Now now dejawolf, I know this board can be a little biased towards contemporary art, but there are loads and loads of great artists, you just need to get out there and see some of it. Pior. I think they're put together by a combination of Gluing and welding. With a handful of things laying around. Though it would be cool…
Gav: really? you think I come across as "hot shit"? Since when? If you think my blog post is biased that's fine, but I don't agree. Again, for the last time, I didn't say I picked the school because they had lower entry requirements. Now it sounds like you're just projecting. For all I know I could've been accepted to a…
It's really hard to do correctly. I used to work with a programmer that really wanted displacement maps instead of normal maps, so he could convert them into normals himself. The gradient for a dome has to be biased/weighted in just the right way to get that nice spherical curvature when it's converted into a normal map.…
http://www.paulneale.com/tutorials/MaxMaya/maxMaya.htm You might also find this quick ref chart from Paul Neale (PEN) pretty helpful when finding what features are called. Its easiest to ask about specific functions you do in Maya that seem to be missing from 3dsmax. You should probably start another thread for that, since…
Hah, well it's up to you. I haven't been to Edinburgh for a while. I always liked the National Gallery though. Maybe I'm biased because it has that Sargent painting I like. But I'm open to visiting whatever... I'd rather get out and do some stuff I can't do anywhere else. I can sit in a pub all day in Dundee if I want to…
If you're looking to create some nice renders of real-time assets for your portfolio, Unity and Unreal are overkill. Marmoset Toolbag is generally the go-to for game artists. If you browse ArtStation, you'll see that a lot of people render their game art in Toolbag. I work for Marmoset though, so I may be a little biased.…
as a londoner I'd heavily recommend meeting in either east London or south London, DEFINITELY not central London (i.e West End/Leicester Sq etc), cause in central London on a Saturday nearing Christmas the pubs are really busy at 5pm time, loads of tourists going to theaters etc, and its not a pleasant place for a normal…
I think Bellsey, might be a bit biased on the subject. (lol) In terms of learning sculpting I would say to scrape your pennies together, get a student license of ZBrush and use the student version of MudBox for texturing, which is a pretty common workflow. The thing is that Mudbox is really designed to fit sculpting into a…
I bought a Genius Mousepen - and before anyone goes THATS NOT WACOM - it's good. It uses a triple A battery in the pen :/ but other than that, once you setup the driver config, it's really nice. I got it to practice, I wrote here about how I practice: http://supermortalhuman.com/how-to-use-graphics-tablet I found in…
It is worth noting that GameFly is not directly affliliated with any major game publishing entity. They just rent games, and their selection of titles is broad and varied. Although the whole "independent" angle is now null and void, I don't really see this as biasing Shacknews outright. Sure, there will probably be copious…