Hi all, not sure if I'm asking this in the right place, but here goes. Brief history of myself, first. I am a 35-year-old nerd who got burnt-out on life from working way too long in a veterinary career and decided last April that I was going to retire from the field and go into debt learning 3D-modeling/texturing full-time…
Location: Charlottetown PE, Canada Position: Permanent Benefits: Health, Dental & Financial offered Relocation is also provided Icejam is a small team of like-minded games industry veterans, and we’re looking for a Jr. Technical Artist to join our ranks. Collectively, we’ve worked for a variety of big and small studios. We…
Hey guys not sure if this is the correct thread to be posting this in so please feel free to delete or move :) I and going to be starting my 3rd year of games desing at university next year and decided to get some practise in over the summer. I will be creating 3 levels in unreal as part of a project and wanted to ask some…
I think the last time I posted was around the time of E-3, before the summer. At E-3 I told those I met that I had been recently let go from the company that had moved me to Los Angeles. To give the rest of you some detail, Here's a little of what happened. When Castaway closed shop in December of last year. I spent the…
Reposting what I posted on Extra Credits on Penny Arcade: ***********============************* [USC's Interactive Media Division Perspective - Junior, C/O 2014 - Career Intention: Concept Art/3D ninja] If you're looking for an effective resource for a game design degree and a legitimate 4 year university, USC's the best.…
So an asian man takes a trip to America one summer, and enjoys the trip so much he decides to make it a yearly vacation. But the next year comes and when he goes to the American bank to exchange his cash for american dollars he is frustrated to find he gets less money back than the year before. "Hey!" he exclaims to the…
Kitase in the interview in the Ultimania says that in the game there is a happy ending. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/197343-final-fantasy-viii/68548821?page=1 About the theory, in my opinion... Squall not dies in the game. (spoilers) If he die on Disk 1 everything that follows from disc 2 onwards would not make sense, we…
Summer just started and I'm gonna try to do a lot of 3D during it, as most of my year was dedicated to computer science related projects, due to school. I couldn't decide what to start with and I figured I'd start with modeling Princess Mononoke from Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke. ;p I love Miyazaki movies and he's one of…
Yup, this is where I work. We are hiring temp work for the holiday rush. At the most it might last until Feb. Now for the bad news. (as if a short contract wasn't bad enough) I think they filled all the open slots already last week. I will check tomorrow. You might want to send me your resume "markd at atari.com" so I can…
Pak is dead on. And we tell that to students. We also tell them that getting this certificate or degree does NOT guarantee them a job. Some students come to the school with that mindset. And some leave before finishing because they can't let go of that mindset. The success points Pak stresses are part of the core focus of…