How did you learn what your know today?

[Brander_Rly]

I mean, about your skills applied in the game industry, how was your learning process (modeling, texturing and so on).

Forums? Books? Degrees?

 

Tell about that experience.

 

 

[Pericolos0]

100% just trying to make stuff

[Taylor Swift]

decompiling

[Nysuatro]

failure

[Grinwhrl]

Drinking coffee

 

Nowadays its best to have a degree in something, building a portfolio, and at the end of the day, all about proving yourself in an interview for a position you want.

Edited July 6, 2013 by Dark

[PogoP]

Procrastinatin' by masturbatin'.

[FMPONE]

decompiling

[KoKo5oVaR]

having fun : lol

[Erratic]

Attempting to replicate others work, failing, and being left with the result.

[Sentura]

same as everyone else... except for decompiling.

[Chimeray]

Age of Empires 2, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Game Maker, FPS Creator, Far Cry Instincts Predator map editor, Battleforge editor, F.E.A.R. editor, Source editor, UDK, Cryengine, ...

All fails, wasn't pretty. Didn't finish anything ever, you could say I was addicted to trying out different editors and seeing how things were made behind the scenes. I kinda just like building stuff  Every time a new game came out I was scribbling map designs on paper or just in my head.

 

After all these unfinished map doodles I finally made some finished work on the side while following a 3 year college course to fill in the much needed gaps in knowledge.

 

I also messed around in 3D packages (like anim8tor lol) at some point xD

 

There's probably more editors I have tried out over the years but I don't have a detailed recollection of everything I've done... As far as I can remember I've always done something game-dev related. That's usually why I giggle when someone with no experience suddenly wants to become a "game developer" from one day to another. I suppose it's just something in your DNA that grows naturally.

Edited July 7, 2013 by Chimeray

[2d-chris]

making shit, if you do it enough you keep getting better

[Mazy]

Pringles, Twix and hard work.

[Minos]

a day in my life in 2001: feel motivated, open hammer, make ugly warehouse with hl.wad textures, start again, make ugly de_torn clone, close hammer, open photoshop, make crappy plaster texture, start again, make crappy brick wall, get fed up, masterbate, play game

[Minos]

On a more serious note however, it's a lot easier to get into game art today than it was 10 years ago, thanks to all these awesome training sites (gnomon, eat3d, 3dmotive etc....). Or as John Carmack put it: In the information age, the barriers just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.