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Color Study Beta

January 30, 2009 by Tesh

Sorry, I’m light on posts lately. I’m busy writing other things, and I have an art class tonight.

In the meantime, this is interesting, for anyone interested in web design:

Color Study Beta

How did you do?

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Posted in Administrative | Tagged color theory, web design | 8 Comments

8 Responses

on January 30, 2009 at 3:30 PM Wiqd

I saw nothing about Color Study. I saw a post on Wii Fit That aside, you said your professional life revolves around 3D modeling? What do you do?
on January 30, 2009 at 5:03 PM Tesh

Ah, arglebargle. Let me fix that… stupid fat fingered copy/paste…

I’m a technical artist in a game dev studio. I do 3D and 2D art, with a wee bit of game design thrown in.
on January 30, 2009 at 5:08 PM Wiqd

Oh snap, didn’t realize That’s kew. You’ll have to teach me how you have so much patience working with Maya / 3DS Max I try again and again and I fall off somewhere in the middle of doing the tutorials in the books I buy. But I REALLY want to be able to model awesomeness.
on January 30, 2009 at 5:16 PM Wiqd

OK did the test and only got screwed over on one of the colors. I think it was the washed out yellow one. Missed 6. The rest I missed 0.
on January 30, 2009 at 7:40 PM Tesh

I trained in Maya in college, and worked with it for a while, but for the last two years I’ve been working with Max. My ideal program would jam the two together and throw out the lame bits.

There really is a bit of a steep learning curve, but it’s almost split into two parts. One is learning how to think in 3D and how things look and work that way (the concepts of 3D art, especially in computer art), the other is just learning the specific program. Sometimes it’s easier to tackle each separately, or at least realize that while Maya and Max (and SoftImage and Lightwave and Blender and Wings…) handle things differently, there are underlying principles that work in any of them.

I’ve always been both technical minded and artistic, though, so the blend of the two in high end CG came fairly naturally to me. I’m lucky that way… but yes, it takes patience making the silly programs work.
on February 1, 2009 at 6:40 PM Tesh

Ah, it looks like they ended the test period.

Here’s hoping they make the little program available again; it’s kind of fun seeing how well you can do, and it’s even half decent for seeing how your monitor is behaving.
on February 2, 2009 at 2:33 AM Melf_Himself

I don’t quite get what the point of the test was… I’m a vision scientist by trade, and they’ve already exhaustively figured all that kind of stuff out…
on February 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM Tesh

Someone on the Puzzle Pirates forums mentioned that it’s a science fair project. If that’s true, they probably just needed to show experimental data.