Was one of the first books I read getting into shaders. Definitely awesome though as you mentioned is now dated. The Cg Tutorial book by Nvidia is a good replacement and is free online too. There's decent amount of content though I feel that Shaders for Game Programming has more variety (post processing, lighting models,…
New idea: is it possible that I could have a spherical projection of this sphere on a second UV channel, then use a regular planetary texture map. Then would it be possible to bake that texture into my "tennisball" projection? I don't know a better way to put it? Map it where pole pinching occurs, bake out the map to the…
that looks awesome man, way better! the only thing I would say is the insides look a bit 'wavey', versus having any structure in the form of the wood/knots: http://imagedir.org/Textures/wood-planks-texture.jpg http://www.depesz.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/wallpapers-2007-01-13/old_wood_planks.jpg…
Actually, that's a really good idea. Going forward, I wouldn't be surprised to see more and more people start to use an "App" as their business card. Put together a bare-bones portfolio presentation in a game engine, slap on a basic touch-screen focused UI, and make sure your information is always overlayed on top of the…
Hmm imho your portfolio is more of a blog, you could do with organizing only a few relevant pieces into a portfolio. It's more of a random mishmash of anything and everything atm dude. Think about the context of your content, a portfolio basically says "pay me to make this for you". How many game studios hire 3d artists to…
Guys, I am trying to change the TDR settings to 300. I did some research and I found this: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/NsightVisualStudio/2.2/Documentation/UserGuide/HTML/Content/Timeout_Detection_Recovery.htm I can't find the nsight monitor icon. Does this come with Geoforce Experience ap? I don't install…
First texture pass on the turbine, though the more I look at it the more I want to redo the damage on it, I don't think it's very realistic. Also, I'm not content with the retopology, I rushed it too much and made it too low poly. As we have no tri limit for this project I need to be less economical next time. I'm going to…
Yeah, I honesty don't think this is made in just any 3d program. There is a very specific vibe to all these kid-oriented brainfucks, which hints at some kind of procedural generation and a very specific asset library - maybe not directly bundled with the app but very likely shared between all these "content producers". If…
no, resume is for HR and producer type. portfolio is for art leads, give each person in the hiring process what they want/understand. put your creative energy and efforts into adding stats bars and "interesting/creative" elements to a CV that is going to be mostly viewed by non creatives who like things professional, clean…
Some actual environment artist can probably give more actionable advice than me, but the main things I see is a lack of content. I see walls and floors and not much else. Lighting and materials looks pretty nice IMO, but it's just like empty environments. I'd say flesh these environments you have out a lot more -- make…