Hey Polycounters!!! Treyarch is hiring! Come join the Black Ops 2 team in sunny Santa Monica, CA and work on one of the best selling franchises of all time! We are looking for Concept Artists (temporary/contract), Senior, Mid-Level and associate Level Builders (contract and full time), UI Artist (temporary onsite or…
Modeling a Nintendo Switch Wireless GameCube Controller for my Computer Graphics Imagery I Final Project Now that I had more experience, we had more creative freedom in how we created our final project for the class. I personally decided to go with a GameCube controller (specifically a wireless version for the switch which…
Standard sizes tend to be dictated by the scale of the characters, the speed of the rate of movement, the type of gameplay mechanics, method of interaction with the world. Gears has some established heights of gameplay devices, a set height maximum for steps ( though its worth noting that steps look and FEEL better to walk…
Finally finished this gosh darn thang. Still lots of room for improvement and things I want to add and tweak, but it's time to move on. The scene was designed with a point and click adventure in mind, so this is the angle it would appear in game. I laid it out in a way so that they player would always be visible. The…
I'm going to get all sweary, don't take it personally, I don't have time to clean it up and think of proper verbiage, plus it's how polycount used to be. My personal usage history: I've used Max more than any other program, but that means I'm more intimately acquainted with it's warts =P I currently use Maya for animation…
This tutorial has been written originally in French, here is the Google Translate version (french version: https://zestedesavoir.com/forums/sujet/6759/guide-la-creation-de-textures-pour-les-jeux-video/ ) We will see in this guide how to create a stylized texture of professional quality for a video game. We will need to…
This tutorial has been written originally in French, here is the Google Translate version (french version: https://zestedesavoir.com/forums/sujet/6759/guide-la-creation-de-textures-pour-les-jeux-video/ ) We will see in this guide how to create a stylized texture of professional quality for a video game. We will need to…
This essay is split into two parts. The first part I talk about a method I learned to use in the military to help achieve mission success. In the second part, I break that same methodology down and apply it to the task of learning digital art with the goal of getting a good job in the industry. I apologize for the length.…
Judging is over and were FINALLY ready to begin announcing who the winners of Polycounts BRAWL Contest are! As you may remember, the judges were sent the Top 5 FIGHTERS and Top 5 STAGES as voted on by the Polycount Community. From there, they rated the entries in 3 areas: Artistic Achievement, Technical Achievement, and…
The Photomerge tool in Photoshop is great for normal panoramas, but it cannot stitch fully spherical panoramas. (This will be added in CS4). Don't even spend time on the mirror ball technique, it's a lot of work and the results are not very good. You are very limited by the resolution of your camera, so at best you'll get…