It's
#PortfolioDay
!!
Hey! I'm Alice, an Environment/Prop Artist living in the UK, I have nearly 10 shipped seasons across 2 IPs. I love, pirates, cowboys and dragons 🏴☠️🤠🐲
I'm freelancing at the moment, but always looking for a place to call home!
I am one of the folks who is being affected by the lay offs at Epic. I've spent my entire career at Epic/MT and professionally 'grown up there'.
I am deeply sad, unbelievably scared, and would appreciate any help.
Huge love to my colleagues affected too. You are rockstars 🥺
You work for years, you give everything, day and night. Alongside incredibly talented people.
And then one day, after one email, you are empty. And wondering what you did wrong.
It's okay to not be okay, it's okay to feel hurt and betrayed. It's okay to reach out.
Been cracking on with this portfolio piece, still got a bunch to do but enjoying cracking away at it 🏋️
So here's a progress gif! I don't know how to make gifs properly!
I finished my silly little forest scene!! 🌿 Was alot of fun and nice to try to redeem my forest abilities :D even if i did have to make rocks..
Concept is:
It's
#PortfolioDay
!
My name is Alice and I'm a 3D Environment Artist in games. I love all things stylised and 🙅 hate rocks!!!
✉️ hughesalice23
@gmail
.com
🎨
I wish people talked more about the *actual struggles of Game Dev, like the ten minutes it takes me to pick which deranged 15 song music playlist will fuel my entire 8 hour work day.
'Whats your unpopular game dev opini-'
Show me your hobbies, tweet about the things that made you smile today, did you make a nice meal? when the sun peaks over the hills and spills through the cracks in your curtains and paints the walls with her romance what does your heart do
Its
#PortfolioDay
!!
I'm Alice, I'm an Environment Artist in Games, I like:
-Bright Colours
-Lighting
-Opposites on the colour wheel
I don't like:
-Rocks
I'm super stoked to say that I got to post my first professional work on my Artstation today! Huge thanks to the guys at
@EpicGames
for all their guidance and support. You can see it here:
So somehow I managed to finish my Artstation Challenge! I was super sick, so I only had a week or so to be able to work on it, but its dragons.. 🐉We do anything for our dragon overlords.
Also finally get to say that, I'm no longer an intern! After nearly a year I did the thing!
I'm over the moon to get to say I'm now a Full Time Mid Level 3D Artist at MT! 💜
Thank you to everyone for all the love and support for myself and my colleagues 🥺
Since this is looking like a trend... I wanted to start a thread with some resources for anyone affected or looking for work 🧵
I'm in a magazine!!! Huge thanks to 3DWorld for the feature! 💜
@3DWorldMag
I got to talk a little bit about my new favourite love: lighting 😌
Issue
#293
Page 82 ;)
I thought more about this and, a few thoughts, 'boring' is so rude and awful and wrong. Raise your hand if you've ever had to make rocks at work. I am a rock hater but a rock is inherently boring but extremely versatile. Most if not all games have one rock, at least.
A friendly bit of advice: If the feedback you give is like this, don't give feedback. Especially don't position yourself as someone who regularly gives feedback, and advertise it to students and juniors to get them to do spec work for your exploitative company.
Awrite folks, my name is Alice and I'm scruffy lil 3D Environment Artist currently working with the Beans. When I'm not not arting I'm training BJJ or lifting silly little heavy things🏋️🥋🎨
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
So I just finished my talk about unifying art direction in your personal projects; when you AREN'T an Art Director. Was amazing to get to talk about art for a while, thank you so much to those who came 🥹
Watch this space for the video!
Day 3! I did some more designer today, I'm not typically a designer nerd, but it was cool to figure out a workflow I liked! The bones with designer and the extra details painted into the Normal and BC. Now I close designer again 😌
Day 5! POM, trim sheets on everything, vert painting and schlapping some colours on the lanterns to try out some different translucency workflows!
I think tomorrow i'll be doing the brick trim, the bridge and another stone tiling texture to wrap up the big stuff! 🏙️
@SashaBernert
@delaneykingrox
Yea I know Aaron pretty well, and can honestly say that he is among the men in the industry that makes me feel like there is someone in my corner as a femme person. I don't think calling him a sexist over a technical disagreement is appropriate here.
Okay so I was super ill last week so we paused the countdown. SO Day 4.
Got some trims in there, some blockout props, refined some mats and just noodled a little yesterday afternoon!
So Day 2 I guess! I mostly refined the Blockout a little more, added a basic lantern BP system, some vfx, and some basic designer materials to paint over the top of!
Some mess to cleanup later 🗑️
Show your UVs, show your material graphs, show your textures, show your wireframe, show your topo. And make it just as pretty as the art. Cause then they know you CAN do it, and technical questions are answered.
You'll get more interviews.
The talk I did for
@exp_points_int
is live! Was super fun to get to talk about art, and I hope that this helps anyone making environment projects!
Its all about art direction when you ARENT necessarily an Art Director 🎨
Lex laid down to go to sleep for the last time last night, he went on his own terms. At home, with his sisters there.
Goodbye my sweet sweet boy, you will be so very sorely missed. I promise we'll be howling at the moon every night, I know you'll hear it.
Now that
#FNFestival
is out I can share my work with you!
