ah very cool thanks. You'd be surprised at what can find it's uses, even with what is now considered uber polycounts vs what was then... people said sprite art was sort of obselete... but it's finding a home again in mobile games... guys like me have to reverse engineer 20 year old techniques and tricks... mobile3d in a…
Firstly, @ZacD thank you for you clarification now i've another question that is related to that: Currently, I'm participating in the bimonthly challenge on Polycount and working on this environment: link of the concept: (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/QzxGL3) Is it better to use tiling material instead of a trimsheet…
Even if it was, I'd be a little more optimistic about it here than on Reddit mainly because of the differences in communities. Reddits voting system seems to work well in small subreddits where a lot of people know what they're talking about (the badpire comes to mind), it also works pretty well on places like…
Sounds like the professor is requiring their students to post on Polycount. :( If you want to learn how to get a job in games, we have abundant resources for those willing to do a little digging. Hell, you don't even have to dig very deep. Dive into the sticky at the top of this section, and start reading links. Plenty…
No reason in particular, i guess it's a mixture of this low poly-ish style being my comfort zone and the fact that i mostly learned from Handpainting tutorials(and my current CG school), where they stressed us to keep the polycount low. One of my initial goals was to work on games with artstyles similar to WoW or Allods…
Experiment a bit, there are lot of quick things you can try to understand what is causing the issue. You can make a beveled cube and try baking it the same way as you are baking this to see if you get the same errors. As I said, usually, there are jagged edges when the baker can't find enough room to work with. Increasing…
Agreed about adding tourney organizers as service providers. It also means you can give them a cut if you just really like the organization but they currently don't have a tourney going. The whole point of service providers is to give back to those that have helped the community which is why I think DotaCinema, JoinDota,…
Well about what to learn, all is here at Polycount. Yes really all you need is on the internet for free. I would continue the arts course as long as you get to do art all day, then on the free time learn the tools and work on your own art work. Just remember what others has already said that education matters not only the…
Your work is pretty solid already. I really like the Lizardman. But! You should learn PBR texturing (spec gloss is a bit last gen). And the polycounts are low compared even to todays standard. With a portfolio piece you want to aim a few years into the future. So your creature could or should have at least ten times the…
this month i'll totally even finish an entry i swear. doing some nice crawlers for sand king. this slot has a pretty hilarious polycount so i decided to make the lod 1 first to make sure i didn't sculpt something overly ambitious. original concepts some modeling. took a few iterations to make something that wasn't too…