I have :) from people considerably more well-known and connected than that dude. Having your career threatened over a two sentence forum post is pretty funny in retrospect.
This is why forums are great, we can all warn each other to watch out for things like this. It is kind of ironic this guy is going to "warn" his connection not realizing we are polycount :-)
I think his version of epic connection is indeed, buy Udk license from epic, mooch off other freshmen artists' arts and get filthy rich. Completely missing out the break even part. <.<
I have a feeling the "connections" with Epic are the just bought an Unreal license to sell the game commercially and using it as a slimy marketing ploy to get people to pay attention to their game. Although I do feel bad for the recent grad in the video.
Totes agree'd on some sort of information for newer people who haven't experienced this. It always sounds really promising when in reality its just jerkfaces trying to con free work out of students. There was a dude here in melbourne who contacted me years ago, and it sounded really awesome; a very nice salary, him being…
it's funny how this guy wanted to "warn" his connections about you, but instead got warned about himself. Though, to be honest, I would write the original letter in different manner. Just tell him you are busy with other stuff or just didn't find his offer acceptable - without much detail. Just because if this is someone…
Hey guys, sorry for spotting this thread so late...I was curious to see how far Jim has gotten on this "PoS" game and stumbled across this thread in amusement. This is the real Ryan Fissenwert, yes the artist seen in the breakfast television video and the artist who made literally 90% of the art assets that you see in his…