There is a font of wisdom in here. Seriously, I'm grateful for all of the amazing feedback. Alemja, I appreciate the honest review and some concrete critique. Most people I share my work with are either colleagues who just say "wow, nice job!" or friends / family who have no reference for "good" 3D art and they're just…
I have a scene in Max 2012 64-bit with the latest service pack installed. The scene has a bunch of turbo smoothed assets. I can edit all but one asset. I'm trying to bridge two planes on opposite sides of the model into a hole, and add support loops with swift loop. I can get the hole created, but once I lay down the 3rd…
Are you really trying to argue the idea that fun isn't subjective? Really? If fun wasn't subjective, then there would be some kind of objective method of measuring how much fun exists within a particular game, or any activity really. How many grams of fun exist within the latest Call of Duty game? I'm not talking about…
-Personal Project- I'm very excited to share my latest project – an environment inspired by regions of Southeast Asia. This project came with many challenges, and everything you see was created entirely by me from scratch, without using any pre-made assets… yes, that means no Megascans assets were used! The project took 17…
There was a white paper a while back (apologies, I couldn't re-find it) where CGTrader released their own internal research on what people were buying. Electronics tended to have a high price point, as people wanted to put in the latest iPhone into their renders, but had a sharp falloff on longevity, because it only lasted…
I was intermediately reminded of this and another polycount thread when reading this article: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/behind-the-next-battlefield-game-culture-clash-crunch-and-colossal-stakes/ I wouldn't go as far as to claim it has the answers to what's happening, but it surely have some answers. A few…
I think I'm a year too late on submitting this to CAPCOM, but here's something I've been scouring around DeviantArt and the latest video game console games for (to no avail at this point): the PErsonal Terminus P.E.T. and the Link P.E.T. and all their accessories (Wireless Plugs, Gates (like Battle Chip Gates), P.E.T case,…