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» Welcome to Tech-Artists.Org
Welcome to Tech-Artists.Org, a community for technical artists in videogame and film development. We are dedicated to sharpening the skills of technical artists and animators, creating an evolving repository of information and learning, and increasing the education of regular artists about all things technical.

Please check out our forums for questions and discussion, the Wiki for articles and tutorials, or check out the recent blog posts.
Planet Tech Art (RSS Aggregator)
Jan 26, 2012 - 11:00 PM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar 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]
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New design up in spreadshirt store!
Sep 27, 2011 - 3:50 AM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar 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.
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GameDev.net featuring tech-artists.org
Sep 16, 2011 - 1:56 AM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar 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.
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Blog discussions forum and feed aggregator now live
Jun 27, 2011 - 4:25 PM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar 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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GDC2011 Wrapup
Mar 12, 2011 - 11:55 PM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar 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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Buy messiahStudio5 for $10! Buy it!
Feb 11, 2011 - 5:48 AM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/shop.html

Go! Buy it! Now!

Comments: http://tech-artists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1408
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King of the Hue Contest
Dec 21, 2010 - 5:44 AM - by Rob Galanakis
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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 put it up to... [Read More]
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Tech-Artists.Org Store Open!
May 11, 2010 - 4:37 AM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar http://techart.spreadshirt.com/

If you were at GDC last year and/or this year, you're entitled to a free shirt. Please PM me if you'd like to redeem. I can't guarantee I'll order it right away but it shouldn't take too long (I'll probably wait a week or two and order them in a batch). Also, if you were one of the contest winners, you are owed a shirt as well. You may notice some slight changes from your original designs, since I had to recreate them.

The store offers American Apparel (AA) shirts, and Standardweight shirts. The AA are what I vastly prefer, but the Standardweights are of good quality too, and much cheaper. No grey, though.

If you have a logo or design you want to submit, or you'd like to offer an improvement/color choice/new type of item, please post it! Also, if there are any quality problems, please PM or respond here. I did my best to QA things.
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TAO Schwag coming soon!
Mar 19, 2010 - 11:48 PM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar I finally got around to recreating the winning t-shirt designs (so I could control resolution) and creating shirts and the like. As soon as I get a result I'm happy with from SpreadShirt, I'll open the store officially. And as promised, I'll be giving away as many shirts as my GDC Droid can buy. I have some questions, though:
  1. How much would you pay for a t-shirt?
  2. What are your preferred t-shirt colors (white, black, dark gray, light gray, orange)?
  3. Do you prefer standard, heavyweight, or AA tees? They cost $5.90, $9.90, and $12.90 respectively.
  4. How much would you pay in graphics? Each graphic is about $3, so with a graphic on the front and text on the back, it'd be about $6 + price of the shirt.
  5. How much would you pay as a commission/donation (ie, to help pay hosting and licensing costs)?

If you want access to the store, PM me. I just don't want to give out the address officially... [Read More]
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Back from GDC: Slides, and looking forward
Mar 17, 2010 - 1:20 PM - by Rob Galanakis
Rob Galanakis's Avatar So first, the useful information. I'm going to host or link to any GDC 2010 slides people give me. Just PM or post in this thread, and I'll edit this post. If you have questions about the slides, please start a thread in General Discussion.

Rob Galanakis: The Old Republic's Object Model Pipeline
GDC Preview: https://www.cmpevents.com/GD10/a.asp...&V=3&id=589097

My slide notes are fully narrated, so reading them will be much faster and much more effective than the shoddy job I did presenting.

Notes and slides PDF: http://www.tech-artists.org/download...line_Notes.pdf
Slides only PDF: ... [Read More]
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