I was watching this Nvidia presentation from last year where they talk about bringing iRay rendered scenes to Virtual Reality and something stuck out to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFahmqmnKX0 For those unaware, Iray is a ray tracer/path tracing. It uses CPU & GPU to render scenes, but only 1 frame at a time (so…
Epoch Games is currently recruiting for additional team-members. Epoch Games is an all-volunteer team of (currently) 30 members, all of whom are dedicated in our task of making amazing games. Our current project is named Lays of Althas: Sundered Order, more information about which may be found below. Our team is comprised…
Modern Warfare 3 hits $1 billion in 16 days - beating Avatar's record by one day http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2073201/Modern-Warfare-3-hits-1-billion-16-days--beating-Avatars-record-day.html I'm not a big fan of MW series ( except MW 1 ) but it is interesting .... hmmm ... sure its quite rare stuff. but…
Hi there! I've been working on a small piece lately to get better at realistic texturing and thought I should start posting where I am up to. I've been working with Max and zBrush. I've only been working on the sculpts and normals for the textures so far (with the exception of the rail itself, which was me learning the…
Hello, Besides all the technical details about baking well-covered above by @Fabi_G (as always !), I think you are going down a weird rabbit hole with this model. It certainly looks very clean and detailed, but it also looks a lot like something that has been crafted with a CAD-like mindset of trying to put each and every…
Cesar Decal Jr, Film FX Creature Designer, ZBrush Guru and my one time tutor is currently running an event on Facebook where every day this month he creates a real clay sculpt of a monster and posts up photos and a timelapse video with a little discussion (and mugging for the camera) of the process for each sculpt. Now the…
Just a few thoughts on the matter. When I was a kid, I would download the shit out of everything, mainly because A. I had no money, B. it was relatively easy and C. I was all like "fuck the man rah rah" etc. These days I rarely pirate anything, aside from the random album here and there. This is generally because of two…
You have a couple of misconceptions here that need to be cleared up. For starters, we have this service concept. You think that companies, organizations ostensibly designed to acquire and accumulate capital, are beholden to provide the services and goods they produce without charging for them? I would think they would be…
Hey guys just wanted to post up some work im doing for my final year project at staffordshire university, please feel free to give as much feedback as possible :P thank you! Project: Study into Modular environment design. (produce modular environment) Theme: Medieval Chruch - Based around the 'Black death' aka the plague…