Wait, so are you more into lighting and rendering? Or animation? "Cinematics" is a VERY broad term. There are plenty of different roles within a cinematics team. But now that you`re talking about tweaking rendering and "look dev".
Cinematic guys are more likely to have things in common with movie vfx studios, animated movies, etc. And most of the time it is outsourced. Also I have a feeling more and more studios are going to do cinematics in engine. There's other forums out there if you want to get into that kind of work.
I love cinematics. Im a cinematic animator. We do all our stuff in engine as well. The reason you dont see much about it on here though, i think, is because it's not an easy task to do by yourself. Especially when you start talking about rendering and all that. People tend to focus on 1 discipline. When it comes to the…
These are all valid points , i would love to meet others who share my interest in this field of cinematics , guys who love to tweak and work out rendering and look dev .
I agree with @slipsius , to get the quality of the cinematics like you mentioned, it's a hefty team effort. Even for my short personal projects, there's usually 8 or more guys, each specializing in their own field and sometimes even more so. An FX artist may do fluids while another does destruction, or modelers that do the…
There is a lot of emphasis on game art in general mainly low poly models and the game engine .I've always loved the cinematic side of the development .Telling story through Pre-Rendered animation .Being inspired by studios like Blur and Blizzard entertainment I was wondering about why i haven't seen any artist of this sort…