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Looking for Work -VFX Artist, Game Dev, Architect -Founded - @polycount -Ex: Survios, FB Reality Labs, Microsoft, Sony -Drives a Blue car
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UEFN: Festival Pinball is live
I turned the shooter game into a top down pinball game. You don't drive around in the game, you let it bounce you around. Just like proper pinball.
Video is a sample of the game with the 3 different camera options.
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If you want to fight imposter syndrome, try explaining how UV's work to a non-gamedev person.
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I'm gonna drop a little secret right now for technical and especially fx artists. The market right now is white hot for your services. Recruiters are getting feisty and salaries are going up. If you are even a little unhappy with your current position, you may want to look around
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just finished my interview. went well. Here's my sample I prepared for the meeting
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Programmers = developers
Artists = developers
QA = developers
Production = developers
developers = anyone working to make the game happen
Developers do not just mean programmers. That take was spawned by Microsoft for their buildings full of programmers.
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@KatNicoleB
@bombsfall
In DC Online, someone left a t posed default male model at the world origin in the gold master version. Which meant they couldn't patch it out ever. As a fix. they placed dumpster on top of it, even though it was the middle of a city intersection.
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Wutville Update: Trees have collision.
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Wutville update: A very raw video, but i'm showing off that i've completely rebuilt the first blue spawns. Players will spawn in the lower area and be able to leave through either of the two original exits.
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I am no longer a contractor. I'm now a full-timer.
fucking yes!
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Officially looking for work.
Unreal 5 VFX, particularly good with simulations: splashes, fires, smokes, and explosions. Current work under NDA, happy to do art tests.
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Wutville update: Spent my freetime building a bridge piece and spliced it in, with a internal walkway too, Not exciting to look at at the moment.
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I got a job i got a job i got a job!
[/dance]
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Now here’s a gem worthy of a museum exhibit. This is my bought copy of Hammer, before it was called Hammer. With my note to get the update online. As that was new!
#TF2
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Welcome mercenaries. I have noticed an uptick of you all in the audience.
I'm indeed sharing my process on the Wutville rebuild. I've rebuilt all the spaces/connections. I'm currently working on optimizations to get your framerates back up. Deco and textures will be next.
#TF2
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Wutville update: I've handed the new build over for a playtest.
Fixed collision is either fixed or not, but having a playtest seems extremely prudent at this point.
The kind folks at
@CreatorsTF
have reached out and are helping with the test
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[gasp]
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Wutville update: The first large blue spawn will not allow you to place teleporters in there anymore.
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Today, I realized a long time goal of getting a map officially accepted into Team Fortress 2 with the holiday event this year. It is a Dr.Suess inspired map by the name of Wutville.
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Wutville layout sketch
the purple boxes was Ol Nick's Mansion which i never built. That's what's supposed to be sitting over the last point. I couldnt decide if to make it in the TF2 style or the Wutville style. I punted on it as i was shutting down my TF2 efforts at the time
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Wutville: took a few weeks off to fight evil, but still at it. New tree on the left, old tree on the right
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I let loose the Fire Unicorn in
@survivetheark
last night. Anyone interested in taming and raising a fire based equestrian family has finally got their wish.
#ArkSurvivalEvolved
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20 years. It's hard for me to find the words. As I drift back through the years of memories... thank you for being in all of them. Thank you Polycount for filling my life. Thank you to all past and present and those that I have yet to meet.
@polycount
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Maxom has issued an official apology and the content creators are apologizing below. They do seem sincere.
except is the original post still up?
yep.
As always, actions speak louder than your thoughts and prayers.
We would like to address the concerns many of you have had regarding AI imagery in a post we made promoting our show,
#VFXandChill
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Wutville Update: As you can tell I'm still working on it. I didnt get it finished for the Thanksgiving deadline and didn't want to waste everyone's time with another interim solution.
Currently turning all the curved walls into func_details.
[watches as the mappers all cringe]
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Wutville:
I hunkered down with some wings as a bribe to bang out some barns and it worked. All the base barns are done and I installed the new ones around the first point. I'll slowly install the others as we go.
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Mom passed a few hours ago. Still in a little shock. Goodbye Mom.
Marilyn Jaince Souliere Risch
March 31, 1944 - October 27, 2020
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Wutville: working out this tunnel and the shapes i have to build to make it work. Gonna make this into a narrow push ramp before the point as a way to make this a more challenging part of the map for blue. it's still gonna be easy for them, but this gives red some help.
