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Re: Lack of Environment Artists
i love environment art and level building i started with leveldesigning fantasy maps for a hl1 mod and it was really cool to recreate your own vision in 3d. back in those days you could pull off whole maps as one person only, including textures, lighting and models. these days it gets quite complex and making a complete… -
Re: Game Dev Schools - What would you change?
higher admission standards, sure. filtering out people who cant draw? fuck that I cant draw for shit, I'll animate the fuck out of a good "omgz nextgenz lulz"-character modeler any day of the ramadan! I couldnt get into a lot of schools because what I draw looks like it was drawn using my third leg, but when I got into a… -
Re: Epic Games Store - A game changer?
Epic Game Store will most likely win in the short term, because EGS offers great deal for gamedev. EGS also pays for exclusivity. Consumers, however, will most likely suffer from this.... 2nd Coming of Console War.... I mean Game Store War... (Windows Game Store already lost. We don't talk about Uplay. Origin kinda still… -
Re: Finding freelance clients
this really depends on the area where you're working from, and on investor interest in what you do at the moment. in my experience, personal referrals make the best freelance connections anywhere, so you can technically ask for money over first meeting and just cubicle yourself later, but - it depends. I think it's a good… -
Re: What made you become an indie? And if you didn't yet, why not?
Another site to learn how to code interactively: http://www.codecademy.com Looks like it just started and seems to have the potential to be awesome. It seems to be teaching Javascript. Hmm... I think we've fairly derailed this thread. Sorry dcfedor! Maybe we should start a "Programming Master Thread" in Technical Talk for… -
Any successful experience when using Blender in order to animate characters for games?
I use Blender as my main software of choice but there's a huge problem that I noticed. Blender has terrible animation baking so whenever you export an fbx with animation it would be inaccurate which can be very bothersome in some cases. I even had an experience where it would deform part of the body so bad that I got… -
Dragon Age Lead Writer Patrick Weekes "origin story" podcast interview
http://www.nerdappropriate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Rated-NA-75.mp3 Interview portion begins 6:58 mark. Inspiring to hear especially (for me) the part where he's about to be a parent, he was hesitant to start a different career in gamedev (from copywriting and high school tutoring) in a different country, but his… -
Your Resume
Hi Polycount, Right now I'm in the midst of reworking my resume, and then eventually updating my portfolio. I started with my resume first, and I have a question: As someone who hasn't quite yet landed that job yet in the industry, but has worked on plenty of independent gamedev projects, should I bother to include any… -
Re: What tools are animators using?
I've mentioned Motionbuilder in earlier threads, cool to see some people doing the same. It's not used only for mocap, at least that's not the only strong point it has. The layer functions are nice (I personally never use them for handkey animation though, baselayer oldschool G all the way), the way you work with Takes in… -
Re: Veteran Game Artists 4 hire - Asorson Studios
The confusion stems from the fact that Polycount is for individuals. Corporations have places like GameDev magazine and Gamasutra where they can pay to advertise. Polycount is a community of singular people, not businesses. If SCEA made an account and pimped all the art from SW Galaxies with no mention of any artists, and…
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