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BioWare Austin looking for Senior VFX Artist
We're looking for a Senior VFX Artist. From the EA site here: https://jobs.ea.com/jobs/jobposting.aspx?refresh=1&postid=a0z50000000Hal4 Key Responsibilities: Responsible for the development of a large range of visual effect art assets according to the agreed design and within the constraints of the target hardware and… -
Re: Hard Surface Blog: Sci-Fi Processing Station
For example here is a test bake, at 2k res, of the main ship, it's almost ready for texturing. Just finishing some artifact fixes from the bake. -
Negotiating Sign-on Bonuses
Hey folks! I get asked a lot about the "business" side of being a game artist, so I thought I would start condensing my brain dumps into short articles. Awhile ago I did a quick blurb in a Discord group about negotiating signon bonuses during interviews. I wanted to take it a step further and make it available to more… -
Parallaxed Textures!
Hi everybody! I've always been really interested in parallaxing and would be thrilled to learn how it's done =) I'm currently working on a redesign of Knight Commander Meredith's sword from Dragon Age 2 where the bulk of the blade is primarily crystal (red lyrium)- and thus thought of how cool it would be if the crystal… -
Re: looking for advice on my portfolio
Ashervisalis, CybranM Thanks guys, appreciate your comments. Diversity is something I thought about before but it might sacrifice the overall quality, I will think about it. Slosh I used to work remotely before and I still get some offers but I can’t work now and yes it because of my location,I mentioned the degree because… -
Sauerbraten: Now the perfect indi game engine?
http://sauerbraten.org/ With the new release (called CTF edition, which is a great old school FPS too btw) the Cube2/Sauerbraten engine has finally integrated everything that its critics have always said it lacks. Now there is full .md5 and normal/spec etc support for playermodels just to name a prominent example (you can… -
Looking for 2D & 3D artists to collaborate on a visual novel style game
Hi, I've been working on a simple tool to create visual novels in Unity. click HERE its an example I just made using the tool really quickly as you can see the tool works with 2D or 3D, so we can get creative on the look and style of the novel ( it doesn't have to be anime style either) I plan to release this tool for… -
Baking 16bit normal maps in maya
Hi All, I am trying to bake 16bit per channel normal maps in maya. So far the only way I managed to do this is by using the transfer maps and baking out to .exr format. This gives me 32bit normal maps which I can convert in photoshop to the correct format. I am only worried about compression on these .exr files since they… -
Using Unreal Engine Assets in Portfolio: Industry Standards?
Hi everyone! I'm aiming to become an environment artist, mainly in the film industry, but I'm also open to working in gaming as well. So far my experience has been primarily with Maya and my portfolio reflects that. Recently, I started exploring Unreal Engine and of course noticed the vast library of 3D assets and textures… -
Re: ZBrush Decimation and SP baking.
Thank you for the response. 16m polys is the final count for the whole high poly model. It consists much more planks and models (the above plank for example it's only 1.5m before decimation and 400k after it). I'm currently making a texture set for almost all the assets I'm using in the scene. I usually like to import the…
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