I have no problem with almost any of the trends listed on here... particularly the ones that KEEPS US EMPLOYED! Day 1 DLC's Are you guys aware that there are often many months between when a game goes GOLD (completely finished), and on shelves? Are you guys aware that with FINISHED assets, and completed mechanics, whipping…
Hey Joe, cool looking work, I'm sure you'll be miles ahead of some of your classmates if you're just starting. The best advice I can give if you're just starting uni is to keep setting Artstation as the bar. From experience, I've seen a few people start uni with some real skill, just to stagnate as they feel like they're…
TLDR; Normal maps are limited in what they can do by their bitrate :) As you said, when you're using tangent space normals, it alters each vertex's normal by adding onto the model's vertex normals, so because OP split the vertex normals, the normal map is the limit to how well the split can be covered up. The normal maps…
I posted this on GA.org, but I'll share with ya'll. The best protection from loosing your work is iteration saving. OFTEN. Although you can't protect yourself from spontaneous disk failure. That being said here is a tutorial on recovering Maya Ascii AND Maya Binary files. It is really easy to do, but will be tedious. This…
Time for a recap: My portfolio thread Febuary 2014 My portfolio thread March, 2014 Now it's 5 months later: http://jordannelson2.weebly.com/ Some notes: -This is the portfolio I sent for college admission. I'm aware pieces like the Cabinet or Chair come off as generic but I needed something that was a huge step up from…
Thanks for the comment Rik. The second technique you described for forming the concavity is actually more or less what I did in the screenshot I posted. The part I couldn't figure out was how to marry it together cleanly with the main cylinder of the flashlight body. Shortly afterward I tried just going in with the cut…
First impression: Great another Halo2 fan doing their version of Master Chief... Master Chief inspired models are becoming the AK-47 of a few years ago. It would really help to see the concept but really I think we all know what it was modeled after. I can't say I am a big fan of the model. LIke MoP pointed out it lacks…
I don't get what people see about aion being a hard grind... yes there is that issue of the damn balaur hearts at 50 for the miragent/fenril armor, I'm at lvl 47 right now and I'm dreading the prospect of farming the mats for potentially... a lot of failures. Aside from that, the grind was really not that significant. It…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJHW_t2BtaI Serbian Film is a film aimed for a certain audience, and i don't recommend you to watch that film if you are very sensitive. And like that film of cult, Hatred is aimed for a very specific audience. I you google more about Serbian Film you could be shocked. Films are worse than…
VERY IMPORTANT: We'll use this thread from here on out to discuss how much of a tool I am. In my editing of the thread to include those FIGHTER submissions that didn't make it due to technical difficulties I completely removed the thread from our database. I had merged in someone's post, which ended up being that thread's…