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❗ This is how Divide works in Substance Designer! 💡 Designer uses Math as the core to everything we do, and this Blend Mode is exactly that, Math. This mode divides the information in the background by the information in the foreground. ❓ If you have a White image with a value of 1 that is being divided by a Gray value of 0.5 what would be the result then? #3d #vfx #texturing #TextureArtist #3dtexturing #digitalartist #substance3ddesigner #3dartist #gameartist #gameart #adobe

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🔥 This is how I teach the 5 basics of Substance Designer ❗ 🥇 I explain the core to Grayscale Information. 🥈 I show how I blend information in Designer. 🥉 I control my information with the basic noes. 🎖️ I make a Pattern for my students showing all possibilities. 🏅 In every Material I have to mask all the details. 👨‍🏫 "if you want to learn material art, first learn the basics. Without the basics, you won't be able to achieve a good result." 💥 This is a complex career, yet it doesn't mean it is hard. What makes it hard is not knowing what you need, to get the results you want. You can wish it as much as you want but without dominating these 5 points it will be hard to achieve a good result. 💡 One last Pro Tip: The best way to practice these 5 points, is by creating individual and specific shapes. It will force you to use all of this and open your mind when working on design! #3d #vfx #texturing #TextureArtist #3dtexturing #digitalartist #substance3ddesigner #3dartist #gameartist #gameart #adobe

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Want to stand out above a crowded job market? I just put together a custom Unreal 5.4 project that has fully working multiplayer with quality that is approaching AAA. This project will serve as the foundation for Monthly Challenges where professionals from ALL disciplines can choose challenges to tackle and learn the ins and outs of Unreal while creating portfolio pieces with tangible experience. I did end up dropping a few hundred 💸💸💸, which was not the original plan, but I quickly found out how hard it was to find AAA quality content. I'm still going to offer these challenges for FREE to all, because it felt right. 🎉 To uphold Epic's licensing terms with content you must work on this project under one condition: You are part of the GameDevSG Team, working on a game (for portfolio purposes only and cannot be distributed outside of the GameDevSG Discord). Assuming we can handle that, I feel strongly that this exercise will help a lot of people! ❤️ On a side note, since we are working on a "game", what name should we give it? Thanks all, and stay tuned! #gamedev #gameindustry #gamejobs #portfolio #monthlychallenge

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Develop isn't over for most people. But sadly it is for me. Gabriele Sanfilippo and I attended on Tuesday and Wednesday morning to chat shop with people interested in hearing about life at Spliced Inc. and Anchor Point Studios. Develop never disappoints. And as always>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Familiar Faces ✅ Worthwhile conversations ✅ Effervescent energy at the hotel bar ✅ More beards than the year before, and the year before that ✅ People sporting a different hat every day of the event? ✅ Several meaningful introductions made that we'll keep in touch with? ✅ But more than all this - whilst a lot of studios and publishers will measure ROI by looking at the cost of attending the event and seeing the data off the back of it (as important as this is) - let's not undervalue>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The energy we take from it, and bring back with us 🔋 The connections we make that remind us of the industry we love so much 🤝 The subsequent uplift in focus, happiness and positive attitude it brings to all of us 🌞 What a great reminder of the best industry on the planet! 🌍

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This is Not Fortnite Usual this Is Unreal Engine Fortnite Creative BlackPoint Studios In North Carolina Game we are developing on Fornite. (Blackpoint BR) As the Regional Director for Blackpoint Studios and someone that genuinely has a passion for all facades of video games and Esports is cool to the see the growth of developing a video game using Epic Games Unreal Engine Fornite Creative eventually. People all over the state will give us feedback on the game and we will listen to the feedback and develop game even better. Our goal is to get an Epic Games MegaGrant & additional funding to devlop (Blackpoint BR) on the Unreal Engine. Helping develop infrastructure and definitely need opportunities have helped build the confidence in Epic Games & Fortnite & the value of experience it can bring to a city, county, state a nation, internationally, globally. If didn’t develop the Jump Ahead Esports competitions and go Chicago to the Esports Trade association I wouldn’t be in this position. Developing video games on Fortnite that will be on PS5, PC, Xbox, Steam, Nintendo. One day Blackpoint is going to be a global video game studio creating that longevity the video game industry, and Esports industry needs. #GlobalGoals #EpicGames #UnrealEngine #Fortnite #Economics #Blackpoint #VideoGames #Esports #Billions #PS5 #PC #xbox #Steam #GameDesign #FortniteCreative

