Hey Polycounters!!! Treyarch is hiring! Come join the Black Ops 2 team in sunny Santa Monica, CA and work on one of the best selling franchises of all time! We are looking for Concept Artists (temporary/contract), Senior, Mid-Level and associate Level Builders (contract and full time), UI Artist (temporary onsite or…
Note: I'm going to talk a lot about process and inspiration in at least this first post, but will post latest WIPs at the top so you don't have to read all of my dumb expounding. Also, this is going to be mostly stream-of-consciousness writing, but hopefully it will make some kind of damn sense. Second Note:This is largely…
The early years: I started out creating levels for Doom2 using an editor I found on a shareware CD. Later when Duke Nukem 3d was released I did load of Levels for that. Always experimenting and trying to push things a step further with the given stuff. I did countless level for that all lost on old HDDs I'll probably never…
Here are my thoughts about dDo and SD. I played around with both of them but in the end I bought just one. 1. dDo: I liked the presets it came with. You can just apply them and get good looking results without much tweaking. Most of the tweaking I had to do is turn down each effect to avoid too much noise. Having two types…
from Wikipedia: [ QUOTE ] There is some evidencein the form of the Baghdad Batteries from sometime between 250 BCE and 640 CE (while Baghdad was under Parthian and Sassanian dynasties of ancient Persia) of galvanic cells having been used in ancient times. Such ancient knowledge in the history of electricity bears no known…
I feel like I'm going to be the only one commenting on this. Ideally since we're so close to the deadline for the contest it would be best if you try to make decisions for direction on your own. As concept artists it's part of the job to internalize these sort of things without reaching out to ask others. It's up to our…
1) Slime and grudge on the tank and pipes but the ground, sparking clean. The ground needs the slime/corrosions or it needs to go. 2) I HATE it when people just slap the corrugated door texture on something and place it inside the wall making all mechanical pieces of the door magically disappear inside the wall. These…
[ QUOTE ] Taxi Driver is one of my favorite movies, so I cringe a bit when you draw a comparison between it and Gears of War. [/ QUOTE ] Haha... sorry, my comparison was poorly drawn, that's not what I meant. The analogy was intended to liken Scorsese' personal growth as a director between his early films and Taxi Driver,…
I have not really felt like I had jump around even in my early days. Though, I did try to find the good jobs. See it is patience many people lack only trying to find that job to get them in. Like anything else in life just getting a job does not really cut it. Value yourself and push to what you want. It requires long…
The short answer is yes. With some research and experience it is possible to look at a single picture and get a rough idea of what coating was used but it's not going to be perfectly accurate. There's a lot of contextual information missing and in this case a single picture on it's own isn't representative of anything…