I think you mean copyright? patents aren't and shouldnt really be for art in this way afaik? They're for technological processes, inventions or ideas but not for the actual assets i.e a 3d model. it actually is not the same as musicians copying each other's music. here we're talking about the assets which in music would…
Hello, I am part of the mod team behind the mod Heroes of the West for Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm. A tactical realism first person shooter set in WW2 on the Unreal 3 engine. We need 3D animators who can either do First person weapon animations or 3rd person animations which involves the 3rd person player model using the…
not that I am into unity, but it's nice that you release your lightmapper! I've looked into your code. And having written a similar tool for luxinia once, here is some hints towards better efficiency and higher quality results: raycast vs raytrace Don't trace from lightsource to object, but do the opposite. That is shoot a…
Pixar is trying something new, it is taking some of its newer tech and going Open Source First things first you are probably wondering what OpenSubdiv is and what it means for you, the short answers are: 1) Instead of subdividing the entire mesh it selectively subdivides specific areas. 2) It doesn't mean a whole lot right…
Hey guys, My name is Kjell Bunjes and I am the Team Leader & Art Director of the upcoming Action Adventure Mindworld: Shattered Dreams. It's a Half-Life 2 Modification. The team consists of people who are either working professionally in the industry or are ambitious to do so. We are currently looking for concept artists.…
Very little was photo-slapped. In the late 90's and early aughts a photosourced texture often looked way worse than a handcrafted one. Realize that the resolutions available were really tiny by today's standards. The "high res" pack for unreal tournament characters were 256^2 and often sampled to a 256 color per image…
Welcome to our Dota 2 Monthly Community Competition #12 :) This month we are keeping the single item style and this month of February the Selected heroes will be 3 recently added to the workshop Legion Commander Gyrocopter Wraith King The link to Wraith King's files currently directs to Skeleton King instead of WK. Here's…
This is round 2 of volunteer recruitment. Our project has been afloat for a couple of months now and we have been holding together nicely. We have been doing pre-production and early art development. We are nearing a point when we will need animators in particular. We aren't very elitist, we really are here to learn the…
Hey guys, My name is Kjell Bunjes and I am the Team Leader & Art Director of the upcoming Action Adventure Mindworld: Shattered Dreams. It's a Half-Life 2 Modification. The team consists of people who are either working professionally in the industry or are ambitious to do so. We are currently looking for one main level…
well for starters i think you can give us a drawing of all the elements you're considering here--the different head, body, legs, etc.--all in one drawing. that'd help. past the preliminary concern of having to mentally piece together two or three drawings, i think you're really going to have to suss out what you want to do…