6 months to create ONE equipment set!?

[Physic]

It should be easier then that given that making anything over and over is bound to increase efficiency. Something as simple as "guidelines" will help the concept artists and the graphic designers common ground to instantly know "what should and shouldn't be done"

Heck something as simple as texture design should be template and mapped much like photoshop professionals or manga artists that converge on a commonly used pattern stencil.

"bumpy" leather patterns, "woven cloth" pattern, etc, etc, why remake them when they already exist. It may not win awards, but it gets the job done and no-one is the wiser.

There is either a lot of novice work going on or 6months is pure BS.

I think the link shows that 1 dude alone can create from scratch in 2 months. A team with an organized process, and a lot of the basics out of the way or optimized should be able to at the very least halve that. So yeah, i think the 6 months is an exaggeration or a misrepresentation

[kukurumei]

I think the link shows that 1 dude alone can create from scratch in 2 months. A team with an organized process, and a lot of the basics out of the way or optimized should be able to at the very least halve that. So yeah, i think the 6 months is an exaggeration or a misrepresentation

For the sake of comparison then. Grand Turismo 5 interview said their car models(the really high end ones) took approx 3 months for one person to complete. This is both exterior and interior, super high resolution, with all the things like mirrors, and fuzzy dice, to steering wheel, and damage calculations, and car stats.

That should be about 10x harder then an equipment set, in the reported half the time.