My gut reaction to reading this is that 1.5 months is not going to be enough time to get up to par to get an art test with the type of AAA places you listed. And GDC is different than maybe you're thinking. It is really just a time to get portfolio feedback from studios. They don't dole out art tests onsite (As you're most…
If you can wait a little while, I would expect clones to come out from Lenovo, Dell, etc. As for the price, it's not that bad if you factor in how much it costs vs how much you use it: 2 hours a day x 365 days a year = 730 hours. Divide the cost by that $800/730 and you are looking at about $1.10 per day if you use it for…
[SKETCHFAB]73386bf880594b5fa3dd21702a377636[/SKETCHFAB] I uploaded the model to sketchfab, so you can see the whole thing. What other faces can I delete ? I'm not sure what you mean by "flipped", they seem alright to me. In the tutorial I followed the guy had no problem welding them. It is possible that I missed a step.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73285&page=2 He used Decimation Master for the stone floor. In my personal experience the edge flow is often horrible without tweaking.
Great stuff sofar. Just keep at it! :) Do some basics once in awhile as well, I recommend doing this one every now and then: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/23/08/32/230832de29ff2ce9ae6d0b8956ebbedc.jpg