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Nintendo hiring 3D CG "terrain" Designers for Kyoto and Tokyo offices
- Thread starter Shikamaru Ninja
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EBA's "hub" is the world itself so this would be oddly fitting.
Buttonbasher
Member
Isn't this a super standard job position? What's interesting about it?
People are so desperate for NX news that they'll cling on to any news that's Nintendo related.
Shikamaru Ninja
任天å ã® å¿è
(from their website - mid-career recruitment page)
3DCG Designer
3DCG Designer (terrain) (NEW)
1. It's a new position that they've never specifically listed or hired for.
2. They are actively recruiting 3D CG "terrain" designers for both offices in response to something
3. OMG Nintendo is expanding
4.
It's for F-Zero
Schnozberry
Member
It's really not that interesting. It's just nice to see Nintendo continuing on it's path to modernization. PBR has been in use on Wii U since Mario Kart 8 was released, but with NX's horsepower and their new engines I bet it will be used all over the place.
Possumowner
Member
I'll take this,im so thirsty for NX news I'll take anything
ViewtifulJC
Banned
We will post any single thing Nintendo does thats even semi-related to the NX
if they make a fart, we're gonna record the smell and try to classify it
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Anything with CG in it.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
This seems like a fairly standard job posting...why did it need a thread?
'Online Xenoblade' suggests an always-online MMO-style experience that a hybrid console would struggle to deliver. My commentary was aimed at the idea of Nintendo having to provide some sort of mobile internet service/data plan, considering the hybrid/portable nature of the NX.
RETRO aren't the team they used to be. I would say it's anyone's guess.
See above, my post was referring to the online element.
JohnTinker
Limbaugh Parrot
That's a lot of work just for grass to go WAHH-WAHH
TheDinoman
Member
So the grass is Waluigi?
TheMoon
Member
In Japan, the term "CG" was often used in the context of real-time polygon graphics, especially for arcade boards.
i.e. Sega Model 1, Model 2.
I'm not saying this is the same "CG" context Nintendo is hiring for, but "3D CG terrain" is no doubt for a large game that needs a lot of terrain designed for it. i.e. Zelda: Twilight Princess for GCN/Wii and more recently Breath of the Wild.
Hopefully this specific case is for a large open world"3D CG" Mario game, a la Mario 64, Sunshine, and to a lesser extent (not open world) Mario Galaxy
i.e. Sega Model 1, Model 2.
I'm not saying this is the same "CG" context Nintendo is hiring for, but "3D CG terrain" is no doubt for a large game that needs a lot of terrain designed for it. i.e. Zelda: Twilight Princess for GCN/Wii and more recently Breath of the Wild.
Hopefully this specific case is for a large open world"3D CG" Mario game, a la Mario 64, Sunshine, and to a lesser extent (not open world) Mario Galaxy
I meant the majority of individuals that worked on the Prime games have since moved elsewhere - Armature for one. RETRO are still a really top class studio (DKC games proved that!), but it would be uncharacteristic of them to start making Metroid games again.
ecosse_011172
Junior Member
Übermatik;217620593 said:
The majority?
Sure about that?
TheMoon
Member
the majority of the key/lead designers/programmers.
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S'alright, just took to opportunity to clarify anyway!
ecosse_011172
Junior Member
I'm shocked to see that several of the lead people aren't even in gaming anymore.
Bloody hell.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Excite Truck NX confirmed.
Shikamaru Ninja
任天å ã® å¿è
Excite anything !
GiantBombGamer
Member
Pikmin.
DXB-KNIGHT
Member
No for that they'll hire a face designer
astrogamer
Member
Looking into this a bit and they've hired people specifically as 3D CG terrain designers (for example, this guy https://www.nintendo.co.jp/jobs/keyword/04.html), but don't really recall if they ever listed the position specifically on the recruitment page.
TheMoon
Member
One or two of them passed away even (the programming wizard responsible for the morph ball camera/transition definitely did). God damn shame.
aww yeeeeeah
We need all the terrain design we can get for that Good Feel 3D platformer.
NintendosBooger
Member
From the creators of Endless Ocean, comes Endless Terrain. Instead of swimming through an aquatic world of reefs and fishes, you're belly-crawling through bug-infested plains and tumbling head-first into sandpits.
Hahahahahah!
Make it face-down point of view, so the screen's just a constant muddy blackness