Philthy's Application Thread.

[Philthy]

Im a huge fan of Thief and Doom, i did one of my game level assignments after the bathroom in doom3 when i was in college. Only had 2 and a half weeks to model and texture the room but its the best i could do in the alotted timeframe. Seeing as how there much more time and my skills have gotten better since then, id like to help out in any way possible. Lemme know what ya think.

 

http://img37.echo.cx/img37/3475/gamelevel7jj.jpg

 

http://img37.echo.cx/img37/8151/realistic9pt.jpg

 

http://img37.echo.cx/img37/6452/walker6gi.jpg

 

http://img37.echo.cx/img37/1910/wheel17qn.jpg

 

http://img37.echo.cx/img37/6272/wheel24lr.jpg

[New Horizon]

Drop me a line at recruiting@thedarkmod.com and we'll have a chat.

[Philthy]

Just checkin to see if you got my email. Its been a couple days now with no reply from you guys and im real anxious. If im of no use to the mod team then please let me know. Dont want to have any false hopes or anything. Thanks

[Fingernail]

NH has probably just been busy, I'm sure he'll get back to you.

[New Horizon]

Haven't seen your email come through yet. I'll check again.

[Philthy]

Alright thanks. Didnt want to sound mean or anything. Just real anxious.

[Dram]

I like the walker

[New Horizon]

Feel free to post that animation here in the application forum Philthy.

[Philthy]

Thanks guys, im not sure how to post a video file, nor do i have a place to host it. Anyone give me directions on doin so?

 

Anyway, other than that lil problem, ill tell ya a bit about myself. I went to Full Sail in Winter Park, FL for computer animation. Im pushing my skills as a texture and environment artist, but i love all aspects of animation, modeling, and dynamics.

 

Im proficient in Maya 4, 5, and 6; Right-Hemisphere's DeepExploration, Photoshop CS, and Apple Shake.

I can work well with NURBS, Polygons and Sub-Ds.

 

Rigging and Animation - I can work with and create SDKs, jiggle deformers, and mel scripting to name a few.

Texturing - I can make and use layered shaders, UV, Bump, Spec, Displacement mapping amongst many others.

 

Im a huge gamer and would love to work in the game industry. I dont have any real experience other than classwork and personal work but I would love to step up to a challange and help this team raise the bar for games and the gaming industry all-around. Let me know if I can fill needed spots. I can adapt to just about anything and if i dont know ill try my best to learn it asap. Thanks

Edited May 27, 2005 by Philthy

[god_is_my_goldfish]

Thanks guys, im not sure how to post a video file, nor do i have a place to host it. Anyone give me directions on doin so? smile.gif

 

Try http://www.rapidshare.de or http://www.yousendit.com.

[Philthy]

Try http://www.rapidshare.de or http://www.yousendit.com.

Thanks man.

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/2015106/animation.mpeg.html

[Springheel]

Well, we definitely could use some animators!

[Philthy]

Im up for anything! Just let me know where to sign if the team decides they need me.

[Macsen]

Ho ho, very nice video.

[sparhawk]

Is he in already, or did noboy change his permissions?

[oDDity]

Hmh, yeah, that animation wasn't as good as we'd need though, you'd have to try harder than that and learn to be better. The animaton was too robotic , it looked like every line in the graph was linear, also most body parts were moving on exactly the same keyframes, you need to use layers to stop things syncronising.

This'll give you a good opportunity to improve though.

[Philthy]

Alright, is there anything else I could help with or was this all just based on the animation?

[Springheel]

Well, animating AI is only one of the things we need animators for. We also need weapon animations, and animated objects like doorhandles, chests, etc.

 

As well, I notice that you've done some modelling...do you know how to make uv maps and do skinning? That's another area we could use some more people.

[Philthy]

Yeah, id be able to do that. Ill need to purchase a tablet though if the need for more indepth texture creation is needed for characters and such. I used one at school and never had the money to buy one. Ill pick one up soon though.

Edited May 30, 2005 by Philthy

[oDDity]

Not necessary, I do fine with a mouse. Textures are better if they're image based, not hand painted - and it's faster as well.

[Ishtvan]

Just to clarify, Oddity were you ruling out animation as a possibility at all, or were you just saying Philthy's current animations were not up to par, but they could get there with some more learning and practice?

 

Just want to be sure no one's misinterpreting eachother, since we really do need more animators.

[oDDity]

Well, perhaps if I saw a few more of his character animations I'd be able to judge better.

[Philthy]

Ok, im tryin to understand you all here, what is it exactly that you guys really need. Animation is not my favorite thing, nor my best skill. So other than animating, what is it you guys really, absolutely need?

 

Thanks

[Renzatic]

We could use a good prop modeller for one. What would you want to do, though?

[sparhawk]

Texturing and skinning would be at the top of the list I would say. Prop modelling would be next.