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Re: Out-sourcing and game art development. The Future?
It's still viable for MMOs - but it seems like the MMO industry is a seperate beast from the rest of the industry. The art is still last gen, teams are in the 100s and up, dev cycles are 2-3 times longer than other genres with 4 times the assets. This is only going to grow with f2p when you need to create new content every… -
Re: Getting lost in lowpoly pipeline
About your original question of "I am seriously contemplating what my tri count should be"; You badly need to learn some restraint when creating a 'lowpoly' model. To that end, I'd say you should shoot for roughly early PS3/360 gen character specs; about 5-10K tris. With that much geometry you should be able to start… -
Re: XBOX ONE Release Date Announced:
They've both definitely burnt bridges on selling initial/1st gen hardware. MS more than Sony, but both had issues. Hopefully this time, they've learned their lessons, but I can definitely sympathize with the reservation of buying the launch day models. Personally, I'm holding off to see if Sony offers a Vita bundle. There… -
Re: Fictional surviving Triceratops diary
Your concept has much deeper skin folds, I would work these into your sculpt at a lower subdiv level, to keep your fine detail. As it is, it kind of looks like a plastic model. Deeper folds would lend it more weight and massiveness. For example. http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?52216-Next-Gen-Rhino-Warrior Great… -
Re: The Bi-Monthly CHARACTER ART Challenge | April - May
@SamStark No limits, you can do a super low res 5K triangle model with hand painted textures, or you can do a current gen 100K triangle model with all of the fancy maps to go with or anything in-between. It is really up to you, whatever you think you can get done in roughly the time given, the only criteria is that it has… -
Re: engine licenses
Most avoid it like the plague because it gets all sketchy when you want to release a game, I would recommend going with unreal 4, its subscription based 20 bucks and 5% royalties but if you want to develop without updates just cancel your sub so its 20 bucks and you have a next gen game engine you can publish on. -
Re: maya realtime lighting problem
I tried turtle a while ago for baking AO maps. it's really good, but I didn't get into it cuz I wasn't really rendering anything back then. without a doubt my trial period is expired =/ do ppl still use vertex shading/lighting even on current-gen games? wouldn't that conflict w/ dynamic lighting? or do they treat it more… -
Re: 2 sided alpha planes?
yeah I have done this before ie welded/flipped the normals. i was just hopeing that I wouldn't have to it he he. I am not working with a specific engine bTW, just designing a few assets as if they were for a next gen engine. you would think that the modern engines would be able to render two sided without me having to do… -
Re: Viking game character - BA project, looking for crits
DDuckworth: 25k for a character model in next gen games these days is practically the norm. Uncharted 2 was using 80k character models. It IS ridiculous in my opinion, but thats more of a stylistic preference. Veneficus: Looks good so far, you might want to look at some more reference for the front and sides of his neck.… -
Re: Generic_ScifiGun01
I think I liked the versions without spec better cause it burns my eyes a lot less. The round thing by the base of the barrels is reaallly white.. and so are many other things. I guess "next-gen" from a few years ago looked like that but I certainly hope it doesn't anymore. Personally I hate it... well.. that's my opinion…
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