Search
-
Re: What artistic skills to be learned for environment artists??
yea, composition and layout are critical, being able to look at the whole big picture and see where you need to strategically add detail and where you can save time. from a technical standpoint, get comfortable with using modular kits and re-using a ton of tiling and trim textures to build environments with a few core sets… -
Re: [Portfolio] Dmitri Sestakov - Animator
Seems to load and display just fine for me in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and IE. I'm not an animator myself but I think that is a nice demo reel! You have a good, simple layout. The virtual gallery is a neat idea, I though of doing that myself, but when I played it I had some problems moving around. WASD was working but I… -
Re: 3D modelers replaced by A.I.
something related from GDC (presented by a forum member, no less): https://80.lv/articles/4-technologies-to-change-art-production/ it would be interesting to hear about it all from someone working for DICE as they are referred to in the article in particular (check the relevant links in the paragraph as well!) but i guess… -
Re: My portfolio
Like the new site Andy, good layout. About the art... The wood log and the keypad are nice but the rest of the stuff you have doesn't compare to them. I would say try some new lighting techniques, mess around with specular, glossiness and normal maps to bring some variety into your work. If you need some info, have a hunt… -
Re: Practice Barrels/Ambiant Occlusion Baking
#1) It really depends on the object. But for most of what I do, EQ is dead on. High first, low poly second. If you do low before high there is so much that could change. It leads to a bunch of remodeling and re-unwrapping, just a pain in the ass. Often in the case of environment work depending on how you maintain your… -
Re: modular characters
Been working on this very problem for about 2 months so I feel your pain I have a system down, but unfortunately I can't post anything. I'm not sure where it's not working out for you, but it's not as complicated as you'd first think. In the example of a naked model, I export the high poly from Z as a complete model into… -
Re: My Aztec CTF level-WIP
Hey cool idea!! That layout would make for an awesome Halo3 CTF map :) The idea of the underground water hold is cool, but flooding the middle upstairs area doesnt make sense to me. Is this an extremely luxurious public bath? Where water could be wasted and used however? In your first model, i liked the hole in the middle… -
Re: another portfolio needs critiques
Hooray for a simple layout! You may consider posting materials with your models. Navigation could be improved by taking the full sized images to html pages with Back, Main, Next buttons. For the content, get more fully completed characters, as in modeled, textured, rigged and posed if you want to be a character artist. For… -
Re: Female Game character from the ground up
Started doing some texture work after I got the bake done to my satisfaction. Hoping to have this portion of the model done by the end of the week. I've roughed out some hair planes but those haven't even been unwrapped yet, however I did leave room for them on my uv layout. The current specular is just a max default spec… -
Re: Question about using the gird for UDK or otherwise.
From what I understand, you want to build modular pieces that you can re-use, so while you could perhaps lay it all out in say maya then import it, it'd be inefficient, and dealing with things like collisions etc a pain. So with modular assets you'd piece it together in udk, I don't know of a snap to vertice method in udk…
>8526 results