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Re: AAA game development and motivation.
Almost no studios are always crunching. Even at studios with bad crunch, that normally means a few months of crunch interspersed with periods of normal forty hour work weeks. At better studios, it's more like a few weeks. Don't get me wrong, it's still a problem. A few months of crunch can still wreck havoc on your… -
Re: Environment Artist Portfolio Tips
Your work looks pretty solid to me. What it's missing is storytelling and life - The scenes are too clean and clinical - they are like archvis rather than game art. you need to add a layer of history to everything - used coffee cups, spills, napkins etc. Anything that shows people have been there and used the spaces. You… -
Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
Hey everyone, I was really wondering how people go about modeling in details like in this concept Basically wondering how they go about doing the middle details around that cylinder part, and the box parts on top. Not really looking for a tutorial, just whenever I model something I need detail like this, or it's a bland… -
Re: My Cavity Map Notes:
Vig, unless I'm hideously mis-reading what kdm3d wrote, he's talking about multiplying the blue channel over his diffuse/spec whatever textures, not multiplying it over the normal-map. That'd make even less sense :) Unless you're referring to Lamont's post with the other wiki link about putting the AO in the blue channel?… -
Re: Making art for games kicks ass
It's not the approach for normal AAA games, of course, but sometimes having fun being a creative artist is the goal, as opposed to finishing up milestone tasks for Call of Duty Seventeen: My Little Pony At War. I was with you right until the point where you take a pop at people who work on CoD, way to wreck a positive… -
email sharing is email caring
I tend to get wacky emails from time to time. Emails that just seem to resemble a pile of words more than a sentance or two. Usually they hit the trash, but tonight I thought I'd share the latest. here's the entire email, minus the header of course: ============================================================ what game… -
[Riot Contest] Undecided but Female
Topic by JuneMalatesta · · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Riot Art Contest› Riot Art Contest - IllustrationBecause I'm stronger on female anatomy than male, especially when it comes to a complete painting. Only thing is, I've been wrecking through my brain trying to A. Decide on a champion and B. Decide on a pose. In believing that it would be easier to decide on the champion once I found a pose I liked, I drew up some quick… -
Re: Lowering tris by dissolving in blender
I'm guessing Dissolve has the same function as Reduce in Maya? If thats the case then I would only use it sparingly. Most of the time I get my LOD1 as low as I can and then maybe use Reduce once. In my experience using Reduce/Dissolve too much can completely wreck your topology and possibly your UVs. Ignore all that if… -
Re: Help-Low POly Bus...
In my experience you want it around 5k triangles. It also depends if you're running around inside, whether it's a stripped out wreck or if it's in the distance. Work the textures so it looks interesting and make normal maps in potatoshop if you're loathe to bake high to low. Grills and lights can all be done with normals… -
Re: today is the worst day of my life..again.
lets see, several loved ones dying over the years, divorce, major surgery ON MY BALLS, losing a job in a bad economic situation and having to file bankrupcy, wisdom teeth removed day before thanksgiving so i could not eat. girlfriends cheating on me. multiple car wrecks. did i mention major surgery? ON MY BALLS? pick one…
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