I like the video actually, but yeah, when I saw demo reel I just assumed you're a animator right off the bat. You can still use videos to present your environment work of course, but I would probably categorize it on a portfolio somewhere instead, like: "here's my latest level with 5 screenshots and a flythrough video with some gameplay" and have a page like that for each one of your levels, it's just the right amount of organization that's easy for recruiters and leads to glace at.
As for your work, I see some some really good texture work, some good modeling work but your lighting and presentation leaves a lot to be desired. A lot of the color maps from your materials seem to either be too dark or too bright, and it's making the lighting very contrasty. (See the western environment, that wood contrasting agaisn't the bright sand texture makes for a very unappealing and contrasty read) Another thing I've noticed is the lighting, it seems way too rushed and most of it shows me you don't know the fundamentals of lighting and color theory, I would recommend you read a little bit on both these topics next, this knowledge will bump you up to the next level. Good lighting can make a grey cube look amazing, but bad lighting can make the most amazing art pieces look abhorrent. Some cool links:
Weird ass times, just take me back to the 90's.
Btw, Alan Wake is free on Epic Games launcher, if you never played that game, I can tell you right away to go fucking play it now! It's a terrific game.
"They were all dead. The final gunshot is an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point." Sam's a legend man! 
This is out at the end of the month, and it's just 25 bucks.
Until Dawn is a very underrated PS4 game, and this is by the same team. If you haven't played it, they make these cheesy 90's style horror games. Love the idea of the movie night mode, you and up to 3 more people play the story controlling a different character.
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We just need to be very careful not to take any sides here, instead try and understand where people come from and stay as unbiased as humanly possible.
This culture war of "gamers" vs "youtubers" vs "game journous" is incredibly dividing and disappointing, live and let live people it's just fucking video games.
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These events are so fucking cringy man.
Following this is pure joy.
Fuck yeah baby!
After the previous mess that the New Colossus was and the trailers I've seen from this, I'm struggling to find interest in picking this up, and here's why. The comedic tone seems to be even weirder than it's predecessor, there's not even an antagonist other than "All Nazis", and I get the feeling that overall, this game struggles to know who its target audience is, which muddies the DNA into a unrecognizable salad of things. But, since it's the same framework and engine as the previous two games, the gameplay seems pretty smooth and the art seems to be really well done, except the characters weirdly enough. Seems like the LD is a bit better this time around too, with actual exploration and alternative paths, and not just corridor followed by wide open area for gameplay, rinse and repeat.
I wish the co-op offered split screen, I'm very well aware of the technical challenges of making this happen but in games like this, it's a challenge that was worth tackling and it would sway a lot more people into buying this game for sure, since the game is being marketed as a "Wolfenstein with a friend" game, anyway.
On PC, it's yet another title full of instability and crashes and to add insult to injury, the game comes with micro-transactions, fortunately it's cosmetic only which gets a pass from me but people are very sensitive to that nowadays.
It feels more like a spinoff than a sequel, which is fine I guess, the $30 price shows that the publisher also knows this. Seems like this could be worth picking up if you have a friend to play it over coop, because playing co-op with an AI is rarely a fun experience.
Controversies aside (lol), I'm stoked to see this much buzz about hero 31. He deffo shakes things up, when he makes it to live along with roll queue, it'll for sure give competitive a neded facelift! Crazy how much a new tank changes the dynamic of the game.
How about environment art specific tuts for blender? Anything like that out there in the world you guys might know about?
Both companies and artists are increasingly more frustrated at Autodesk as well, both Maya and 3DsMax are ancient apps by now, and I realize there's a lot of legacy code on there that I bet they just wanna stay the hell away from, but they really need to focus on making their tools fast and polished and stop adding so much crap that no one asked for.
To be fair to Autodesk, Maya 2018 was a step in the right direction, that release has a lot of quality of life improvements, but yeah... I feel they need their own "Modo", a fresh start, clean slate where they actually ask artists and modelers the tools they need and build around such needs. But nah, easier to buy other packages (XSI) and close the company that runs them, so fucked up man.
Fuck yeah Blender! I wish I had time to transition now, but I deffo see a future where I fully adopt Blender into my workflow.
Quote from Zarsky2 hours ago, Zarsky said: Should there maybe be a Blender thread here too? I'd imagine there's many mappers here using blender.
Deffo make one!
