Hello everyone, I recently got back from a game developers conference out in Troy, MI called Interfaces (hosted by IADT Detroit). After a day of recovery, my brain finally felt up to typing all my notes up so you guys could all benefit from them. It was a very interesting conference with a lot of great speakers from…
Extremly laconic exposition of the following text, which I figured Might be usefull to have in one place: If you're interested in more details, I suggest you just take it from the top. And ready yourself to spend sometime reading. top Hey. I felt like doing this paper, because. Because becoming a video game artist isn’t…
I think stability, however temporary, is important for your mental health and it sounds like it's been really rocky. Knock on wood; hopefully, you'll be allowed some time this year to just focus on your craft for a little bit. You sound like you've had a tough few years. It probably feels like hell right now, but 3 years…
I'm slowly starting to put all the pieces together and approach a final concept. The outfit is more or less done, and I've started work on the crown. Although her head is the most important area, it's coming together much more quickly, because I'm borrowing more directly from her existing motifs. 1. The outfit. Basic…
Hi everyone! I would like to say that I'm madly excited about this competition! Being a League of Legends player since 2010 (wow, Miss Fortune was being released!) I can easily say that this game was one of the biggest things that motivated me to enter in this realm of art. The character Xin Zhao, like I said before, was…
Umm yes. the performance benefit is practical when I say ahhhh after hitting the button. That I am satisfied is the only measure of practicality. Can u prove me wrong? no. A 2600k renders a cinebench of 7 increased threads and the overclock room of an extreme processor like the i7-990x allows it to render 24/7 ( quietly at…
Mmn. I have trouble weighing in because character artist probably IS riskier (WAY less jobs), and possibly a bit harder. But imho? Your eye for character work is MUCH stronger than your eye for stylized props. Your character work still needs work, but I can see where you're going with it and especially with the priestess…
Texturing breakdown This write-up is a brief overview of the processes used to create PBR textures for a hard surface model with subtle weathering effects. The documentation for most of the popular texture authoring tools does a good job of covering the technical side of things. So the majority of the focus here will be…
Not too long ago, a good friend of mine by the name of Nicolas struck up a conversation with me about the general trend of online gaming. Sure, there were always big block buster titles to play, and yeah, they played well. But there wasn't really a lot to make each one stand out from the crowd amongst the rest. The phrase…