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Re: Learning alone, need some advice
I'm still very much a complete and utter newbie to all of this (I think I first glanced at Maya about 6 months ago as soon as I found out that it was free for students, and the rest has all been a bit of a blur), but I can definitely say one thing for sure, and that's that if anyone came to me and asked me where to start… -
Re: What has the games industry been like for you?
Aeon, I think a portfolio full of environments will show a much wider range of skills than a portfolio full of individual props (im generalising there). You can show that you know a lot about modularity which is really important for any game, showing you can make one set of, lets say wall pieces, and make them re-usable in… -
Re: Portfolio Project 2018
Whether the asset is optimized for games or not, you simply don't need more triangles than you need. Having more triangles that aren't defining silhouette is just wasted space. Having extra resolution for a better look means adding in extra loops to avoid showing jagged edges on the silhouette (and better animations with… -
Re: Auto-rigging tool is cheating?
I don't see any problems with it. The only drawback would be if you don't show any examples of rigs created from scratch. If you're only showing rigs that are maybe 80% created with a tool, then what skills are you selling? IMHO, if I'm hiring a technical animator, I want someone who knows the ins and outs of building and… -
Re: [Environment art portfolio] Vladimir Holopov
For a nighttime scene, the stylized fantasy scene seems much too brightly and uniformly lit. I'd greatly reduce (or even eliminate) the ambient light, and have a distant omni lightrepresenting the moon giving a faint light. The primary light for the scene should be the bluish glow from the crystals and the yellowish glow… -
Re: Darksiders 2 Environment Art
Some really great work in there :D That demon skull headed gnome looks pretty horrific :) My personal little gripes though. The skull/bone structure wall is too heavily chipped/weathered on the protected edges, while the exposed edges are equally weathered. Either the exposed edges need more chips, or the protected edges… -
Re: [Portfolio] Shawn Sieben Level Designer
Anyone who has studied Epic and modularity will immediately be able to see how closely you laid out your map to the one contained in this Epic white paper: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/rsrc/Three/ModularLevelDesign/ModularLevelDesign.pdf Imitation is the best form of flattery, but be careful how much of your "design" is… -
Re: UE4 - Futuristic cathedral
Fab-Camp - I did actually create a couple of concepts before I started modelling things for UE4 :) After I gathered all references I made a couple of simple 3d sketches inside 3ds max: And eventually everything ended up me doing bsp blockout inside of UE4 to have a modular base to work on. All assets that were created so… -
Re: Polycount vs Vertcount vs Textureres and Drawcalls
Method 2 also makes more sense if the camera can come up very close to the object. You'll always have more texel density if you use tiling textures. For a FPS game I would probably use method 2, as the resolution of a unique texture for that object probably won't hold up, unless it's crazily big. Alien Isolation used this… -
Re: (Portfolio) - Benjamin Rijsdijk - 3D Modeling / Texturing
First of all, you can use dropbox as an impromptu web server. Just toss your site in a subfolder in public, and hand out the URL to the index page. Like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/448525/Website_experiments/Flexible_Scalingboxes.html Second, GLR doesn't really teach how to make efficient game art. During my time there,…
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