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Some news to share: Overwatch, the game I've been working on here at Blizzard was finally announced last week.  It's a team-based shooter featuring many heroes with special abilities.  I can't post any detailed images yet, but I did put together some wallpapers featuring the heroes that I worked on.  Check it out in my gallery! :) Check out the web site for more media and to sign up for the beta: http://playoverwatch.com I also started a free YouTube series called, "Game Art Essentials."  My goal with this is to have a playlist of free videos that any game art student can sit through and pick up some tips on how to do various things.  I al

The final volume of my 3d Character Art for Games video series, Texturing & Shading, is now available! I go over my approach to texturing for creating clean and flexible results. In addition to technical demonstrations, I discuss my artistic reasoning on both texturing and presentation. The first 40 minutes (mostly lecture) are free on my YouTube channel: http://youtu.be/t3HRYVpEQ0A You can find the remaining 5 hours of content for $8.99 at CGCircuit.com: http://www.cgcircuit.com/course/3d-character-art-for-games-vi The full course includes a posed version of my Hella model used in the demonstrations with full resolution textures for

If you're interested in reading about what I have to say about character art for games please take a look at PolyMune's `PolyMune (https://www.deviantart.com/polymune) interview with me as part of the DeviantArt Project Educate Digital 3d Week: http://polymune.deviantart.com/journal/GDA-PE-Week-2013-Day-6-409735187 You can also check out my buddy, FunkyBunnies :iconfunkybunnies: and his interview here: http://polymune.deviantart.com/journal/Digital-3D-PE-Week-Day-2-410152828