Yes. A wacom bamboo is fine. But. It depends on your personal tastes. I prefer to have a large off-brand tablet instead of a small wacom because it allows me to make smoother broad swoops from the shoulder elbow, rather than working more with the wrist. You could ask around your local art circles if anyone has a large…
um shop around. Futureshop always rip you off for wacoms. try NCIX.com or here http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/Computers%28ME%29/ComputerPeripherals%28ME%29/Tablets%28ME%29/Default.aspx Although for the latter you may need to contact them to special order it for you. I can vouch for both. I bought my Cintiq from NCIX…
Higher megapixels doesn't always mean higher quality. http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/02/08/the-megapixel-myth-youre-getting-ripped-off/ Sites like Steves Digicams (I think thats the name) have reviews on every camera ever made. Just check for deals in local stores or on www.dealnews.com and look up a review on it.…
Nobody cares. Here is a list of things that are more important: 1. Demonstrating your art skills (portfolio) 2. Experience level 3. Knowing someone at the studio 4. Your personality/how you present yourself/how well you interview 5. Whether you are local or not 6. Whether you are willing to relocate or not 7. Knowing the…
You gotta push your texturing more. all your doing is using a flat diffuse + AO with one grunge texture overlayed on top. You should localize your texturing by showing where parts of the object split with dirt and what not. Add more details like grunge and scratches to your specular that is not in your diffuse to have…
ok man you want something to model that will be a challange and be a nice piece...let me snap some pictures for you of a local building here that just partially burnt down and looks all destroyed or do a search on the p&p section for my balboa park thread. You live in San Diego. Make one of those buildings. High poly…
Don't worry, I hit up all the local comic and anime conventions. I have a thing with spark. It goes like this: He makes a huge party. He invites me. I say it sounds cool. He tells me the date. I tell him I'm going to be out of town or busy. rinse and repeat. Last weekend was my final weekend with my girlfriend before she…
ha, well according to that it looks like a group of lawyers out to dispel "swiftboat veterans for truth" style political hit jobs. I don't see any mention of the national guard rounding people up. At most they mention that part of the group is a local sheriff... Big leap from concerned citizens trying to set the record…
I remember back in the day, I got a hot tip from a friend about a picture of Misty from Pokemon's boobs that was online. I got the url over the phone and wrote it down. Then I went hunting for the image through all of the altavista, geocities and angelfire terrible webrings and pages. I even was looking for it while using…
Technically your country of origin and whether they're a signatory of the Berne Convention (iirc). Enforcing that is another matter though. If you're in the EU, member states are putting together legislation to cover Orphan Works based on common ground between them; the UK white papers have more 'pragmatic' solutions for…