I think Sony borked the hardware, with multiple sku's. They should have just released the system with no hard drive at $499, and allowed you to upgrade.
http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/articles/2013/03/14/491/mari-20-is-out-now/ So what's the verdict? I've never even heard of Mari until tonight when I saw it on the Gnomon Workshop Facebook page. Looks pretty neat, but doesn't 3D Coat do the same thing and for significantly cheaper? Seems to be, between that and NDO/DDO you'd…
My dad gave me a 1000 dollar budget on a new laptop, thing is I found two that im interested in - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246326 and http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1753820&CatId=4938 Which should I get? Or should I look for a better ones? Ill be…
I want to see what everyone here thinks of this and what I can do to improve it. Important note is I was to keep this under 500 polygons. Polycount: 492 tri Texture 512x512
It's not a direct answer to your question, but in this industry your portfolio is your credentials. Gnomon has a lot of great stuff on it (only seems to be two small online courses though), but you can get a year subscription for $499 which gives you looooaaaaaads of stuff to go through. Between that,polycount (as Donavon…
KateC thankx! glad you like it practicing the texturing.. unfortunately i don't have too much sparetime so i started with a small one 418 tris, 256x256 diffuse https://www.dropbox.com/s/rk7m7ljleypu39y/01_tex_wip.jpg?dl=0 progress vid (speed paint), NOT TUTORIAL, just showing how i did it (4x speed) https://…
Yeah, the games for 491 are kinda short lived USUALLY. Some go commercial, but a lot of the teams try to just aim it as "Get people jobs" projects. Naw, for Blink, I was only there officially for three months doing really early pre-vis. They switched gears by the end of the summer. Project was out of my league once the…
Im going for the more mid 40's ages (around the time of T2). The original reference that I used was based on the following: http://www.hottoys.com.hk/index.php?target=products&product_id=497 which was a bit over the top so I need to go in and tighten the details (particularly the wrinkles) however I know that there's…