If you want to move countries a degree is almost essential. Unless you want to work in canada exclusively, you'll want that degree, because otherwise to get a visa in the US you need at least 6 years of applicable work experience, possibly more. Post your work - you have no work/portfolio posted at the moment, so you are…
C86G: This is the professional reason: http://polycount.com/discussion/81995/polycount-is-out-of-the-dominance-war-contest-doing-our-own-contest/p1 The unprofessional one, that I can't find the exact threads on but am positive they exist here - just need more time to sift through old forum posts - is that the leadership of…
I read an an article written about this by an Art Director in the game industry and he said that that unless you have animation all you really, really need is to show your textures and models as images the show their quality. You need to show wireframes and textured views and the texutes. The problem with video is it's low…
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If your 3D turns out anything like your sketches, then I'm very excited to see what you come up with. As has already been stated, video's are usually a lot more helpful than instructional books. If you do want to go down the printed route, then pretty much anything by Ballistic Publishing will be well worth the (slightly…
IC.Shape 2.0 beta 12 released - 2010.08.13 Fixes* Select Span Action for shortcut association didn't work any more because of a block of testing code slipped into the released version. What was new in beta 11 - 2010.08.07 Fixes* Edit Poly Modifier didn't support most of the tools any more because of a mishandled case in…
Hello so I've made a .py script for Maya that listen for the operation of polySplit and after the node was created if the Crease Set Editor is opened and you have a set selected will automatically add the newly created edges to that crease set. So far the script works well but I don't know what is happening when I hit Undo…
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…
So I figured I'd write a bit of a Adapt wrap up/journal for people who couldn't attend, so here it is. The Weekend before Adapt On Thursday I caught a ride up to Calgary where I flew out to Montreal arriving a few days early to explore and be a tourist for a while. I got in Friday morning at 7:30 and had to make my way up…
Ok, I'll do 2 posts here. This is a noobtastic GI light dome but it works. I've got another one on my work machine I can show you on Monday if this doesn't work. It's real similar though. Paste this in the script editor and hit enter: //PrerenderPyramid v0.7 - (c) Dmitry "Troydm" Geurkov int $lights; float $intensity;…