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Re: Need advice buying a camera
The minolta 50mm 1.7 is the first lens you should buy, you can pick up a used copy for $75-100 on ebay. This lens is sharp from about F2-5.6 or so whereas teh kit zoom is sharp from about F5.6-F8 or so, which in use means you can use the 50mm in a wide variety of lighting conditions. Its so cheap that it just makes a lot… -
Re: [ 3ds max FBX ] Import specific objects from FBX files
Hi Eric, yes i need to import some objects for lightmaps and there is a gigantic object that i dont need all the time. It takes like 15-20 min to load in max and everytime i need to LM an object i need to reimport everything....thats so time consuming. 350-400 MB fbx file. -
Re: Salary: Doctor vs cg artist
The number of CG artist jobs in the world is infinite if you consider indies, self-employed, contract and people who sell assets online. A lot of them probably make less than $10,000 a year though. For comparison: Number of AAA game character artists in the world: about 500 at 25 studios Average Salary is around $80,000 US… -
Re: SSD's rock so hard
An ideal backup solution means 3 copies of the files with at least one of those copies on a remote server. Its not really backup if your backup is sitting next to your computer and you have a fire, flood, someone breaks in to your house and steals it etc. I have a NAS (network attached storage), a relatively inexpensive… -
Re: Artist habits
I think we do it largely to alleviate boredom to be honest. I get bored of retopologizing a 35ktris car and start fiddling around with materials. Don't even realise I've done it. -
Re: The Character Art of Darksiders II - Game Assets
Bigjohn - Thanks dude! Mmm as far as texture process goes, I'd say similar to what the dota 2 texturing guide does. Except I usually waste more time painting in the directional lighting and handpainting some key or fun parts ;) BoBo - Thanks man I appreciate it! It was great getting to work you with and the rest of the… -
Re: Low poly Pirates Carribean
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?um=1&newwindow=1&safe=off&sa=N&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbnid=ihN4INYWjUOoZM:&imgrefurl=http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/pirates-of-the-caribbean/images/31292993/title/flying-dutchman-vrs-black-pearl&docid=CzIFpngtiXj-wM&imgurl=http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31200000/The-Flying-Dutchman-vrs-The-Blac… -
Re: Hug your kid at home, but belt them in the car. The automobile thread!
Taking delivery of one of these next week! 99% of my driving is city stuff and I rarely carry much luggage. Looked at Audi A1, Fiat 500 and Alfa Mito... fell in love with the Mini, so much fun! I'm too old to care about owning a fast car now. Actually that's not true... I still like fast cars, but when our fuel costs £1.39… -
Re: Polycount Community Chest Event
@seeingtriangles ur welcome ;) i wantd to work on slark set yesterday but after 4hours of not finding good shapes i was so demotivated that i could not go on anymore. and well then i used my magix for ur great wr :) @jlem sure, ur welcome :) @baddcog whats the use of a shield if he doesnt use it? another 2 important… -
Re: Alien Isolation (fan art)
Hy guys! Finally finish my low poly and baked all the maps, here it is with normal map blended and AO. I end up with a total of 12 351 tris, the spiral curled cable took me 9k tris.
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