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Apple has developed small games in the past, but this new job offer description— looking for someone to create 3D interactive multimedia experiences on the iPhone platform—is hinting at something a lot bigger than just small games:
Job title Video Game Artist
Job type Full Time
Job description The interactive media group is looking for a skilled artist who wants to work as part of a small highly motivated team to work on interactive multimedia experiences on the iPhone and iPod Touch. The position on the team is to help design, visualize, enable and implement interface, 3D characters/environments, animation, texturing as well as original concept artwork. The position also requires a creative thinker who can contribute and comment on the design process as well as being flexible enough to aid in all aspects of production such as asset management and able to work to a deadline.Looking for an artist with Maya / 3D Max / Photoshop experience
-ability to model, animate, texture & produce bump/normal maps for 3D scene graph environments
-strong environment & character concept artist
-3-4 years of real world experience, iPhone / console experience preferred
-ability to handle asset pipeline management including XML and source control
So, what does “interactive multimedia experiences” really mean? I find hard to believe that Apple would enter the 3D gaming big leagues. That requires a lot of resources, it’s an extremely competitive market, and—most importantly—all game companies in the planet are developing great 3D games for the iPhone OS platform. So why would Apple enter this arena when others are doing a great job already? It doesn’t make sense.
Sure, Apple has created some simple games in the past—mostly as technology demonstrators to get the ball rolling, first in the classic iPod, then the iPhone—but this job description calls for a lot more: Interactive experiences, user interfaces, 3D characters in 3D environments… My hunch? Apple may be creating something else for the iPhone OS platform, perhaps the equivalent of the Xbox 360 dashboard, an environment in which players can meet and connect to play together online.
The kind of environment that would work perfectly in, say, something like the Apple Tablet? [Apple via Twitter—Thanks Nick Paulson]
Typography is one of the true art forms that I find the most appealing when looking through magazines or surfing the web. The amount of detail sometimes implemented is just mind blowing and you can really see that the artist has taken his or her time to put the typography piece together. After floating around on the Internet in search for the most eye catching 3D typography artwork I came up with nothing short of a truly amazing list. I am sure there are many more inspiring pieces of 3D typography artwork out there so if you find any that you think I might have missed please don’t hesitate to mention a location to them in the comment area.
What should be mentioned here is that most of these are done in a 3D client like Maya, 3D Max or Lightwave. Using Photoshop or Illustrator to create these would take infinitely longer than any of these software’s so don’t even try. The way these 3D typography designs come out is pure skills in lighting, texturing and creating all the objects that are present in the design. Designers usually also use Photoshop to sort of “top off” their design by including real elements such as leaves, small items and effects. So a whole bundle of software’s are probably used to create most of these.
Typography Artwork by Tony Ariawan
Artwork by Artek92
Artwork by Hoe Yi
Artwork by KidsWithTools
Artwork by iunewind
Artwork by shydog1978
Artwork by Kyle Bean
Artwork by Serial Cut
Artwork by Serial Cut
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Artwork by luuqas
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Artwork by Stephanie DeArmond
Artwork by Jeff Osborne
Artwork by Wojciech Pijecki
Artwork by João Marques
Artwork by Tanin-André Hohmann
Artwork by Grafi-Ray
Artwork by Craig Ward
Artwork by Niels van Doorn
Artwork by Eskimo Square
Artwork by Curtis Baigent
Artwork by Chaz Madani
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3 Oct 2009We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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