Modeling: -rocks far too lowpoly and too straight -actually, everything is too straight & clean right now. Move some verts around, make stuff crooked. -optimize bolts drastically. Either lose them or make them simple cones (no truncation) -optimize lock -metal bars are too thin and incorrectly placed -spikes too thick and…
it's pretty easy to code this with tangent-space normal maps. basic concept: save every pixel in to a 2D Array with it's current R and G (and B) Value (B will not change). R and G convert to a vector of 3 dimensions (while only 2 have a value, which is x for red and y for green and z is defined as following) with angle in…
Gameloft Barcelona, the studio behind the mobile gaming hits Despicable Me: Minion Rush and Asphalt 9: Legends is looking for a Senior Gameplay Animator to join the team. About Gameloft Leader in the development and publishing of mobile games, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since…
Gameloft Barcelona, the studio behind the mobile gaming hits Despicable Me: Minion Rush and Asphalt 9: Legends is looking for a Art Director to join the team. About Gameloft Leader in the development and publishing of mobile games, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000.…
This is going to sound like I'm gloating, I'm sorry about that. I am not posting this to rub it in anyone's face, but to tell you about some of the pitfalls of "The Thing That Should Not Be". Uh...? Specks I guess. Yeah, wait no. So in April of 2024 my beloved gramma died at the age of 92, of not wanting to live any…
It's so bright, first i thought it is an antarctic scene. I would add more small stones to get the proportions right. 2 really good desert examples: http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1185&highlight=vessel http://gameartisans.org/contests/uc/1/view_entries/finals_gameartisans_3d_333.html
I've owned or do own a good majority of the M43 prime lenses, heres a quick recap: Samyang 7.5mm fisheye lens, haven't owned (but have owned 8mm 3.5 in Canon mount) very good lens, super wide fisheye effect isn't really general purpose though. Very small and inexpensive($200-ish?) Olympus 12mm 2.0 - Currently own, lovely…
hi, not sure what exactly you want to address with this? No one knows the future :) Make good art, become efficient (with whatever tools suits you) the rest doesn't matter. Tools come and go. The better you become in your crafts, the more skills you build up, the better you are prepared for the future. What you mention…
Hey so I create a project in DDO. The project is started with a variety of 4k textures. Some of them are tiffs, a couple are targas. I set the texel density of the project to 4k. And then it's all working, but when I try to use cross app mode or to export the images after I do the export menu it opens up a save prompt to…
First post. Let me use this oppertunity to say that this community is awesome and I appreciate the honest feedback people get. So, ever since a hard drive reformat and subsequent re-installing of everything I have the issue that Max 2016 displays my normal incorrectly - but only when using hardware shading. When I'm using…