"As for philosophy I think its all bunk." says guy with a very cynical personal philosophy. No offense, but your whole post comes off like one of those people who says "I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist", because they can't see their worldview is just another matter of perspective, and is shaped by their own personal…
I've only participated in 3 failed projects so I don't know if this is general but they all had one thing in common. They all used real-time in-engine MLI workflows with low res RGB masks with maximum 4-5 layers. The documentation was usually terrible. The clients also made huge changes to the workflows every few months…
I'm an outsourcer part of a conglomerate. I have a job. I have good bosses. I'm lucky. At least financially speaking. The problem with being an outsourcer though is that you are kind of a jack of all trades master of none. Plus, all projects I participated in were highly technical with basically no artistic side and aside…
yea, personal projects where you can go all-out with your skill and possibly even be portfolio pieces can help there imo. Make a few of those and hopefully you can get noticed by people who care about quality and doing things the right way
you'll need a day job, but I 100% recommend being a game developer, it's the only thing healing / improving my mental health with all of the shit going on in this industry right now. It'll make you less easy to replace by AI too. You'll keep learning and keep improving, and when things get better you'll be a more valuable…
Just to play devil's advocate for a moment... "'Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." Meaning that, while marketing folk and "suits" are trying to squeeze money out of their customers, its because its the only proven strategy for maintaining live games like Destiny. So, it might be…
some people have a habit of thinking about the team and acting in ways that help the team, others do the opposite. some have disorder which makes it impossible for them to not be selfish even if they were trained not to be. you could say that people who help the team only do so to help themselves but its kind of useless…
Ty benjammin for being respectfully appropriate and not condescending, just to add to that remark but they are feeding into the machine, tencent is not great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGuWfjvBNwE & 2nd comment and there is an epic video there you can also look at since tencent has their hands in there also? so if…
As CEO, however, Kotick has a specific mandate. And this mandate is to act in the interest of the company. Purely personal motives are not relevant in this context and can therefore not be used to legitimise certain actions. The accusation of "short-sightedness" is therefore also based on how and whether he acts in the…
Yes, this is what's going on right now. I really just want to make stuff, not worry about countless checklists and reworking stuff over and over. MLIs are Material Layer (Instances) that you load in MSIs, Material Stack (Instances), and then blend with RGB blend masks. It sounds easy and it should be but so far every…