Ben Bolton
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Aesthetically, we lost something when all the operators became fully sleeve-tattooed and roided out, as if they do arm wrestling on a beach for work. Culture shift I guess. These guys used to look like accountants. No "gray man" meme needed, they came that way.
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Now that the dust has settled, let's reflect on the basics of visual design
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design for an alternate-universe phone that only does calls.
extremely loud mechanical keys ensure the entire room knows calls are being placed.
flip-up signal boosting antenna dual functions as belt clip.
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tutorial with words
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Within hours of my having made this image Saturday morning, it had been cropped, flipped, and reposted without attribution. Now the mangled version is doing the rounds in politics world.
Iconic
This 🇨🇳 ballon was a rather massive piece of engineering. It’s amazing that some of these have been circling the globe for years without attracting more attention. Beijing has some questions to answer.
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What are booleans? Why booleans, how booleans? Wanna intersect with me? A game art thread for our time. RTs appreciated for this humble effortpost
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I've listened to quite a few different interviews with guys from devgru or cag (let's not discuss the tattoos) and a common point is they just drill fundamentals over and over. Thus, I have to think there is basically no downside to endlessly demonstrating the fundamentals.
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tutorials without 3d
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Detail layering is such a fundamental design concept that once you notice it in any medium, visual, audio, whatever, you cant help but notice and also apply it anytime you engage with creative work
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the coal company came with the world's largest shovel and they tortured the timber and they stripped all the land
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on the other hand you can sometimes skip that interview with one great project.
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Guys just want one thing
The perfect distribution ratio of hard surface details
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Artists hate that I'm always on the right side of issues and also rigorously philosophical and logical. I can't help it, I read old books, my IQ is very high. But in my defense I have freely shared more tuts than anyone who hates me. I'm literally just being a better person.
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Animators, duck! Take cover! How is this possible? Damn, all along it was true. He was really good at our thing. Ugh that sucks. Quick, nobody extend an olive branch to him
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guys posting W's (Wireframe Models) film grade all quad topology (perfect flow for rigging --->) ["Runs Great On MY Viewport"]
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didnt really cover it in the big wrapup thread a few days ago but this lil guy was a few months easily
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All quads, no calves.
Maybe I should model some new mechs this week for absolutely no reason at all
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i dont feel like doing any work today at all, so i think i'll do a little making-of thread on this thing, showing how I did it. if anyone has any questions about "how this effect," "why this way," etc, let me know and I'll try to illuminate
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I don't sell tutorials, I just share knowledge freely. I don't do "imposter syndrome" whining either. The girl you pay for mentorship, or the guy who's discord you're in - that money's for them, that's their ego. That's not me. I'll show you exactly how this is done. We're equals
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This whole gun and everything on it were on a 256x256 pixel sheet. Games today are like 140gb. What happened?
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Even simple microtexture goes a long way towards making materials believable, and is pretty easy to set up in blender shader graphs. Doing this with different noises, ranges, and channel contribution on different materials helps to visually separate them also.
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Do
—Work big to small
—Have first, second, third levels of detail
—Use rule of thirds
—Use repetition principle
—Use unevenness
—Use color complements
—Use reference
—Practice several thousand hours
—Share your work
Do not
—Give any school $120000 to tell you this
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Someone should do one of these for the archetypal 120gb western game, showing how it's like 45% random uncompressed audio files of footstep noises and 45% 4k textures for the grips on a pistol that your character's hand covers at all times
I was curious why MS Word for Mac was 1.36 GB and ended up making this little diagram breaking it down.
The answer: mostly language support, fonts, and backwards compatibility.
Lesson to learn? I dunno, old apps just get fat over time.
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Usually you want chamfers on convex edges and fillets on concave edges. Not a 100% of the time rule but applies most of the time. If you fillet a convex edge it's usually for a specific ergonomic or aesthetic reason. Chamfering a concave edge is rarely the move.
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I mean, no disrespect to anyone pictured, but this SF guy might as well be an extra in a drill rap video. Guys used to look like the killing part was an accidental aspect of a spreadsheet job. Now idk. Tatted, roided. Freakish glint in the eye. Our world got darker.
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When you're very new to designing things in 3d, it's hard to even know what to do. Good practice is make like 30 hardsurface objects with zero function. One a day, just make them look cool in some way. You will be a different person at the end of this. It should be exhausting
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@lucasridley
Cool. I've used Maya to model at ZERO of the studios I've worked at so by this rationale we can throw it in the dumpster.
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Saw some wildly popular tweets going around about modern games having too much shaking in the FPS animations. Regardless of popularity, that opinion's wrong. It's objectively a good thing when the gun and the camera react appropriately to forces.
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Compact guns are better because of more visual interest per square inch, it's just math, I don't make the rules
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A good way to make plausible sci-fi or alt-universe gun designs is to start with a real action and reshape everything around it. This one was based on the Borschardt
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GAME ART INTERVIEW THREAD
First of all, the structure of most interviews is like this: you talk to 1-3 representatives of a particular discipline at a time, and you do this 3-6 times, and it typically takes ~3 hours. Numbers might vary; that's the blueprint.
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9k to 11k in a week? It's content. It's called content
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might go long on part options. partmogging. make it a whole platform
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i do my best work either between 6am-12pm or 9pm-3am depending on whatever sleep cycle i'm on. 12pm-9pm are simply wrong times for creative work, the sun is up, people are doing "real jobs," it doesn't make sense. just laws of the universe. i dont make the rules
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@Grummz
@warhammer
They take over an institution and then wear it as a skinsuit. Then make assertive statements about "how it is" so that you look confrontational if you point it out. But all normal people see this game by now, and are disgusted by it.
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The PDW55 was a last-ditch survival weapon issued to vehicle crew and military police throughout UAG federal service during the conflict years. Despite the small caliber, its concealability proved a utility to protective service details and special mission units as well.
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This hasn't changed in a while (too busy to dig into new tech), and I get asked often in comments, so I'll just pin it for now.
These aren't all the addons I use, these are the ones I use a lot.
Some are free, some are paid, not really the point, this is solely a utility list.
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I post these occasionally and people forget about them. I post them again
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"CHINESE SPY BALLOON" menaces "MONTANA"...
experts call it "CLASSIC HARDSURFACE DESIGN"...
could BOLTON DYNAMICS be RESPONSIBLE?
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When you present something, remember that the camera and the lens are part of the design, because they're transforming the design for the viewer to see. One single change in one single variable like focal length can make a huge difference. I almost exclusively shoot long lenses.
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Two genres of render we need to start demanding from other gun artists besides me. One, the psychedelic render. Two, the flash photography render. Get out there, get in their comments. Demand these by name
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The shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils. My father would come home, he would forget about the killings. He wasn't scared of the shogun. But the shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem
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Game artists, when you find yourselves making AR15s, please dont do this detail. I see it all the time and it's a mistake. The fire selector thumb tab does not drag on the receiver, it's offset from it. These surfaces are not in contact with each other at all.
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First snow today. Winter is here. And I just started a game, this is perfect. One season, one game. Like our agricultural past
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