Hey, heres a game I've worked on for the past 9 months at AICLA. I was the lead designer/level designer along with other students in a production team called "Game Wizards". Its a class for Game Art & Design students to get a hack at what its like to work in a studio environment. For each project we pitch ideas and the…
Greetings, my name is Teddy Bergsman Lind! My main technical abilities are 8 years of Adobe Photoshop experience (incl. 3 years of professional experience) [/list] 2 years of object oriented software development experience - Note: in five years I will graduate as a Master in Science with emphasis on Software Engineering…
Dear Polycounters, I've got another (what I'm sure will be a) fairly simple question for you. I am a complete n00b to Max 2012. After using Max 9 for years I am slowly learning all the shiny new features. The other day I was attempting to take some beauty renders of a finished client piece that I got back from the texture…
I agree with what others have said, the only thing that actually costs anything when it comes to building an art portfolio is your time. yea substance is 15 bucks a month, but so is a trip to go see the new avengers movie. as in, the cost is so minimal i wouldnt really consider that a make or break it factor. the one thing…
Hey people, with some help from the ZBrushCentral community (in particular Mark "TVeyes" that helped me with the most difficult code parts) I managed to perfect the code. In the previous version the WrapMode was not changed for the hardcoded Smooth and Masking brushes: in with this new version the Smooth and Masking…
hey As I said last month I think limiting the heroes will make the competition less diverse and less fun :D I think either selecting a theme for items (not for heroes) or choosing a slot (weapon, shield, etc) will make it more fun :) just my opinion and if you guys think it's fine to just go on with heroes theme I suggest…
A build delayed; a plan reevaluated Update Dev Update #22 We also twitched streamed last night a full review of our build and discussed problematic zones. Take a listen here! These videos expire in about 30 days so watch them soon! Over the past 2 weeks we had quite a few technical issues crop over from animation to level…
Anything that gets people thinking about science, asking questions and looking for answers is going to be better than what celebrity is naming their kid after obscure fruit or what politician was caught with their hand down someones pants. Part of the reason America is in a new dark age is because people look at science…
If you need to use Biped, just forget about the Curve Editor. It just doesn't support it very well, and TCB curves aren't human readable anyway. Biped doesn't support Out-Of-Range curves either, so that's out. However Biped has many benefits. 1. It's dead easy to setup. Just size it to your character. 2. The copy/paste…
1: if you truly have the passion, teach yourself, a slightly lower starting salary wont sting as much when you are not paying back massive school loans. 2:my estimate in the usa a starting job getting you around 35/45k, after a few years 60-80k depending on a lot of factors. 3: titles are studio specific but usualy follow…