Greetings and salutations, Code Jockeys! My name is Rodney, and I am the studio coordinator for Naughty Dog. "Who or what is Naughty Dog?" I already hear some of you asking yourselves. We are a video game developers that make games exclusively for Sony console machines (Playstation 3, anyone?). We have been told many times…
OK I have a gun that I'm doing that weighs in at 93396 polys (woo hoo!) And I have a texture thats in psd 4k, with 4 layers = 28 megs. I import my model - sweet as I import my texture - sweet as I rotate the model around for 2 secs! - crash wtf! I thought that it was the high poly count, becuase it probably is excessive,…
Patanouk is a free asset manager for 3dsMax. Easy to use, with its sleek graphical interface, Patanouk is perfectly adapted for any development pipeline or for private asset management. Feel free to request any new feature via the built-in Feedback window, this Polycount page, the ScriptSpot page or…
So I thought I would share with you guys what I did during the past summer. I was looking for a job and applied literally everywhere that offered something related to the 3d field. For 2 months, I got no response, and the ones I did get were almost all negative (In the sense that they told me they had enough employees…
I totally agree, green just doesn't say exploding, it might tell me that a puddle is toxic or that area is safe, but it just doesn't say exploding. I think their first green design also looked a little too heavily armored as if protected from bullet impact so why bother which in addition to green/yellow sends the wrong…
I don't freelance anymore, but when I did here is how I got jobs. The first thing was that I worked at a large studio for five years previously and built up a network. My connections moved around over the years and worked at various studios. When they needed some outside help they would come to me because of the work I've…
I feel safer having every Joe with a gun. I would rather 250 people die a year for example than have another USSR, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan round up innocent people and kill them by the millions, just saying... It will happen again, and it is going to happen where there is the least resistance which is a populace…
Go to the guide section in the Modo SE hub and watch the videos. Greg shows you the process he made to create the Dota 2 weapon from scratch. Naturally you could apply all of that to TF2. It doesnt seem like Modo SE is built to quickly export to TF2 though, but you can use it. That said, Modo is one of those apps where you…
I really like the character design and also +1 to the character pass. I thought it looked awesome, but when I saw the paint over and read the suggestions, I completely agree. It will bring the already awesome character work, to a whole new level, with super simple tweaks :) As for the chicken boss... Thats hilariously…
It's a very complicated issue, but here are some things to consider: You have 2 types of investors, "Angel" and "Institutional". Angel investors are usually high net individuals/groups that invest money into your company in exchange for stock/ownership in the company. More Rarely, they will invest for royalty or ownership…