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I understand the challenges many face when trying to break into the games industry and find the right role. Before contacting a team member or recruiter, I recommend checking the job listings on the company's careers site to identify suitable positions. This approach not only demonstrates professionalism but also expedites the process. Simply reaching out to inquire about available roles may not be the most effective initial contact, as it can lead to a less fruitful conversation. For those interested, here is a link to all the current open roles at WB Games: https://lnkd.in/enp8Q8YN #GameIndustry #CareerOpportunities #Professionalism

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Are you struggling to get your fist job as animator in the industry? You send 100 plus application and not even a single interview? Been looking for a job for more than a year and you are demoralize because the industry is in a bad place? Listen here: -when i was 19 i study 2d animation for 3 years, after I graduate i could not get a job because objectively i was not good enough and 2d was getting replace by 3d - I then decide to learn 3d by my self because I had no more money to study with a school -I had to learn 3dsmax with a book because..well youtube didn`t exist yet -after 2 years of learning modeling, texture and rig i start to get some very small job as generalist that pay peanuts - I had to do other jobs not related to animation to get extra income -after 3 years of study by myself I enrolled to Animaiton Mentor -after 18 months i finish the school, send 80 plus email and no job because once again i was not good enough -got a private mentor to study 6-9 months and get a better reel, (all of this while still working a bit as non animator) and only after that I manage to get a job in my first AAA project was I the only exception? absolutely not. a lot of people struggle like me some give up, some persevere, some get a job sooner bottom line I think took me overall more than 6 years to get into the industry, plenty of mistake. is not easy now, it wasn't easy 15 years ago, yes times are different obviously, now you have a lot more resource, far more company making games or movie, more easy to connect.. but then a lot more competitions be an artist is hard, especially at the very beginning, my first teacher told me that. I am telling you now... keep fighting #3d #animation #3danimation #job #mentor

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I love how fast this is...almost realtime! (nothing was sped up here) I actually feel like I'm creating illustrations a bit. This isn't AI 🙄, its 3d rendering with redshift's new toon shader. I love how you can get custom control over the textures. (I even drew them myself) Look at those shadows! #maxon #cinema4d #redshift #npr #3D

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It is actually 2 seconds per candidate.

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🤣 Great work on this hilarious shot by recent #AMgrad Matthew Ryfa! 📌 Start your animation journey this May by learning Maya, the software the pros use, with $200 off our Maya Workshop: http://bit.ly/3kSPVYO #animationschool #learnanimation #3danimation

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A few quick tips for your demo reel and/or static portfolio: 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 with short text captions to reference what you did in the shot and what project it was from. 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 that you used to create the work in words. Don’t just put logos to represent the software you used. Not all recruiters come from an artist's background and know what the logos are referring to. A lot of recruiters use Boolean searches to look for talent (a type of word search). A Boolean search isn’t going to read a logo! For multi-person projects, specifically, 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫. For example, in an animated demo reel, if you’re able to grey out the parts you were not responsible for and keep your own animated parts in color that is helpful to the viewer to distinguish what is yours and what is not. #artrecruiter #portfolioadvice #helpfultips #quicktips #portfoliotips #videogamejobhunt #jobhunting

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This was hard for me, because I know people are financially hurting right now, so I was very cognizant of that when putting the books out there and pricing them. "Why not make the ebooks free!?" So, I used to give away absolutely all my advice and time for free. What I realized in that process was that most people did not understand the value I was giving them, and that was partly my fault. What I had to do to actually gain that knowledge, I would have killed to have all the stuff I'm saying right now at the start of my career. Even placing a small value on something makes sure that people understand it is valuable. And it also ensures that those who are dead serious about this will get the information. I'm happy to see there are enough people serious about this career that it makes sense to keep making these books. I knew this could have easily gone the opposite way, and my greatest fears would be confirmed. There was a time where I completely redid my portfolio, and it really helped me to get more opportunities. I learned a ton from that process, and I'd love to share it with you in July! #gameindustry #gamedev #portfolio #ebook

