The Freelancer’s Toolset
I found something awesome on LifeHacker a moment ago that smArtists may appreciate. It’s called The Freelancer’s Toolset. It’s a list of 100 web applications to enhance freelancers’ productivity. It looks like a fantastic list! Here’s a few highlights from it:
What Would A Game Developer Do?
I just found a great post by Gianfranco over at GBGames that’s called What Would A Game Developer Do? Gianfranco starts out detailing focus problems we all relate to, then drops some knowledge in the form of solid tips on surrounding yourself with things that motivate you. Then he breathlessly goes straight into conditioning your [...]
Link: Art for Games, not Games for Art
I just checked out Rick Stirling’s excellent blog and found an article for young artists that I wholeheartedly agree with… it’s called Art for games, not games for art. Basically he posits that one of the chief considerations of art for games is putting the needs of the game above your own art and your [...]
101 Hidden Tips and Secrets for Photoshop
Found a cool article this morning: 101 Hidden Tips and Secrets for Photoshop Some useful information in here I didn’t know. A few repeats, but here were some of the highlights I found most useful: 5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray [...]
Top 5 Photoshop CS3 features revealed!
Just found a cool writeup on the best of what’s new in the upcoming Photoshop CS3, and it’s actually got me excited: Adobe Photoshop CS3: Top 5 Standout New Features There’s a lot more detail in the article above, but this is the basic breakdown: 1. Nondestructive Smart Filters 2. Quick Selection Tool & Refine [...]
How to ensure response to your email
I found this over on LifeHacker today and thought it was pretty sweet. Here’s the direct article link: A Primer on Electronic Communication Basically it’s a guide on how to guarantee responses to your emails. It’s a pretty good read and applies directly to the game industry and applying for jobs or contract work. It’s [...]
People hate the smArtist!
I just ran across a website on accident that has a few people ripping on me and my site. It made me laugh, and I wanted to post it here. Here’s the IndieGamer forums post. And here are the highlights: What a shit website. That guy sucks and is full of it. I just can’t [...]
Danger, destruction and dog food!
Hey, I’m in Texas! I’m staying with my good friend Eric. Yesterday we drove up to Fort Worth with a friend of ours to go trawling around in a condemned and heavily damaged dog food factory, and then onto a massive grain silo in a very scary, very bad neighborhood. The purpose? Taking cool pictures. [...]
These freakishly hot ladies have unfortunately lost their clothes.
http://www.jamesart.com/kits.html File this under “Artistic reference.” These are some amazingly beautiful stylized resin model kits of the most breath-stealingly beautiful cartoon women in the world. Definitely NOT SAFE FOR WORK. But I use these as form reference for whenever I make a female model at work. They’re stylized to the brink of being absurd, but [...]
Dolls are COOL!
I usually don’t post quick things like this, but I just found something too beautiful not to post. I was doing some random browsing while waiting on something extremely CPU-intensive and ran across a website selling extraordinarily beautiful dolls. www.dreamofdoll.com – hit the English link in the lower right. I’ve never seen anything like this [...]
NanoLegends art released!
NanoLegends art released! I know a lot of you have asked to see my art and that I haven’t had anything recent to show off. Well, that’s no longer the case! Here’s a sampling of the art I created for a government-funded kids’ cancer awareness 3rd-person action platformer called NanoLegends, right before I came to [...]
A very cool IP development worklog
My friend Eric recently started a worklog detailing his free-time foray into developing an original intellectual property. It’s already shaping up to be a really interesting read, especially if you’re interested in writing or IP development. Check it out here: Eric von Rothkirch’s Quantum