I don't really want it to be game art, I just want it to look cool so that I can get a job. Take Greg Rassam's Far Cry 5 work on Artstation for example. None of those guns look that good in game. But the renders out of marmoset/octane/vray or whatever he's rendering in look incredible. Why is that? It's to showcase his…
Its fine to make some edits in photoshop but I imagine that most game artists will still achieve the bulk of the look of thier 3d art in whatever render engine they use wether thats realtime or not. I personally think art like those far cry 5 guns are probably being rendered in toolbag as he lists it in the description but…