company some years ago and ended up developing and marketing three games (had a fourth designed and partially programmed and tested). I had a good friend/partner that handled certain duties while I did most…
what's to stop you from looking secondhand? yes, it's harder to source, but i'd rather get the undisputed best CRT in the world than have to deal with the crapshoot that comes with buying an LCD. i got my fw900 for $50 and i see people get them for free quite often... you just need to stop being lazy and look beyond the…
Yup, this is where I work. We are hiring temp work for the holiday rush. At the most it might last until Feb. Now for the bad news. (as if a short contract wasn't bad enough) I think they filled all the open slots already last week. I will check tomorrow. You might want to send me your resume "markd at atari.com" so I can…
@justin: it seems that my school (art institute of fort lauderdale) is SLOWLY leaning away from demo reels. they just now started to tell us we wont be needing an actual dvd to send to companies anymore, because companies dont want them. generally, they like to have us make demo reels to show during portfolio presentation,…
If they banned or restricted 18+ video games in the states they would have to look at the same for that massive cash cow you guys have called Hollywood...I doubt that is going to happen any time soon. Interestingly our government here in Australia finally introduced an 18+ rating after years of the games industry and it's…
There is a valid point to using max *because* it is broken. You see, most bakers/engines arent synced up. Which essentially means everything is broken. So if you're using max' broken viewport display, you have to do things like add lots of extra geometry, make sure you have plenty of hard edges, etc to get a quality…
Sure Pancake: This simply refers to the size of the lens. A pancake prime is a small prime lens, for instance. Pancakes are great because with a mirrorless camera, they make a very small total package. Prime: A prime lens is a fixed focal length lens, this means it does not zoom. You zoom with your feet when using a prime…