#TF2
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Wutville::
the barn right is the barn you know, the one on the left is one i rebuilt today.
with new snow drifts on the roofline
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I just checked my bank account and it seems I got the biggest Halloween check from Valve ever. Literally in the 100x range bigger than previous ones.
Yes, I has a Halloween map credit too. It's a 1% credit for making a Greentooth pumpkin. So I always got a very small check
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You can see the two different horses walk in and out of shadow here, the light change makes me happy
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Need a height-map for the Earth? Stitch the 8 .tif files here from NASA and you'll have a half meter per pixel resolution height-map.
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Mgmnt at Sony said I had to change my entire personality to be able to stay there. They also told me I had to shut down
@Polycount
. I got up, told them goodbye, went to pack up my desk. A visiting VP heard what they had done, pulled me into a meeting to promise they were wrong.
Tech Twitter: Tell me about a time someone underestimated or dismissed you and what amazing things you’ve gone on to do since then?
RT for reach if y’all want a bunch of victory stories 😌💖
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Wutville Update: spent some time in the area where the train goes inside. Cut the stairs in, cleaned up the area and gave it a bit more room to kill your friends. I'll detail it with some lore elements later on. This was already a bit more detailing than planned, but it happens
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in a month Polycount's Birthday is coming up... and its the big 25.
i'm really at a loss at what to do as we have zero resources.
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Shutting down your studio because what you are working on leaked has got to be the most childish and pathetic reason that I've ever heard. Then for the CEO to blame the developers he's firing is gross act that I hope follows him for the rest of his career.
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here's a fast render version of the level... with the new trees and some of the new buildings with new skins
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Time to get my buddy back on the desk for encouragement
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@xavierck3d
Tech Artist: we'll need to make this character in pieces so we can swap in hot dad outfits
Materials Artist: just how sweaty will this hot dad need to be?
Animator: i need some hot dad reference, going out to the bars!
Rigger: ... he can use the same skeleton as the rest.
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A large esteemed studio in the Seattle area asked me to interview. Twice; years apart. Both times the process was 90 days on the dot from initial contact to the final 'no' emails. 6 months of interviews, tests and waiting. Fuck them. I won't even RT their help wanted posts.
What's your worst "WTF" freelance artist moment?
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I have a tech art joke but it only runs in maya 2016
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Wutville: today's efforts including finally placing skywalls, closing off a hallway that has become a duplicate route now that i've dealt with the alley sniper issue. sorry snipers had to do this one.
#TF2
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My game has been released!
POPULATION: ONE is now available! 🍌
#pop1
LIVE on Steam and Oculus stores, grab your bananas and let's go go go!!
Oculus Store:
Steam Store:
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Wutville: continued work on the courtyard. placed some world building bits and finished the other side of the courtyard re-using previous bits. Getting to the put where my library of wutville pieces is starting to pay off. ... finally....
#TF2
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The greentooth trophies have arrived at Polycount HQ
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This is why it's so hard put time against TF2 maps. I haven't even been able to play a single game without Russian spam bots since before Wutville shipped. The game feels like a corpse that's being raped. I love the game still, just wish Valve did too.
Team Fortress 2's massive botting problem has made the game nigh-unplayable for two years and counting, and its community is begging Valve for answers – or at least acknowledgement.
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Wutville: Currently rebuilding the trees. I had built collision, but when i exported it before to fix some problems with the gold wrap, i forgot the collision.
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The internet is 30 years old... but
@polycount
is over 20 years old. That means we started up this crazy thing within the first ten years of the internet? Somehow that might be the metric that finally beats my imposter as I'm impressed.
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Retro Studios in Austin Texas is looking for a couple of artists to help them along with their current project.
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Kinda weird writing official patch notes for TF2
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Wutville Update continued to build the last blue spawn into two parts and build another side hallway. Pic shows one of the entrances to the side room and spawn entrance. Building brush shapes like this is a pain in the ass.
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I made stew, which i also used it to make a 3d stew.. just cuz.
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Wut update:
the pipe cliffs are now all models in this view. much more smoother and with the bevel detail between stripes.
new blue first spawn as well, i like tall spawns, i cannot lie.
