tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194086972009-06-26T13:37:54.914-07:00The Low Poly Coop is a group of artists dedicated to the creation of low polygon 3D game models intended to be freely distributed to the indie game development community. This blog tracks the progress of the creation of the free models and content packs which can be downloaded from the site and offers information and tutorials for other artists and independent developers.Scott Hsu-Storakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07294237186854020578noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19408697.post-14971600262503311502008-12-04T13:03:00.000-08:002008-12-04T14:04:49.806-08:00

Last time I touched briefly on the fact that I've recently started up a new project. Much of the reason for its existence is to provide a place for me to experiment and talk about things beyond the scope of the coop's community mission. I'll be getting more into that later, but for now I just wanted to talk a little about one of the aspects of the new site I have been creating. Last summer when

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Yes, it has been very quiet around here, silent even. Our third birthday passed this summer with no fanfare and nary a peep from us artists out back in the workshop. I like to think of it as a time of dormancy -- a well needed rest for those of us guiding the action around here. For me, the biggest draw away from doing new work for the coop has been family, particularly our third child (who is

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Help YourselfI have an interesting story to tell you, something that really surprised me. Last night I was at the grocery store, and, being in my usual I-have-three-kids-and-I-am-tired-and-in-a-hurry state of mind, I rammed my cart into a display of plastic juice bottles. For a moment I thought I was fine, then at the opposite end of the display 2 cartons, about 30 bottles, rolled off onto the

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Getting back into the regular habit of posting these updates. I'll get some screenshots up this week -- we're getting busy in the forums.GBGames' current year hours (8/6) -- 146GBGames' total hours (8/6) -- 409.25Scott's current year hours (9/10) -- 137.5Scott's total hours (9/10) -- 410.5Scott's 1000 biking miles (9/3) -- 488Stay free.~shs~

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I am slowly creeping back towards being more regular in the hours I devote to working on art. From my experience last year the best solution to getting work has been to be consistent. A little bit of work everyday has yielded far greater results for me that doing work in sprints. The bicycling is coming along very well. At my current rate of biking to work every work day, I will be able to miss

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I've been thinking about time recently. Partially, it is natural -- time plays a big part in my day job. I keep projects on deadline and I estimate how long projects should take. That sort of thing. But I've taken a much greater interest in understanding how all the little grains of time add up over the day, how all the little bits of sand become the massive waves of dunes. I think what sparked

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BirthLast week marked a milestone for us. We passed our second birthday. Yup, this project is now two years old. Yes, things have been slow around here the past few months, but I can't let the date pass without acknowledging what a remarkable thing that is. The past year has also marked a few births around these parts. Both Terry and I welcomed new babies into our lives, which (and I think I am

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Hello everyone! It certainly has been a while. I am at a new job these days and things are going swimmingly. Unfortunatley, as I have been getting accustomed to my new schedule I have completely dropped off posting here. Work has been getting done behind the scenes slowly but surely and I hope to find more time to start writing about what is going on here with our project. On the Thousander Club

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For a while my son has been using a very interesting turn of phrase. In response to one of my typical questions such as "Whatcha doing?" his response is often "...anything.", which, taken out of context may not seem like it makes much sense. But, there is a very interesting and subtle way he has of saying it, like there is a little pause there before the "anything" part, which is the reason I

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If you check in here every once in a while you probably have noticed not a whole lot of new posts have been coming through. Alas, a confluence of things has been going on with me. First, I am feverishly trying to get my portfolio in a proper state because the time I have been talking about for three years is very, very, very close -- namely getting that first job as a game artist. I should post a

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New year, new stuff. We were hibernating for a while, but now we've come back strong. Here is just the start of what we have been working on in the new year.A texture from TerryAnd a bunch of new models from me. There are a bunch more but I need to resize them to fit on this page. I should have that by next week -- we are moving pretty fast right now. Stay free.~shs~

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Starting the year off with the best of intentions here and trying to get back on reporting my hours regularly. It looks like GBGames might be going into the fray again this year. And we also have another partner in crime joining up as well. I got back on track for the hours this week, but as for the thousand miles, so far no go.ktorreck's hours (1/8) -- Just startedGBGames' current year hours (1/

