Just to weigh in my opinion the hardest to be good at is going to be a technical artist, purely because by being more technical orientated you have to know waaay more fields beyond the scope of just what you see eg coding/scripting/integrating. Which in turn means keeping upto date on improvements on each of the above.…
Hey all! Ive gotten alot of great pm's and emails on here about my Dragon Weaver cartoon, and also just people wanting advice about the video game industry. Just wanted to say this weekend i moved to CA. Irvine, and was lucky enough to get a job at BLIZZARD as a SR. Animator. I truly feel lucky to have this chance, and…
I LOVE the progress on this! The fact that you got to painting and then decided to scrap it and work on the composition more really shows. If you'd like some critique, I would move the secondary light source behind him a little more to the left to balance out the image values more. Keep it up!
Hey, I have a question guys, I have seen some people create a High poly asset and then retopologize, baked it for the low poly. So I am wondering I am just starting to model my game assets, so Which is more better for Optimization in performance? Bake it?, or just have more vertex?
I have a snowy terrain that has displacement and character footprint interaction as they move through the snow. I need tire marks to show as well and Im unsure of the best approach here. Using decals doesn't work well because the normal map has issues over tessellated snowy terrain. Using meshes wouldnt work either because…
Apologies for necroing this thread but I was searching google for tips on sculpting likeness and came across this and I found the discussion intriguing and wanted to add my own thoughts and perhaps restart the discussion. I sculpt characters with a focus on likeness. From my experiences, sculpting women is MUCH more…
Hi guys, Just wondering what you are doing to making the max viewport more appealing, if anything? In Maya and MODO is think stuff always looks great, but I cant say the same for Max. I always end up setting lights or ambient environments etc to make the modelling look more appealing. Currently, I press "8" to open the…
Thanks :) But really more than half is work from the community and others. some cool news about this blog. It went from zero views to nearly 2,260 in a day and a half. Thanks everyone for the great opening :D We will try to keep up and post post post :D Also if anyone wants to contribute tutorials or general information…
Hi to all! Few years ago i spent almost all my free time on.. THIS. The main question is - how to avoid some very small repetitive actions in maya..Yeah. We spend a lot of time using default maya marking menu. When i played a lot with my maya - i decided to make the lesson ( but... when it was done.. i lost all the…