3D Art/Modeling Tutoring

[Vovolov]

I have a good friend that has recently started giving 3D art lessons, and since there seems to be an interest in modeling here, I thought I'd post it.

So you like games. Ever considered learning more about game development? How about improving your digital art skills? I can help. I'm an industry professional with over 3 years of development experience. I've worked on 7 game titles and I've done a bit of everything in the pipeline, except for heavy programming.

I am currently offering tutoring for the following skills:

General 3D art training, focusing on the industry standard art package 3D Studio Max. I can teach you how to wrangle the often unruly 3DS Max into doing your bidding, then teach you the skills you need to jumpstart a career in Architectural Visualization, Game Artistry, or even just bring your modding skills to a new level.

General Adobe Photoshop training with options for Digital Painting, Texturing, and Photo-manipulation. The after you are done with your modeling, the next step in the process is texturing. We'll cover all the concepts, methods, tips and tricks for creating efficient quality texture maps of all types.

I offer flexible, tailored lesson plans to help you reach your goals as well as targeted lessons to help you overcome specific difficulties. Lessons will be conducted over Skype, with the assistance of screen-sharing to allow me to guide you throughout the experience. Lessons include a written description of each class along with valuable information to help with each after-lesson assignment.

Here are some things that have said about my lessons:

"It's pretty awesome, especially with the screensharing and with your professional experience."
"You make it a lot easier than it would first seem."
"It's quite handy that you helped out with shortcuts and scripts."

Email me at [email protected] or call me, Bryce, at +1-828-333-4720 for more information.

 

[BattleOfValmy]

It'd be nice if he gave his name, companies he's worked for, and titles he's worked on.

 

[Vovolov]

It'd be nice if he gave his name, companies he's worked for, and titles he's worked on.

I asked Bryce, and this is his reply:

I generally prefer not to post all of my details on forums. However, I'd be happy to discuss my work experience through email or a phone call.

 

[Llew2]

Well, considering I use Blender 3D and Gimp, we don't really have much in common to begin with. 

 

[Daiske]

I figured I'd register and reply directly so Nemesis doesn't have to keep routing through me.

Well, considering I use Blender 3D and Gimp, we don't really have much in common to begin with. 

3D Art skills and techniques are generally universal, it's simply a matter of knowing the shortcuts and names/locations of all the tools, same goes for 2d editing software. However, in the interest of learning the industry standard tools, it is possible to get a 30-day trials from the software websites.

 

[BattleOfValmy]

I figured I'd register and reply directly so Nemesis doesn't have to keep routing through me.

Well, considering I use Blender 3D and Gimp, we don't really have much in common to begin with. 

3D Art skills and techniques are generally universal, it's simply a matter of knowing the shortcuts and names/locations of all the tools, same goes for 2d editing software. However, in the interest of learning the industry standard tools, it is possible to get a 30-day trials from the software websites.

Well, that and GIMP, IMO, kind of stinks. It doesn't have the awesome UI and layout and ease of use that Photoshop has.

Remember, IMO 

 

[Gothic Knight]

I figured I'd register and reply directly so Nemesis doesn't have to keep routing through me.

Well, considering I use Blender 3D and Gimp, we don't really have much in common to begin with. 

3D Art skills and techniques are generally universal, it's simply a matter of knowing the shortcuts and names/locations of all the tools, same goes for 2d editing software. However, in the interest of learning the industry standard tools, it is possible to get a 30-day trials from the software websites.

Well, that and GIMP, IMO, kind of stinks. It doesn't have the awesome UI and layout and ease of use that Photoshop has.

Remember, IMO 

Gimp is way easier and cleaner UI wise than Photoshop.

 

[Maяcel]

I figured I'd register and reply directly so Nemesis doesn't have to keep routing through me.

Well, considering I use Blender 3D and Gimp, we don't really have much in common to begin with. 

3D Art skills and techniques are generally universal, it's simply a matter of knowing the shortcuts and names/locations of all the tools, same goes for 2d editing software. However, in the interest of learning the industry standard tools, it is possible to get a 30-day trials from the software websites.

Well, that and GIMP, IMO, kind of stinks. It doesn't have the awesome UI and layout and ease of use that Photoshop has.

Remember, IMO 

Gimp is way easier and cleaner UI wise than Photoshop.

lol you cant find a thing in gimp

 

[Apthorpe]

At least it's free. Photoshop is a little too expensive for my tastes, and I'm not willing to obtain it with less honest methods either.

 

[BattleOfValmy]

You get what your pay for after all.

 

[Shredzorz]

You get what your pay for after all.

Spoiler

 

[Llew2]

lol you cant find a thing in gimp

Noob. 

You get what your pay for after all.

No. You get far more. And you get to join the awesome world of open source.

 

[AWdeV]

You get what your pay for after all.

You get ****in' quality for ****ing free and it's ****ing easy to use too. 

 

[iggorbb]

You know, there are reasons why some programs are free...

 

[BattleOfValmy]

With GIMP, it's easy to see that it's open source and free. Which is a bad thing. Compared to the best non-open-source, commercial option, photoshop, it's just horrible.

If GIMP were like Blender, as Shred implied as the good thing about open source, then I could see people trying to purport it as better than the commercial option.

But seeing as GIMP is not better in any way, and is in many ways worse than Photoshop, your only rational defense of GIMP is that it is free.

I do not hate open source, as I use open source software. The problem with open source is, however, that an open-source software option being better than a closed-source commercial option is the exception and not the rule.

As I told Shred earlier, for every Blender there is an OpenOffice.org.

 

[Apthorpe]

As I told Shred earlier, for every Blender there is an OpenOffice.org.

... I bet you'd think I was pretty stupid if I told you I have MS Word 2010 and OpenOffice, and I choose to use OpenOffice... 

*fidgets*

 

[Almalexia]

I suppose I could use some help with modding, if I am ever going to actually work on a mod I've been considering for a while.

 

[Artizan]

is he doing this for free?

 

[Renneko]

photoshop cs5 is much more powerfull then gimp

end of discussion

 

[FrisianDude]

But seeing as GIMP is not better in any way, and is in many ways worse than Photoshop, your only rational defense of GIMP is that it is free.

No, the main rational defence of GIMP is that it does what Photoshop does, even though seemingly less fancy, without being as damned bloody expensive as Photoshop.