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Layoff update
Hi Polycount! :) It’s been a while. So a while back I posted about being laid off from my last job as a Lead 3D Artist. I am sure I speak for many people here when I say that I really really dislike the job search. I interviewed at many of my “Dream” jobs/studios. But unfortunately I never had a chance to get past the… -
Learning tips! How do you empower your brain to make art?
I'd love to hear personal tips and tricks you use to make yourself learn better. Less tutorial stuff, more lifestyle ideas. Ideally these are the habits that have helped you improve the most consistently. Here are some of mine: 1- Play to your strengths! Building confidence with a subject is very, very important to being… -
Re: [Rant] Tutorials
tutorials suck. they make things seem way easier than they actually are, and nobody actually follows the advice in them and takes it to heart. in my experience the only thing they learn is how to make a copy of whatever the presenter is making. the one thing i've learned from making tutorials (and making actual tutorials… -
Re: Smooth foliage like in Breath of the Wild / Europa by Helder Pinto - Mini tutorial
Great write up, awesome tutorial thanks for posting! One other thing that helps too is baking in some AO into the vertex colors and pump that into the Ambient Occlusion in unreal. This really helps the model self shadow and it can be almost impossible to do AO the standard route with texture map when so many separate leaf… -
Re: Still Trying to Finish ArtStation's T.L.O.K.A. Challenge
@Necrodark So after a lot of experimenting and test bakes, this is what I came up with. It's probably not the best way to do things, but it's the best I could come up with from my very limited experience lighting in Unreal. . . First off this guy has a great volumetric fog presentation if you haven't seen it… -
Mini-Tutorial | How to reduce banding in exported renders
I've seen banding in the backgrounds in a lot of Toolbag 2 renders, so I figured I would write a short post explaining why it happens and how to fix it. First off, the underlying issue is a problem of bit-depth, there simply isn't enough values in an 8-bit image to represent a perfectly smooth gradient. The effect of this… -
Re: 3D motive vs Digital tutors or other websites
They're both great, and as others have said, there are other awesome services as well. 3dmotive and DigitalTutors both have active youtube channels that have "mini" tutorials on them, be sure to see which one caters more towards your learning style. http://www.youtube.com/user/3dmotiveHD/videos… -
The realistic skin, muscle, and gore systems in the upcoming game "ILL" - How is it optimized?
Hello everyone, I'm reaching out to discuss a highly technical topic today. It's about the incredibly realistic animations in the upcoming game ILL. I don’t know how many of you have seen the trailer recently, but the way the creatures look like they have actual fleshy skin and their natural posing really caught my eye.… -
Re: Help! I'm in art Purgatory, but I have no art...
Working with any DCC package when starting out can be daunting alongside these days a wealth of instructional material on the Net too choose from, so not surprising many people become overwhelmed with the whole thing. Those 'paint-by-numbers' tutes you'd mentioned are really the best way for a novice getting some sort of… -
Re: My first attempts at 3D modelling
Huh. I'll keep that in mind. I just like Orthographic much more for work, guess I forgot there were two settings :P There were two reasons for me doing so many: One was to learn how to do a certain thing I'm stuck on the other model at, without potentially screwing it up. And two because I think it's fun. But yes, I should…
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