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A Question for the Concept Artists
While I'm most definately not the greatest concept artist, I find myself all to often completely humbled by some of the artists on these boards. While it does act as a source of inspiration, it also acts as a form of discouragement. My problem, or so it seems, is to be able to come up with interesting ideas and forms from… -
Re: Critiques on my model hand
hands are really tough. this is one of my hands, which is far from great, but has a lot more structure/detail my advice is just keep on practicing as they are quite tough, make you go insane :) I use the dam standard quite a lot to kind of sketch out the details -
Looking for a 3D Animator, Action-Adventure Game with Cartoony Animations
Hi there, we're an Indie game team of 5, currently working on an Action-Adventure game on UNITY. The team is made of 4 Italian guys and 1 British, all proficient in English and split like the following: * Game Designer * Composer/Sound Designer * 2 Programmers * 3D Artist proficient in both Characters and Props For this… -
Re: Are Weapon/Hardsurface Artists In Game Studios Like Activision Using CAD?
"Honestly not sure why sub-d still alive" Because in actual day to day practice there are many models that are just an order of magnitude faster and more efficient to build in subdiv rather than in CAD, especially if the provided concept isn't a fully locked technical drawing and if the design will be subject to tweaks… -
Issue with padding on Diffuse texture
Hi I'm having a problem with a texture for a character/creature I'm working on. Somewhere along the way, I think I've screwed up the padding. I've exported out various parts of my texture from Substance Painter - mostly masks - in order to sort of collapse layers down to reduce the file size as it was getting too big and… -
Re: How essential is PBR theory?
As pior implied, you really only need to know the hows to create assets. That is knowing what maps you need for an asset and how to make them. For pretty much 100% of instances you will need: - Color map. This is the flat color of your asset. There shouldn't be any shading in this map unless you're doing something… -
Re: London Fischer - Guide to Making Our Model
While I do appreciate where you're coming from, When I say it's just a matter of practice, I'm serious. A lot of sculptors start with highly subdiv'd spheres. Taking a highly subdivided whatever and noodling forms out of it is hardly impressive. We can all do that (and anyone who's DLd Sculptris, played with Blender or… -
Portfolio advice for getting into the Games Industry - Character Artist
Hello fine folks of Polycount, I'm looking for some advice on how to pick concepts to work off of that are appealing to recruiters and the artstation community to get noticed and hopefully network and find opportunities. I've made 2 finished portfolio pieces so far (that are far, far far from perfect) but even in their… -
Re: Finished my first Hi-poly to Lo-poly Character sculpt.
I didn't document super well. Originally I was trying to do everything in blender, so I posted on the blender artist website when I was trying to do the baking portion: https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?435940-Baking-normal-maps-for-the-first-time-and-things-are-looking-funky-on-the-lo-poly-out… -
Re: [Finished] Mech Fan Art by Shinku Kim
Hey thanks for your feedback again. I want a more practical look to the fin on the shoulder that why I add more fin to work like a filter that can spun up or down. It also help to hide the inside compare to just one piece. I will have another look at the texture.
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