Ok, I just finished the Hedge Knight Novellas (prequel stories for A Song of Ice and Fire) after reading A Dance With Dragons and am still hungry for more!!!! So what should I check out next to keep me occupied until the 6th Book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series comes out? Fantasy Books/Series I've read and really…
Universities offering to teach students how to be game developers is a growing trend. But Not all schools are going to offer programs that teach the right stuff, the right way. I get up on my Guildhall soapbox regularly. I'm there again. I want you guys to see the trailers that the two teams of graduating students (Summer…
Hey guys I meant to do this earlier but I'm doing a little weekly side project to both help myself as an artist and also teach other people too. I'm starting a article series called Game Art for Gamers and I've completed 4 articles with a 5th in progress. I'm looking for input from some of the great and more experienced…
Hi everyone, an amateur MMO title is looking for a talented artist willing to join the final step of the development phase to recreate the base character models. The client/server engine is fully finished awaiting the 3d side to be completed. Few vids: http://youtube.pl/szczerbiecdev Actual webpage:…
Here now in Polycoun Recap fashion are a look at some of the standout WORK-IN-PROGRESS entries so far for the BRAWL tournament coming out of Street Fighter. Get your Forum Thread Subscription's emptied out - after these early-looks you'll be filling that list up pretty quick! The Brawl Tournament is a 3D videogame art…
Hello Ladies and Gents :) I haven't been around on the boards here for a couple of years and really haven't done much art in that time... but things are a-changin' :D This one I did over a 3 day period for a GuildWarsGuru forum contest. I won 5th place in the category (I came in behind some Gawd-Awful 3D piece :( ). It was…
Hello , I wul dlike a suggestion on how to uvmap this tree ... wich one is the best way? I so far individuated 4 ways but I am not sure wich one would give me the best results .... 1st one is like making all into one texture , proportionally scaled texture uvmaps of the different parts like pieces of roots and trunks etc ,…
Crows Cool Cuttin-thingys and stuff *dazzle* I'm a 2D animator who dabbles in 3D from time to time, but remain forever a n00b (even though I'm bloody studying it in college). Really got into Dota 2 a while back, and I finally decided to gut up and course my creative endeavours a bit towards making items (not gonna lie, I'm…
Hey guys! Here is the project I presented for my 5th-year game art graduation exam, my goal here was to create an environment from A to Z because I want to work as an Environment or a Lighting Artist in the video game industry. For this project, I mainly focused on modular assets and I wanted to improve my foliage creation…
I have tried to model a gun so many times whether it would be a pistol or an assault rifle or any other I have never been able to get it right or even finish it.... What is the right way to model weapons what parts should be attached and what shouldn't like should the buttstock be extruded out or separately modelled etc?…