Pixel Scholar

video tutorials are back

My apologies! I didn't realize so many of you were making use of my video tutorials.

They're back online in the tutorials section.

Enjoy!

posted by Jeff Styers at 3:38 PM  

More Gears 2 Art

Check out this link:

Kevin Johnstone's Gears 2 Thread on Polycount

Kevin talks about how he creates tiling brick textures in max and zbrush. Pure gold.

posted by Jeff Styers at 3:11 PM  

An interview with the artists at Epic

All of my game art students should check out this interview posted on pixologic's site.

There's some great artwork on display from Gears of War 2 and some wisdom being handed down by the artists responsible for it's creation and that includes guys like Kevin Johnstone and Kevin Lanning whose work you should all be familiar with if you attend my classes.

Epic Interview

Thanks to Sean VanGorder for forwarding me the link.

That's it.

posted by Jeff Styers at 4:26 PM  

Only some of the tutorials work at the moment

It seems that the new server my site was moved to does not support .m4v mime types which is why most of the tutorials won't play.

The only ones that will work at the moment are the ones I had time to go in and jury rig to still play and those would be the rigging and skinning tutorials because those are the ones that my students currently need.

I'm going to go in and redo the tutorial page very soon and fix all the glitches and add some new content.

For now just be patient until I'm all moved in on this new server.

posted by Jeff Styers at 11:10 PM  

Pixelscholar.com is now back online

Sorry about that! My website was migrated to a new server yesterday and a few crucial components were left behind.

I discovered the problem earlier today on my blackberry but couldn't do anything about it until this evening.

Let me know if you find something that is still broken. I'll be sure to fix it.

posted by Jeff Styers at 9:39 PM  

Changes

It's time to revamp pixelscholar.com once again.

The video tutorial content that's currently available on this site will be going away and will be replaced with newer, shinier ones.

This time around I'll be basing them around my course curriculum so that they will be an even better resource for my traditional and online students.

More soon.

posted by Jeff Styers at 11:13 PM  

New Award in the Awards Section

I won another award a few weeks ago and I finally got around to adding it to my awards section.

It was totally unexpected but I'm happy to have won it. I'm told it's for teaching excellence which is a good little chunk of job security in these troubled financial times.

More graphic novel artwork on the way soon.

posted by Jeff Styers at 10:03 PM  

A sense of life

"In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is - i.e., he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts - i.e., he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance."

Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto

posted by Jeff Styers at 11:27 PM