Post by therealmarkehlen on Nov 29, 2012 3:53:05 GMT -5
I have a feeling this forum is exactly what I've been looking for!
Game dev has been a growing interest (off and on) for about 10 years now, but I recently decided to really give it a go as a career last year.
Since I can't afford to go to school for it yet, I'm working as a waiter while I teach myself programming basics and play around with unity. I've also been training my 13-year-old nephew in what I know on blender and photoshop so he can be part of my future team.
I'm ready to help but I'm still generally a noob-- I plan to do much more learning than teaching here. if I had assess myself in each program of the pipeline, I'd rank my usefulness in the following order:
1) photoshop (texturing, UI design, misc graphic creation, maybe concept art)
2) blender (modeling, animation)
3) unity (ehhh... level testing?, map layout?)
As you can see above, I'm not much help yet with coding.
While I highly recommend the learning resources I've found so far, I wanna know where else I can catch up learning, so as to better help out!
The entirety of my programming experience is:
19 lessons of Stanford's CS106a Programming Methodology class (free on iTunesU)
I'm learning programming fundamentals, mostly in Java
itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/programming-methodology/id384232896
94 videos of BurgZergArcade's famous Hack-and-Slash youtube tutorial series
I'm practicing Unity/C# by copying every line as he types it (alas, there's much pausing)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqzz1dy3Ak&list=SPE5C2870574BF4B06&feature=plcp
6 episodes of CookingWithUnity
I just watch him and follow along. It's mostly in Javascript, I believe.
www.youtube.com/user/PushyPixels
42 measly points at CodeAcademy.
www.codecademy.com/
As far as blender, I usually use my Google+ to showcase my latest stuff.
check it out, or just add me to your circles, I don't use G+ for much else.
plus.google.com/113094830164426209355/posts
there's not a lot there yet, but I'll say I have watched
about 70% of the videos at cgcookie.com/blender/
in addition to every video from their $180 Mastering Modeling in Blender workshop (maybe 50 videos?)
my graphic work isn't really all on the web, but here's a few old designs.
It's only online from when I tried to find freelance design work on craigslist, lmao.
markehlendesign.posterous.com
aaaaand I think I really over-did that.
bored with my lengthy forum resumé yet? I am.
anyways, excited to help!
-mark
Game dev has been a growing interest (off and on) for about 10 years now, but I recently decided to really give it a go as a career last year.
Since I can't afford to go to school for it yet, I'm working as a waiter while I teach myself programming basics and play around with unity. I've also been training my 13-year-old nephew in what I know on blender and photoshop so he can be part of my future team.
I'm ready to help but I'm still generally a noob-- I plan to do much more learning than teaching here. if I had assess myself in each program of the pipeline, I'd rank my usefulness in the following order:
1) photoshop (texturing, UI design, misc graphic creation, maybe concept art)
2) blender (modeling, animation)
3) unity (ehhh... level testing?, map layout?)
As you can see above, I'm not much help yet with coding.
While I highly recommend the learning resources I've found so far, I wanna know where else I can catch up learning, so as to better help out!
The entirety of my programming experience is:
19 lessons of Stanford's CS106a Programming Methodology class (free on iTunesU)
I'm learning programming fundamentals, mostly in Java
itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/programming-methodology/id384232896
94 videos of BurgZergArcade's famous Hack-and-Slash youtube tutorial series
I'm practicing Unity/C# by copying every line as he types it (alas, there's much pausing)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqzz1dy3Ak&list=SPE5C2870574BF4B06&feature=plcp
6 episodes of CookingWithUnity
I just watch him and follow along. It's mostly in Javascript, I believe.
www.youtube.com/user/PushyPixels
42 measly points at CodeAcademy.
www.codecademy.com/
As far as blender, I usually use my Google+ to showcase my latest stuff.
check it out, or just add me to your circles, I don't use G+ for much else.
plus.google.com/113094830164426209355/posts
there's not a lot there yet, but I'll say I have watched
about 70% of the videos at cgcookie.com/blender/
in addition to every video from their $180 Mastering Modeling in Blender workshop (maybe 50 videos?)
my graphic work isn't really all on the web, but here's a few old designs.
It's only online from when I tried to find freelance design work on craigslist, lmao.
markehlendesign.posterous.com
aaaaand I think I really over-did that.
bored with my lengthy forum resumé yet? I am.
anyways, excited to help!
-mark
