Incom asked me a couple of questions and it was late last night when I was reading them so I sort of braindumped a metric fuckton (thats more than an imperial fuckton) of text, and I figure some of it might be helpful. ---What style is your stuff in (Polycounts, texture sizes?). I can't talk about the project I'm working…
Reposting what I posted on Extra Credits on Penny Arcade: ***********============************* [USC's Interactive Media Division Perspective - Junior, C/O 2014 - Career Intention: Concept Art/3D ninja] If you're looking for an effective resource for a game design degree and a legitimate 4 year university, USC's the best.…
Hey Hanpan, Here's the process I use, assuming I have my low poly mesh finalized and exactly the way I want it... Within Maya 1) Make SURE you're using ALL quads. This is important because Z subdivides every edge of your model by 2, each time you click the "divide" button. Having tris etc can produce weird results that…
I had the opportunity to attend the IGDA Leadership Forum last week, and had the opportunity to listen to a lot of industry veterans talk about what it takes to be a leader, and their experience in the workplace. From my notes i came up with this. I am still expanding some of the ideas, but i thought it would be…
Introduction: I apologize in advance, I know it's A LOT, but bare with me :) You can skip to important parts if needed. Hello, my name is Jack. I represent SymmetryGames as the lead 3D artist and Director of Prevail, our latest game concept. The essential reason I am posting this thread is because our team has…
EDIT 06/24/16: After two weeks, it became increasingly clear to me that moving toward a rich district was not the right thing to do. So I've scrapped the idea of an Indian/Scandinavian style - not to say it will never get done, but it definitely won't be part of this pack. However, I've been hard at work polishing…
Yea I know this aint a 2d or 3d stuff, but it could help for your 2d-3d concept. I found this today cleaning up my old HD, this is 4-5 years old for me and I find it kinda funny. My teacher gave this to us to help us improve character traits. Might be usefull or not but I tought I could share it with ya guys. Feel free to…
The "oh you're a crazy soccer mom" rhetoric is vaguely familiar of the "cigarettes don't cause cancer" campaigns the same idiots bought into for decades and now love to sue the tobacco companies over. Part of me thinks people want to remain ignorant and fearful because there could be a big reward and its comforting to hear…
I just read this article. I agree with a lot of the things it talks about. So i thought i would share it. http://gamasutra.com/view/news/172088/From_the_Editor_E3_2012__The_E3_of_Disillusion.php [At this week's E3, publishers in the so-called "triple-A" video game industry made perfectly clear -- more than ever before --…
Thank you guys. _BREAKDOWN_ -I started cleaning the raw data using the clay brush with alt pressed (zsub) and also using the Smoothing`s tweaked algorithm Hold shift, click and hold with the pen, release shift, and then you go. This mainly smooth out the surface without changing the overall surface too much. This also…