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Sticky Information About Polycount & New Member Introductions Information You Should Know About the Polycount Forum Here are some things you should know about the Polycount Forum. New Members Welcome to Polycount! Please reply to this thre…	29.7K Last	3Dani_ Jan 21 2020
Sticky ⛔ You need to reset your password. This is most likely because... Vanilla Forums Status:On Friday, November 15th at 5pm our devs were made aware that full user records in BCRYPT Hash Format were being outputted to browsers when users were quoted. Our team immediate…	18 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 16 2020
Sticky Bugs! We got 'em! Please post all your bug reports here. Anything wrong with the forums, we want to know about it. We think you want to be informed about what's going on with the forums. In that spirit, here's a …	265 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2019
Sticky Polycount Discord/Slack/Skype/Hangout/etc. We've set up a Polycount chat room[s] on the Discord service. Click the link here and you'll be taken there. This is a no-time limit invite.Check out more here for the service's info and stand a…	39 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2019
Sticky How to Post on the Internet I want to talk about the common questions and misconceptions inexperienced artists have, either when they start working towards becoming an artists or when they join Polycount. This is a culmination …	176 Last	Rnz May 2018
Selling 3DCoat v4.9 Licenses for windows Hey everyoneI am selling 2 Windows only licenses of 3DC.I'd like to do the transaction with paypal and once the payment would be made, 3DC sales team foward you the email containing your license…	0 Last	Carlosan Jan 25 2020
Which software do you hate the most to work with (for whatever reason)? I'm not asking which software is objectively the worst, or how do they compare, but which one you, personally, hate - but must - use. 3D or 3D-related software, of course.	43 Last	neilberard Jan 25 2020
can i get my old account back?! :-/ Im not sure who to contact, so am hoping a moderator reads this.... IIt seems my password has been changed on my account due to a password leak. Unfortunately i no longer have access to m…	1 Last	Daf57 Jan 24 2020
Closed Moved: Check my new shop This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 24 2020
What made you feel good today? What made you feel good today? Tell us what us what made you feel happy today. Sister thread,[URL="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116211"]What made you feel crap today?[/URL] I s…	983 Last	littleclaude Jan 23 2020
Challenges: 3D Art Hey, I was wondering where I could find monthly / general 3D art related community challenges? I know there are some on freelance sites with challenges or artstation even, but maybe there's something…	6 Last	zachagreg Jan 22 2020
WaPo article about craziness in Silicon Valley article about men afraid of getting fired for looking oldGuys, is this true? Is it like that at any games companies you know about?It all sounds like a cover to hire cheaper workers to me. Because th…	16 Last	Alex Javor Jan 22 2020
What made you feel crap today? What little thing has pissed you off/made you sad today? I feel so dirty after creating the "what made you feel good" thread, all those mopey and happy people covered in Disney love :) so I t…	620 Last	zachagreg Jan 20 2020
3DBuzz has shut down Apparently Jason "Buzz" Busby who ran the site passed away, and so the remaining staff decided to close it down. As a parting gift to the community they've uploaded all their training material o…	6 Last	snake85027 Jan 20 2020
Your favourite artbooks Hi all, just wanted to hear/talk a bit about your favourite artbooks, since I think they are great as an additional source of inspiration - atleast for me it feels much better to actually flip throug…	37 Last	Neox Jan 18 2020
Smithsonian 3D Program - Are the models free...? How to get them? Hello, are the models of the Smithsonian 3D Program - here:https://3d.si.edu/browserAre they available for free...? Or whats the license? And can i download or somehow get them...?Is there a tool/sit…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 18 2020
How to design 3d hard surface spaceships? Hi polycounters!Here I want to open the topic where we could discuss how it's possible to design complex spaceships, where to start and where we can find some inspirations? Also, It will be cool to k…	22 Last	Unknown_Target Jan 17 2020
New banner artists! Please join us in congratulating the artists/teams who are responsible for the Polycount banners this month! If you see something that's banner worthy, use the Flag > Report button and let us…	4 Last	Isaiah Sherman Jan 10 2020
buttons added: Drafts, Recent Before, afterRecent shows a list of the most recent posts on the forum.Drafts will show you a few nice links:Recent Topics = a list of the most recent posts on the forum.Activity = the…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 10 2020
Why don't big film studios just use Blender? Hi and Merry Christmas to all :)I want to ask this big question because I allways wondered why big studios just dont use Blender.Is it because of the compitablilty for tools? Functionality? Because o…	132 Last	oglu Jan 9 2020
Polycounters Forever Doing some clean up of my profiles and I just noticed I have been a member since 2004 (though I am pretty sure I was a member back as far as 1998 when we where all modding Quake III) and it struck me…	34 Last	kwakkie Jan 8 2020
Deconstructing a full english breakfast in Dreams PS4 Though this would be an interesting share.I'd initially assumed these were just premade assets put together.Shows what you can do if you're resourceful!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEYsB7OUDGA	2 Last	zachagreg Jan 7 2020
Substance going subscription only Fresh news, Adobe decided to go subscription only with the Substance suite after they officially published Alchemist.Official forum post: https://forum.substance3d.com/index.php/topic,30855.0.ht…	96 Last	marks Jan 7 2020
Syd Mead Syd Mead has passed away.His concept art was behind Aliens, Blade Runner, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Tron, and many more movies. He was originally an industrial designer for Ford Motor Company an…	2 Last	Noors Jan 7 2020