Super happy to share and so glad I got to stretch more of my world building, set dressing and lighting wings! 🧚
Day 9. All done, I post tomorrow! Going to try to include some breakdowns in the post.
Some Stats:
-Started 26 Days Ago
-Worked on this for an hour or more for 10 days
-4 Tiling Textures, 1 Trim, 3 Atlases, 1 Unique Mesh, 1 Event Script, 2 Shader Spaghettis
- 1,000,000 ☕️
@SashaBernert
@delaneykingrox
I don't often if ever get involved in silly twitter beef over game dev, but I really don't want my friend to be thought of as a sexist by the sheer volume of followers they have. Because they are out there, and we will brain them with books. But in the right moment.
Day 6! Couldn't do too much today :(
Did some of the bigger bits of modelling, so the modelling should be done now. Added decals, blockout tech, foliage and paper. And redid the Lantern placement and mats (Still too metallic i know 🫡)
Think I can move onto some prop work next!
Seeing job postings in response to this years layoffs from companies who had mass layoffs late last year, for roles we know were made redundant...
Still repost, still apply.
We nearly lost my boy Lex yesterday, after a very sudden decline and going into heart and kidney failure. I cannot even express the hurt that comes with the threat of losing him. My vets are amazing, luckily.
Grateful for my best bud.
I really wanted to move away from using a selfie as my profile picture....
And!!! LOOK!!! 🥺
By the most wholesome and uber talented
@Micr_0_
I could not be happier!! 💜 Thank you! 🥰
Why is everyone saying they will leave twitter because space boy wants to train Ai using tweets?
We have the opportunity to do something really funny guys ...
I will not tweet my thoughts I will not tweet my thoughts I will not tweet my thoughts I will not tweet my thoughts I will not tweet my thoughts I will not tweet my thou-
Just wanted to introduce to the time line: Angelbert Hopperdink
A gift from the magical
@AnoukDebruyne
His hobbies include-
-Playing Mario Kart 8 🎮
-Arson🔥
-Retribution⚡
-Screaming into the void📢
Thank you Anouk I love him so much 😭😭💜
Day 7! I worked on this a little on Sunday, Just did some more work on the trim, made a brick kit and sculpted and textured the stalls!
Props, lanterns and tech left!
Started my latest project! and continuing my mentorship with
@catkitsu
Hoping this time I can make a successful thread💀Concept is by S7-37 over on Artstation! With this project my aim is to refine my skills and learn new techniques! This is gonna be a long project!! 🤪
Hello! Still here! I've been making good progress on this piece and hopefully It'll be finished soon! I've had so much fun sinking my teeth into this piece and once I've finished the engine on the roof the building will be done! Then I get to do the cool tech stuff 😎
#3D
Why is it that EVERY SINGLE piece of personal art I start, I'll block out in .4 seconds.. sit... stew...mald... for weeks.. and then just finish it in a week.
Mod kits, again boring. Versatile and important to show on a portfolio because you might need to make one at work. Bricks and wood. They are everywhere. Having things on your portfolio that demonstrate YOU CAN DO THE JOB is important.
I also get to post my work from my first season on
@FallGuysGame
It was a pleasure meeting and learning from the team as my first (and last) season as an intern!
🚀
My cute Boat Diorama is finally finished! I had so much fun working on this project and I learnt so many cool things thanks to my awesome mentor
@catkitsu
I look forward to starting my next project but I must rest first. I also want to thank everyone for their support.
'BuT I wAnT sTuDeNtS tO StAnD OuT' they can stand out with 'boring'. Maybe whoever gave this feedback doesn't know how to make 'boring' look interesting, which is an artistic failure at best, deliberately sabotaging students at worst.
Gonna tell this story properly, because I love him. So I was a Raid Leader during Legion for WoW, it was B team raid for my guild and this Guy randomly joins and is wiping the raid with stacks by standing in shit. So naturally I lose it, and I'm really letting him have it.
I got my internship at Epic by making a youtube tutorial on a piece of work and breaking it all down, and then when i did an art test I made a full pdf breaking everything down as well.
Without taking any new ones, post photos of you as:
1) a romanceable NPC
2) a quest-giver NPC
3) the final boss of a game
😤I dare you to try to get curve on the final boss😤
Without taking any new ones, post photos of you as:
1) a romanceable NPC
2) a quest-giver NPC
3) the final boss of a game
These three can and are all 3
@KierstenHaleArt
You wont burning bridges just by reaching out to your art communities for support, most of the art community is kind and will want to be a shoulder for you too lean on. Especially when it's a wider industry problem. You got this 💜
If anyone is looking for an artist that I look up to and inspires me every single day. Look no further. Sian is an absolute joy, and whats more incredibly talented.
Unfortunately, I'm one of the folks that has been affected by the Epic layoffs.
If anyone knows places that are looking for an experienced 3D Marketing Artist/Environment Artist, in both stylized and realistic styles, then gimme a shout! 🙏💖
#gamedev
#gamedevjobs
I sent in copyright strike claim thingymabobs to both YouTube and Adobe (they uploaded to behance too) and in under 12 hours my work has been removed.
If you are worried you work might have been stolen too, here is the website:
Strongly suggest filing.
A wonderful Easter spent doing Jiu Jitsu, and then teaching kids Jiu Jitsu and then doing Jiu Jitsu and then watching the UFC and then tomorrow is gonna be amazing because I'll be doing Jiu Jitsu :)