ahhh good ol situationalism...art pranks.. man i didnt think this stuff would be making a comeback... when Abbie Hoffman threw money onto the new york stock exchange in 1968, the absurdity of the spectacle was apparent to all.. and judicious use of the surreal.. as with graham chapman's tactical deployment of nuns to…
i am a MGS fanboy. Hardcore, i fucking love these games (heh, avatar inspiration too..). I am excited as shit, because i would play MGS4 even if it was on the ps1. There are some areas in those shots, and in the movie thats around somewhere that kinda feels like a letdown. Specifically; the walker-bot things. In the…
Clean and Clear. Thats the best thing you can aim for with a portfolio site. I would make the gun your first link though because its easily your best piece, it contains the largest amount of unique primitives and scale/ detail level contrast. The other stuff has its charms but its all the same style, someone could get to…
I'm not sure if I have a bug or not. If I don't something is really weird anyway. I'm trying to make a simple shader that uses a difference cloud map to affect a texture's UVs. I have two panners, one -1 in the U and one 1 in the U. Adding them together, then added to the texture's UV's makes the preview ball work as…
My life changed a lot recently, which affected my thoughts on my entry of this contest. I studied music before so I instead incorporate musical score in my effect. Musical score has some strict notation rules for readability, but for a visual effect it needs dynamics, hence the score lines flow like ribbons. I am grateful…
If youre not into heavy painting I really wouldnt bother with anything above a TN panel - For general desktop/gaming a TN will do just fine and will probably have a faster refresh rate... Hell, you could go for the new Samsung 120hz flatscreens for something super quick albeit slightly more expensive than most TN panels.…
What I've began to feel is that the whole school experience isn't about learning from the teachers, I mean sometimes you will get a really good instructor who will be able to open some new doors for you, however most of the actual learning is done completely on your time at the end of your fingers. I've started to feel…
No, not really. The Romans had largely slipped into a cultural decadence and malaise. They inevitably became lax in their own defense, and that's why a horde of relative barbarians were able to bring the western Empire down (the eastern half of the Roman Empire lasted until 1472 (I may be off a few years) when the Turks…
Hi there! I'm trying to bake my high to low and i'm having some issues around the suction cup thingys. The first image shows the tentacle at the tapered end of the mesh (which lacks detail, cause of less geometry.. but that's a problem for another time). The second shows the same bake but at the middle of the tentacle arm.…
Oh man... ok. So. I've always wanted to do 3-d art, and the first time I was able to was in 9th grade for my computer art class in high school. Needless to say... I cried while busting my brain at trying to figure out interfaces,tools, ect. I just ended up making really bizarre aliens because I couldn't grasp modeling…