My name is Dan and I'm a graduate student studying Game Design with a concentration in Environment Modeling, currently living in the Los Angeles area. I will be graduating soon so I'm getting my portfolio together to start my job search for a Junior Environment Artist position, and I thought that this would be a great…
This sketchbook will be chock full of unfinished things, as it's for the purpose of practice and critique. I'll be focusing on one or a few things at a time in each image. Also, my main if not sole content matter seems to be females. Please bear with me. ^^; ======= For this current set of practice sessions, I'd like to…
Yes, what he said. Also, a couple years ago at 8monkey we tried this effect for a game prototype. It was sort of cool. It didn't look any closer to real human vision in any real sense but did look more like a fisheye lens would. Probably because of the projection onto the flat surface (the monitor). It wasn't "better" but…
have you met any past or current students from this course? do you know of any in the industry you desire to be part of? Id really investigate this and talk to students if you can. I went on a very broad computer arts style 3 year degree here in the UK and honestly there was only 2 modules each lasting about 5 weeks each…
Happens ALL THE TIME. I have nightmares about spiders. A lot. I fucking hate spiders. I always wake myself up when one gets on me, near me, bites me, etc. I've had dreams where I instigate fights with people. I remember a dream where bears were outside my house trying to get in. I tried to punch them but when I did, it was…
ZRemesher in Zbrush has definitely improved over time, but IMO it's still not quite ready for auto-retopologizing a mesh that requires a lot of animating and deformation, like a character. It makes nice edge loops, but even with manually defining where the curves should flow, I've found that the results just can't beat…
Getting back on track here. Someone (forgive me for not checking who) made a very salient point above. Major technological breakthroughs tend to happen near the start of an invention. When cars were invented, they changed society in a massive way. Later innovations tend to be much more evolutionary (more cup holders!) than…
Thanks for the props guys ;) Kevin, not too bad for your second semester using Max ;) Now, onto the asshole tearing: The grass and green shit all along the buildings are far too uniform to make sense. It would generally be heavier near the bottom and work it's way up if it were this thick. I know you are doing this…
I've been working on a personal project for awhile now but now I have reached a point where I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm a big Metal Gear fan and there's a Metal Gear Risk board game that I want to upscale to a war game scale for my own personal use. I've worked out just about everything except the miniatures. My…