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Can a Maya user make it in the games industry?
so after browsing through this forum it seems like a good place to ask this since so many people here are working at game companies. I want to build a portfolio and try to find a job as an environment artist. Although all the companies I looked at listed 3ds as what they use, and a few had "3ds/Maya". I've been using maya… -
We need to talk about some of our art terminoligy.
Hi everyone! In my years as learning how to be an artist I've gotten really frustrated about how colour and light theory is taught. There is a ton of misinformation, contradictions, false correlations and outright disasters being taught. I don't want to call out the dumb stuff here but one thing that i have realized over… -
The cost of a texture "draw call"? (Quantity vs Resolution)
Hello. So as a 3D artist it's important to know what the performance impact of my choices are going to be in-game. I don't work for a massive triple-A company who's been doing game art for 20 years which knows the secret to performance, and since google doesn't turn anything up of value I'm left with the question: What is… -
Vote Nov 3rd
I am so fucking pissed. We all know which side those votes would have gone to. So yes, I do point my finger across the divide and cry, "Bad show! Unsportsman!" [ QUOTE ] "The calls ranged from complaints of fraud to confusion to dirty tricks, including fliers that some voters faxed to Arnwine for review. "These are dirty… -
Game models, polygon count and other questions
Heya people. I just joined the forums and am fairly new to modelling with only 2 months in. I wish to ask some questions about polygon count in games though I think you guys are quite sick of that topic already. Firstly, how much polygon count could a game scene have, especially for high end graphic cards like the GTX 780… -
Normal map compression and channel packing
This is a cross-post from this thread: http://polycount.com/discussion/184004/normal-map-compression I decided to post this here as well as in the Unreal Engine sub-forum, since I figured that this doesn't necessarily have to be Unreal Engine exclusively (and I'm hoping that more people will see this and help out if I spam… -
moving and working
I'm thinking about moving to the left coast if I can't find work down in South Florida when I graduate, I have 3 questions: 1) Is it worth moving to where the industry is and looking for a job door to door rather than rather than sending your reel/resume to companies/studios from another location and saying you are willing… -
Desktop PC build help for a beginner?
...At building PCs, but not quite so much at art. :poly142: I've been stuck with an [ame="https://www.amazon.com/R503U-RH21-Laptop-Computer-Memory-Windows/dp/B009AF6DHU#productDetails"]old Asus laptop[/ame] (maybe not that exact model, but the same specs) + this silly pink TV monitor with one pixel out for the past few… -
Witch Catcher
A character for low poly modeling. "When one has a problem with rats one calls a rat catcher. With an infestation of witches a rat catcher will not suffice." Eric Sharp, treatise on Common Social Disease, London 1746. The surmise is that people are inherently good. When they are being bad it is the witch inside them that… -
Re: Crowd funding project: Marking menus for Photoshop and other software
I'm sorry I missed this discussion when it was started a decade ago, and I'm sorry that the links above are broken, but I'll add my comments now for the record. I published a paper about pie menus in the proceedings of 1988 ACM SIGCHI conference called “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”, in which we measured…
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