Really? Does that 4 years include school? If it doesn't, I don't see how you were focusing on 3d with what you have in your folio. I'm not gonna call you slow as I am not a fast artist at all but a dozen assets anywhere from 30-70% done in 4 years? I think that's your problem right there. Regardless of whether you work…
thanks to all this is a great feedback :-) yes i forgot some details to tell yes ok: the textures are handpainted + a bit foto structures to get the complete look. the greenish look comes from the light setup because i explored the shots of the blizzard and to me all stone elements in this castle setting are nearly gray…
Alright it's update time! With this texture pass I was able to take a few steps forward with the materials and the tattoos. I wanted to fix some of the colors that I wasn't feeling, improve on the tattoos and make them look more like tattoos, and develop some of the materials a little more (mostly the skin). I attempted to…
Been running the developer preview on my eee slate since it came out. It's good, but I'm not sure it's really worth it. The new metro start menu is pretty lame, it's just all round a less streamlined interface than the standard start menu. I don't think you'll enjoy the onscreen keyboard though, it can be docked properly…
Im honestly ok with the graphical decrease. It happens. And when you`re working on a brand new system, ya, you dont know what the limits are really going to be. You dont hav ethe experience with it yet. Why does "Next-Gen" HAVE to be only about graphics? Look at everything else they do in the game. All the random…
PRE-GDC UPDATE: Back on sale (and now in EU) until March 24th! So since a small run (Just 18!) of 'I < 3 N-GONS' got printed last year I occasionally get asked for one. Anticipating some folks at GDC asking about my shirt I thought now would be a good time to do a second run. And this time I can offer a separate EU…
spectre1130 Resolution is 512x512 for all of them. I gave up on the idea of making them in 1024x1024 since it would be way more time consuming. maybe in the future they will be remade in higher res. I wouldn't know since I don't live in US. I do have a polish tax ID currently, no registered business yet. I did hear that…
Upgrading your CPU without upgrading your motherboard is almost always a futile process. You'll pay $1-300 for a cpu that is 10% faster. If you really want to upgrade you cpu, SAVE that money and put it into a new CPU/Mobo/Ram combo when you can afford it. In this case you could buy a AMD 5000+ off ebay for $100 and get a…
Hey, thanks to everyone who commented. This is hugely informative. Good to know about UDK specs. Here are some other bits I found: Unity (according to some users) will run with 70 bones with relative ease, but they recommend keeping it under sixty per mesh. tech-artists.org has this to say, "Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0…
50k? That was high-end last gen, but... look, try to optimise as much as possible of course, don't get carried away with useless polys everywhere just because someone else did it... but there's characters in current gen games averaging 70-140k. 40k seems to be about the lower end of hero characters these days. Also, either…