For an Asian who was raised in Canada... 1. Depends where exactly you're planning to live in Canada. 2. Unless you're in business or trades, good luck finding a high income job form the ground up. 3. Cost of living can be astronomical (i.e Vancouver), my condo was about 300k and now its worth more than half a million. 4.…
I'm in a 4+ year relationship with my girlfriend, and with that relationship came her 3 kids. we now have a 7 month old baby together as well. we've already decided that (due to the kids) we will only relocate to other english speaking countries, and preferably we will stay put and i'll commute to whatever job i have. in…
My employer hired me as a level/content designer a bit over 4 years ago. About 2 years ago, I realized that I loved where I worked, but not what I was doing. I talked with my producer and with my lead and asked if it was possible to shift over to doing art ... something I hadn't done full time in about 7 years and I had no…
Okay, I posted here as a last result, but due to the utmost of irony I FINALLY figured this thing out after messing with it for a week (granted I just posted this tonight.) Here is how to fix it for anyone that needs to know through Google or whatever: 1. Open 32-bit or 64-bit Max 2. Change your preferences in Configure…
Thanks guys, but again the bake in 62 was wrong ...very wrong so i better not tell you.. Anyway: was working on this lately: A Custom Winchester Mare's leg Reference: I really like the one in the upper left corner. then again its gonna be a mix of parts anyway and because of this i think the modeling will not be 100%…
Hey, it's coming along nicely. Here's a really old scripted render effect plugin that does the color aberration effect. http://www.pxfactory.eu/scripts/rgbsplit/rgbsplit.html The basic idea is to render the scene, then take that rendered image and split it into the three RGB channels. Take the Red channel and offset it…
ahh right i didnt know there was a term for that my friend told me that first time round never make a poly with more than 4 sides, the tutorial i watched about making a gun didnt mention that and his came out fine with mulitple sides, i was going to change that on my gun either conver to a mesh or just add the connects…
Hey guys, I'd really like to participate in this months challenge, it would be my first attempt at a challenge however I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the workflow and how to begin. This is what I believe I should be doing... 1) Break down image into components in photoshop. 2) Begin building a low-poly mesh in…
One review here: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33942872&page=7 Image quality at 720p is surprisingly good, but there's still significant lag. On a 20Mbps connection... and it can seriously stress download limits as only 30 minutes of gaming will require up to 4-5 GB of traffic. Oh and games seem to run at…
I'm not an animator, but... Mostly people just judge the quality of animation, the basic things are the 12 principals of animation: 1. Squash and stretch 2. Anticipation 3. Staging 4. Straight ahead action and pose to pose 5. Follow through and overlapping action 6. Slow in and slow out 7. Arcs 8. Secondary action 9.…