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Re: Sketchbook: Timothy "a3sthesia" Eustace
It wasn't until I did an art test, that I realised everything I've learnt while working here in Australia, was barely scratching the surface of what I see here every day in the polycount forums. Sure, I knew shaders and texturing, but I did NOT know shaders and texturing like places like Naughty Dog know. Heck, I thought… -
Re: Advice for looking for job in gaming industry after big life event?
I think stability, however temporary, is important for your mental health and it sounds like it's been really rocky. Knock on wood; hopefully, you'll be allowed some time this year to just focus on your craft for a little bit. You sound like you've had a tough few years. It probably feels like hell right now, but 3 years… -
Re: Anybody here belong to the Directory of Illustration?
Partial List of companies that hire from the Directory of Illustration: Adidas A & E Television American Express AOL AT&T Bank of America Barnes & Noble Bayer BMI Music Burger King Carnegie Museum Children’s Television Workshop Common Health Corona Beer Discovery Channel Television eBay ELLE Magazine Environmental Defense… -
Re: Focusing on Blizzard's hand painted style?
You shouldnt have to make those either or decisions, while its ok to start with one and lead to another, I think the worst thing any artist can do is limit themselves as it both reflects on professional options and artistic results. For career purposes, focus on environment and be able to hit both handpainted and… -
Re: Seattle bound. Who's there?
Hey I used to live out there, and my sister lives in Queen Anne now which she loves. I've visited a few times and it's a nice place and if you do enough searching you can find some very affordable apartments. It is very clean with a lot of shops, a few bars, etc. But there are some settled families there too so I'd say in… -
Re: Random kitchen and restaurant stuff
Lets forget sarcasm and go for brutal honesty seeing as you are pimping these objects... The apple: Needs more specular shine, the stem looks like a candle wick because it's too black. The orange: Far too dull, oranges are bright orange! The bump is poor, orange peel/skin has pits that are a densely packed repeating… -
Re: An Attempt at Modularity (European Building)
hmm yeah, the textures are incredibly noisy, too much contrast ranging from black to almost white. You need to bring that to a more natural level. If you go to CGtextures under brick, you'll find lots of similar textures you can use as a base. I will usually up the contrast in those textures just a little notch. Yeah, i… -
Re: Ye olde rifle
i could be wrong, but i think shrike's comment about the tri count is for the entire gun. most of the time (unless it's just a decorative level art asset) guns are front-and-center, first person pieces. a lot of game dev teams treat them as 'character' assets because of the level of detail. a lot of the edges that right… -
Re: Do you try to avoid the Chinese Room?
I think 3D is one of those things you understand and learn more by doing and seeing versus reading. Reading of course helps, but you do something enough times and you'll start to recognize patterns. It also is quite a bitch to describe something to someone like proper edge flow for animation by only using words. I'm not… -
Re: What is your goal? Career-wise.
You're going to have to break through the Japanese cultural barrier like the Juggernaut breaks through walls to get that role.
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