Do companies use normal maps when they do hand painted textures? Me and a friend are trying to recreate the castle from gargoyles. I want to hand paint everything just because its based on a cartoon so it makes sense to me. Even though its a cartoon it does have some beautiful detailed scenes. Should I hand paint it and…
Hello... My name is Antonio. This time I created a map based in the mountains landscape from Europe. I only worked in the terrain, layout, texturing, lighting(24 hours cycle) and materials. This is just a quickly scene that I was making a weeks ago for try to upgrade my experience making terrain height-maps, lightings and…
Hey guys, couldn't really find a better spot to put this but I really enjoy doing world building and was wondering if anyone was willing to help me out. So, I would really like to build some environments and I thought I could possibly help out some artists that are mainly prop modelers. So in short I was looking for an…
Hey - So I have my high poly mesh that has some pretty round corners. I beveled my low poly mesh to account for these round corners. At first I baked out my normal map and had some pretty nasty lines along some of the UV seams where the low poly mesh was beveled. To fix this, I just cut all the UV seams and moved them a…
I am currently looking for a strong Visual Artist for a well known gaming company located in Dallas, Texas. If you have ever wanted the chance to work with a world renown company that has name recognition within the gaming industry this could be your chance. You will be working in a focused small-team situation creating…
I recently had an assignment to create a website using flash. Some students created websites about their family or favourite wrestler (why? i don't know). I took the opportunity to get my professional site up and running. There's still a good amount of content to be added. I just wanted to get some feedback on the layout,…
Heya PC I come here with a bit of a question, I'm prepping to start working on an environment in UDK and the basis of it will be centered around an island. To be specific its the "Old town" island in Stockholm. I've read up and learned about how to create and sculpt the landscapes, how to import heightmaps etc etc. But…
I'm in need of a UI Designer with the following Qualifications: A portfolio that demonstrates excellent design and layout skills. Experience with Flash and actionscript. Excellent knowledge/experience in a major 3d modeling package (Maya preferred). Intermediate knowledge/experience of creating animation in a major…
These guys have pushed VR to where I always imagined it. It's still in development but what they are doing corrects some of the shortfalls i've always thought VR had. Okay, it's not even classed as beta yet but what they're doing in levels of physical interaction and projection on the real world looks amazing. I've been…
This is a follow up to the thread I started in the 2D and 3D discussion thread. Thanks for all the good information everyone has provided, it's been very helpful and motivating. Hi I'm currently targeting a company that is developing Nintendo DS games and this is what I'm making to show them. It's an M1 abrams, and it's…