Great tips. I'll add my two pence as we were talking about this in the Greentooth Slack the other night. Here's some traps I see newbies fall into often: 0. This particular point may make some people rage, but are you ready to make a porfolio, and is your work worthy of being in your portfolio? If your work isn't industry…
The most important thing to bear in mind that set dressing - and environment art in general for that matter - is always a series of logical decisions : "What am i placing, why am i placing it here, and what does it achieve". A good env artist decides on an internal logic for the scene, and runs through those considerations…
The Chinese Room is an award-winning game studio based in Brighton, but working remotely across the United Kingdom. We have just signed a development deal with a major publisher and are expanding our team for a next-generation console project, scheduled for release in summer 2015. We are looking for passionate, dedicated…
EDIT 06/24/16: After two weeks, it became increasingly clear to me that moving toward a rich district was not the right thing to do. So I've scrapped the idea of an Indian/Scandinavian style - not to say it will never get done, but it definitely won't be part of this pack. However, I've been hard at work polishing…
Hello everyone, I wrote a quick article on some thoughts I had about providing constructive criticsm. Since we are in the media age, a lot of artwork is shared and a lot of feedback goes back and forth. I decided to elaborate on some experiences of mine, and provide some feedback that i'd thought i'd share in terms of…
Check out the work from CGMA student Christen Smith , who shows us how he created an amazing modular set that he did Anthony Vaccaro’s Organic World Building class with CGMA. Intro Looking back, I believe my last article with 80.lv was almost 2 years ago on the Dead Space Cockpit, which in hindsight was at a very high…
You know him in the videogame art community as PhillipK, the one writing all those amazing tutorials as of late. I wanted to talk with him about who he is, why he's writing these tutorials (really, what's in it for him?) and where he's headed in the future. And if his desk setup (pictured above) is any indication, he's a…
So I may have missed the bus about keeping up with keeping up with the process throughout, but I do remember my thought processes! To make up for it, I will share where I was at here. Obviously the first step for this contest was deciding what character to write about. I have a good handful of favorite characters, but none…
Courses have started for the Fall term, but CGMA hasn’t let up on giving students access to the best resources an aspiring artist could ask for. CGMA, the leading provider of digital arts education, has been working hard to make sure students are well-equipped to enter into the industry with all the skills they…
Firstly, holy crap thanks for the support guys, It's really blown me away haha! I just hope there is some stuff in here thats useful and its not all absolute rubbish ! Delega: No sorry she wasnt! Beestonian: It will be a realtime, textured asset, the budget might be quite high though as I anticipate a lot of polys in the…