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Re: Indie Vs Personal Art.
Thank-you for the insight and I really appreciate all the comments. I'm not employed in the games industry, but I'm working as a volunteer 3D Artist for a small indie games developer. This is a non-paid job, with the possibility of payment and royalties in the future. I don't like being a quitter and I also don't want to… -
Re: Hand-painted low-poly character art! [+ Sketchbook stuff]
The thing that will really make the difference here is reference! I can't stress this enough. :) If you are interested in clothing design, you need to build a library in your head of design elements and pattern shapes. The way to build this library is to study lots and lots of actual clothing and gear! The best way to do… -
Re: Animating a logo along a path
Eric I tried that out on a simplified shape and it worked really well. Cheers. Just for reference we have figured out 3 ways of doing this now. 1 : Use a displacement map as Eric suggested and animate the thing along a path and animate the UV offset accordingly 2 : Use masks of some kind. Model the whole object and the… -
Re: Relationships and new jobs (Please come with open minds)
I was where you are a few years ago, so trust me I know how stressful you current situation can be. Things can still work out though so don't lose hope. Marriage is about sacrifice and both of you have to be willing to make them. You with your career and her with her family. My personal opinion though, I would have never… -
Re: a gigantic sigh. This industry is destroying my well being.
^^ so true, When I was putting together my graduate portfolio/reel, we were given a loose 2 week deadline for each piece and where alot of my coursemates tended to just take aslong as they wanted, I would always make sure each piece was finished for the deadlines (it was painful in some cases) but it meant that I got, A)… -
Re: Just got a junior 3D artist position and I'm suddenly feeling pressure, what should a junior know?
Figured I'd make an update since it's has been so long. Thanks for all the comments, I read them often before starting the job and they really put me at ease. Ultimately I was overestimating what they expected of me and found myself in a position of doing very menial task that don't require much skill (grunt work). Over… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Having less gradiation in your normal maps is generally a good thing for all of the points Andy mentions here(as well as the points in the original post, and Alec's video). However, I really like to stress that gradients are not in some way evil. I've seen inexperienced artists try to "remove" gradients by painting over… -
Re: Quixel SUITE | Status & Stability Patch Download
Wow, im sorry but i feel the need to mention that i find it hard to believe that you guys at Quixel are not only currently advertising your product with tantalizing images, but you fast forward and cut out the processing times making it all look so great and wonderful to use and you just invited people to participate in a… -
Re: L.A. Noire's 7 year dev cycle: Bad Management?
well, ok... but i'm thinking that people don't respect and appreciate so much the kind of effort going in developing a game, and some of those people might even end up in a game company as manager, producer,etc. Just the other day i was talking with the HR lady and she said:"I don't understand why you are so stressed… -
Re: Programmers, some can scare the s**t out of me....
Sorry but, what the fuck is normal? Your life is yours, my life is mine. I choose to live it as I wish and if you don't like it, piss off. If you want to live a life of "needed" experiences or goals pushed on you by others, go ahead. I'll do as I wish. I have social anxiety disorder and get panic attacks sometimes, too. I…
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