I've only been in the Gaming industry 1.7 years and coming from a Environmental Artist view, It's allot of HARD, Dedicated Work and you really got to love it to do it because any other attitude will just make you feel unfulfilled if this is not the kind of art you want to produce. Plus, in some cases, it really helps to…
Damn! I am having a really tough time figuring out what the maul should look like. It's TRUE that mauls were used in combat by french peasants, however brief or rare that may have been. So if I don't want to get docked points for historical accuracy, I will have to make a maul. ...Soooooo that's what I'm going to make,…
I've created a low poly (~450 triangles) male human model in 3DS Max, and have brought it over to Maya for rigging. Following a tutorial on creating IK controllers, I've got most of them properly set. But I have an issue with the spine IK, where the chest's spine bone only rotates horizontally, and not vertically. The…
I think you can do something more interesting with the layout and composition. All the buildings are the same height, placed exactly the same distance apart, and look identical. Part of what makes medieval architecture interesting is the total lack of city planning, cramped streets, and chaotic layout of the buildings.…
I washed dishes when I was 15 part-time, often until 2 am then going back to high school the next morning. It's a terrible job. You really don't want to scrub cheese off of metal for ten hours. Look into an apprenticeship in a Red Seal trade. Here's a list: http://www.red-seal.ca/trades/tr.1d.2s_l.3st@-eng.jsp Some of the…
Zbrush 3 might benefit as it's built to work with up to 256 cores, not sure how much it would help though. For games, many can't make use of a quad core, from benchmarks I've seen a quad core over a dual core the FPS increase was from about 125(ish) to 140 (ish). You would need a different mobo if you were to upgrade to a…
Ambient Occlusion Map: EarthQuake's Baking Method details some good ways to create ao for the diffuse map, You can also take the AO and bake it back into the normalmap... http://wiki.polycount.net/Normal_Map#Renormalizing An ambient occlusion pass can be multiplied onto the blue channel of a tangent-space normal map,…
it's definitely nice when it's there... but at 42k I probably pay 14k of that in taxes. Good lord if I ever had a broken bone for heaven forbid cancer or a hernia operation, I'll be laughing it up. Well... maybe not at cancer... cancer sucks nomatter how you look at it. the healthcare is not so great when you are just…
I always think its importent never to use the same color throughout the model. Ex. your green stays the same hue etc.. Its kinda like giving a face a skin color but not taking accounts as nose been more red, forhead more yellow etc.. Its heads red "thingys" stays the same red, even tho they'll probably be more translucent…
Out of nowhere after 6 months of using my 2080 Ti, it failed suddenly. The first symptom was that "space invaders" type of artefacting on the screen I've seen articles written and images posted about it. After the screen was frozen with that artefacting, my PC booted. Yesterday, I was using Blender's Eevee when this…