The main advantage is that you don't store all these utility maps in video memory, you only store the final output. The other aspect is that you can do stuff that can't be done with shaders or will at least require a shader artist that can actually *write* complex shaders unless you are using a visual shader editor like in…
Please use JPG instead of PNG. Saving a JPG at level 8 converts a 8MB PNG down to a 128kb JPG, and looks virtually identical. Please see the thread http://polycount.com/discussion/161965/why-is-everyone-using-massive-png-files-for-their-shots . Bloom is too strong for my taste. But this piece is coming along well. I'd love…
Hey! Great idea with a thread like this, great to get to know the animators in here and lots of great reels as well! So, I'm Henrik, from the cold desolate land of Norway :smiley: I recently finished a bachelor in animation at Hedmark University College here in Norway. It was a pretty good experience overall and I learned…
I always recommend Python as someone's first programming language - it's extremely powerful when it comes to computations, and is still really easy to learn. Until you've got a good grasp on programming pragmatics, I would stray away from anything .NET. Learning the .NET side of the house is just as intense as learning…
More news coming from Crytek. Apparent Crytek UK is no more and some layoffs at Austin. No wonder more folks have been changing their linkedin status. Here are the articles: http://kotaku.com/deep-silver-buys-homefront-1613349084 http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/30/crytek-drops-u-k-studio-and-downsizes-its-team-in-austin/…
It's from the Warhammer Online MMO, not the tabletop game, they have quite alot of concept art online. Click the years at the top to go back through all the posts. There are probably art books out there, also if you go to cghub and just search for warhammer you'll find tons of artists who've worked on various projects for…
I dont believe there is a way by default. However there has been a couple scripts that might do the job. http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?161588-quot-Axis-quot-Plugin-for-ZBrush-4r2&p=903920&viewfull=1#post903920…
I have never sketched an environment before. Ever. So I figured ... why not?! If you can get past how this looks, you can see what I did over a few hours: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/161473/PC_Tron/TronConcept.wmv As silly as that is, it actually has stimulated my brain so I think I can carry on with this scene now and make…