Props! ART JAM - FRIDAY 27December2013 - 09January2014 So this art jam we will be doing props. The jam is to be focused more on textures and lighting (presentation) and less on the model. So I have determined a soft cap of 500 tri's. If you need more, then use them, but try not to put 500 into something like a crowbar if…
That's a tough decision but maybe looking at long term stability might help. Govt contract work is very stable. The game and film industry is not. Over the last 17 years of my involvement in games I have seen many game studios shut down suddenly with no notice or regard to the employees. Disney and Microsoft (in my…
Here is the gear that I tend to use. Try not to pay too much attention to the brands as there will be a lot of similar options from various companies(camera bodies, and then 1st/3rd party lenses) I use a Sony A580. The two biggest reasons I use it is because of the in-body IS, which means every lens is an IS lens, and the…
moves make way more money because more people watch movies and they dont rely on dvd sales(the product you claim to be cheaper).. they get box office sales.. games has nothing to compare.. they use to back in the good ol arcade days.. a game would make a hefty profit in the arcade then make a console port and really…
That's awesome, it was getting to complicated before so now it uses a different method in Blender. ... I think so too, I used 3dsMax for almost 17 years (starting with 2.5) and always relied on the many tools that it came with and they preserved even in newer versions. But after diving deeper into Blender last year I…
great post gray, It's kind of what I have started to think about lately but taken a stage further. You kind of get to thinking that your art skills are not up to it, but if you carefully analyze what exactly the issues you are having, then you can work around it. My main issue was blocking out the main forms and TBH had…
Having played all the halo games, I personally like the series but it has never blown my socks off in terms of innovation. In terms of art style, I much prefer the new asthetics to the halo 1-3 art style, which was super cartoony and hard to take seriously. case in point the grunt design and shreiky little voices in the…
I would just invest in a 3D scanner if you really wanted to make the "better than picture" versions. The SENSE isn't bad for its price. (3D scanners are expensive atm) Would save a lot of time instead of modeling. (Though modeling could be fine if its more hobby-oriented) The other issue I would see is that the bed for an…
Given the $800 price tag, the reviews on that laptop aren't horrible. They're more or less what you'd expect of a budget laptop. That said... 1. The PCMark tested battery life is 2hr 16m. That's kinda terrible. In a real world situation, with things like your GPU or HDD sucking up energy, expect it to probably drop down to…
^^What everyone else is saying. Art direction and cohesion is about making an established rule set and sticking to it. A really simple way to look at it is how corporations use the same sets of logos, brand colors, and typefaces and apply that to all of their documents/videos/print/websites/etc. such as something like…