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Re: photogrammetry will change the game?(industry)
For characters I can't see why you'd need to travel - mostly you'd use scans of fabric, metal, and leather. The same sort of thing they do in VFX. But for environments there have been several games where the environments use 3d scans extensively. For a AAA game it's not a big expense to send someone to another country… -
Re: do you ever feel like you wont catch up?
good luck finding a number. We do outsourcing for AAA, and some hero characters got weeks/months, and other characters got just days to finish. It really depends a lot what sort of asset, what platform, and what the client wants to spend and what their "it's good enough" threshold is for accepting work as done. Some… -
Re: Humbly asking for help
If your work is under an NDA, does that mean you aren't even allowed to play through a game and take a screenshot of a part with some of your work in, then you can say 'I made this building' or whatever? I've never heard of not being able to do that at least. I have also seen various people posting work here or having it… -
Re: uvs: efficiency vs accuracy?
Any slight distortion is worth it for what you gain back in pixels, the ease of painting and overall sharpness imho. It's somewhat of a balance, but if our outsourcers sent work in to us looking pelt mapped, I'd send it back. It's been touched on somewhere in here I think, but very VERY generally speaking I see the formula… -
Re: Starbreeze Layoffs
You are correct. I mocked this up to illustrate it at it's most basic. I'm not sure if that's what happened here, but this is why I'm a believer in a small core team and outsourcing / contracting. Of course if you have multiple projects, you can bounce your teams around as long as your projects are stair stepped in… -
Re: Advice for QA role for recent Grad.. . . . .
we hire from QA if they have the skills. This doesn't just mean art skills either. We've had some QA guys go on to scripting / level design jobs, production, outsource management, sound design, and art jobs. Hell, one of our old QA guys got into art and eventually moved on to Bungie where he worked on Halo ODST and Reach.… -
Re: Do any good artists use Blender?
I switched to Blender years ago (loved Silo but development in that stopped so I tried to make Blender function like it) and have used it at the studios I've worked at too. Maya was the main tool used in the studios, but using Blender up until the point of having the characters skinned wasn't a problem. There were actually… -
Re: 3d artists - out of a job in the future?
interesting and very common take on approach. I know how you feel and somewhat agree, but weather we want ownership or not won't matter. Pretty soon we are going to have to let go of that for the greater good of the project. Pretty soon it will just be Art Assemblers. Just about EVERYTHING will be outsourced. Otherwise,… -
Re: tutorial: fixing mirrored normal map seams
thats definitely one way to do it ! but lets say the damage is already done it was baked with unfrozen normals and you cant for some reason rebake ( no time / no access to the highpoly / highpoly got corrupted somehow /some outsourcing guy made the normal map and than rage quit on you and your project taking his shit with… -
Re: What about Animation Studios?
We had strong interest from our clients (we do outsourcing) - they were all "Houdini will be THE big thing!", but I think the initial enthusiasm disappeared, even though we invested time in training and all. That was around the same time Substance got some traction, the PS4/XBox One were launched and everyone was looking…
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