the above quotes might not hold up but overall, I love the post you did. People bemoaned, publicly mourned, wrote angry letters, did boycotts (20.000 newspaper subscriptions canceled) and sometimes even invested/used big sums of money to sway artists and their publishers. One example from the early 1900s is the…
Hey there, fine people at Polycount. My name is Filipe Duarte Pina and I am the creator of Detective Case and Clown Bot games. I am also the co-founder of Nerd Monkeys Ltd. I have been making video games for around 19 years but only started professionally around 12 years ago. This post is a Post-Mortem on the art done for…
Had trained in the 1980s as an armored reconnaissance Assault Troop section gunner M60 7.62 NATO among other roles within my unit alongside various Vietnam era weapon systems as well, so I think your modeling refs may have been of a later variant which btw a weapon still in service today. Anyway, main crit is wear and…
"Quake 3 took a hybrid approach with the torso, head and legs being separate skinned meshes." That's not exactly true. In QIIIA the elements with smooth deformations (torso and legs) are not skinned meshes (as in, driven by a skeleton) ; they are purely vertex animations. They can of course be authored as skinned skeletal…
There are some military bunker packs I think must sell well. The mesh crates which hold dirt, seen in this time stamp, I've seen used in 3 big games, plus something I've worked on, and those are just the times I've seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZ3L0jxoZc&t=193s
Here follows a list of UK Developers, mostly console and mobile games but theres a few interactive tv and slot machine companies as well. I've left out audio companies and places that produce tools etc as Im trying to list places for Polycounters to get work. So I'd like your help in filling in the gaps. If you know of any…
Thanks Eric! So It's been a minute, but I'm still working on this. I've been making some progress with base colors for his body. I took a long detour trying to learn how to do lettering for his main chest and back tattoo. It was a bit tedious figuring out the design and trying to make it look cool and also meaningful, but…