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Re: Tokyo Game Show 2010
Up here we have Mars for 1300 yen, and it includes access to an onsen and free breakfast (toast, orange juice and a sausage). Internet cafe's fill up QUICK in Tokyo as people use them as a home away from home when they commute from other cities. -
Re: Homrighausen: Game Art Thread
I have been reading up on PBR texturing and decided it was time to get my feet wet by modeling a gun I could use as an experiment. That way I can better understand the whole process and make mistakes! So I will be participating in the Monthly Guns and Firearms challenge. I quickly roughed out the blocking for the model to… -
Re: theoretical pbr question, how does energy conservation work?
Somewhat related: I once did a test and found out certain colors will always appear brighter/darker than others in the same lighting conditions. I wrote about it here. http://polycount.com/discussion/133040/color-theory-question -
Re: Is the game industry really that bad to work in?
Check out this thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137206 Part of my reply in it, but there is lots of good info from others beyond me rambling. I think you'll find the industry all depends on people's history, path, expectations, and things like that. It's not cut and dry. There's good and bad and it's… -
Re: Andy Jones' New work
Thanks. I know you said this wasn't for games, but I've heard people say you have to be accurate in modeling, while there are AAA games out there that obviously don't require it: http://cdn4.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/204030/ss_0bea2ccaac42f706085d20e754b0e86d6df441aa.1920x1080.jpg?t=1346792581… -
Re: Couple of big questions
What schools are you looking at attending? Most art schools are not very good, and will load you up with as much as 100k of student debt and won't make you employable upon graduation. I look through portfolios and resumes constantly and make hiring\contracting decisions based on that, and in my experience, maybe 1 art… -
Re: Career Change Help
Coupla classic threads. Fair warning: reading them might discourage you or inspire you. And these are older threads so posters now might have updated versions of their personal narratives: http://polycount.com/discussion/137206/what-has-the-games-industry-been-like-for-you/p1… -
Re: I'm a games industry art director, ask me anything.
Loads of questions here so it’s taken a while to get through them, but I’ve finally caught up. Brace yourselves, this is a big post - not sure if all the formatting will work but we'll see. Here goes... Brian "Panda" Choi What steps can I take, aside from focusing on being my best in my given responsibilities, to aim to… -
Re: Need help with weapon barrel wrap around banadages
In other threads we tackled similar things that might be helpful =) http://polycount.com/discussion/131518/wrapping-weapons http://polycount.com/discussion/132780/wrapping-fabric-duct-tape-around-an-object -
Re: Sci-Fi Suit
http://eat3d.com/free/xnormal_overview http://www.donaldphan.com/tutorials/xnormal/xnormal_occ.html ^^^ should help you out getting to grips with xnormal http://vimeo.com/9059831 http://vimeo.com/9742354 http://vimeo.com/10596662 http://vimeo.com/13868566 http://vimeo.com/11483803 ^^^ these should be super helpful for the…
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