Introducing the Company Badge!
Again, but better

After the Great Forum reboot of 2012 we decided that the system for company badges was somewhat manual for the forum moderators. So I've converted the Profile Pictures to Company Badges. For those of you that had Profile Pictures, they have gone to a better place. You can now find the Company Badge settings in the My Settings section, under your avatar.

So! you say, on the old boring forums, I had a Company Badge that I submitted and I don't have it any longer. Fret not, you can find your Company Badge here: http://tech-artists.org/downloads/CompanyBadges/ When you find your badge copy it's web address and pop in the Option 1. Field and Save Changes.

And for those of you that want to upload one, make... [Read More]

Maybe you noticed- TAO has been down the past week. But good news! We're back (almost).



The short version is:

1. Our server was shut down.
2. I was lax and didn't have a backup, which caused a long delay.
3. We decided to switch hosts to a Windows server.
4. I'm taking over sys admin duties going forward.
5. Everything else (wiki, theme) should be back to normal in a couple days.
6. If you want to be a moderator or administrator, or have some cool idea for something with TAO, tell me!

The long version is:

Last week, our host shut down our server because spammers were using it to send email, by exploiting a vulnerability in the VB version we were using. This was unfortunate, because it was something we easily could have dealt with. It was also unfortunate, because we did not have an up to date backup. So our server was... [Read More]

Another year, another amazing GDC and in particular the showing by Tech Art. Here's the rundown on what went down:

2nd Tech Artist Bootcamp
Another wonderful bootcamp with lots of new speakers! We had well over 100 people at any given point during the day. What a great audience!

Below are the slides from all the bootcamp presenters. If you want to see another bootcamp next year, please tell us what you liked and didn't like and what you'd like to see covered. Also if you have any ideas for non-lecture things to do (like the 'lunch with a presenter' we did), I'd like to hear them.

• Adam Pletcher (Volition): Bootcamp Introduction PDF PPT
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So, after much delay, I finally present:

Planet Tech Art
http://tech-artists.org/planet/
http://tech-artists.org/planet/rss20.xml

It is TAO's own RSS aggregator, using the python planet module (the same thing that runs www.planet.python.org).

The posts are also be tweeted to http://twitter.com/techartistsorg.

If you want your blog to be added, just send me an email, with a link to your blog's feed, preferably only the feed for tech-art articles of interest (especially important if you have, say, the same blog for cooking and programming ;)). This is the same way planet.python.org does it... [Read More]

New design up in the spreadshirt store!



I've also added a 3 Teapots 4XL and a ladies shirt should be up tomorrow. Buy a shirt, look stylish, help fund TAO! Approximately 10% of your purchase goes towards offsetting the costs of the free tshirts I've bought people. So far your purchases have paid for about... 3.5 shirts!

PS, Toli/Sean Dunny, I ripped this design off from your post in the TA Creed thread, if you want a free shirt, buy it and send me the PayPal receipt.

Check it out on the frontpage here: http://www.gamedev.net/



The article is here: http://www.gamedev.net/page/resource...terviews-r2818

For some background- GameDev.net was the first non-art game dev site I signed up for on the internet and I spent quite a bit of time there. The site has grown (and matured) quite a bit since those days and their Exec Producer, Drew Sikora, has done a fantastic job. If you're looking for an excellent site to learn about and for help with games programming, I'd highly recommend it.

Special thanks to Drew, Bill Crosbie, and Adrian Walker for helping put this together.

We've just added a forum for cross posting posts from your blog, to improve your subscriptions and discussion of things you post. Please use it to shamelessly promote yourself!

The TAOggregator content feed aggregator is also now live. You can see (and subscribe to) the feed here: http://tech-artists.org/blog/ . Feel free to post any interesting articles in the blog discussion forum.

You should also post your blog link if you want to be part of the aggregate feed.

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Wow! What an INCREDIBLE GDC! Sorry for the late post- I needed last week to recover. Here's a recap:

Tech Artist Bootcamp
We had some incredible speakers and we were all awed with the attendance and retention. Below are the slides from all the bootcamp presenters. If you want to see a bootcamp next year, please tell us what you liked and didn't like and what you'd like to see covered. I can't speak for Jeff but I imagine he's planning another one. The existing bootcamp discussion thread is here.

.zip with all 8 talks (No videos)

Keith Self-Ballard “In Advocacy of Tech Art”
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http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/shop.html

Go! Buy it! Now!

Comments: http://tech-artists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1408

Inspired by the repeated discussions about hueing and blending colors that have been created over the years, and all the awesome solutions that I've seen and read, I want to form a compendium of what's been done already, and coax new information from those that haven't explained their techniques.

Hence The King of the Hue.

Submit a (more or less) detailed description of what technique(s) you use and/or have used for hue shifting and changing texture colors.

The rules are simple. PM to me a link to an article or forum/blog post you or a someone else has written on the subject, or write something up and PM it to me. The more in-depth the better, but as long as it is clear, that's all that matters. (and please see the 'Other Rules' below)

Once we get enough entries, I'll write up a synopsis for each and... [Read More]