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A year ago I issued a challenge to myself and my fellow community members to work 1000 hours on art for the coop. Instead of re-explaining why I chose 1000, read this from last year:I am issuing a set of challenges to myself and the community as well by creating the Thousander Club. It is based off the somewhat well-know idea that practice is just as important as talent (I read about it on the

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Ah! The end of a very eventful and exhausting year. I'll do a recap of aught six and an outline of some plans for aught seven soon, but for now I just wanted to stop in and issue a short advisory message. WARNING! Many of the images and files I link to from this blog are hosted on an account that every year about this time seems to have a few issues. So, if you are not able to download the files,

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Well, I think I have left up the Gilman launch message as the top post for long enough now. I wanted to leave it up for a while as the first thing new visitors see when they visit for the first time, but it is time to move on. My schedule the past two months has taken on some wierd organic twists and turns and that has meant that I have ended up taking time off from progressing with new work for

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It's done. It is finally done.44 models.57 textures.321 files.29 megabytes.Multiple formats.15 months in development......15 minutes at a time.Download r1.0 now.~~~Here also are reruns of the older screenhsots. This covers less than half of what is in the library.~~~Feel free to download.Feel free to customize.Feel free to use them in your game.Feel free to let everyone know about it.Feel free to

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It's been a while since I posted an update. In the time that I've been buried trying to finish up the Gilman pack, I managed to quietly slip past 200 hours. It's still a long climb to 1000, but it is heartening to see how the hours I have put in have led slowly and steadily towards the achievement of one of my big goals of finishing a project. Also of note, Gianfranco has also now passed 200

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Whew! Has it really been over a month? I know.... I haven't been out here in a while to show all of you what we've been up to. In some case that would be a bad thing, but in our case it is actually a positive occurrence. What it means is that all us gearheads have been hard at work back in the garage tuning up our Gilman Street models for release. Whoever came up with the adage that "80% of the

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As I talked about earlier in the week, we are closing in on the final goal for the Gilman pack of free urban models. I posted an new updated file today -- 19 files are now in full beautiful textured technicolor in multiple formats. More will be coming next week, as we're moving pretty fast now in anticipation for final release. The link to the file is over there in the sidebar. Also, great news

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I was going to hold on to this for a few days, until I had actually gotten together a new downloadable release file, but I am so excited that I just can't hold it in. We are coming so incredibly close to finishing the Gilman project that I had to let you all see what is coming. We are just nine textures away from completing this year-long journey and, looking back, it is feeling like quite an

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Things are starting to ratchet up at my day job, but I still managed to get in a semi-decent week. The reins are starting to become looser. I also managed to pull three 6-hour sleep nights in a row over the weekend.Casey Dunham's hours (8/4) -- 105GBGames' hours (8/21) -- 171.5GBGames' game ideas (8/21)-- 432Scott's 1000 hours (8/21) -- 1881000 models -- over 150 now -- I need to recount

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Welcome to a beautiful Monday morning (or afternoon or middle of the night depending on where you are). Here is a quick roundup of the latest and greatest from around the forums. It's an interesting mix these days -- on one hand we are steadily closing in on completing the Gilman project and on the other we have exploded out in all sorts of new directions. More on the new stuff over the coming

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All right! I finally broke past the 10 hour barrier for the first time since the baby was born. Watch out! Things are getting rolling now.Casey Dunham's hours (8/4) -- 105GBGames' hours (8/14) -- 166.5GBGames' game ideas (8/14)-- 432Scott's 1000 hours (8/14) -- 1811000 models -- over 150 now -- I need to recount stillWatch for the continuing Total Artist Makeover on occasional Wednesdays.Stay

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Something snapped. Something has changed in me. I can't pinpoint exactly when it happened, but it was sometime during the past year. Transitioning over to becoming a game artist has long been my passion, but due to various short term demands, which I will get to in detail at some point, my path has followed a somewhat different direction over the past ten years. I have been at this for, depending

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Image RoundupFinally catching up with the latest and greatest from around our forums. The variety of work coming out of the group is definitely growing along with the growth of the team and all of the different artistic personalities that come along with that. I find it really exciting -- I hope everyone continues to work on what they love.A new model and texture from Nibbuls.This is from The

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