Yes, sadly I have to say goodbye to Unreal Engine…
I’m reaching a situation where It’s just impossible to keep my knowledge updated in my job and Unreal and all 3d/2d worlds at the same time.
I tried hard, I was so close with THE ROTTEN GOD
- Using the Kinect for mocap and the xtion for facial.
- Scanning our bodies in 3d using skanect and applying retopology by hand.
- Cleaning animations frame by frame in biped.
- Creating the textures and materials from scratch, even making pictures with the reflex.
- Even we composed our own music!
Imagine!! There was nothing!
So guys please… stop complaining about Retargeting is hard, or the documentation is more than one page!!
I was trying Unity, Cryengine, UDK…
and OMG I remember seeing Unreal Engine!!
It was exactly what we needed,
vertex animation and free shadows! (yes casting shadows for FREE!!!)
Beautiful and easy, blueprints, supported by the community… A dream guys!
Well about the game I was leading a team for many years…
But some of them leave the city or get married or had children…
Money was a problem, a big one at that point. And life is life!
And after that… facing the Industry… no way
And now, even we have remote jobs!
Hard to believe but is more complicated than ever!!!
We are in the worse era, there is chaos everywhere…
Each company is developing its own products, there is no standard…
For the same position, they can ask:
- Java or python or c++ or react (or all of them)
- zBrush, Blender, 3ds Max, cinema… (or all of them)
- 3d Maths, physics (STRONG KNOWLEGE)
- To know how to do coffee…
- To have 2 AAA in the market
- 100 years of experience in each console, mobile, software…
And I’m sure is getting worse,
just because it seems is easier to “make games”
I tried to apply to a lot of positions and companies,
I’m not afraid to refresh my c++ or ZBrush
But I had 0 interviews… not even a call, so it’s time to accept it
(please don’t tell me is because of my cv or whatever … I’m a technical graphic designer, I have a Degree in creation and design expert of videogames, and I’m working as senior software developer at the European Union Intellectual Property Office)
Yes of course some companies offered to me a position…
Bad rate, no contract, feedback from employees like the hell… casinos a lot… Or not paid…
I’m here since 2014, so much life
And It hurts
I don’t want… I have to
So unless a miracle happens… next Monday I’ll delete my account
Thanks a lot to all the Epic Games team, and all the community, I still dreaming
