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Re: alternative careers?
Oh, sorry to hear that, hope things turn out for the best. Anyway my 2 cents: Ever thought about or indeed previous experience working for yourself? i.e. small/micro business, freelancing, selling art work...etc because it Just seems to me that you're not that enthused about those listed alternatives, apart from a… -
Re: Quixel Suite - GDC 2015 goodies (to see, not touch)
The problem with asset packs for a single type of texture category such as forests or mountains when buying textures from a texture library is that the indie customer may not need all the textures in the pack and may need other textures not in the pack. For indies on a limited budget, this can easily put the cost out of… -
Re: Padding issue
Maya is slow and have wrong tangent space and worst baking pipeline ever, and besides it's cannot bake in 16 bit format... it's useless for our production. We work in our studio on our proprietary(for now) baker with some nice features like "skewing control", "raycast from lowpolys intersections" and of course baking… -
Re: Dealing with canned games
ideologically that sounds good and i have done that couple times with some freelance projects just because i loved the games. but in general i try not to do that. but, here is the problem. taking a pay cut often can imply that you dont think you are worth enough in the eyes of the employer. if you respect your own work and… -
Re: Need portfolio critique!
You're not going to aquire the design skills to design cool stuff if you avoid doing it because it "will look crappy". Its gonna look crappy until you practice it enough, then it looks good. If you always avoid it, its just another skill you will never have. I think you need both. Designing is not usually a character… -
Re: Slow or Obsessive?
I find am my terribly anal about work in my spare time projects, but in production there comes a point where you have to just leave it, diminishing returns and all that. obviously if its crap you have to make it better, but a lot of it depends on the time frame and in some projects I have actually been given too much time,… -
Re: The Six Commandments of Contracting
The one point I dont agree with is the "End of the Day" note. 3pm is not the end of anyone's day; to me and the clients I've worked with having it in "by the end of the day" means "so you can look at it first thing tomorrow." If you want a file by mid afternoon, then you really are not asking for it by the end of the day.… -
Re: Character 3D - Grafitart's Gladiator
Hey again, I didn't actually do any posing but I did do a little modeling. I've been busy with moving and work and freelance and I've made only a little progress since the last post. Rather than show any increments I'll save my next big update until the weapons are done. What I did do though was a bit of proof of concept… -
Re: Results Oriented Work Enviroment VS Clock Punching
I work in television - core hours of 9a to 7 p. hour lunch taken between 1 and 3. Crunch times can last as long as 18 to 20 hours. No overtime pay. No vacation, no sick days. They look at us as Freelance but we are required to show up to the office every day and put in the mandated 10 hours. If we miss time we get our pay… -
Re: The Definitive College Answer
I will suggest to not skip college, its an awesome period of life, to meet different people, and enjoy other activities while learning. In my case, as many I've seen around here, I did go to school to learn 3D, but all the "good stuff" Ive learned it on my own mostly, hard working. On the other hand after being only 1 year…
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