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Re: Red 5 is in the shitter.
This is actually a good idea. I remember the article about it when it happened, and they had crunched the numbers. If your goal IS to start up a new company with top notch talent, especially when they did before the economy tanked, you have to lure people away from their current places. They listed something like 40x the… -
Re: Rectangular texture maps, a bad thing?
Where I work, I've been told that it doesn't matter that the texture is square, so much as that the dimensions are "square", as in Power of 2. So, 512x512 is alright, 512x256 is alright, but 512 x 400 is bad. Not being a "square number" is the big issue. Another thing we run into is that, for some shaders, all textures in… -
Re: Digipen - Thoughts, opinions?
I graduated from digipen in 2004, but the staff, curriculum and facilities were all completely different then. I got an AA, which they no longer offer. If you dont mind spending the money, it's actually a pretty decent game art school now, compared to the others (and compared to what it was when I went... the first two… -
Re: Aldo's First Post
Thanks, I'm trying...just have too much school work that I don't have much free time. After looking at the low poly thread, it motivated me to do a low poly model...it came out around 400 poly's...so it didn't meet the requirements, but it was fun... also messed around with Mental Ray and Different shaders...not sure I… -
Re: 'Sic Luceat Lux' - 2d stencil work
I dont like the gradient fade out- it kills the style. You have rounded outlines where in a propper execution it should have edgy and sharp edges - its like bluring out the details- I assume this is because of photoshop and its default behaviour of the outline effect. As for the composition I think the wings with the arms… -
Re: Recommend a tutorial for creating a tree (or other plants)?
If you've got Modo 401 then replicators might be a better approach than the tack tool. If you watched that video, imagine that tree as your branch which you then render onto a simple plane as part of your in-game tree geometry. Basically a replacement of Maya's Paint FX from this tutorial. Here are a few more links about… -
Re: School Admission help.
alright I'll just flat out say what a bunch of us are (probably) thinking. to sum it up: it's more likely worth your cash and time if you take that money and just use it to live for a couple years and self teach yourself with the internet, books, and video tutorials. or, put the money towards a 'real' traditional art… -
Re: CS4 3d paint thread.
I noticed a huge performance drop in cs4 as well when I trialed it on my system. The dumb thing is, the way I got performance back to cs2/3 levels was by... turning off gpu acceleration. Mind you, I have a pretty decent gpu (9500M on my lappy, with half a gig of dedicated vram, runs plenty of current games quite well).… -
Re: Character Modeling Bootcamp
Never a bad thing to voice your opinion. I have done training classes where one 8 hour day cost $500 and that was just 1 instructor Here we have 2 and am working on a 3rd. If this were programming the UI for the Unreal Engine the price would be higher. It really just depends on what type of student you are. Let's gauge… -
Re: How important is your 2D skill if you want to become a Character Artist
unless you are a majorly talented baller concept artist, having 2d sketches in your portfolio is probably going to hurt you rather than help. characters are usually designed by narrative and concept teams, and the character artists execute, not waste a ton of time coming up with stuff, they might iterate on concept designs…
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