Hey Andrew, I'm going to have to second Firebert's advice about the website. I know its spiffy and cool and may impress your instructors the academic director and the school president but its not too quick and there's too many sub sections. There's beauty in simplicity man. Listen to that podcast its a good one. If…
Much of this is tied to two important factors...the emotional response given to the player who either needs or feels strongly about the medium which helps them get by day to day, and the fact that being anon brings out the worst in people. Death threats are pretty foolish, I would rather see both publishers denounce the…
@Mant1k0re, What I am referring to as "their niche" is what the software is used for and where it stands within the workflow itself. Referring to something's niche doesnt connote that its not popular or widely used but that it has a specialized market associated with it. (see English definition) There is a core difference…
Hello everyone! I am a videogame art student from Barcelona that's graduating this year. After sometime lurking here I finally decided to post screenshots my end of career project (we call this TFG here). To give some context, I began this back in September and I've been doing the whole project alone, my project will be a…
SDK Master Thread What this thread's for Over the years the Polycount community has created and released many SDKs for people to practice and enhance their skills through. But they have been spread out, thrown across many threads and posts, making it difficult to know what was available. This thread aims to amass them all…
Hey there. I've been glancing at your sketchbook every so often for a long, long time on various places. But I don't think I've ever really taken the time to say anything. A part of me for awhile felt kind of like Jackwhat, I saw a lot of posts but found it difficult to say much to it. It's largely because your work…
So going ahead and taking my own advice, I've started planning my pieces a lot more. Research Dota 2 Characters After finding a character that inspired me, I hpped in game with him, checked out his animations, spells and VO to get more of a feeling for him. From there I read his little paragraph of lore for more…
You have some really nice stuff! Overally I think you have some good skills but you need that final push to make things better. I'll try and go through every entry * Bathroom - remove this, it's really lackluster compared to your other mini dioramas * Peacekeeper and Troublemaker - I like these, but I think your…
Without knowing the full situation, it's probably best not to accuse anybody of anything, but here are a few of my thoughts: 1. An employer/manager taking advantage of young peoples high levels of motivation is not necessarily predatory behavior. Again, without knowing the full situation, it's probably best not to make…
Hi everybody. Im studying Industrial design in Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Kuopio Academy of Design in Finland. Im doing my bachelor degree atm, and Im planning and designing a game concept for a GPS enabled devices (mobile phones, tablets, music players). I need your feedback on what do you think of my idea…