oh my god, theres not been a single game I've ever tried in my whole life that has me wanting to give up trying before the menu screen - until now, congratulations GTA4! (edit, this sentence needed to be bold'ed and coloured for emphasis) Rockstar games social club, windows live AND steam dont seem to play well. Steam…
The following positions are available: 3D MODELLER (DESIGNER) RESPONSIBILITIES To be able to design and implement 3d models for Call of Duty 2. This includes character models, weapon models or props. REQUIREMENTS: Knowledge of and able to work with Maya or 3ds Max Able to design either charactermodels, weaponry or…
You've chosen a realistic style so you really ought to go back over it and make a significant upgrade to the detail level. While its fair enough that less is sometimes more, you have not chosen a 'less' style. Also, the big thing about normal maps is the fact that they can realistically fake more detail due to faking…
Lot of young people think if they have worked very hard on something, it must have value. But you can bust ass and it all be for nothing... then, if you got the wrong attitude, all that repeated failure and effort that seems to have been wasted drags you down. Eventually you quit. The people who achieve their goals aren't…
Towards the end of the modeling process I started to think of my final illustration. The last few projects I've done, I've taken them straight from Zbrush to Keyshot to render passes, and finish up with a paintover in Photoshop. This process has been popular for a number of years now and can be quite liberating in…
We will continue. Mind you, this is all backstory, but it sets the scene for the world as we encounter it in the (fictitious) game Said Zhakharus Khenton put has ideals into practice and, after researching a database for available habitable planets, applied for a license with the Outer-space Settlement Agency to settle a…
I had the opportunity to attend the IGDA Leadership Forum last week, and had the opportunity to listen to a lot of industry veterans talk about what it takes to be a leader, and their experience in the workplace. From my notes i came up with this. I am still expanding some of the ideas, but i thought it would be…
Ray marching has become a very popular technique these days among real time artists and developers, due to the crazily increasing hardware speed. It was widely used in the past too, but mostly in offline applications because of its computation requirements. But luckily now we can have a glimple in our real time renderers…
INFORMATION PACK: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qnmCFsvLlXr4FDLpYicYfG5OEvcBMAaQ Project overview: Sofa ninja studios feat. The nobody collective is proud to bring to the world a new and cool take on the FPS RPG. Utilizing all the classic gameplay of retro first person shooter games. Our game is a single player first…
Hello, my name is Peyton Thomas. I am an aspiring 3D artist who lives in Austin, Texas. In this post, I will be talking about how I constructed the bridge environment I constructed, and the techniques I used to build it. Star Trek is my favorite franchise, and it’s the reason I wanted to go into 3D art to begin with. It…