Original blog post link: https://lazarosinep.wixsite.com/home/post/how-to-properly-use-linkedin-and-why-it-is-important Greetings everyone! I've been speaking to a couple of friends starting their careers in different fields, and when I asked them about their linkedin accounts, it turns out that some people didn't have, or…
http://persnicketystudios.com About Us Persnickety Studios, LLC, is a newly formed small independent game development studio located in the Greater Nashville, Tennessee area focusing on shooter and roleplay genre style games. Although the majority of us live in the Greater Nashville, Tennessee area, we are very much a…
When is good to quit comfy, safe studio and start doing new things? I asking that question myself very often last time. First of all I wish to be anonymous here. I'm 3d artist with about 4 years of experience working in game dev. When I was young, I was learning 3d art so hard that I manage to get first job soon after I…
There's been a lot of discussion lately in the Polycount Forum about an article written by Christopher Gregorio on How to hire an artist. Our very own Jon Jones wrote a rebuttal on his blog that's also gained some attention. To me, both sides present good points. And while the original article is garnered towards the flash…
Having a kid = second childhood. Pros: * No one has to know that the second light sabers you bought while shopping with your only child is really for you. * When its not snowing you can make all kinds of blanket forts, almost as good as snow forts but year round, indoors and out. * Watching a little persons face light up…
1) the neatness, or precision of your drawing, should be an expression of what stage of development you're at. start loose, very loose. this is why some people get in trouble with thumbnails--they're called "thumbnails" because they're supposed to be only about as big as your thumbnail. so that's the loosest step, be good…
"Known issues: I know my character isn't great, say, her arms are too thin. Whether I can fix it is down to my ability." No. It lies down to you measuring the diameter of a good reference model, and thickening yours appropriately. You can do that. Forget the myth of the artist feeling/improvising things. Observation lies…
I've been using it almost exclusively since 2017 hit. There's very little settings to worry about. The quality setting is "Signal to Noise Ratio", so if you set it to 20.0 db, you are basically asking to get "20 part clear, 1 part noise". Choose Fast Path Tracing instead of Advanced. Advanced may have some benefits, but…
Ray marching has become a very popular technique these days among real time artists and developers, due to the crazily increasing hardware speed. It was widely used in the past too, but mostly in offline applications because of its computation requirements. But luckily now we can have a glimple in our real time renderers…
INFORMATION PACK: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qnmCFsvLlXr4FDLpYicYfG5OEvcBMAaQ Project overview: Sofa ninja studios feat. The nobody collective is proud to bring to the world a new and cool take on the FPS RPG. Utilizing all the classic gameplay of retro first person shooter games. Our game is a single player first…