Yeah what PolyHertz said. Maya is the big guy when it comes to character animation. What will be important to you is what you want to use the animations for and how big your budget is. C4D has a great rep for motion graphics and I taught it for years at a local college, but couldn't get used to it. Coming from 3DSMax, C4D…
I'll believe it when they release a tech demo. Until then I believe they can be adequately be disproved from a theoretical standpoint. "Trillions" of "atoms". Whatever. At 32 bit float precision an 8GB graphics card can hold just over 2 billion float 4's in memory. Even if they're streaming from the hard drive that's data…
What kinds of environments do you want? Megascans would be a good start if you're looking for organic stuff like forests. Look into sites like turbosquid to get a feel for the kinds of assets you could buy. The downside to buying assets is that not every creator is working toward the same common goal or using the same…
Yep you can do morph targets after you skin, just make sure the morpher modifier is under the skin modifier, that's the beauty of max you can apply modifiers out of order and drag on modifier under the others if you need to. It's been a while since i used morph targets. But i think you can do it after the skinning. As long…
I think Rorshach mentioned in the P&P thread about Poop's new normal mapping workflow tutorial that you can get different normal map results depending on the graphics card that you use. What are these differences exactly? Is it on the way the normal map is displayed or also the way that it is generated? Is there a…
For game engines, what is the best way to incorporate these kind of details on walls, furniture? Should this be imported as normal maps, parallax occlusion or modelled geometry? I am not sure if this would be too expensive and affect performance and lighting issues might occur with geometry. Here are some examples of what…
Indeed Over 200 Rockstar staff write to management in support of unfairly fired union members Grand Theft Auto makers accused of union-busting after firing employees in Canada, U.K. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VicbC2qQ2Fc…