If interested Please email me @ Jnascone@crypticstudios.com Senior Character Artist Cryptic Studios is looking for a talented Senior Character Artist with the ability to consistently create compelling and aesthetically pleasing characters and creatures in any given style while adhering to polygon and console memory budget…
Hey, I keep a 32bit version of Maya around for some plugins that only work on 32bit. Recently however, it has started giving me a fatal error on startup once the main window loads. Looking at the crashlog it seems that a nvd3d9wrap.dll is causing the issue, all I've found on the problem is gamers saying that it's causing…
A few Notes: – Since this work is not endorsed nor officially approved by Blizzard Entertainment at this point, all that is about to be mentioned here is considered a ‘fan-fiction’. Our goal is to approach Blizzard at a later date to pitch the idea as a whole, and the project in particular, to them with credible materials…
My tutorial writing skills are no where near where they should be. Re-reading it I think I can make it much clearer. I'll take another stab at it. 1) Plot your hair guides using splines. Align your splines so they will form poly strips. For the purpose of this example it will look as simple as 3. 2) Select the first spline…
Hey Everyone. So I'm working on a presentation to present at a local convention like anime, sci-fi, games, an overall general convention of entertainment. I wanted to give a presentation at one of them about being a Game Developer and Animator for those who have an interest in the Game Industry. The audience would range…
This is part 2 of our series on MaxScript. I'll cover some simple ways you can start to use maxscript in your every day workflow. Even if you have never touched code before, there are some simple ways you can start using maxscript that will help you automate tasks and remove some of the time wasting steps you have to take…
ALL POSITIONS FILLED! It's been a long arduous journey, but we're finally at a point where we have all our bases covered and all our effort is now focused on Kickstarter preparations. We are still always interested in connecting with talented people, but we unfortunately just don't have the time right now to consider…
What's funny is I feel that about *your* work! Larger pieces have more room for tolerance, what's 1 millimeter off on a 198cm board? versus a millimeter mistake on a piece that's only 2-3cm wide? yikes. The smoothness of furniture pieces is way more important too, my stuff has gouges all over and I just deal with the…
Yeah you dont need to remesh your zbrush highpoly for texture baking. You only do that if you need extra detail on the hipoly and cant get it at its highest subdivide in zbrush. If you want to bake details from the zB high poly onto a lowpoly version of your model you can do that in Maya bit that would mean opening the…