3D Art
summary
Concrete workflow advice for 3D game art: prioritize tone and preproduction, pick a narrowed style, and plan a pipeline that avoids time sinks. Uses scanned miniatures on a flatbed scanner and ZBrush and miniature painting workflows to make tabletop-style assets affordable and fast. Reports releasing three games in a year and sculpted 120+ characters for one project, warns asset-pack traps, stresses iterating, valuing time, and that non-art devs should learn basic Photoshop to bridge small-team gaps.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Architecture to game art
- 1:26Game art is ongoing
- 2:50Tone in art and design
- 5:04Pre-production and style
- 7:29Efficient art pipelines
- 9:11Art components and bottlenecks
- 10:18Asset packs pitfalls
- 12:02Cross-discipline tools
- 13:06Specialized skills in dev
- 13:48Portfolio pieces
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