Hi, My name is Pat Toulouse and I am a professional senior 3D artist that specializes in game development for PC, console and web, including mobile. I have been in the field for many years and have been working at Fuel Games (Ottawa, Canada) for the past 4 years. I recently left my position at Fuel Games to pursue new…
So i'll preface this post by saying I wasted quite some time by completely over-engineering at the beginning my modular kit. I was so focused on trying to make it as modular as possible that I forgot it's supposed to be easy to use too. I'll put all the planning and stuff I was doing here to remind myself and anyone else…
I'm in the process of trying to take my own original character from Softimage/XSI 6 and make it ready for full facial animation and lip synch in the Source SDK Face Poser. I've been using the tutorials "Character Setup Overview" and "Character Facial Animation Shapekey Set" from the Valve Developer site, which have been…
I am a Final Year university student currently working on a concept art based project for one of my modules. The hypothetical game brief is a stealth-based action / FPS game set in a city based around themes of surveillance and controlling appearances. The protagonist is a spy operating in an environment where everyone is…
The Chaos series of mods have a long history of successful releases, dating all the way back to Quake 2; http://chaoticdreams.org/about-us/ To this day, Chaos still enjoys fairly wide and positive name recognition among players; http://www.forums.chaoticdreams.org/viewtopic.php?p=69317#p69317 We've even been mentioned a…
Mare Nostrum is a modification for Red Orchestra OstFront 41-45 that concentrates on adding both new playable forces and many new specially designed custom maps to play in. Aiming to bring the most realistic and exciting experience of the battles of the deserts of North Africa up to the invasions of Sicily and Italy and…
Just thought I'd mention that VGL with be at the Paramount Theatre on Saturday Oct 29. This is a really cool show featuring a full orchestra and choir playing video game music. COPY&PASTE: The first major U.S. video game music concert tour is finally here! Think music concert, theatrical stage show, and interactive video…
I plan on becoming a character artist. Initially, I will use images from google for anatomy studies and likeness sculpts, but eventually I want to populate my portfolio. I am concerned about the legality and copyright of including reference images in my portfolio. Questions: 1) Am I legally allowed to include character…
Auto LOD is included in every major game engine and it can be good enough in most cases until it isn´t anymore. Like for example eyes or hair pieces which are suddenly missing. (these four examples show an active Auto LOD without the included Distance where it occurs) Depending on when those issues pop up, you could do…
It was decently entertaining, but it certainly didn't live up to the original. I am hard pressed to decide whether I liked it more or less than Predator 2. Although I don't think very highly of Predator 2, I would have to say that the writing and pacing of that film was considerably more consistent than Predators.…