Paul, I was just about to email you this morning in regard to this, as I believe the college that contacted you may have done so per my request. (Assuming we are speaking of the same South Texas institution). If this is the case, you are correct in that they have little or no expertise in the games arena, but do apparently…
In China: go to the dodgy hardware bazaar and bring a local to haggle for you. Or better: go to Media Markt! (I'm so damn happy they opened a store here!). Actually I hate shopping for hardware here because of the bazaar mentality and haggling involved. There's usually no warranty from the vendor and no return of…
I cut back on my anime watching, but I can recommend some manga. Bakuman. New series by the guys behind Death Note. Completely different in tone, two high school kids decide to create a manga together. It's only just started as well. Beck. It's been mentioned as an anime already, but the songs and singers didn't live up to…
[ QUOTE ] Gordon Freeman's lines are pretty profound if I may say so myself. [/ QUOTE ] For a guy that never says anything, he speaks volumes... Half-Life has great interactive story but dialog with NPC's is always your standard, "ouch! quit it" "pick that up" or long explanations that ended with "no time! Here take this…
Progress has been slow, but is fairly substantial. Barring any glaring issues, once I build her shoes and get a little more definition in the legs, Harley Quinn's high-poly model should be done. Sometimes you really just gotta do things the hard way. I'm sure there's always an easier way, but when the standard tricks like…
I can hum pretty much all of the list I made, I mean how could I have made such a list without remembering the music that made it so? But now we're just adding more parameters into what "memorable" means. As many have mentioned, older game music was a whole lot less complicated than today's music: how many of us can hum an…
Annnnnnnd back! Last time on My First Modular Facade: *explosions followed by tacos* So yeah. Textures textures everywhere! After blocking out the pieces, detaching them, and realigning pivots to useable areas... I got this. The windows look sooooo weird when they're narrow that I bulk them up cos hey, I'm the architect…
Don't want to draw right now, too tired it hurts my brain to think of ideas (even when im sleeping, my brain is spinning to think of ideas zzzzz) I will just write a brief story for the set that is coming up soon, if it is gonna be ever useful zzzz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I looked at…
Ive been a self taught 3d environment artist for over 10 years professionally and never had to draw a single thing. In fact, I would say I cant draw haha. But I did spend a large amount of time honing the skills that were directly applicable to the position I wanted, which was 3d and enviros. Never had a studio ask if i…
You're here asking a question, wanting to learn. That automatically qualifies you for learning all of this. No one starts out skilled. Sadly, not even the best modeler on earth can make you understand by typing words. You'll have to seek out the theory behind different subjects and try most of it for yourself in order to…