My opinion? too early The major problems i see what your portfolio are 1) Lack of projects and 2)Textures. You have one major environment and a few props and an unfinished gun. You should check out portfolios by established prop/environment artists and see what kind of work they have in their portfolios.Being a character…
As stated already, awesome read, truthful and to the point with no agenda. I'm new to game design myself, but my main issue with this article is it sounds like it assumes great games are more an accident than we give good design teams credit for. Lemme use the already referenced example, Minecraft. Was it the product of 10…
My gut instinct is that now your portfolio is kind of a clusterfuck (pardon the french). Rather than showing that you can do what's needed of you, by adding random stuff when you get someone interested in it, it looks like you can't make up your mind and we don't know what to expect from you. Whether or not it's actually…
I work in an architecture firm doing the viz work, and I had to have a masters degree to be even considered. However, this is a very very large world wide firm so the old boy architectural network dictated the degree requirements. I also had to be LEED certified along with a member of ASAI (American Society of…
Touchy topic, it's a little hard giving advice for this kind of stuff because a lot rides on it and everyone has biases one way or another. So i'll try to give my view on art schools (I go to AI San Diego) as unbiased as possible, with what little comprehension of the big picture (going through school and landing a job)…
Preface: this turned out to be a much bigger post than I expected :P I won't go too much into it but I am using similar techniques in internet marketing in other niches (non game industry stuff) to make quite a decent bit of side passive income outside my day job, so these concepts work, and I'm not talking outta my ass :P…
Hello Everybody, My name is Fabio, I'm from Italy and I'm writing to you today because I need your help. In the past I had the opportunity to use normal maps only inside ZBrush, with the Zmapper plug-in/component without having any kind of problem. Today, I had to begin to work with them again and I'm in a lot of trouble.…
This is more to get people pointed in the right direction. Hopefully someone finds it useful. So one cool thing about game art creation is that there can be specialized things that pop up. Those of you in dealing with Military sims and racing sims have dealt with this at some point in your life. Most tutorials on taking…
Hello Guys! *UPDATE* Just to update! We are live! As lobo had placed up. We are so thrilled to finally be able to show somethings with everyone! Every day we have a team of people working to get things done for this. There is so much excitment on the project that it makes me thrilled to be a part of such an awesome team!…
Well I forgot to create a thread at the start when i decided to try and make some skins for the competition, so il post my journey of where I started and how I've come to the point i'm at. Still open for peoples contribution on what they like, don't like and what changes you think you look the best for the project. (PS. I…