Hello, polycount. I am an aspiring realtime character artist and working on my portfolio piece. Right now, I just finished retopoing the whole character, ended up with around 225k tris including haircards. My question is how many tris are acceptable for a portfolio piece? I did the retopo using quadraw and it took me more…
Hello Polycount. I am 3rd and final year student of Game Design and for my honours project I am doing a stylized environment in UE4 . The deadline for this project is at the end of April, so I have a just over a month left. Inspired by Bilgewater Slaughter Docks from League of Legends.…
Hi! I'm a Dutch game development student in my last year now. Beside all the school project I want to start a serious (hobby) project. The idea is a 2D Rogue-Lite game set in the mid 1900's. The main character wakes up in an asylum and has to escape. In order to do this he/she needs the help of the other patients but…
Hello Polycount, As a student (well technically not since my call of duty got me enrolled for 2 years atm), I just wanted to tell you people how much of an inspiration every single one of your artwork is. My current environment isn't really art-friendly nor supportive but I gain much sense of fellowship and immense…
Hello everyone! My name is Max, and I'm a student at Interactive Media Design Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (http://imd.naist.jp). I'm researching future user interfaces for 3D design and animation. Sadly, researchers in my field hardly know anything about how 3D artists actually work. I hope…
Hey guys My name is Oliver, im a 2nd year games design student at Staffordshire Uni. I have been lurking these forums even since i heard about them back in my first year, and i would just like to say that there is some unbelievable work i have seen, so unbelievable in fact, i have always been scared of signing up and…
Hey guys, Well, I've been messing around in 3Ds Max for the last few days, but at the moment I'm still at a fairly big loss as to how to make anything (apart from really simple shapes). Because I'm only a high school student (14 years old) there's no easy way for me to get a university/polytechnic course in it (but I am…
Hey everybody! Last week I had some free time and I decided I'd make something to give back to the community. Polycount and sites like it have provided a lot of good learning material for me over the years, and I figured maybe this will help someone else out. I noticed that I have a number of students following me on…
LATEST I decided to enter the Bioware contest - over at CGHUB, but as usual I was kinda late to the party and I'm still hoping to contribute something before the deadline. I'm a Student from Staffordshire University and decided to focus my dissertation on the competition brief. This meant a lot of prep research and other…
I'm currently practicing traditional figure drawing and studying human anatomy at the moment. One of the primarily reason is because it's always been something that I wanted to learn and had a fascination for. Another reason is because I want to learn zbrush in the future for doing character modeling and sculpting, so…