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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.
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 Tech-Artists.Org Store Open! |
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May 11, 2010 - 4:37 AM - by Rob Galanakis
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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! |
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Mar 19, 2010 - 11:48 PM - by Rob Galanakis
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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:
- How much would you pay for a t-shirt?
- What are your preferred t-shirt colors (white, black, dark gray, light gray, orange)?
- Do you prefer standard, heavyweight, or AA tees? They cost $5.90, $9.90, and $12.90 respectively.
- 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.
- 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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T-Shirt Contest |
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Apr 11, 2009 - 3:01 AM - by Rob Galanakis
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There's been some interest about tech-artists.org swag. We are a proud bunch and we like the world to know what we do, even if they have no idea what we do!
So we're going to open a Spreadshirt.com store to sell t-shirts! But first, we need designs. We will be choosing [b]four[b] designs- two from the 'tech-artists.org' category and two from the 'funny t-shirt' category. Each winner will get a choice of two shirts. We may choose other designs as well- if your design is chosen as a runner-up, you'll get a t-shirt with your design on it.
The tech-artists.org category will need to be a cool looking icon, design, etc., for the site. Something iconic, recognizable, good looking, whatever.
The funny t-shirt category can just be any sort of funny tech-arty t-shirt.
Rules for Entry:- Please submit a jpeg of the design no larger than 1024x1024, posted in
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TAO on IRC |
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Apr 09, 2009 - 2:34 AM - by Rob Galanakis
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To help members with needs such as this or this, I've set up an IRC channel. Instructions for use:
- Download an IRC client, such as mIRC, or if you are using FireFox, ChatZilla. I'd highly recommend ChatZilla if you are an IRC n00b or don't want to set up another program.
- Connect to freenode.net server, by typing "/connect irc.freenode.net" in mIRC, or "/attach irc.freenode.net" in ChatZilla.
- Join our channel by typing "/join #techart".
- That's it! You're now in. Feel free to idle all day and wait around for people.
- To change your nickname, type "/nick
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 Interview with Jen Bahan, Rigging & Technical Animation Supervisor at Rhythm & Hues |
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Mar 20, 2009 - 7:07 PM - by Adrian Walker
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Adrian Walker: Since you work in the film industry, were there any particular films that inspired you to want to work in that industry?
Jen Bahan: When I was 6 years old, I decided I wanted to become a Disney animator. I created little flip books and I watched programs on PBS for kids learning to draw. My father worked in a public school, and he was able to buy a Commodore 64 at an educator's discount. I started programming little images in BASIC. A few years later, two things happened: Disney opened up MGM studios as an attraction at Disney world, and Commodore came out with their 128 which had better graphics, more haptic input, and the ability use MIDI with my synthesizer.
While on a family vacation to visit MGM studios, I watched from a glass wall as animators integrated computer graphics with cell animation on the final sequences of Beauty and the Beast and the pre-production of... [Read More]
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"Laziness is the foundation of efficiency" - Mr. Deatrick, my old high school bio teacher. A smart man he was.
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tech-artists.org GDC 09 Guide |
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Mar 08, 2009 - 6:40 PM - by Rob Galanakis
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With GDC less than a month away, we put together this guide for GDC attendees who are technical artists or interested in the trade.
Are you attending?
The following community members are attending GDC this year (with links to speaker bio pages if available):... [Read More]
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GDMag Feb 2009- Lessons Learned winner published |
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Feb 21, 2009 - 4:36 PM - by Rob Galanakis
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I was about to take the new issue of Game Developer Magazine into the bathroom, and what do I find but the article by Bronwen Grimes, winner of our Lessons Learned contest. She was published in the February 2009 issue of Game Developer Magazine, with the article titled: Visual Learning: Introducing your tools to the art team (bottom left of the cover). Bronwen made some great art for the article, and revised the entire essay for the magazine, so it is worth reading again.
Thanks to Steve Theodore for helping to make this happen.
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Community Scripts Initiative Launch!! |
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Dec 12, 2008 - 3:04 AM - by Rob Galanakis
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We'd like to announce the public launch of our Community Scripts Initiative. Trying to explain the CSI is difficult in one post, but the idea is to start a revolution in technical community interaction. Interaction within (between technical people), and without (with users of tools). This is a large task but we have some good people behind it and really good ideas for it.
The feature of the CSI we are launching today is the Community Repositories (click here to access). CR's are like source repositories you can make from your control panel, and are publicly viewable (though only you can check in material, others can create branches- this is a type of Distributed Version Control System and is very popular in open source communities). This is all working and in the coming weeks, remaining bugs will be ironed out and new features added. (... [Read More]
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