I love my job too! I just often wish it involved more art and less IT. :) Although it isn't a job in the game industry, my job does allow me to continue my graduate studies and raise a family in decent sized city. Of course, there is a part of me which wishes I'd really stuck with pursuing a career in the games industry.…
Ha ha my name is Eric also. Sorry ahead of time if I am hijacking your thread adamBrome's. In layer styles you can copy and paste layer effects by moving your mouse cursor over the layer and hold Alt & then drag copy that layer effect aka layer styles to another layer. Currently it has a little "F" on the right of your…
Incomitatum-- I agree, so I plumped up his cheeks a little bit-- not too much though, otherwise it would have blown out the meshflow and made other bits of the head look weird. So I think I'm pretty much done with Walter, I just need to take him into Bodypaint and fix some texture seams on his arms and legs. I wish I could…
It is an ambitious project to be sure. Our last project (Weapons Factory Arena for Quake 3) had a popular lifespan of about 3 years and Quake 2 WF lasted about 4 years. It very unlikely that we will have unique assets for each and every weapon during our initial releases. Over time though, anything is possible. Weapons…
Definitely not, as others have said a traditionally acredited Degree, Masters or similar will be something you`d find invaluable if you should at any point wish to change your career in the future. This, no one can answer for you. "Have I always been interested in Art and have I always been a fair bit better than those…
Yeah, I can understand that POV. It's hard for me too because I see what I have now, and I don't really want to disturb it by adding extra elements, but at the same time the universe that she is supposed to exist in is a bit more 'cartoon sci-fi' than 'realistic sci-fi', right now we're trying to find a balance between the…
Riding the Jet-Bikes In this scene I just had to adapt the jet movements to the camera view, but I wanted to give an extra touch and used the same trick to force the pilot hands to reach dummy boxes linked to the edges of the steering wheels. So, when moving the steering wheel, the character limbs were following that…
I have received some interest from composers, as well as a programmer. I had to write up a summary to some questions they all had, and figured it might behoove me to post the information from my responses. Right now, I am primarily looking for 2D artists/animators (a 2D background artist would be the most amazing thing…
This is great feedback, thanks everyone! Seirei and Orangeknight - In some ways I think of surfacemimic as the cgtextures of 3d scans, but I'm not competing with them directly. I debated a lot with artist friends over the business model, but ultimately came to the conclusion that because its so niche, there isn't going to…
reverendK Maybe your object has some scale applied to it? click right mouse button on scale tool and see if there is 100% scale on every direction (in view mode not local/parent or something) If there will be something fishy about it just try to place pivot in 0,0,0 cords and reset xForm of your object. Also god thing to…