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Re: Why you need an education
I'm not a great artist by any means, and I wouldn't consider myself "in the industry" yet....but the job I have now is tangentially related to what I hope to do one day. Of the tasks I do on a daily basis, perhaps 20-30% of them are associated with what I learned in school. The rest are things I've had to learn myself, as… -
Re: Portfolio Review - Recent Graduate
The first rule for artist portfolios is to keep it simple. You're showcasing your art, not your flash programming; your default page should be your portfolio. In the castle scene, the light from the fires is too yellow and static. This link is to a tutorial on changing the color of a light in UDK, but it should give you a… -
Re: The end of xNormal? (nope)
this made me curious, i dusted off the painter install to give it a try as a baker. had it since they sold it for 50 or thereabouts but am basically a total noob. bear with me (not in the revenant-way). - it does not seem to write the baked maps to disk directly? you have to wait for all the bakes to finish then export… -
Re: Horror gameplay perspective
Wow, some good responses. Sounds good, I'd definitely check it out. Completely agree, and I have yet to experience this in a game. All of them are either fighting or running and for the ones I've played there hasn't been a single part where I 'froze'. That's the main thing I'm wondering. For humans, what would scare us… -
Re: L4D2 SDK to feature more options for modders.
If you guys havent noticed there is no customization features in this sdk as opposed to what was reported by kotaku. There is a number of improvements that will be usefull though. edit: however according to this i'm wrong:… -
Re: Texturing a house and UVs - What approach to take
How you split it up boils down to two different compromises. Number 1: between easy usage and creative flexibility (dropping in whole building vs. being able to combine small parts into different buildings) Number 2: compromise between number of draw calls and triangles that need to be rendered. Ther's a limit to both that… -
Re: [Game] Blood, Sweat, Gold -- modular character system + environment
Alrighty, that's all the outfits finished for now. Originally, the lead developer was pretty against having "bright" colors as the theme of the game is to be grim, but all the reference of clothing from the period (11th century europe) that I could find was pretty colorful. I decided then to stay pretty true to the ref I… -
Re: World war 2 stick grenade
Dox, it's your project, I say do whatever keeps you learning. If getting the perfect bake is so frustrating that you feel like you don't want to work on your project anymore, get on to texturing and just finish the damn thing! And as long as you keep the same UVs you can try to bake again later down the line after it's… -
Re: Costume Design Contest
Thanks TeriyakiStyle. Fmoritz came to me with his concerns a few days ago and my answer to him was not far from yours: I think that saying that contests like the ones we organize hold no benefit to participant artists is not true. For participating artists contests such as this one give them an opportunity/a subject topic… -
Re: First semi-successful NM bake with some questions
Some feedback - I'll try not to sound like a perfectionistic, nagging old hag: The UV layout could've been optimised by quite a lot actually. Check the picture here: http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/6889/e00c.jpg The yellow, orange, magenta and rose shells are identical pairs, and thus should be flipped/mirrored and…
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