Each version looks great! If someone put a gun to my head and made me choose one, which would be a strangely high stakes scenario for a polycount competition, I'd go with the female rider, she looks expressive but still alienish, while the other's don't have an opportunity to really show emotion through their faces.
I am in the same boat as the OP. Though I start some courses in september on games design (though I plan to be ahead of the course before I even begin and am mainly using it for a 'look I've got the education' part of the CV.) I would ask you this: Want to be a character artist and have zero art skill? Don't worry, google…
we have wordpress intranet site with drag & drop upload for binary files. You can comment on images, but there's no way to annotate the image itself or draw on it, like in Alienbrain. We don't use it for art critique though.
Thanks everyone who responded so far. This is really helping me make a better more clearer decision on what I should be looking for. I was looking at Alienware but steered away from that route quickly. Alienware just seems too costly and I heard they are really heavy not to mention loud. Don't care much for my computer to…
You don't buy Alienware or Dell for the quality - that's their problem. Their warranty is the best however, and not by a small amount. You should find replacement while they fix as well as the throughput of product meaning they can often upgrade your laptop with new parts rather than finding old parts.
You guys should check out the Unigine Heaven demo for DX11 goodness. I'd still love to see these things implemented into a game setting but 3d card hardware is only getting more powerful and cheaper by the year. I'd love to see the future of value costed computers that have pricepoints of 600 bucks that offer up the latest…