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8 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
How do I go from:
Supporting artists, giving away free advice and mentoring

to------>

hard assed, blade tongued bitch cutting down posters and shredding their arguments, work and self esteem?

Easy. I put everyone into the first category until they are a bigot.
Don't fuck with me.

Now, who wants a nice cup of tea, some home made muffins and some life advice?
Who needs a hug and a biscuit? *looks you dead in the eye* Seriously I will cut you if you fuck with me.
The only way to have a tolerant society is to not tolerate intolerance.

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Delaney King ✍🏻👸🏻 Profile picture
8 Jun
This made me snort my coffee. Nice work @blargsnarf.

Now, as a side quest, lemme just highlight a few things...
Lets say these are traits that you have and you think that makes you a 'bad artist'. Can I make you feel less 'bad' about yourself?

What if I told you that most of these fall into three categories.

1. Unregulated ADHD
2. Perfectionism
3. Goals over growth
Okay, so executive dysfunction is an aspect of ADHD where you can't focus your brain where it needs to go in order to serve your goals.

You know what you should be doing, but your brain just can't go there. It's like steering a trolley cart with a busted wheel.
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Delaney King ✍🏻👸🏻 Profile picture
8 Jun
Me: 24 years experience in my field.

Some dudes: I think you are wrong, allow me to explain your job to you using my basic grasp.

Me:
Lemme just bust some of your weird little bubbles here...

1. Yes, I know polygon reduction tools exist.

2. Amazingly, I know what "character artistsin games" are doing because *whispers a secret* I am one.

3. Games are not all AAA running on high end machines.
4. More polys doesn't equal visual fidelity.

5. Maybe you are a misogynist.

6. Yes, I have actually made VR projects and know what I am doing.

7. Making stuff well gives you control, speed in workflow and uses cheaper machines.
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Delaney King ✍🏻👸🏻 Profile picture
7 Jun
Optimisation isn't just for games- though we have the most extreme cases. Well optimises models and shader/texture combos help all the way along the pipeline for film and TV too.
Skinning, uv mapping and animation all go by much more quickly and smoothly if you have good topo and fast materials.
Being able to email files, quickly archive projects and send assets to an offsite render farm are all a plus.
The smaller the memory footprint of your scenes, the less likely you are to crash during a render.

And optimisation goes beyond cleanup- it also means baking all your bones, blend shapes, muscle, hair, cloth and physics sims to a point cloud for rendering, and lighting tricks.
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Delaney King ✍🏻👸🏻 Profile picture
7 Jun
Okay #gameart folks, I was donated these two tweezers from a VR project to demonstrate some cleanup and good topo.
Big thanks to the contributor, who gets the model back cleaned up as a thanks. :)

Are ya ready for this?
Okay, so here is the topology, and, as you can see, this is far from ideal. Both artists here are from film, so they are just learning the ropes for games- and again, they donated these so give your thanks
Okay, so lets start with the brief. These are for VR.

Now VR means you can get the tool very, very close to your face. It also means normal maps are not going to create much of an illusion of detail.

So we are aiming for a decent finish in VR.
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Delaney King ✍🏻👸🏻 Profile picture
7 Jun
I have been snooping around sketchfab looking at your topology and I must say...
Do you all have shares in 3d cards? Because you are punishing peoples computers for no good reason.
Damn there is some amazing things here- but y'all can get this stuff in from between a third to a tenth of the overhead.
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Delaney King ✍🏻👸🏻 Profile picture
6 Jun
#Gamedevtip
Add 'tutorial videos' as a daily food group. I consume anywhere between 3 to 20 tutorial videos a day, often saving and going back over them quickly to lock things in.
Taking time out of your day to learn stuff from other disciplines is a great idea, as it allows you to build a common language with other members, and give insights into the challenges they face.
As a game developer you must work the learning muscles constantly, because everything is changing, and new techniques and tools appear every day.

Taking time to learn them means a huge time savings down the track. It isn't wasted time.
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