@Boosted24v There's a lot of factors at play here but the majority of the issues with the model are related to inaccurate or incomplete shape geometry and noncontinuous / non-coplanar topology. When it comes to the actual modeling process the issue is more of what's being hidden by the n-gons rather than the n-gons…
I believe that a great artist is a person who knows how to inspire and motivate others. My whole purpose of this post is not just for me to achieve my personal achievements, but also help others to reach there goals and purpose in life. In this blog post, I'm going to share with you everything that I have learned. My Tips,…
For another project I am working on, a requirement I have set myself is that I will need to be able to use vertex paint some meshes. I have been doing some research based on this requirement and how to develop the shader, and thought it would be good to share my findings and hopefully help out anybody else looking to learn…
Good read and good points. It's a tad on the long side (like this post), it took me two sittings to get thru it. I can't say everyone would read the entire thing but they need to. Here are my excuses why you haven't seen much art posted around here, by me. None pimpable work, be it learning models (oddly deformed…
Its not about the games being expensive or people having hate towards the creators or Sony Nintindy, Microsoft its the mindset people have when they pirate anything By default one would think "I don't know these people and i don't care about them as they don't care about me its just a free short game and Im just one person…
You do it in phases and try to figure it out while you're pretty early on in the block-out/greyboxing/modeling phase. You do it with simple objects and simple unwraps with simple textures and get a general feel for how it will look when you take it to the next step. If you're working with brick, try to get a simple bond…
Here follows a list of UK Developers, mostly console and mobile games but theres a few interactive tv and slot machine companies as well. I've left out audio companies and places that produce tools etc as Im trying to list places for Polycounters to get work. So I'd like your help in filling in the gaps. If you know of any…
Introduction: I apologize in advance, I know it's A LOT, but bare with me :) You can skip to important parts if needed. Hello, my name is Jack. I represent SymmetryGames as the lead 3D artist and Director of Prevail, our latest game concept. The essential reason I am posting this thread is because our team has…
This is an abridged amateur translation of the article. May it inform you still. Anyone fluent in japanese is invited to report glaring errors. Original article there The article is the first in a new series of technical articles on 4gamer by Zenji Nishikawa about game graphics, and Guilty gear Xrd, which came out in…
First, we here at Riot Games would like to thank the hundreds of artists that submitted entries to this contest. We were blown away by the wide range of content that this incredible and passionate community created for this event. As you can imagine, judging this contest was very challenging due to the volume of very…