Hello! Not-quite-Industry-vet here! (have been working game art jobs for around 3 years) I find myself at a crossroads in my career and would like opinions on the matter. Please feel free to give me your honest opinion. Here is my problem: I am nearing the end of a Contract at a great studio. I have my choice between Full…
vTools: Scripts for Photoshop A set of scripts I've knocked up over the last year. My employers have agreed that the scripts belong to me, and not the company I work for as I wrote them on my own time, so even though I wrote many of them to help me at work I can now release them to be of help to you... whenever. The…
Greetings! My name is Alex and I am Director & Executive Producer at Grand Arc Designs. We are currently working on Memories of Aeldaria, which is a 3D action-adventure rpg being developed on the Unreal Engine 4. For this project, we are looking for 1 3D Modeler & 1 Level Designer:* Modeler should be proficient in…
I have noticed some animators use life action footage or act out scenes and then use them as reference when animating or some import the movie files and trace/pose their characters over the underlying life action footage to get quick results. I think its okay to use footage as reference to enable u notice things u would…
Hi everyone, My latest job description requires me to create something that needs to look pretty real, but afaik there is nothing on our earth to give me any hint about how it might look like. I need to create a drowned city.. And when I say city, I don't mean some Atlantis stuff. I need real city from around like..…
Something weird happened to the image host and all the images were gone so I deleted the thread until I could upload them all again. Sorry about that. Hi there! I've just recently learned how to model and UVmap so I've been working on the level props for my personal project, Southern Rise for Unreal3. I'm not 100% sure on…
2 years ago I read a book about cloud computing, the big server complexes being built in Washington state, and how this is all gonna change the world by making it so that all you need is a keyboard and a monitor (or mobile equivalent) to do all your computing. This book was frightening because that means every office…
Several months ago I salvaged an old hard drive and was able to restore my old dominance war IV entry from 4 years ago.. I never finished, but I was able to get far enough into the project that abandoning it felt like a colossal waste of time. Both fortunately and unfortunately, I've grown a bit over the last 4 years. Some…
Hey I'm looking for a character artist to make a character that I've been wanted to see in 3d for quite some time. If you are interested please send me your portfolio and/or other work you have done so I can get an idea of what your good with. If I like what I'm seeing I'll message you back and we can start talking about…
MightyPea- No I understood what you guys were talking about, I guess I kinda went off course and was talking about two different things at the same time. Either way though, making a high poly in order to generate a normal map from ZBrush/MudBox.. and also just adding more polys in general to an object.. I just don't see it…