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Re: Has anyone started out in QA, before moving on to become a 3D Artist?
Just something to keep in mind. If you're doing unpaid overtime crunch on QA, you're robbing yourself of time and energy you could have put towards your portfolio. Finding a low stress 9-5 job with consistent hours will be easier. At the end of the day, if your portfolio is good, you will find work. I've seen multiple… -
Re: Never use turbosmooth?
It really depends, I've heard from AAA games where they didn't use normal maps and used chamfers to create the edge highlights, because the shaders are less costly and polycounts are becoming less of a bottleneck. But i don't think we'll fully get rid of normal maps for quite some time :P That aside, I recommend using the… -
Re: Tax Credit Sends UK Game Industry On Hiring Spree?
This has traditionally been the case with the UK games sector though - with most of the studios (and most of the employees) working on and putting out "middle-tier" titles. Games which are not big enough to be considered truly AAA and not small enough for indie. This is the kind of game that was cheap enough to produce… -
Re: Post graduate/Internship question
If you intend to work at companies after graduation and not do freelance work alone, I strongly suggest going for the internship. You will get very valuable experience, not only artistic, but also what "serious" job life is about. I believe because this company makes AAA game trailers, that they are very well structured… -
Re: Dragonborn!
You know I'm quite interested in the whole PS3 debate at the moment. If you didn't know Beth went silent and haven't released the DLC for the PS3 version. This may be because of the issues the PS3 version has but I have to say it's a sad day when an AAA game can be released in the state it is. As for this DLC it does look… -
Re: The Last of Us
Autocon, mate. Please imagine me invading everyones personal space, patting everyone on the back whilst enthusiastically saying 'YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS This is how you make fucking AAA games' then high fiving each and every person at least 3 times in pretty quick succession. BAM BAM BAM like so. Whatever you guys are… -
Re: Software for Character Modelling, Rigging, Animation ?
Well for Character Modelling, the industry standard is defacto ZBrush. Yes there are still characters done in Box Modelling, but really for anything that is supposed to fit into a AAA game, ZBrush or equivalent (3DCoat, Mudbox) are a must. For anything past sculpting the Standards are probably 3ds Max, Maya and Modo… -
Re: Recruiters?
I've had positive experiences with the ones I've worked with. They had good advice and got interviews arranged for me which led to job offers. The current job I have I applied for myself though, the company apparently doesn't work with recruiters. They can also be quite annoying though, after the company I was working with… -
Re: Oh dear.. not another job thread..
Haha fuck me, I wasn't shitting on this thread or Bedlam I was curious as to the kinds of games they make and forgot to congratulate him. Next time I am in Toronto: group fist fights. You guys can have first punches though since I forgot to follow concrete forum rules of 'say congrats first then shut the fuck up.' :( EDIT:… -
Re: Actiblizzard: Filling the EA Void
Ofcourse, then there's Disney, that stable of near-yearly shovelware on every platform. The sad thing is, for them there really is one born every second. Kids under the age of 8 usually aren't the most well-informed consumers, and after they've been burned twice by shitty games, Disney won't care about their custom anymore…
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