I see your wall of text, and raise you, one of my own. It seems like you might be fusing a few jobs together and want this person to be a lot of things. Technically minded but highly artistic, able to schedule and manage people but also getting a lot of work done. Those people are pretty rare and normally you hire people…
A see alot of glittering generalities in this thread but not much concrete and pointed advice. To the OP, the games industry is a hit or miss place,you can be fortunate and have a solid career in a company such as Valve or you can bounce around companies being treated as a resource as opposed to a person. As fun as games…
The most important thing to bear in mind that set dressing - and environment art in general for that matter - is always a series of logical decisions : "What am i placing, why am i placing it here, and what does it achieve". A good env artist decides on an internal logic for the scene, and runs through those considerations…
Autodesk announced 3dsmax 2012, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at what's new. There seem to be a lot of new features here is a look at the ones we think will impact you the most. Out of the box the single biggest change to our every day work flow, is to the UVWunwrap. Hands down this is going to effect…
The GDC talk that some of the guys over at Bethesda put on a few years back is a treasure trove of info. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBAM27YbKZg They also go over some of the history of their modular kits and the theories and decisions that lead them to work like they did. The thought process behind, why they made the…
Hey guys, how are you doing? It’s been a few days after my last post and I can say that I’m progressing at a good pace. I’m breathing this project almost 24x7. Watching medieval movies, games and looking for art in general that makes me remember this project. I can see the importance of trying to “live” in your environment…
See that little bit of a polygon hanging out in the gray area for your brick texture? That's what the seam is. It's wrapping around to the other side in the middle of a polygon. Your texture isn't perfectly tileable. If it were, there would be no seam there as the edges of the texture would match up. I never used Quixel so…
I think we are still in an infancy that might be accelerated with the billions invested in VR and the prevalence of Indie development. Where artists might to a lesser degree see themselves as cogs in the machinery. Where they do not aspire to be 3d modelers, Texture Artists, Animators or some other combination of visual…
Yeah, I have a lot to learn. The response and feedback I've been getting is amazing! I'm still learning, so I don't have a definitive pipeline; but this is what I usually do: 1. Take time to decide on a topic; this is pretty important; oftentimes grandiose things like elaborate suits of armour, or dragons, are more flashy…
You do it in phases and try to figure it out while you're pretty early on in the block-out/greyboxing/modeling phase. You do it with simple objects and simple unwraps with simple textures and get a general feel for how it will look when you take it to the next step. If you're working with brick, try to get a simple bond…