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The new TF2 update mentions a night club called "The Cap Point"... That got me thinking enough to make the sign
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Wutville: building new optimized pieces to replace my more thrown in there as placeholders versions. New versions have the yellow highlight, You can see how much of the walls i have deleted, from the gaps.
#TF2
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The decision to cut me was from the e-suite. My entire leadership chain didn't know about it until this morning. They have also all individually reached out and offered themselves as reference for my next job. This was a money issue, not a me issue. My own self worth is in tact
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I am doing my best to use Twitter as my whine cellar as I go through this job search. I'm trying to be a bit more vocal about it to show younger devs that even 25+ year vets have the same issues to some extent.
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This is not unique to Blizzard, this is how large companies deal with people. HR is there not for you, but rather to protect the company from what the managers do. They are a crass bait/switch corporate joke deployed for the benefit of the company.
so, enough time has passed now for me to talk about why i decided to leave Blizzard. a mixed year with great teammates, but a management that mistreated, lied to me, gaslit me, gave me a fake promotion, and HR that refused to help.
buckle up friendos. 💪
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Capcom is polishing their internal game engine for potential public licensing. They've released a series of videos talking about how they have been updating the engine for new and future tech.
RE:2023 RE ENGINE's Past and Future
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So I am sad the map has some issues, but I'm not surprised and I will fix them. I already spoke to Valve and they will take my updates. Done deal. Still super happy it happened and I have been swinging the ban hammer for the few vocal haters.
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Wutville: continue to work on this short tunnel. Added some fake side rooms in. laid in the track, smoothed the snow. some various blocking too.
#TF2
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Steam Tools Sales:
Sub. Designer - 34% -51% off
…
Toolbag - 30% off
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Modo - 60% off
3D Coat - 25% off
Marvelous Designer - 35% off
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Want to work on an Aliens game?
Unreal5/remote/fulltime
PC/Consoles/VR
There's 6 open slots for Art that need filling ASAP
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Wutville: same pieces as before with quick materials thrown on it and in some sore of context
#TF2
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Wutville Update: First round of fixes have been tested. Collision and exploit focused changes for the most part. Structural and texture changes will be up next.
Cheers to the
@CreatorsTF
for continued support on this.
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"Fingers don't really have that much sub-surface scattering"
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When you are working on your projects, shut down Twitter.
The rapid fire little snippets of info are affecting you the same way a game can keep you hooked with small little rewards; looking at you MMO's. Clicker games are feeding that same brain lobe. It'll be here later.
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I've got wild Fire Unicorn on the SE and AB maps spawning appropriately
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Wutville update: Added another spawn entrance, to the lower first blue spawn. it still needs detailing and some stitching to cover it up, but getting the blocking in first, of course.
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The Ice Unicorn has been unfrozen for all in
#Ark
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Blessing of Unicorns:
@survivetheark
#unicorn
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Wutville: I had built a couple variations of trees, but ended up only using the one. This was one of the cut ones. it didnt ever get decorations.
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I got a new job and i also quit my old job
i think the latter is actually more satisfying than the former.
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Got to the 2nd interview!
[fistpumps]
[smooches all the kitties]
[munches a fishstick]
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The Ark Mod Contest voting has started and I most definitely tossed my unicorns onto the pile for the votes. If you are keen on my ponies, I would absolutely appreciate a quick vote for them: Blessing of Unicorns
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Wutville update: I'm building some new pieces to help out with my plans on the spawns. It doesnt have collision on it yet, thats today's effort.
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Wutville: working on the last point layout. Getting the spawns in good spots and making sure that the teams have more room to fight.
#TF2
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Wutville: Does all those crazy shapes have collision? Yep. At least the ones the player interacts directly with. I got a fast method for cranking out /correct hulls.. that i developed working on these damn things. Adapt or die.
#TF2
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Wutville update: Made some new window frames and arches for the small first blue spawn. They are now models rather than out of bsp. Got them all lined up on the grid too for any future uses.
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Wutville Update: I'm at the last point now. Cutting new rooms and re-orging the last red spawn to give them multiple exits and options as well.
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Today is my birthday, I am a stout 48.
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There is some issues at the moment which I'll work on addressing immediately. In my defense, I had 4 days from the first email to the deadline for submission. I had to get all my tools back up and running, pull the project out of backups and try to get some polish in there.
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