Actually I think the realistic answer is more along the lines of "We don't have enough information about what the job/company actually requires, so hiring a candidate for a random "environment artist" position is open to so many variables, the only advice we can offer is from personal experience and by god most of the…
1) Yay! Yeah, they're still letting most- if not all -people sign up. :) When you configure the pages for your website, make some galleries; Environment and Prop seem like a good starter for you. Make sure you go and edit your images to be ticked as what category they belong to. This will allow you, when you have some more…
How to approach the modeling really depends on what the model will be used for and the technical limitations. Two common methods for creating tracks are: Model a continuous band that matches the shape of the tracks and use animated textures to simulate track link movement. Instance an individual track link or track link…
I dunno man, I think doing art right now could actually be a really good idea. Obviously you want to have a solid artistic style and some concepts done before starting, but focusing purely on concept, game design and programming is something more for a programmer/ designer to do. You gotta realize that as a 3d artist…
Is this on a daily basis, or just during crunch? In my experience, I've always had a list of things to do throughout my projects. I pluck away at the list each day. Most items have a time estimate. As long as I am getting them done in accordance to that time estimate, I don't sweat leaving after my 8 hours. If it comes to…
Well, when a game engine is made the programmers either choose an existing animation format and build the engine around that, or they create their own animation format to fulfill their own needs. After this they'll develop tools to convert the output from their animation software into a format accepted by the game engine.…
My first MMO that I got addicted to was Ragnarok Online, didnt know any better plus friends were playing it. It definitely is a grind fest, but if you have made some good friends its quite a fun socializing tool and shopping from personal-vendors on the streets of prontera was very fun, looking for bargains and praying for…
site looks good. the scenes look very sterile. The textures look very flat and it looks like your GI is just washing out whatever bump you have on anything. If you have bump on the stuff... It' difficult to get a true sense of scale with anything in the scenes... I can kinda tell how big things are supposed to be by…
So far, the project is coming along pretty good considering we don't have models. I figured that while things were going slow on our end, the least I could do is set up the story and get some feedback on it. What we have is pretty much in stone, but the parts not yet worked on are still open for debate if you have any…