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Re: Paris Carousel WIP
Oh boy I'm in trouble with this thing. My estimated tri count was 30k and I have WAY over shot that. The poles inside the interior of the carousel alone are 117k and that's as optimized as I could get them to maintain a reasonable silhouette. Obviously I'm doing something wrong here. Without those poles the carousel is at… -
Re: Comcast gobbles up NBC
Of all the areas the US government isn't regulating to get upset about, leave it to polycount to get outraged about television. Let me make a quick list of things that need regulating that affect people's lives a multitude more than any media monopolies: *Prison (200 rapes a day in the US, 2,500 children in prison for life… -
Re: Relocation Advice - New Orleans
Yeah, because its a new studio, there are the studio managers that are pretty much coming from New York to man the fort, and everyone else is pretty much coming in from all over the place. HR has sent me alot of stuff that I've found on my own, and I'm trying to get in touch with the realtors that they recommended, but… -
Re: Project Quality vs. Job Stability: What's your opinion?
First of all, congrats on having a choice. Opportunities are rare and having the ability to decide between them even rarer. There's a lot of great advice already in this thread. As others are saying, take time to evaluate this from all angles. Keep not only salary and benefits in mind, but I find location is arguably more… -
Re: M39 EBR Hard Surface practice
It's a bit confusing, are you making this in zbrush or normal modelling? The first screenshot says zbrush, but the wireframe in the second says just normal modelling. It's also a bit unclear what parts are just lowpoly/base and what parts are already (turbo) smoothed, but overall the edge widths seem nonexistant. (and it's… -
Re: Road to excellence (Female portrait project) ( Zbrush + Details + texturing + rendering + sobbing )
In my case, I already had a mouthbag in my basemesh before I started sculpting. Once I finished my sculpt, I retopoed the whole head including the mouthbag. I imported the new topolgy to ZBrush and projected my sculpt to the new topo with "Project All" function, sub-d by sub-d, because projecting straight with the highest… -
Re: Pixars Ed Catmull Emerges As Central Figure In The Wage-Fixing Scandal
Some other things to keep in mind... Profit margins on CG work in California are very, very low nowadays and they've been declining for quite a long time. London and Vancouver and Montreal have been introducing serious tax breaks to draw away movie VFX work and studios had to bid for jobs that kept getting bigger and… -
Re: almost a new year another new project. Willy Jeep WW2
I like it! The skid plate in the middle has diagonal scratches, shouldn't they be forward to back? The suspension is actually straps of metal stacked together, it would probably be better to straighten them out on the UV layout for two reasons. 1) They'll pack better. 2) You can more easily draw straight lines on them… -
Re: The startup of hybrid games; an advertisment *DELETED*
Thanks (I think) for the advice, but it is quite ill founded, but only through me not giving enough information. The first developement project that will sell for retail is the MMORPG. This does notmean however that we will not be doing numerous preliminary projects to i) Get the team members aquainted with each other ii)… -
Re: Photosourcing and UVs
With characters, UV first, then texture. With environments, bit of both. I've actually played around with some rather crazy techniques for doing photosourcing. Here's one that I used for some exterior building models (Max centric): 1. Get flat on front/side/back shot photos of the building. 2. Take into Photoshop, cleanup,…
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