Are you a graduate from a game development college program specializing in 3d game art? Working jobs not related to your field or still struggling to find work? Have you applied to various game or film studios and have heard little to no replies? Still working on your portfolio but can't seem to find the motivation to get…
(*Final update*) So I finally wraped up the bird man! I would have loved to push the textures a bit more, but i had to close my two entries at some point. Here are my final images for Swain! Thanks for the feeback Guys! (Initial Post) Hey guys! This is my 2nd character for the contest. I'll be redesigning Swain, the master…
Thanks, yeah I'm hoping it's helpful to someone, maybe someone can learn something from seeing my work, or else someone can tell me how to improve that work. Seems like a win-win situation. @Donavonyoung - It's an interesting thing with art tests really... do you try to match the concept that you're given? Do you try to…
Hey, everybody. A quick preface to this model: In 2010, I finished a fun Unreal Tournament 3 skin of a 'roided out Epic Games founder and CEO, Tim Sweeney, as if he existed in that universe. It functioned as a test to get myself used to the workflow of putting Zbrush-level detail into a game model. As a first pass, it…
I've worked for roughly six years at a four-man animation studio as a 3D generalist and now I'm out of a job. Granted, I'm out of said job because I moved to the other side of the country (Seattle) in order to get into the gaming industry. Also, because I felt stuck in a rut. Unfortunately, I've come to the realization…
I stumbled onto this site from a link posted by LoTekK on facebook which has a bunch of cool tools, textures, articles and all kinds of crazy shenanigans graphics wise. More after the jump. Humus is a site is run by a graphics programmer over at Avalanche Studios in Sweden and was previously employed at AMD/ATI. It's…
I need help deciding about some 3D aplications to get. Here is my situation, I'm new to 3D modeling and would eventualy like to be a professional at it, and I'm wondering which programs I should buy. I was going to spend a considerable sum on this and then I stoped and asked myself do I need this stuff and I want some…
Hey all I thought it would be nice to have a thread here where we could compile useful links related to ergonomics, workstation posture, and human interface devices. Simply put : the anti-RSI thread! New gadgets or ideas would still get their own threads (like the Arsh new setup post, or discussions about new mice and…