What kind of degree will you be getting from this new education? What degree will you be getting now? I had the same dilemma when the first course I studied ended. I felt that it was too early for me to start working as I figured that a job would dampen my interest for cg(I was 21 back then). I kept studying and my…
Lol! I genuinely laughed out loud at "Cock Rocket". Gonna be 'hard' to justify not going with that. @Jacque and @Tital: I'm all for a deep discussion about purpose, motivation and setting. For now I'll only defend my decision by saying that this is not a "big" game. I wanted to experience the entire process of making and…
Welcome! Good plan living as close to work as possible and sticking with the west side, nothing worse than commuting across the bridges. The east side is where fun goes to grow old and have kids. The north end (where I live) is where fun goes to die... But if you're going to buy a house or condo you're looking at a…
Thanks for the kind words Fireborn, I'm glad you like how it turned out. The more I look at the image the more I'm happy with it. I'm glad the sky looks nice and hopefully gives off that heavily charged sort of atmosphere; I was pretty confident that once I painted the sky and other glowy bits that it would help sell the…
This has got to be one of the most difficult to understand thread topics I've seen in a while. I'm pretty sure "quality, quantity, story line" ALL make up the game's gameplay, or have a hand in it. I don't even know what in the world you're supposed to get from half of those. By quantity do you mean length, or potential…
[ QUOTE ] Consistent stylization is going make your game more immersive than trying to be the extraordinarily rare game that achieves that next leap in virtual realism. The goal has always been believability; The Illusion of Life. It just gets confused with realism sometimes. [/ QUOTE ] Thank you. Every so often a game is…
cheers for the comments guys =D and yeah, just tried out photoshop cs4 and i gotta say it was kinda cool :P (that might be because i've got nothing to compare it to tho, i've always just painted straight onto the diffuse map). Basically you import and rotate your mesh around on a layer, then just paint on layers above it…
I'm actually a little suprised that you have such a low poly budget on the model. True, the original ut2k4 characters aren't way up there, but with the newer rigs people are running the engine can handle a lot more being thrown at it. Other than that lil comment, I must say that is one sweet lookin' techno-valkerie!…
A practical, cool use of this is using gps-enabled smartphones with a camera as a gun, and tracking down other players in a real environment to shoot them. I believe there was an Android, Google's Linux(or unix/gnu/whatever, I forget)-based mobile Operating System. In practice, it looked really fun! Imagine trying to hide…
Thanks everyone for trying to help. Exercise didn't get rid of my pain but it did give me more energy which helped. All you can really do is keep trying things until you find the right variables that maximize your productivity. My PC did in fact cause me pain without me knowing it. My Dr told me that poeple emit and have…