five years
polycounter lvl 14
morning.
Today is my fifth anniversary of joining polycount and i was thinking of doing something to mark that. I have recieved tons of help over the years from polycount U so i guess its time to give a little back if I can.
Following on from Haz's idea a year or so back I want to take on three fledgling character artists for a project to make a character each start to finish with weekly feedback/advice sessions via hangout/skype or whatever. I'm nowhere near Troys league, but I guess that I might have something to offer some folks with pipeline or the odd trick etc...
I want to get started around the beginning of October, and due to timezone fun would prefer people from the eurozone but anyone is welcome really...hell if anyone even takes up my offer I would be dead chuffed
take a look at my folio www.sethnash.com and if you think that it might be something you are interested in drop me a PM introduce yourself, throw me a link to some of your work, along with a link to a concept that you want to model and we can take it from there, get artists permissions etc...
As an additional note which ties in nicely with the current thread on PC Fb account I would like to thank, in no particular order some of the folks that have inspired and/or helped me out along the way:
Ben Davis,Jim Waters, Tom Parker, Tim Appleby, Patrick Morrison, Gav Goulden, Jon Troy Nickel, Joe Wilson, Paul Greveson, Vincent Joyau, Jon fletcher, Brian Jones, Mike Kime, Luke Starkie, Crystel Land, Chris Radsby, Dave Wilson, Jamie Gibson, Csaba Molnar, Joseph Harford, Pete Bernard, Lee Devonald..*EDIT* I forgot Manuel dischinger, who did amazing concept work on Origins so that we could make beautiful things....beer is on me next meet up manolo. . there are a lot more but this is sounding like a fucking Oscar acceptance so I will leave it at that.
Thank you polycount....I will leave you with a song thats only appropriate in the title, but I do love a bit of Bowie.
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Just to avoid confusion I will post this here too:
Today is my fifth anniversary of joining polycount and i was thinking of doing something to mark that. I have recieved tons of help over the years from polycount U so i guess its time to give a little back if I can.
Following on from Haz's idea a year or so back I want to take on three fledgling character artists for a project to make a character each start to finish with weekly feedback/advice sessions via hangout/skype or whatever. I'm nowhere near Troys league, but I guess that I might have something to offer some folks with pipeline or the odd trick etc...
I want to get started around the beginning of October, and due to timezone fun would prefer people from the eurozone but anyone is welcome really...hell if anyone even takes up my offer I would be dead chuffed
take a look at my folio www.sethnash.com and if you think that it might be something you are interested in drop me a PM introduce yourself, throw me a link to some of your work, along with a link to a concept that you want to model and we can take it from there, get artists permissions etc...
As an additional note which ties in nicely with the current thread on PC Fb account I would like to thank, in no particular order some of the folks that have inspired and/or helped me out along the way:
Ben Davis,Jim Waters, Tom Parker, Tim Appleby, Patrick Morrison, Gav Goulden, Jon Troy Nickel, Joe Wilson, Paul Greveson, Vincent Joyau, Jon fletcher, Brian Jones, Mike Kime, Luke Starkie, Crystel Land, Chris Radsby, Dave Wilson, Jamie Gibson, Csaba Molnar, Joseph Harford, Pete Bernard, Lee Devonald..*EDIT* I forgot Manuel dischinger, who did amazing concept work on Origins so that we could make beautiful things....beer is on me next meet up manolo. . there are a lot more but this is sounding like a fucking Oscar acceptance so I will leave it at that.
Thank you polycount....I will leave you with a song thats only appropriate in the title, but I do love a bit of Bowie.
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Hey guys, update time.
It became terribly apparent to me that cutting to just three people was never going to be an easy task, with that in mind and because i really hate anything that sounds like hard work I have taken on seven people for this daft idea of mine.
One group of four and one group of three. I'm going to run this in two blocks of ten weeks: October through to mid December and then January through to mid March.
we still have to work out who is in which group yet but the people involved are:
Disanski: http://disanski.com/
Ponjarphy: http://www.jeffhhansen.com/studies
Chris Kuhner: http://www.artstation.com/artist/Chris_Kuhner
Ave: http://www.polygimp.com/
capable wizard: sketchbook thread
Brandon LaFrance: http://brandon.artstation.com/portfolio/caroline
ZicoV: http://markuslund3d.com/
congratulations guys, lets make some awesome characters!
Again, my apologies to anyone that wasn't picked, the response was greater than I ever would of imagined, and thank you all for taking the time to apply and educating me on how many promising character artists there are lurking the boards of polycount.
the first group thread will go live in the next few weeks so that we can get some reference boards up and out into the wild, but for now I have concepts to seek permission for and other stuff to organise
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but cool initiative man
I've been around but I don't think I've delved into Polycount U as much as I really should have within the time that I've been here..
I need someone to kick my ass.
keep the pms coming guys, I will get back to you all over the weekend, and figure out the final three next week and then we can make some characters or something
Thanks very much again
I'll send a pm later, is it cool if its our own characters or do you prefer others?
No that makes perfect sense, I've had a character in mind for a little while so if i feel its good enough I'll send that.
Otherwise there are definitely other character designs from artists that i have in mind
PM is on the way
This was almost to good to believe it to be true
Im rly excited about this =D
I know dat feel.
Yea, maybe one day when I am a badass artist like yourself I'll do the same. It's always enjoyable to give back to something that has given so much!
Good show ol chap!
Quick question Seth: Like Haz's bootcamp where they created female characters because its his forte, are you focusing on characters that are closer to your strengths? It may effect which concepts I pick.
Edit: PM sent anyway
Can't wait to see people leveling up to the max
Thanks very much for the kind words everyone, I'm still not sure I have a big enough knowledge base for this but what the hell...the worst that will happen is that people will have to unlearn my bad habits, and I may get pelted with rotten fruit.
As mentioned I will have the final three for the end of the week, its going to be difficult figuring out what I can actually bring to the table for you guys, some of you should be shoing me stuff I think....
Anyway I will keep submissions open till the end of monday in whatever timezone you may be just cos its my idea and I can bloody well keep it open as long as I want.
Genuinely looking forward to this, I think people are gonna make some great stuff.
I think theres always something to learn when another person touches your life
And your stuffs great! =D
In my case, I would rly like to learn that sweet texturing, with all the little details from you.
Aswell as that nice material definition.
Im rly currious too, would surely love to see the "classes results" =D maybe have thread for the progress and the results ?
like, "get a shot of penicillin... asap"?
I've sent a PM
I can't wait to see this getting started.
(jk)
Great on you man! Lets see some levelling up!!
I think it's pretty much Tuesday everywhere now so subs are closed, If you sent me a PM since sunday, you are in the mix and I will be replying to everyone tonight, and catching up with further replies... then its just the really easy bit....hhehehe yeah right, choosing just three is going to suck but I want to publicly thank everyone involved for taking the time to message me and discuss your thoughts on concept and where you feel that you need to improve, what direction you want to take and such, its been really cool so far to see that folks have a clear grasp of what they want and need to achieve to get to the next stage in their progression.
Threadwise I am humbled by your kind words