slicky

I don't know who if anyone would remember me seeing as I haven't logged in since half a decade ago... But I'm more than a little impressed this thread from 2004 is still going. Nice to see all of you people I remember still have this community going.

exactly what i was gonna say sk3tch

the positions for some of your characters are kind of awkward looking, the conte crayon man on the stool seems to have a dual perspective given his posture and the perspective of the cube at his feet. The male character next to the woman on the stool however is excellent, natural looking but dramatic pose.

i just enjoy seeing something done in a truly original style. The floor texture does need to be scaled down, and i think you should emphasize the curves in your architecture with less saturated lighting. Overall awesome work.

should post #1 and #4 in full resolution for wallpaper

There are lots of people out there like me who are more interested in creating assets for maps than actually building the map. I think it's a great idea because i can never find any venue thats decent for posting up textures or other assets and actually seeing them get used, god knows ive handed out alot of textures over the last 5 years.

i liked the old days when a texture was only 128*128 and all you needed was photoshop and 20 minutes.

I just held my hand up under the light, stared at it and scribbled away with my mouse. had to use one preliminary sketch, no direct references or photos used of course.

slicky was another lame tfc sniper name (evolved out of slick sniper) nowadays i just use my first name- Zintis, which is funny because it seems more like a made up nick than slicky.

i dont know about other people but i think pirating can really encourage sales in some cases. For instance, i downloaded titan quest awhile ago. A game which to me seemed like it would be mediocre quality and certainly not worthy of the highly select grade of games ill buy every year. I played the game for a few hours, found that i really enjoyed it, then went to the store and bought it, something i would never do on faith, even with a favourable review in PCG. This same type of thing has happened to me several times now. My older brother had the same experience with music piracy. He was not a music afficionado in general when he was younger. Rarely listened to music and had no defined tastes. When napster hit the world he got heavy into downloading. Today he has one of the largest cd music collections of anyone i know, i can say fairly certainly without the ability to experiment online he wouldnt have the collection he does. As it applies to movies, im simply not going to pay to see many movies in theatres that might still be interesting enough to grab off torrent. (I dont think my girlfriend would agree to see 'snakes on a plane') Piracy may not be moral in many peoples eyes, but besides revenue and all the mental equations people are doing (including myself just now) I see it as an overwhelmingly positive thing in terms of culture. That minotauro or a person living in a third world country can still have access to the same music and media of the affluent west, is necessary. I dont think art should suffer the kind of corporate restraints the various publishing industries instill. Besides simple opportunism i view the explosion of pirated media as a reaction to that control. I guess my view basically is buy if you can, steal if you have to.

quick question - Is anyone else using max 8 and know of a good site with tutorials or exporters for getting my content in-game? Ive searched for quite some time now and it seems like theres only tools and tuts for max 6/7, any help would be massively appreciated.

i havent done any game art authentically in a few years now, but i just started to experiment with 2d sketch work, ive never had much of a knack for hand-drawing (maybe thats why i was a game artist ) but im trying to develop some. These are some of my first so go easy on me. i watched sam peckinpah's "straw dogs" last night, so both of these sketches are inspired by the movie, the first is based off the film cover, the second is inspired by the evil characters in the movie.

a bit OT, but i couldnt resist. If you want to make a GREAT wallpaper + fuck with a coworker or family relation. hop on someones computer, take a screencap of their desktop then place it as the background, remove ALL the icons off the desktop into a sub-folder somewhere and then hide the start bar. I convinced my older brother his computer was irreperably broken this way. By removing both the icons and the start bar his computer had zero functionality. He asked me to help him 'fix it' and i spent a few minutes shrugging my shoulders and clicking on all the fake icons and the fake start bar while he stared on totally petrified.

I'm always so dismayed when i see 'hippy' types trying to affect change by demonstrations, picketing, and 'awareness' messages. The latter being the category of this movie in my estimation. As long as it's profitable to pollute for industry, it will continue to happen regardless of all public sentiment. In economics theres a term called an 'externality.' It implies any cost of production a business has, which is a cost they do not face. If theres a factory upriver from you, dumping tons of garbage effluent into the river every year, that factory is still creating that cost, but passing it on to the taxpayers in the town downriver who then have to pay for their waterfront to be cleaned up. The government is supposed to be trying to force companies to pay for their externalities, otherwise their profits could actually be coming out of your tax dollars. If companies had to pay for every ton of carbon monoxide they pumped out their smoke stacks - not exorbitant rates, just what it costs to clean it up. It would motivate the market to innovate and CUT COSTS. In this case cut down on their pollution. You can't fight capitalism, greed wields too much influence, things can only change from within. Skjalg mentioned the environment tax theyve instituted in norway, which is an absolute step in the right direction, so are any government taxes on polluting materials like gasoline that help bridge the gap between present profits and future misery. Coal should not be as cheap as it is.

autocad is a tool i can use, and its well-suited to generating blueprints but it totally sucks for making anything realistic looking. Autocad has crappy rendering ability not to mention it lacks the bells and whistles of a game engine.