Shane Canning

Happy Wednesday all! Today I want to talk about hiccups setbacks and what to do when a troll enters the dungeon! Today as I was prepping an exciting review meeting with my technical artist on all the amazing VFX applicants I logged in and saw nothing. All gone! Poof! Not sure what happened possibly a glitch in the matrix or what not but plans had changed for the entire day and rest of the week in a flash. All I could do was to try and get things moving forward again. Can’t get mad about a setback no time! So I hopped on here sent the SOS to all the amazing individuals interested in the VFX role and stated the facts. -emails gone -review delayed -follow ups complicated And now it’s on to being a bit humble and asking for support. Anyone interested in the SENIOR VFX ROLE please reapply 🧡. Mistakes happen and hiccups and delays are all part of the startup life. It’s important to remind oneself to be professional under the hardest of times but also keep the larger picture in mind. This may have flipped my week upside down but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the weeks, months, years ahead. Much love everyone!

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Maple Tree Scene done with SpeedTree (IDV, inc) and Unreal Engine #art #environmentart #artist #gameart #game

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🔸INKING JOHN BUSCEMA was super-fun! But I also show you HOW TO MAKE BLUELINES + HOW TO SCAN YOUR WORK for prime time! https://lnkd.in/en3c-7YJ Click. Share. Subscribe. #johnbuscema #howtoink #inking #comics

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Environment concept art I did for OW2 new released Push map Runasapi.

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Animex!!!! looking forward for the portfolio tips and tricks/reviews and the talks of the behind the scenes by Larian for baldurs gate 3!! #animex #teessideuni #conceptart

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Hallway day and night version pixel art interior. Let's connect! For more of my works, please visit: 🎨 Instagram: https://lnkd.in/ga3U5Vg6 🎨 Twitter: https://lnkd.in/gviWNqTp 🎨 Youtube: youtube.com/@nikkiradanart Commission Sheet: 🎨 https://lnkd.in/gXNraY5U #pixelart #pixelartist #pixelartwork #pixelartanimation #idleanimation #animation #topdown #characterart #2d #2dartist #digitalart #digitalartist

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“Use Houdini!” - they said. “Houdini is fast!” - they said. Simple task: Convert thousands of OBJ meshes from quads to triangles as fast as possible. Houdini FX (6,995$): Using TOPs network, utilizing all 18/36 cores/threads Intel i9 7980XE, from/to nVME. 1560x (4Mb OBJ) files: 17 minutes 14sec. Blender BPY (GPL3): Using multithreaded code running 18x BPY instances on the same files on the same PC: 42.28 seconds. That’s even not funny. 17 minutes with fully loaded CPU vs 42 sec. 😲 Update: Sorry, I was wrong! 14 minutes, not 17! https://lnkd.in/gR3vbHvX #b3d #houdini

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Quick material

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2nd Book Progress – Pen & Paper RPG Appreciation Post One of the people I interviewed for the book reminded me about pen & paper role-playing games. How they would meet with their friends, sometimes take an entire week away in a cabin and play Dungeons & Dragons for seven days straight. I can completely relate to this – it is something I have done myself in my younger days. Experiences like this have shaped their perception of storytelling, created magical moments to remember, and made a lasting impression on their character. So today I wanted to show my appreciation for this unique form of storytelling, creativity, and teamwork. There is nothing quite like the feeling of diving into a world that you and your friends create on the go. We had sessions where nothing else happened except for an extremely long scene in a bar that ultimately did nothing to progress the plot – but hell, did we have a good time there! Some days we would save entire kingdoms; on other days we would accidentally unleash hordes of undead on unsuspecting villages. Because of this, we called our own adventurer group “The Grey Path”. Not quite black, because we *wanted* to do good, but also not white, because we never quite managed to be entirely righteous either. Ah, those were the days…   As for the book, I am deep into fleshing out the current chapter. I am paraphrasing one of the people I have interviewed, bringing their insights onto paper. There are two more people I need to paraphrase and then send the chapter off to them to ensure I got everything right.     #gamedesignimpossible #writing #gamedevelopment #gamedesign

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In today's little bit of progress, we're working with a little bit of music and setting up some Enemy Animation Blueprints- just with patrolling and idling for the time being. These are called Agonized Hunters and probably for good reason. Lore is so fun to come up with, by the way. I suppose all the stories I started to write even as a kid should've been a grand sign towards my liking of storytelling, but I definitely know about it now. I thought it would be a nice touch for the light to turn red/add in some invincibility frames when the player comes in contact with them, as well as adding in a sliiiight distinction between the breakable platforms and the ones you can walk on regularly. On a semi-related note, something I only learned fairly recently: the Nav Mesh Bounds Volume in Unreal only registers traversable ground. That's why it's only the ground that turns green when you preview it and not the air that the volume may also be in contact with. If you're working with flying enemies you won't want to rely on those or the functions related to them (like GetRandomReachablePointInRadius and co.), since they will bring those flying guys right to the ground at best. You'll want to look into the Math function RandomPointInBoundingBox instead. ✨

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Hopefully this is the first time you're seeing modular control rig working inside #uefn. I saw the hidden menu for making modular control rigs during #unrealfest and tried migrating all the modules over. Not without its kinks, we now have working modular control rigs and modules on the otherside. If people are interested in this process, I'll consider making a longer form tutorial. In the meantime, what should we rig up with the modules in UEFN?

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Revisting an old facial rig that I built in Motionbuilder for my Daz characters, ripping off some of the geo from the UE faceboard for metahumans. Going to use if for a little demo we are working on, taking advantage of the last months of my Performer license.. sigh Need to learn how to build these in Maya

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Spreading for awareness. 1 quick click at that link to disable.

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Hello friends. Last month, I was looking for more work and finally secured some on Reddit from a guy who needed help with preproduction on his Tabletop RPG / Card Battler. After a meeting with him, he showed me what he had and it was quite impressive. He had a prototype of a card-battler using a tabletop RPG battle system, but he had little to no documentation or planning—he's been chiseling away at his game for a few months in his spare time after work. I suggested that before I dive into art, we flesh out the game design and the rest of the game up to around an 80% mark and let the last 20% be changes, additions, and that sort. As your game evolves, it'll come into it's own and you'll find things that need changed or added, this accounts for that. He agreed and I asked if I could work on all this since I did that with my game Alligori and lead the team from start to finish with our vertical slice, and I know tabletop RPGs very well. He agreed and we did the whole song and dance with paperwork, and he sent over a retainer and I began work the following Monday. Three weeks go by and we're working great together. I'm fleshing out his game, adding some meat to the backbone of his prototype with classes, abilities, etc. My goal was to write out as much as possible and then trim content to fit it into a 1-year development cycle. So I flesh a bulk of his game out, and then categorize it more into a game design document that clearly conveys concepts, ideas, and mechanics. Catching up, last week was the final week of my first month and payment was due. He just up and disappears like a fart in the wind, I have no idea if he's alive, incarcerated, on vacation, or what. He didn't remove me on Discord, so I don't entirely suspect malicious intent, but he gave no notice. That's the risk you run with working 1-on-1 with a client remotely, one day they can just up and disappear. I do have paperwork, so I may pursue legal action. If he doesn't log on by Friday, I'm going to publicly release all my documentation and the GDD I wrote on here.

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