That is a good argument. You can look at most of life through an 80/20 lens and it'd serve you well. Another thing to keep in mind is that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. It holds laughably / painfully true with art. If you have to make something in three days it will tend to get done in…
We just moved about 20 tons of bricks into our front yard to build a retaining wall and we are working on digging out all the trenches to lay it down. I'll do some 3d after i've had a couple week nap. There is something fantastically rewarding in actually doing real work with your hands, building something that exists…
Dead Space 2 videos out there somewhere with some designers talking about how they handle it. I've spent a few minutes looking for it, and I can't find it - if I come across it again, I will definitely link. It is longer than 20 minutes and I was looking for stuff pertaining to level design if you want to take a snap at it…
I got a CanoScan LiDE 20. its fine. try to get one second hand, save some monies. If your mostly a modeller, an intous is better. Its more portable and and about as good for sculpting. I just moved overseas and am finding it a pain in the arse to find a place to plug the cintiq in. I would probably only reccomend forking…
I got a temperature issue once. Whenever my CPU was under hi-load it freezes for 10-20 seconds , then continued. I never got a problem when using windows, but playing a demanding game was not possible. Thought you mentioned that nothing else freezed, it could still be a temperature issue with one of the on-board…
interesting thread! I was 20, living in Cornwall, desperately trying to get out and move to London. I had practically all but dropped out of collage (I was taking a part-time adult course in multimedia and blew the teacher out of the water with my animations rendered in "imagine", I think I took my TEFL that year also) and…
i hate the sites that say click to enter, then show a flash popup containing a website after a 20 second animation. a website should not resemble a playstation loading screen. and graphic navigation buttons should be kept simple. thumbnail images should be small, and no large background images. shockwave files should be…
I am not sure if there is a better way, but MilkShape3D decompiles .mdl files and exports to obj. It's a $20 app, but comes with a 30 day free trial, so that should get the job done. The models will be triangulated making them hard to edit, but depending on what app you are using there should be a de-triangulation script…
Too slow, I have no patience of waiting your pics to load. The best to not have any javas or any flash on your website. HTML is still da shit, so why not use it. A company have only 10-20 sec to watch each portfolio people sending in. Forget the design or any flashy style if you aint going to search as graphic designer,…
Thanks everyone! The company is Visualize Inc, www.visual-ii.com They have a gallery of some of the items they've done already. Not sure how much I can say about the work that I'll be doing cause I'll have to sign a NDA, which I was expecting. I'm about 2 and 1/2 hours from Champaign, I live like 5 min from Ohare, and the…