Personally I write down a checklist in the morning or the night before. For example, if I'm studying I would write down milestones or specifically what I need to study. As well as chores and other non-art stuff. Whenever I'm working on my art I do it in silence first so I know what I'm trying to do. I only put on…
Are you a bad enough dude? The Brief For this challenge you will be creating an environment for a side-scroller beat-em-up! This will be a 3D environment created for today’s console, PC or arcade market. Since this is a challenge, you will not be creating an environment from pre-existing ‘beat-em-up’ but rather you are…
Hi! Don't know what happened when you beveled the edges. If you did so using modifiers, I would double check the result in Unity or reimport the export, to make sure UVs didn't get messed up. Attached you find two examples illustrating what I meant previously (another loop on flat area, then have lightmap wrap around…
Welcome to the second part of this Procedural Generation aka ProcGen classification series called “Many faces of Procedural Generation” series. To see the previous part click here. In this post I’m going to introduce a new concept: * ProcGen purity: This concept is a scale mainly used to compare the methodology’s…
Hey everyone! I've been working on a new project in UDK and set up a Master Material just to get everything started. While there are many wonderful examples of master materials on the web, there aren't very many that have been released for download, so here we go! UPDATE: 8/17/2013 Quick update for today. Bug fixes thanks…
A good tip to bring more depth into the scene is to add some meshes for curling wallpaper and hanging ceiling plaster. Here's a good example from Metro for the ceiling. I guess for the wallpaper it's self explainatory, but if needed, in the volga level are some good examples to find. It's a few polygons more for an…
Ah, I loved Aquaria. I think you're off to a very solid start here, but you need to take a step or two back and develop and detail up the body and costume. A lot of her is still quite soft at this point and a little blobby in places, most notably on the feet. I'd probably take the time to work out what extra details she…
If the concept and base model is done and locked, and nothing goes wrong, it would take 2 weeks. But very often we have to tweak models during the building, revisit the concept and design, change something for easier animation etc. I would say it's more often 3 weeks from concept to finished and working in game. Of course…
Schools are happy to take money from you, but they don't guarantee they'll get all students a job. Those examples you posted is proof of that. Students can submit anything during class and a teacher has no choice but to pass it along. In reality, those renders are very far away from getting noticed by a professional…
when you guys mention averaged cage, how do you go about doing that in max/maya? i dont think ive noticed a button that says average cage unless im an idiot and haven't seen that. i hope this isn't getting off topic but i ran my own tests when i was taking a break from work on thursday and ran these similar tests. then i…