Find an inexpensive community college nearby and study art basics. Don't pay out the ass just to learn art basics somewhere. I'd try to avoid 30K in debt if possible. I'm not sure of the prices now, but art basics courses at a community college could be ~$400-600, which is much better vs. 30k. Use polycount or other…
Hi! These strange times made me rethink some points of my life and I decided to resurrect idea, that was buried more than 2 years ago - single player, story driven adventure game. Better to try and lose, than not to try at all)) Project is a “bit” ambitious for me and will take all my patience and for sure all my spare…
Hi guys ! I have been reading this forum for years but have never really posted anything. I am "self taught" (should i say Internet taught?) belgian 3D hobbyist, and i like to make game assets for fun. I recently started an UE4 game project with two friends, and it boosted my motivation to improve. The background of the…
So I work at Electronic Arts and the Vancouver office does recruit many candidates from Think Tank Training center. What I'd like to clarify is that while a portfolio certainly matters, there are enough resources online to get it to the 10/10 level as far as portfolios go. Now I don't really agree with the way the people…
First of, if you want to see this post minus all the text, node screenshots and with marmoset viewer for the 3d model you can click here to visit my post on ArtStation. [Introduction] Hello my name is Luc Zeegers, I am a hobbyist 3d designer & texture artist (I mean i just started but due to a lack of a better terms i'll…
Chances are I'm making things hard for myself lol, but thought I'd explain what I'm doing and then see what people say, I had some other threads on the topic and was reading this…
Hello All! This will have been my first post on polycount. I will try my best to keep it short but have much I’d like realistic advice on. Background First for some background information. I am currently a student studying at university in the states pursuing a Bachelor of the Fine Arts in Computer Game Design with a minor…
Greetings to all who are interested in this article! My name is Nikita Osmanov. For two years now I have been self-learning modeling for games on the Internet. I’m not working anywhere at the moment. But i began to collect a portfolio to get a job in a game development company and join the whole cgi and gamedev sphere. In…
Project For my Uni module, we had to present 3 different designs of a mech based on a concept art and then choose one of them and model it. After some searching I decided to go with a concept art by Jakub Rozalski. The mech is the PZM-7 Śmiały which is going to appear on an upcoming strategy video game called Iron Harvest…
Do what slosh said, they actually recruit from what i've read. Hi, Positives or Negatives 1st, hmm. I like this and so do a few others: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQrD9X Figure since you had this going on : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xJqDW You can draw out your environments 1st, conceptualize some neat…