Reader, Hello, I am a college senior enrolled in International Academy of Design and Tech(IADT TROY) located in Michigan. I'm coming close to graduation, and it's required that I find a mentor for my Capstone class. Now, my mentor must have a history in the game Industry and has published games that can be found. Now the…
Some info for other students thinking of going to uni in the UK. I had a phone interview and the guy I was speaking to told me how all the tutors have industry experience, one of the tutors has 14 years experience and is a director of his own studio which runs out of the facilities, of which he hires students to do…
Agisoft Photoscan is only $179 for a standalone license, and if you happen to be a student, it is available in an education license to accredited educational institutions and it's students for only $59. I don't think it's quite as good as reality capture in some aspects, but the price difference is exponential. From their…
Hello, This might have a quick fix, but I've still got my training wheels on. I've created a scene in Maya 2012- a hospital ward. Around the room and pushed back is a large skybox which has clouds and whatnot.. You can see it animating through the windows of my scene. However, I need a way to light the skybox without…
...at this point high schools need to have a required course on making sure students really make better decisions about what they're going to college for, you sure as hell need to make sure the field you're going into will pay you enough to pay off your student loan debt. Here in Seattle you're always, ALWAYS a rock's…
I think it's awesome. I had a LOT of "useless" classes for my degree that suffered from the same sort of expectations that could never realistically be anything more than a "thrown together" sort of outcome. Teachers occasionally give students these grand projects without realizing that some students don't have mommy and…
I guess this is where I should post this although it seems like maybe there should be an internship forum section. We are looking for interns on a quarterly basis on the next session starts Feb 19th. If you are interested, here is the link with all the information. This is for artists but it sounds like we are open to…
While that advice is sound and its obviously important that a game dev school should provide the necessary skills for its students to jobs in the industry, as an education I feel it is up to the student to take away as much from the experience as they can and express it in more ways than what is mandated by the industry…
Jackwhat just let it go. Keep in mind that a lot of professors in the art field don't get paid enough and the ones that don't bother to teach and inspire their students are just miserable and hate their jobs and probably their lives as well. In other words they live in their little hell hole. The problem with taking any…