Inspirational GA, 3D & 2D Artists Options

[Popbot]

Digic Pictures have their new site up http://www.digicpictures.com/

I like what they said in the 'Career opportunities' page, it's good advice.

This post has been edited by Popbot: 5 Sep 2010, 11:04 AM

[etheralfeather]

incredible, what this guy can do.
http://tomtallian.com/

[Moid]

Not really - someone else has done the hard work - design interesting characters, he's just made low poly models of their designs. Why on earth he's making such low poly models is beyond me, games stopped being that low poly in the late 1990s! And then rendering the images without any filtering - I guess he wants to work on PC games in 1996 really badly but is 14 years too late... very strange.

[Zerph]

Im pretty sure he participates in the low poly challenge on polycount
As for being that low poly from what ive read on the polycount forums i think its based on the average polys used on background characters on the DS (i could be wrong here) and for the rendering without antialiasing and filtering is part of the 'style', at least thats what it says in the contest guide

[Popbot]

Just google him, becuase i can't find his work in one place:

"Al Hirchfeld"

I love his technique, he manages to put down enough line information and detail to make it readable, without being too superfluous.

[Aldarion]

Was about to say mobile devices, but seeing as they've got unreal engine 3 on the new iphones, (or whatever that new shiz is about) this does seem rather....
Oh well, maybe its just a hobby.

[ahtiandr]

well. We are doing a game where one level is about 500 polygons. And WC3 reign of chaos mid class character is around 300 tris and hero aroun 800. The game is still very popular. =)

And here is my inspiration:

Trine 2 Concept art by Juhani Jokinen





I am working woth this guy =)
here is his thread on conceptart org:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthrea...highlight=trine



This post has been edited by ahtiandr: 7 Sep 2010, 08:35 AM

[Popbot]

I am working woth this guy =)
here is his thread on conceptart org:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthrea...highlight=trine

Oh nice. I like seeing threads which shows progression over time, it's good motivation.

[FargalEX]

Not really - someone else has done the hard work - design interesting characters, he's just made low poly models of their designs. Why on earth he's making such low poly models is beyond me, games stopped being that low poly in the late 1990s! And then rendering the images without any filtering - I guess he wants to work on PC games in 1996 really badly but is 14 years too late... very strange.

I think they look really cool. What we have here is modern day game art sensibilites with old restrictive techniques - I feel a lot of old PC games suffered from poor or washy art direction, it's great to see such a strong art style being pulled off like this and see how it compares. Think of it as minimalist art or something.

Another way of looking at it would be to compare it with the original TF characters..

[etheralfeather]

Not really - someone else has done the hard work - design interesting characters, he's just made low poly models of their designs. Why on earth he's making such low poly models is beyond me, games stopped being that low poly in the late 1990s! And then rendering the images without any filtering - I guess he wants to work on PC games in 1996 really badly but is 14 years too late... very strange.

its like pixel games, people play them not for the graphics but because their awesome, i think low poly could follow suit
and youve got to appreciate the skill of doing a lot with a little

[jaymo850]

not sure if this has been posted before but i thought it was quite nice

http://vimeo.com/14736551

This post has been edited by jaymo850: 7 Sep 2010, 05:55 PM

[Leo]

Pretty old now, but I liked it

This post has been edited by Leo: Today, 10:16 AM