Wow, lots of replies =D Really appreciate all the time all of you have taken to reply, thankyou and special thanks to pior for the paintover :icon60: lefix - 3ds max is my core program, not versed in any other 3d software apart from Zbrush really. Few vague memories of Milkshape and Blender but that was years ago! You…
Concept/Overview While I was trying to find inspiration for my next scene, I became fascinated by the works of Chong Fei Giap. They held so much life and color, and the feel of the textures and colors was fantastic. I wanted to see if I could recreate that look in 3D. Modeling From the beginning, I knew I wanted to create…
I had the chance to talk with Kevin Johnstone recently about his past & present career as an artist for Epic Games, his beginnings as an artist and why he's been so shy to the community these past few years. Kevin has been an artist at Epic Games now for nearly 7 years. Not only has he worked on Unreal Tournament 3, the…
@A_B Sorry for taking so long to respond. If haven't messed with this in some time because I was doing other things. As far as purely getting better vertex painting results (minus everything else I did here) there's this video which walks you through everything pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHnxGb6KHA That…
I finally got a chance to sit down and look through your stuff. Took some notes and I went. Here's some general advice and my thoughts on each of the images. It actually takes a while to break down each images so things get a bit blunt in places. Not trying to be mean just tired and moving quickly. You've got some work…
What is Network? Network is an up-coming free-to-play First Person Shooter game set in its own unique sci-fi world. The game focuses on tight combat, a dense atmosphere, and high quality visuals. The game is multiplayer only, meaning maximum quality of the game in that regard bringing you pure multiplayer brilliance.…
Disclaimer The project I worked on was somehow special in the way that we did not have to come up with a ton of unique designs since it was based on a wide range of pre-existing plastic toys for kids. We had a relatively small art (asset) team (6 including me). The game target audience were kids, so no high end stuff, no…
Hi guys, Auke here. Visual Storyteller and Lead Environment Artist at Sooii. In the last year I learned a lot about landscape creation and besides Unreal, I used a lot of different tools to get the result I was looking for. My journey began with World Machine and I started to love and hate it. The results were amazing, but…
Introduction My name's Ryan. I'm an aspiring indie game developer. I use the alias Renin for pretty much everything online. It's been a long time since I've had an online community to call home, and I'm hoping Polycount will become that community for me. This may end up being a somewhat long post, but it's been so long…
Welcome to Polycount! Typically we post technical questions like this in Technical Talk, instead of Career & Education, so I'll move it for you. We have some great resources here about how to build efficient game environments: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Modular_environments Especially check out Trim Sheet|Detailed…