I want to start this post by saying why this would be so rewarding and fun for any fantastic character artists reading this post: I have already created a host of fish: cute coral fish, orca whales, piranha's... Their base meshes are solid, the Uv's are good to go, and I use a decal system embedded in the fish shader to…
I think I understand where you are coming from, @NikhilR . From the perspective of the job candidate looking for employment, you view the company as a thing which serves your needs (and the needs of the your peers.) This is the way I like to look at things to. We form companies to serve our needs as humans. Making money…
Yeah, I'm finding the flow of courses to leave a bit to be desired. Its a constant up-down-up-down-up-down with very little breathing room or rest to just carve and speed. Doesn't have near the slope-flow that SSX3 did. There are rails absolutely *everywhere* and it seems like you can auto-pilot from one to the next…
re: vertex colors - you could use zbrush for that, yes. however, trying to alter colors or layering is a bit of a challenge in there IMO. but you can transfer the mesh with polypaint intact into other applications (e.g. i recall a script for max for doing that). personally i used a custom blender compile with a few extra…
The iPhone was a modern day goldrush; endless promises of easy riches that caused everyone and their grandma to flock to development causing a total oversaturation of the market. As a result, top selling iPhone games these days are mostly all from a couple of large publishers and usually ports or thematic ripoffs of…
Time to give that reality check. So you've been searching without avail for the last 4 year's? Lower your expectations and standards or simply put, you are doing it wrong. Why havent you volunteered at all during that time? Why haven't you took on junior or apprentice roles? Why are you assuming that life is fair and all…
great work so far! :) I just thought I'd share with you some stuff I learned... Design - I think you can push your design more if you'll mix more recognizable concepts. Since you're going for a humanoid character, maybe you can mix in some animal influence or mythical creatures, anything that the audience can easily relate…
The Invisible Children "organization" has some very shady roots. They've been implicated or connected to weapons deals and other stuff that one doesn't normally associate with legitimate charities. The bottom line is this: what has been proven through decades of trial and error and case histories at this point is that if…
The newsfeed as a stream/wall is a pretty interesting take on it ! One potential issue is that the actual news (announcements, contests, and so on) would be drowned down by all the other pictures. But maybe the news could occupy the top row of divs while the rest would be pics. Also and for what it's worth, a remark about…
I think variations of the hard and soft brushes is all you need. once you have mastered them you can start looking at other brushes imo. it's like everything else really... brushes are amazing time savers but like many other time savers you still need to be able to use the basic stuff. kind of how I started out texturing…