Seriously, kick him out. I'm mostly a lurker and he even pisses me off. Seems polycount's not the only place he's a knob on... Dude's been banned from conceptart.org already for being a dick; http://www.conceptart.org/forums/member.php?u=48845 And I really don't want to comprehend this stuff he wrote on another forum;…
I dont think the forum structure needs changing, but the tag/flag idea is fantastic and, I think, a necessity. That way when opening the front page every user could even have some kind of personalized section (for instance : "UE3+environment") showing all the results of that search. This would also help making the search…
hmmm for me its playing games with dope art. stuff like god of war, gears, killzone 2 or most recently RE 5 make me wanna drop the controller and go make something awesome. also, films with a great visuals get me going too, maybe not as much as games but i dunno if there is an env artist out there who wouldnt be inspired…
that's why i said, letting their awesome conceptartist paint over those filterworks wouldn't hurt anyone but would push the look way further, they have the guys who can do it or they could hire them. You for example, or Pior or some of the other painter dudes around here wouldn't have much problem with getting hired for…
Actually dabu brings up a good point. If you ever get employed doing this stuff (which for your sake I hope you don't because its sort of a brutal as far as job stability goes) It never hurts, and is actually a really good idea to DRAW DRAW DRAW. maybe you wont get to the point where you can get a check every 2 weeks…
If you don't have a specific concept in mind maybe check out the conceptart.org forums. There are tons of folks there with character concepts done just for fun that they'd be willing to offer up.