Thought I'd finally make one of these here digital sketchbooks. Critiques are appreciated, of course. I'm a lot less familiar with digital painting, so I don't have many paintings I feel are really worth showing, but I'll use this thread to try to improve on that and hopefully learn new ideas. To kick things off, I'm…
My apologies in advance if this has been answered before, or there is a blatant sticky I missed. So recently I've been scouring the internet as Artstation/Polycount/Deviant contests are infrequent and often focus on a single property or are 3d specific. Try as I might to find concept art or digital illustration contests I…
i just realized how easy it would be to install a backdoor crypto miner on every digital artist's machine. Thanks for the awesome image viewer @jwoelper !
I can't help but feel that I'm missing something obvious, but is there any way to get a free print version of a Game Developer Magazine subscription as an industry professional? I was able to get it before, but they switched me to the digital version a while back, and I can't really remember why or how that happened. I…
Today was the official launch of the blockbuster stage production of How to Train Your Dragon, the project that I've been working on for the past 6 months or so at The Creature Technology Company in collaboration with Dreamworks. Video here:…
Hello Polycount! I'm a junior at the University of Texas at Dallas in their Arts and Technology program. I'm participating in an independent study this semester in digital sculpting using Zbrush. After talking with my professor today, it looks like the first half of the semester will be assigned projects (from digital…
Irrespective of gender, I find distinguishing anatomical subtleties from experience working with traditional media can be extremely challenging too capture whether trying to sculpt a marquette in clay or via life drawing class - hideously tortuous I tell you wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. ....thank the good lord I'd…
Having just learned digital game art over the past three year while trying to learn to draw, which was a massive, MASSIVE pain in the ass for me, i would like to say please don't spend money on schooling unless you want the social interaction or don't like learning things from the net or youtube. Everything you need to…
hand painting textures is a bit different than, let's say, doing life drawing. And even if you start drawing, adding mediocre 2D art to an excellent 3D folio still pulls the folio down. I know some folks who work at Blizz and who didn't have 2D art skills in their folios and still got hired - their 3D was top notch though.…
I was talking about the digital sketchbook thread which is in the 3D & 2D Videogame Art 5th thread down. So there is obviously confusion with the digital sketchbook forum, and the sketch thread. It's one of those problems with no clear solution. Stromberg makes a point about not having too many threads that would splinter…