I was curous to know what persentage of people are self taught. By self taught, I mean you learned by yourself, outside of a univeristy, highschool, or any class like setting.
i love how nobody wants to answer the question in the spirit it was asked. you should probably change the question to "did you attend an art school" or something similar.
~ I was making a sweeping statement, so yeah I do agree with you. I just mean that most if not all courses teach you so little its kind of ridiculous. You get more from google really, so I consider most ex students I know pretty much self taught.
Not a single person would be able to say they were "taught" half the things they know about game art. Thats not what universities do, you are meant to study by yourself and not expect them to do everything for you.
I spent a year in school for 3D, where I was taught this neat trick: if you apply self-illuminated red, green and blue textures to your highpoly, you can bake 'm down and have neat masks in Photoshop.
when I started learning there were not many tutorial resources and I was still in half a mind whether to continue with traditional 2d illustration. From what I remember there was jeremy birns site 3d render.com and not much else really. I think you need a natural sense of curiosity to learn 3d and i found the whole…
I learned qwerty for maya at school. I learned I prefer maya over max at school. The 18 hours a day I spent at school experimenting ahead of the course material I did on my own accord. 5 years later I re-learned maya and a new way of navigation, controls, normal mapping, texturing, and virtually everything that wasn't…
well i took it as have you been taught any 3d which no never, if we extend it to art then yes.... my Mum taught me not to shit my pants (mostly) where does it stop
I consider myself "mostly" self taught. I learn alot from trial and error (mostly error). I did college and everything but whilst there I was only really taught animation and 2D stuff. I pretty much ended up teaching the tutors 3D by the end of the course. Most of the stuff I know is from tutorials. Now do you consider…