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Re: Death of THQ?
I loved darksiders 1. The year leading up to it, I watched all the developer vids, trailers, etc and was super excited. I also loved the style, bought the art book, etc. I was excited for the second one up until they started releasing videos and I was... Not excited all that much. Not quite sure why, but part of it was I… -
Re: Lighting dissertation
Yeah you can go in a bunch of different directions with it. I think my friend's focuses on replication of real-world way-point lighting in games. But anything around how lighting affects player movement or actions is a pretty interesting topic. Navigation, choice, performance, etc. You could investigate it and then build a… -
Re: Resource budget on mobile platforms?
Yeah its hard to say exactly but we have made bravo force ( http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bravo-force-last-stand/id501056872?mt=8 ) using unity and baked lighting etc like you and it has around 18000 triangles in the whole level but we use occlusion culling so the camera is probably only ever looking at about 5000 to… -
Re: To do the dDo or not do the dDo?
Tools are tools, dDo is a great way to speed up the process of texture creation, but you need to realize its simply a tool to help you do your work, not a "make art" button. If you just load up dDo, load some presets and call it a day, no that's not really going to fly in a production environment(aside from very… -
Re: The "ethics" of touching up images in photoshop
I did an art test once for a very well known concept art studio. The bulk of their work at the time was doing outsourced "bullshots" (touching up screenshots). Part of the art test was to do a bullshot. It was quite fun to do tbh. I was given an example of a "before and after" of another shot they had done. They had done… -
Re: Tips for building roads?
What I do is make splines for the roads, smoothing out curves etc. until it looks good. Then I run a Normalize Spline modifier to break it up in even pieces, turn all the control points into corners and run a sweep modifier on it to get the road mesh. If you need the roads to camber or change width, then you can make the… -
Re: [Portfolio] Giles Ruscoe
A degree will come in handy should you ever wish to find work abroad and need to satisfy the visa regulations. Portrfolio layout is simple, easy to navigate and displays everything a recruiter wants to see straight off the bat which is good. Design wise, which isn't as important, you could add a few bells and whistles like… -
Re: Even Valve is having layoffs
Not really a surprise ... notice how firing wasn't part of the employee handbook? Working for valve is awesome, come define your job with us, etc etc, but what happens when it doesn't work out? I'm surprised there hasn't been more of this. Its an experimental kind of work place and there are bound to be LOTs of people who… -
Re: Beretta Project
Hope everybody had a great time over the holidays. Now that the festivities have slowed down, I've gotten back to work on the sidearm. I managed to finish all of the medium level detailing on the gun. Now I'm working on the fine detailing: Making sure the edges are polished, putting in the smaller details into the metal,… -
Re: [UDK] Overgrown Warehouse
Concept/Story - this is where your artistic flair/ideas come in to play. I have my own ideas. But what are yours? What was this building used for? Examples; storage facility, vehicle garage, weapon range etc. Why is it derelict? (if it is) Is it occupied? Where in the world is this place? Will reflect grafitti, signs,…
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