I should have prefaced my statement with: "I work with AI students that graduated more than 3 years ago, some more than 7 years ago and 95% of them came from the AI of Seattle." I didn't mean to come off as saying they where bad artists. I've learned a bunch from them and a trip down the AI pipe (minus the debt) would…
Personally I don't think it is a bad exercise. It really shows you how hard it is to model that whole bastard and get it all to fit within the texture space. Fit all 2 stories top to bottom..the ground and sidewalk..all the little pieces into a 1024 texture. Do a great job on and then tell me it was easy. Normal mapping…