A lot of it has to do with personal tastes, when looking at concepts try and figure out what you enjoy about it. Is it the shape? The way it is rendered? The colour?. It gets pretty abstract for me at times. Like I'd enjoy how a person would render worn armor with a couple strokes (and then realise I just enjoy simplistic…
Arrgh, the perks of studying Art in the United States..-_- I'm still amazed on how people still have the courage of paying dozens of thousands for art education, almost inspiring if I may say so. Here, alot of students quit at half course or even at the end sometimes because they simply don't like it. They dno't lose…
Well, as i'm sure you already know, that's called 'concept art' and it's not easy! There are very few tips and there's no magic bullet, it's mostly just persistence and time. Artists far better than myself can offer you tips though, look at your favorite artists' blogs! I'm no expert yet, but since that's my…
Doodling in ZBrush is fine and I think you can push shapes around and use it as a tool to HELP you learn anatomy. I don't subscribe to the idea that you need to code in notepad for 9 years before you can graduate to the big boy toys. Sure you can learn anatomy and critical artistic skills by making low poly meshes but it…
I'm currently studying at VFS and it really lives up to it's promisses. I'm in the 3D Animation and Visual Effects stream which takes 1 year. A very very intense year though. If you are willing to go to school till 11 pm every day. Have classes on Saturday morning, and work on Sundays, then I think VFS is the best course…
In my experience, typical man-day rates in India from low-mid-high quality are generally $135 - $175 - $195. China's about the same, except their low-end can go as low as $90 and their high-end averages out around $225. For US individual contractors I generally see $250 - 450\day, but the cream of the crop are usually $500…
I'd like to see a break down of how many artists work at AAA studios vs small studios. Halo 4 had 26 internal environment artists and over 40 outsourced environment artists. A smaller studio would have maybe 5 artists? I'd still think most of the jobs would be at AAA studios, but there's still a large amount of small…
Is there anywhere on polycount (or anywhere else that isn't reddit) that I can kindly ask people to give me constructive feedback on my portfolio? I've been working in the industry since ~2005. But since 2015 I was working for a studio that had me do... horrible things for money (just 3d models) so my skills have fallen a…
Hey, ssry for the late response; somethings happened in my life yk. The second option is a 3- to 4-year program, and they have the obligatory government seal of approval that they are in fact a university. i have been looking at them more closely. the thing about them is that they are a sister university of enti ub part…