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Latest 3ds Max Tutorial is out! - Learn how to make a Procedural Sci-fi Hallway Generator ⚡ https://lnkd.in/e7-v3Vbj

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Unreal Engine 5 – Metasound Trigger Repeat, Threshold, Select, Toggle

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🔥 Substance Designer Quick-Tip: If you were looking for a way to make a procedural tilling wall, where you mix two different Patterns this is how you can do it: 🥇 Create 2 Tile Generators with a scale of 1, and a Random Value in Interstice x. Set the node to Max Mode and the Luminance Random to 0.5. Be sure each of them has different values in their X/Y. 🥈 Use a Blend node in Copy mode to mix these two patterns. Use a shape node connected to a Transform node which is set to "Not Tilling", and place the middle circle in the Lower edge of the image frame. Now get this result into the opacity input of the blend node and use the Y scale Parameter of the Shape no to choose how much do you want both patterns to mix. 🥉 Get this result into an Edge Detect to get some round-like brick shapes! 🚀 There are a lot of things to learn in Substance Designer, and you can learn more at our Discord Community called Future Material Artists, join us by clicking on the following Discord link: https://lnkd.in/d9bKMM-f #3d #vfx #texturing #TextureArtist #3dtexturing #digitalartist #substance3ddesigner #3dartist #gameartist #gameart #adobe

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Writing shaders made a lot more sense to me than using a node based shader editor. "NORMAL_MAP = vec3(0,10);" Really helps with foliage in an isometric style, especially if it's moving and is lit by a dynamic light source. it helps keep the lighting consistent and avoids back face discoloration.

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I had an amazing time doing a two-hour class with the students of Game Design Skills with Alexander Brazie & David Zheng . Huge shoutout to the students who attended! I defined what a NARRATIVE DESIGNER is, the tasks that we handle, how we help improve the quality of the games we work on, as well as listing (through examples and templates) what key skillsets should be included in your Game Writing & Narrative Design Portfolios to help you standout from the crowd. Will this course (& many others) be open to the public in the future? Stay tuned to find out… #NarrativeDesignTip #GDS #GameDesign #NarrativeDesign

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We have now filled this role. Thank you to all of the applicants for your interest in this role. We are so excited to share with you that we are hiring for our first position! Here are the details: Tidepool Games seeks a Concept Artist to join us for a two month contract. Are you interested in being the spearhead of visual conception for an original science-fiction fantasy IP?   Look and feel for this project are of vital importance. You will help develop and establish the aesthetics of the game including concept art, previsual game screens, and other visual material to help illustrate the game as a realized idea. This material will also be used to promote the game concept to potential investors and publishers. Transparency: We have been awarded funding for this project through the Canada Media Fund and funding is meant to support the conceptualization phase of our project, Nomad Stars. This means we have limited funding for this project right now. A permanent position is not currently available - meaning this is contract only. About this role: We are looking for an experienced Concept Artist who has spent time working in the games industry.  You have a deep passion for science fiction and fantasy and seek to create and craft new worlds in a collaborative environment. You are able to produce to a high standard of visual quality  You are experienced in using a variety of tools Experience with Unreal, ZBrush and Blender are a major plus You are excellent at communicating your vision and discussing reiterations.  You have a solid portfolio that demonstrates your skills. A little about Tidepool Games: Tidepool was founded in early 2024 and is currently a small scrappy and fun startup team.  The core values of the studio revolve around Collaboration, Courage, Clarity and being excellent to each other.  We are a fully remote team and currently work in PST. The position's ideal start time is late August and would end by the end of October. The total budget for this role is $9000 CAD. We value diverse perspectives and experiences. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they can perform every job description task. We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may come from a less traditional background. We may consider an equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and experience to meet minimum qualifications. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to think broadly about your background and skill set for the role.

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