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Re: Best tut site for subscription?
I had always planned to just subscribe to Digital Tutors for a year, exhaust all of their tutorials, and move onto Gnomon when I was ready to start working on something more substantial. 3 Years later, I'm still with Digital Tutors, and all of the rumours I heard about them over the years are completely out of date. I'm… -
Re: Is being a successful 3d artist a loophole?
You'll have to bear out my well worn pessimistic viewpoint here but I think the problem is that those guys make 'art' and want to continue to make 'art'. We in the games industry produce artifice. Theres a world of difference. Art is not appreciated in the games industry, artifice and the ability to quickly churn out… -
Re: How to overcome technical aspects of 3D modeling?
Unfortunately it's part of the job and will be for the long foreseeable future. Game "artists" are just production machines that make other people's ideas come to life. From the looks of it, if you don't want to go through any of that hassle, I would recommend looking into concept art/3d concept art. You get to be more… -
Re: day to day real world work
Well, as Bob Bates says in his great talk "The Belly of the Whale" (see the link), you do need to put in your 10,000 hours to become an expert in any creative endeavor. It will involve drudgery, but if you work hard and keep your eyes open you will learn a ton. Can't recommend his talk enough, it's a huge gold mine of… -
Re: Gaming dreams?
1. get job as creative director 2. sleep at work 3. ??? 4. profit! seriously, I often read that it helps creative people to have something to write ready next to their bed to jot down ideas when this happens. I don't think you're the only one. However most other people quickly forget any cool things they dreamed up unless… -
Re: VFX production in Japan.. what's wrong?
Sounds like textbook japanese company enviroments, something that drove a lot of my professors and teacher to utter insanity. It also sounds a lot like what the Taka Kawasaki of Epic Japan said in an interview, that even if you work in a job in the gaming industry, that should have a feeling of creativity, spirit and fun… -
Re: Education vs Work - Ever gone back to school?
Sa74n, great post. Last week I left my industry job and will be going back to art school in the Spring (to study traditional art). Like Sa74n, the work I was doing just wasn't cutting it, creatively, even though I did love what I was doing. I don't care about fancy and expensive degrees, I'm going back to school for the… -
Re: Original art
I do get annoyed at seeing another bald muscley dude running around in games, seeing crates and stuff in environments where they have no reason to be except to make use of a cover system. That said though, they are commercially made, their prime goal is to make money and to do that they open the appeal of their games to… -
Re: Lack of Environment Artists
Well, if you know how to paint vertices in any app then you know how it's done already. The rest is a matetr of whether the engine supports it or not. We paint vertices in blue, and the engine then knows that it has to use the second texture specified in the material there, but again, i asked for that feature so it's… -
Game Designer (Frankfurt/Main area - Germany)
Limbic Entertainment (https://www.limbic-entertainment.de/), the developers of Tropico 6 and Heroes of Might and Magic 7, is looking for a talented Game Designer (f/m/d) for an unannounced Unreal Engine 4 project. As a Game Designer, you will be designing and creatively shaping game features for our upcoming PC and…
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