Top tip for folks looking for 3D art jobs in games: have chairs in your portfolios. Doors. Fuck, have a really good bit of skirting board. Character art is cool and sexy and eye catching, but damn, videogames need like a really large number of doors. - ThreadSky

mikebithell.bsky.social • 32 days ago

Top tip for folks looking for 3D art jobs in games: have chairs in your portfolios. Doors. Fuck, have a really good bit of skirting board.

Character art is cool and sexy and eye catching, but damn, videogames need like a really large number of doors.

Reposted from Shawn Alexander Allen

Still looking for more applications.

I'm noticing a lot of enthusiasm for environmental art (which is good) but not many examples (which is not good).

Will start interviews early April.

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nahofbauer.bsky.social•32 days ago

What kind of doors? French, panel, sliding, bifold, barn, folding, home wood aluminum?

All things I don't have in my portfolio.....

mooneysart.bsky.social•32 days ago

Ahem,

mikebithell.bsky.social•32 days ago

What am I gonna do Shaun, give you a second job on the game?

mooneysart.bsky.social•32 days ago

Ha ha, i was just backing you up! I love seeing doors in folios!

mikebithell.bsky.social•32 days ago

Honestly it’s such an instructive thing to see. You can tell a lot about an artist by how they approach a door

mooneysart.bsky.social•32 days ago

I was also a 3D environment artist for a good few years, have a leg up with regards to this stuff!

mooneysart.bsky.social•32 days ago

Always make your doors bigger than you think they need to be!

thespaceshipper.com•32 days ago

Next game, all the closing credits will be Shaun.

shawndoublea.bsky.social•32 days ago

And like, in game rendered buildings, not just one nice expressive sunset or forest, lol

kflo.bsky.social•32 days ago

list your doors per minute (DPM) count up front

shmitz.bsky.social•32 days ago

You know, character art is kind of why I've always figured 3d art jobs were not something I should look at, but seriously I would love it if someone told me to make a whole bunch of chairs and doors.

redjamspear.bsky.social•32 days ago

If I learned anything from the popular video games podcast Play, Watch, Listen, it's that toilets are important too. I can't remember why, exactly, but still...

mrrudi.bsky.social•31 days ago

Chairs, the natural enemy of the adventurer.

spudonkey.bsky.social•31 days ago

That and how you hide transitions between walls and floors and how you can re-use the same asset without people noticing 😆

kiddesimo.bsky.social•31 days ago

😂

artofsoulburn.bsky.social•31 days ago

Let’s not forget crates for players to hide behind. Think that was the most common design I made in games.

oiyouyeahyou.bsky.social•31 days ago

Did you know portfolio comes from a collection of papers about doors, aka portals. Portal-folio /jk

mrsibson.bsky.social•32 days ago

3D teacher here. Lesson 1: skirting boards. Amazing how many people don’t put them in rooms. Also never want to see another portfolio with an Ak47 or similar with a 10000 polys in the inside of a gun barrel.

kickrole.bsky.social•32 days ago

Came here to post this. The number of portfolios that are mainly realistic guns blows my minds. I’m pretty sure every gun has been modeled.

If you want to model guns, give me ones that shot frogs, or rocket launchers that fire off onions. Studios don’t need just modelers, they need creatives.

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