Welcome to polycount =) I'm about to rip your model apart in the hopes that you can put it back together and have it be better. Or at least you can walk away having learned something you can take to work on your next model. This is going to take up a good chunk of my free time this morning. Recognize the fact that I don't…
The write ups for game art aren't as good or as solid as programming resources. There's a few reasons for it. You always need a visual example for art related terms and descriptions. Game art is constantly changing, things written even 5 years ago can be really out dated. The polycount wiki is a decent place to start, lots…
Anandtech has a nice benchmark tool that makes comparing drive speeds for several different usage scenarios. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SSD/65 Testing the Samsung 830 256 gb against the smaller 128 gb version is enough to show the signifigant performance the additional nand gives you with 256gb over 128gb. ( in most…
Sorry, but this shit is long. Get comfortable. The early years: I'm originally from Southern California, where I spent the first 15 years of my life, most of which living with my Mom in the LA area. She would constantly threaten to send me to a mental institution because I was always drawing "demons & monsters, why cant…
Congrats on getting a portfolio put together. First, you should decide where you want to focus. Right now you have characters, vehicles, and an environment..do you want to sell yourself as a generalist? or are you looking towards environment art? Whatever you shoot for, you should focus your portfolio mostly on that.…
Sorry but i have to reply to both of you in so many questions, i got jumped on as if i am a representative or something so don't blame me for yet another wall of text, you asked for it :) if we had remained to the selection features comparison we wouldn't have gone through all that. I have tried to split by placing a name…
Thanks for the help man! Noticed RC.exe is cancelled when i try to export from photoshop aswell. - Dae is not read only. - The entire structure is read only but I can't change it, it reverts to read only. Apparently folders are like that now? Win8 - Same error - Same PK )Cqï³5f ) Testcube.daeíZ[oÚH~Ôÿ0ò>î/@…
Alright, here we go guys. Hopefully I didn't get too image happy. :) Forgive poor image compression on most the image. I opted for quicker loading over quality. Except for this first one. This particular set of props was meant to be a quick and versatile. Borderlands (and their level designers) are notorious for re…
Oh man, I <3 the game/art community sometimes. Thank you for all the replies and advice I'm going to try and get to everyone here who had something to say to see if it helps a bit more. I appologize for the wall of text, but I don't want anyone to feel I ignored them, since no advice here was useless. @chrisradsby: "Game…
As a whole they are an impressive amount of work! Anyone who can bang out this many props in a short amount of time deserves a pat on the back, considering most people work on a mailbox for weeks/months and they don't look nearly this good =) Crits: (don't be scared by the amount of text, they are all tiny and aimed at…