So I find myself in the market for a new laptop for 3D and other freelance work, with quite a bit of money for it, about $2000 with plenty of leeway to go higher. What are the latest and greatest in portable workstations? So far I'm looking at (in order of likely purchase): Dell XPS 15 or Precision 5100 - Most generically…
TimeGate Studios, developer of the award-winning F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and Kohan series, is looking for talented and driven Senior Animators to work on its current line of next-generation products for major publishers. Projects in development include the Unreal Engine 3-powered Section 8, a team-based first-person…
First, some thoughts. I'm rebuilding my website, and I'm trying to make it as painless to update as possible. I've realised that in the past I've hand written loads of PHP, or got others to do it for me. The current site has been dormant for 1 year due to the coder not finishing the output code. With the emergence of the…
Hey ! New project for this new year :D I decided to work on a futuristic building with clean texture Heres where Im at for the moment : I blocked out some ideas as well : This needs some paintover. The shader used for this building is pretty simple (I can post it in details if you want). But basically, what it does is :…
Hello, My name is Marcus! For my contest entry I wanted to take a crack at visually updating a splash for my favorite and best champion: Riven! :) I've chosen to update her Crimson Elite Riven skin. I want to portray Riven as a powerful warrior (1 of Noxus' best), someone from an "Elite" unit. Which imo her current splash…
Hello, Current Ambar and I are enrolled in 3D animation and game design bachelor degree. We want to do something very organic. We want to incorporate European Gothic Cathedral and Organic plants in our design. We want to play around with shape and structure of the throne giving it a strong silhouette. We want to…
Hopefully this isn't poor forum practice, but I am in desperate need of a new laptop for doing Modo/3DS Max/Zbrush/Photoshop/The GiMP type things on. My current laptop is over 5 years old and ran like dying dog even back then. Currently it has trouble having more than 6 google chrome tabs open and running a photoshop file.…
It depends. One of the things often overlooked in horror games is space and distance. This is something that greatly changes how the horror works in third and first person games. How far away and how readable horrific things are as you interact with them matter a lot. First person games lead your attention and make…
Thanks :) gonna be putting out some articles next week and then focusing on some env art tutorials and content for a youtube channel. A side note, I already have a fairly profitable side hustle that handles my daily expenses, so 99% of whatever I make off selling tuts is going to be funneled back into growing the company,…
I thought Scrum is pretty standard in our industry, especially in coding, but also more commonly in a semi-scrum way in art production. Mileage in art production seems to vary though, and many studios seem to combine it with regular top-down management approaches. Even if you're not following scrum, there are some…