Hey Gaming World! I'm a senior VFX artist with 30 years of Hollywood experience. The VFX industry is not going well at all so I'm jumping into the gaming industry, hoping to make a demo for a game I have in mind. I will have to adapt my modeling and look dev to Unreal's restrictions (We don't really care about polycount in…
Hello! Some time ago I finished a project and thought I’d make a breakdown of the whole process from start to finish. This is not a detailed tutorial for every step but rather an overview over the process that I hope will help people (especially beginner 3D artists) get a better understanding of how the pipeline works.…
I wanted to hear some opinions on what to wear to an interview at a game studio. The last studio I interviewed at, I felt I was over dressed since while I was wearing a formal shirt and trousers with shoes, the interviewer had shorts and flip flops. This was one of the major game studios, I'm not sure if I should name. I…
quake 3 is pretty easy to mod. I ran a mod group called GTP back in the day. good quick feedback to models or maps you make. shaders are wonderfull to script, if a little unpredictable at times. Sort of like CSS for 3d. I'd have to say that it's the easiest game I've ever modded and also the most fun to mod. I did spend 6…
The path into game development really depends on where you're starting from. Some people start with an idea or thing they want to see in a game and learn skills as they go. Others master art or programing first and either find a counterpart or eventually branch out into the other discipline while working on different…
Greetings. I would like to ask your professional opinion about such subject... Here are several item icons from one old game. From your perspective - are they drawn by hand (pixel art, etc) or rendered from the 3D model? Just for comparison - this is what i have got by rendering their ingame 3D models - images somewhat…
99% of the time my name gets mispronounced - both name and surname. At a previous job where I was sending out letters to lawyers/clients I had people call me by phone to inquire if a male or female because they were not used to the spelling so to know how to properly address me in the response. I even had a professor spend…
Team name: Sunstar Productions (Not registered) Project name: 'Project Conqueror' (Name not final) Brief description: It's a 3D sidescroller shooter/platformer. Sci-Fi in nature. About an alien who crash-lands on a planet, gets her powers stolen by the planet's government, and decides to raise hell (I.E. take down just…
Hi everyone, We are looking for a first-person weapon animator/rigger for our tactical FPS project, built in s&box / Source 2. We will provide: * weapon model * already rigged first-person arms * textures/materials (if requested) * reference examples for weapon positioning and animation style (if requested) The weapon…
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