The artists hang around mod teams who have a pre-existing engine. They'll do Blitz, but you have to have an engine that they think is as good as HL2. Until then, your artists will be few, and will eventually leave you unless you are always making progress. I am lucky to have 3 modeler/skinners, but they just finished an assload of work, and have no playable game to show for it yet. Right now, I have enough media and am not asking for anything from them until I return a playable engine. You really have to give something back, and that's pretty tough to do without a pre-designed engine and game.
Now I know Blitz does not do DX9 but...
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