http://pixelsandpolys.com The art of game development for pc and consoles. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:04:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an effort to focus hardcore on some personal work, I am going to say goodbye to Pixels and Polys and quit pretending that I'll make those tutorials I previously posted about. It's been fun! Thanks to anyone who reads this and I hope this blog has a ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=20 I use PolyBoost religiously and I'm happy to hear, and to let you all know, that version 4 is out, free to existing users, and at it's usual price of $154 for new purchases.  There is also a demo available, which i think is for 10 days or something.  ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=19 Okay, things may look a little odd for the next few days. I'm in the process of transferring my blog to another server. To say I am not qualified to do this is the understatement of the year. It's taking a bit more time than I had ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=17 Ryan Kingslien, a product manager at Pixologic, now has a nice learning blog out there called Sculpt. Paint. Create. There’s a decent amount of tips and tricks for ZBrush on it as well as other links to ZBrush related things on the web. I’ve been looking at it ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=4 I ran across a very interesting paper about Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2 a few days ago. It’s refreshing to read an article that talks about art techniques that aren’t tech heavy. Don’t get me wrong, I really like the idea of using megatextures and other ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=5 Okay, so I haven’t had time to post a huge tutorial, but I’m going to try to be more realistic about my time until we get closer to the end of our development cycle with Revolution. I just need to scale things back a little for the time ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=6 Well, the reason I’ve been away for so long is finally here! I’m glad to be able to announce Sid Meier’s Civilization: Revolution! (now that the press releases have been sent out) Kotaku.com Lots of high res images can be found at: joystiq We’ll be talking about some of the art generation process soon, ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=7 Sorry for the long time between updates. We may be announcing our next project soon, so I’ve been a little busy with work. I’ll try to keep the blog up to date with less ambitious posts (Tutorials take a bit longer to prepare). I’m learning a ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=8 My GDC experience overall was a great one. After going to all the keynotes, tutorials, and sessions that were on my list, I’ve put together the top three themes that were present (granted, the only design talk I went to was Miyamoto’s keynote, so I’m coming at this with ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=9 Hey Everybody! My name is Chris Sulzbach, or Sulz if you’d like and I’m the new contributor to the pixelsandpolys blog/forum dedicated to video game art and technology. I’d like to first thank Brian for putting together this excellent forum/blog and I hope that it catches on amongst the local ... http://pixelsandpolys.com/?p=10