Talaus Online - Concept Artist needed...


#1

Hey everyone

Neverborn Entertainment needs concept artists for our MMORPG project. You can look through our site here, and see our other concept work, and some 3D work also. I must say that this isn’t all our work, after a domain problem we had to rebuild our site. So currently we have more 3D artists than 2D artists.

so we got plenty of this…

But not enough of this…

So our 3D team can’t produce anymore of these…

We are looking for serious people. looking to really learn about game development… all aspects of it. You need to be able to log in regular weekly hours on our IRC channel (irc.coldfront.net #neverborn). The hours are reasonable, flexible, and realtive to the artist. Complete regular tasks on due dates. Listen to instructions but be outspoken and creative enough to bring up your ideas and changes. please join us in our IRC channel to meet the team and ask more questions. It is required to show examples of your work. So if you have none please think about it before you ask for us to take you on.

Thank you
-Steven (Strang)
strang@neverborn.net


#2

Finally, A project that comes from a regular poster inside CGTalk, not a first poster I got a great idea type of post! This sounds very interesting, can we have more information
? Are yall only looking for 2D sketch artists? How about Programmers, or more (it sounds like your teams mostly contains them) 3D molders/ riggers/ texture artists
?

Sounds very cool, and anymore info would be greatly appreciated. :smiley:


#3

Sure!

www.neverborn.net

irc.coldfront.net #neverborn - this is where the team hangs out, our main way of communicating and transfering files and content.

hmm lemme start

We are still developing the look and feel of Talaus. So we need more conceptual artists. We have 2 main artists 1 that isn’t on much anymore and i think has moved on. The other which has been around for a while and whose art you will see and enjoy the most, is kinda slacking also. We need serious people to join a serious team.

We are using NeL engine… based on The Saga of Ryzom, from Nevrax.
Its a MMO based engine with a typical server/client networking system. I has some cool features which we are trying to take advantage of.

We have our Lead programmer/designer who is writing our NeL code, server code, and NeL plugins for XSI
another programmer working on NeL code and internal game tools :smiley:
and another that works on NeL and is working to get the NeL plugins for MAX up to par. (Nevrax is still using MAX R3, and is updating to 7 soon, so we may just wait for those)

We have 5 regular Modelers, and only a few can Texture well. but all have potential to texture. Which is another reason for this team. we are ALL learning, ALL the time

other positions are ALWAYS open. which includes - Programmers/Coders, we can ALWAYS use more CODERS! but it is neccessary that you are self sufficient, have C++ knowledge, and depending on your ability put in a regular amount of hours. (if your good and dont wanna take on too much thats cool) MAX SDK, or XSI SDK knowledge is a plus.
  • Modelers, experience in any app will suffice, BUT have an open mind to using XSI. Low poly, clean meshes, UV mapping experience, and speed are what i am looking for

  • Texture Artists, obvious PS experience, and PLEASE 3D experience, you need to understand basic modeling, mapping, and texturing in any app. I will not take anyone that doesn’t understand, or isnt willing to learn how to use 3D

  • Animators, we are NOT in need of animators at this very moment, being straight up with everyone. our max plugins dont work well, and our XSI plugins are about 60-70% done. we have mesh, skeletal, and weighting data export, but we aren’t finished exporting animations yet. so no need for animators only. other disciplines looking to animate also will be welcome to animate when the time comes for that. Which reminds me of rigging. I will be developing a character construction guide that will allow whoever to build a NeL compatible rig everytime. basic biped and quadruped. other types will be hand made or based onthe guides.

  • WEB DEVELOPERS, just remembered. we need someone with web desiging and administrating abilities. all the standard experience. we have msg boards so PHP. MySQL yadda yadda (i am not a web guy so excuse me) we will eventually need an artsy site, but at the time being we need someone to manage what we have already so the load can be taken of our lead.

    We have sound guys, and aren’t really in need of any sound people. actually have plenty of music at the moment.

any more questions just jump in IRC… this is where you can get the most answered (if we are on and at the keyboard) if you dont have IRC you can get it here. it is necessary if your interested in helping Neverborn Entertainment.

thanks

Steven (Strang)
strang@neverborn.net

here is another piece to peek interests

and here…


#4

I have posted about NeL on here a few times…

but if anyone here has any questions about the engine or doubts about it…

check out this review

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/10/16/nel.html

its older… but talks about the features it has

-Steven


#5

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