Hi all, I'm a vfx artist in the videogame industry (currently working for Arkane Studios) and I started a blog a few months back. I'm mostly talking about materials in the udk and sometimes about other tools, say photoshop or after effects. I'm using the udk because I've worked with it for 5 years and it feels a bit like…
What the title says. Is talking about salaries online frowned on by HR and those those in hiring positions? I've seen a couple of salary threads around here, and there is one going on over at 11secondclub.com about it as well, about if cheap, fresh talent is killing the industry. I've shared my experience in different…
The 12"er sits flat on your lap. Some pics as I couldn't find any before I took the plunge. http://oxtongue.co.uk/bort/temp/Cintiq12_Back.jpg http://oxtongue.co.uk/bort/temp/Cintiq12_Control.jpg http://oxtongue.co.uk/bort/temp/Cintiq12_Lap.jpg http://oxtongue.co.uk/bort/temp/Cintiq12_Lead.jpg…
Hello. I would like to ask You about some good tutorials about baking normal maps and ao maps. I know that I have google and YT but my experience with tutorials that I found by myself looks like this: Type 1: Look ! Here is cube, and here is cube with chamfer aaaand We created perfect normal map ! Type 2: Look ! Here is…
Hello Every one.. Could you help me about this issue.? I want to ask you one thing about .3ds format.. I have created the 20k model in 3dsmax and when I export the model in .3ds format and after that when I import the .3ds file into 3dsmax or game engine then I got just double poly count. So please let me know how I can…
My questions about rigging, I've always struggled grasping it properly so i really wanna know the best current methods for rigging and skinning to/for animating, Paticularly for characters and facial rigs but i'd like to know about creatures and good quadriped limb topology too if there's a really good book or something…
Sorry, that was meant to be more of a comment about the drivers than anything - historically they have been dogshit on the Chinese clones - eg. my last knock-off cintiq required 10 year old drivers you couldn't download anymore These days, at least with huion they seem to be pretty decent and will run on Linux (Ubuntu was…
Hey guys, Can someone plz provide me some feedbacks about Teesside University, UK. I'm planning to do MA in Game Art & I've gone through their course modules & it's very close to what I wanted. However, the feedbacks that I've got about the university so far has been mixed. It would be nice if someone who has…
Hi, I'm very interested in the world of CG overall and I would be very interested in getting some insights from people who are (or have been) in the industry in order to understand what they do, discover what their journey has been, and simply understand what they love about what they do. There aren't any strings attached…
When I first known about this place I was young, and naive. I was fascinated with detail at how amazing the models looked like. I used draw everything as detailed as a picture, but soon enough I learned that people don't care about texture resolutions or polycounts. They care about the characters look and their story. Ask…