Well it's interesting to see that PC game graphics are still good enough to compete with next gen consoles.

What I have found in the past is that pc graphics get overtaken by those of consoles when a new generation is released, and then the pc catches up and overtakes consoles after a year or so. However, it looks like the pc is already competing with consoles graphically.

Also, I thought that most of the rich and/or talented developers were starting to make everything on the fucking RAD Xbox 360 and "1% of the power of the human brain" PS3. 

i looked at your portfolio like 3 times now, and i JUST realized what the hell it said underneath "next", which is "next set". the txt there is really quite small and ass. the pics are nice, just erm make it more obvious that you are playing around with multiple sets as well as within each set. 

I only have a 17" widescreen monitor, and it's stuck in a stupid high resolution and I can read the text fine. I have crap eyesight too.

Anyway, I will have to redo it all in Japanese, so I will take all this stuff into account when the time comes.

For now, I've been asked to do an art test, where I have to model a 300 poly spaceship (guess I'll just follow the Max modelling tutorial ;) and an old womans face in 2000 polys. I think it should be fun. Hopefully I can do something good, even though I applied for a FUCKING ENVIRONMENT ART position. Maybe they could have asked me to model a 300 poly brick, and an old womans house? 

old womans face in 2000 polys 

they can make a model out of an old woman, it just takes 2000 "polys".

Good luck than. 

out of just one "polly" 

metl makes another funnay!



seriously dude, you should write these down, work up an act :| 

And still not as it should be!

http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=93751&an=0&page=0#93751 

fat-comical, as opposed to Quakey-disturbing

side rant: I hate how most 3d animation shows, like Shrek, portray their characters. Fuck that cutesy "stylized" stuff. 

That is the funniest thing I've seen all day. Simply awful. 

I don't think it's awful. The Q1 shamb has a big gut, so it's a reasonable interpretation to make a high-poly shamb a bit fat.
The claws...um, are cool, but they're really not claws. They're bony fingers.
It's the mouth, though. That's the problem. Those teeth are wrong. As the guy posted below the pic, they're chisel teeth i.e. herbiverous. Not monstery and certainly not like the original's teeth, which are the clearest part of the skin.
Perhaps he was basing his interpretation a little too much on the model Speeds linked earlier:

http://www.geocities.com/leedlebeetle/QK_marine_shambler.jpg 

Bonus points for actually making the shambler fat as opposed to giving him a six-pack which is what most of them do. 

No. 

While a shambler might have some fat, it should have neither the aforementioned clearly distinguishable six-pack nor rolls of fat because its hide hangs loosely upon its frame. IMO. 

please take my wife. er... 

It should be neither fit nor slack...
I've never thought of the original id Shambler as having a "big gut"... neither extreme seems to work well for me
and by previous admission that face/mouth is ridiculous
I think, although this may well sound bad, that to make a great, and new, Shambler, the modeler may have had to have seen a decent amount of Lovecraft art. That's where "the shambler from the stars" came from anyway. 

http://www.tasmediafile.com/Illustration/Shambler.htm

a little toned and sloth-like, but nice imho.

http://home.telkomsa.net/obihb/shots/obihb01_15.JPG

YEAH! PUMPING IRON AND TAKING STEROIDS! FUCK YEAH! Bit too pink Skaarj like for my tastes

http://www.coronaleonis.com/3dShamblerL.jpg

mmm?

http://www.threedy.com/site/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=77282&stc=1

NOOOO! I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY CANCELLED FRASIER!

http://www.coronaleonis.com/3dFiendL.jpg

fiend that looks decent. Don't remember where I've seen this before.

http://www.coronaleonis.com/3dWizzardL.jpg

scrag!

Random stuff that turned up in the search:

http://mi.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/flowstone_shambler.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/csstrowbridge/Tulzscha/DimensionalShambler.jpg

http://www.philsp.com/data/images/m/midnight_shambler_198805_n5.jpg

http://www.magiclibrary.net/rarities/prerelease-fungal-shambler.jpg

http://www.rpgshop.com/images/Mini/rpr2496.jpg

http://www.komarckart.com/coc_10.jpg

some interesting, some not so. 

GREAT! 

I see you wasted your afternoon in exactly the same way as me... 

look at bears for example: they're neither sixpacky nor slacky. 

http://www.leveldesign.nl/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1486

OMGZ 

too bad it's on leveldesign.nl. dont count on good judging, fairness, non-twisted-ness, etc. 

it's a bit old and rather long, but it's well written and (i feel) worth the read:
http://static.circa1984.com/the-big-scam.html

cheers! :P 

started reading. very interesting. 

Hmmmm yeah interesting stuff. Way too long, I skipped the middle half, but the rest was pretty enlightening. I see enough greed and money-fixation in Guild Wars (a game without any chance of theft or piracy, and only very minor options for scamming) for it to strike a chord.