Virtual Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2W0N3uKXmo&list=LLs0dUXWTvIONxc63-UDQsSg&index=2&t=0sVery excited about this. Pretty sure the trailer alone is going to make some jobs for us. Very inspir…	35 Last	MikeF Jan 6 2020
Best subREDITs for 3D graphic designers? Hello, what are the best/biggest/not dead sub-REDITs for 3D graphics designer...? There are TONs of subredits but its hard for a reddit Noob like me to know what the biggest/best/most frequented subr…	6 Last	oraeles77 Jan 2 2020
Star Citizen Thread, what an amazing game. Star Citizen Offering A $27,000 Add-On Pack. I am really looking forward to playing this and flying around all the super expensive real estate. It will be like when I go window shopping in Bond …	40 Last	Unknown_Target Jan 2 2020
What are you listening to? Artist: Blind Guardian Song: Mordred's Song Genre: Metal/Folk/Acoustic You might like this if: You like any melodic metal or bard melodies. One of my favorite Blind Guardian songs. good working musi…	2.5K Last	SeekeroflLight Jan 1 2020
''Sonic the Hedghog'' Live Action Movie Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvvZaBf9QQI''This is why we should have more video games movies adapation!!''Said nobody ever.	48 Last	almighty_gir Dec 2019
Polycount Meetup in Downtown Montreal, QC (11/28-11/30?) SALUT et HEYI will be visiting Montreal, QC next week! I've never been there!(I tried learning French for the past like 3-4 years on the side. I finally need to put that to use)I'm just throwing this…	12 Last	j_swan Dec 2019
Future of 3d modeling and texturing I have been learning 3d since last few years and i am very passionate about that. Recently i saw a video on Youtube from BlenderGuru, he had an interview with the Blizzard's Environment Artist Michae…	54 Last	thomasp Dec 2019
Best 3D Hard Surface Artist(s) so ever since discovering Vitaly Bulgarov I personally feel like my models have improved, I feel his work is amazing and I find Inspiration from his stuff.that being said.Can you list or name off som…	8 Last	Justo Dec 2019
Just saying Hello! I'm happy to be here! Hey my new community friends! Just wanted to stop by and introduce myself. I typically do hard-surface, but I'm trying to get into sculpting organics and characters, and I think rigging and animation…	12 Last	almighty_gir Dec 2019
craminated jiffy bread one rule. must relate to gaming or art. or cats. jiff on!	48 Last	sacboi Dec 2019
Who loves and hates pixel art, and why? This is an odd question, so I'll try and be clear:We're working on a game that juxtaposes high and low fidelity, and plays with some ideas around past/future as a consequence. We're currently w…	16 Last	Noors Dec 2019
A Gift For A Friend - Need Help! Hello,I would like to give my friend a CG-related gift for Christmas.I tried to look for some Renderfarm vouchers, but I didn't find any. What could also be another good CG-related gift?Thank you for…	3 Last	DavidCruz Dec 2019
Seeing art like it isn't yours You ever notice how when you look at somebody elses art, you just kind of see the whole thing? Like you don't pick it apart into pieces and examine them individually. You just see the whole thing.&nb…	12 Last	zachagreg Dec 2019
Double line spacing issue Hey there.Yes, we're getting double line spaces.Isn't it fun?Vanilla rolled out an update to their forum platform on Monday. We filed a bug.They're working...on...a...fix.	4 Last	garcellano Dec 2019
VR Headset - Which one is the best ? so there's a lot of VR headsets out there, but which package is actually the best ? and what about the upcoming ones like the htc cosmos ?anything you could recommend ? i am mainly interested in sets…	43 Last	rollin Dec 2019
Buying stuff on Amazon US, zip +4 thingy problem. I bought some hardwares from Amazon US this weekend, it will be sent to a freight forwarder then to where i live. But i think i might have run in some problems.When i add the zip code for the fi…	5 Last	m4dcow Dec 2019
Epic and Quixel Epic Games and Quixel Join Forces to Empower CreatorsAs part of making the Quixel Megascans library of more than 10,000 assets free for all use with Unreal Engine, ten high-resolution packs have been…	65 Last	melviso Dec 2019
The Walking Dead OMG, I can't wait for this freaking show. It's the adaptation of the popular comic book. It premiers tonight on AMC. If you don't know about it, here's a quick synopsis, and review. It sounds like …	2.1K Last	StephenVyas Dec 2019
✅ How to embed Youtube If you post a Youtube link directly into your edit, usually you'll see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kVbM6dtCywTo embed, click the Toggle HTML View button, paste the link, click Toggle …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2019
Red Dead Redemption 2 Over 8 years of development. R* Games first's actual next-gen title. One week after it's realease it's being critically acclaimed for it's intricate sense of details, solid game play as well as one o…	11 Last	Dash-POWER Nov 2019
Any other plant growers here? I grow carnivorous plants, been doing it since I was 8 or 9 and had a pretty big collection but had to downsize about 5 years ago because I was a broke teenager and couldn't afford the upkeep of new …	13 Last	Anura_Interceptor Nov 2019
I want to say thanks To those with enough patience to tell me that I needed to improve in the most polite way without telling me my work sucked hard, to "get good". I needed that, I needed to sign up here and get profess…	5 Last	JustAfterDark Nov 2019
Deep fakes What do you think about "Deep Fake" technology, and its implications?First, some lighthearted videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUphMqs1vFwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPKeUXjEvEhttps://www.…	10 Last	McGreed Nov 2019
Blizzcon Nice Diablo Cinematic. https://youtu.be/0SSYzl9fXOQ	6 Last	oglu Nov 2019
Please go away Polycount - you have suddenly started sending me emails - why? I gave up Polycount a long time ago after the lynch mob burned me alive with false accusations of "not trying" because I was a beginner …	14 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2019
London Polycount Meetups! Come one! Come all! It's another London Polycount meetup!Same weekend as EGX Rezzed, so if you were planning to attend that, then it's a perfect opportunity to meet some fellow polycounters and have …	131 Last	oraeles77 Nov 2019
Valfaris Big congrats to @mrawolf who shared a ton of work on Slain, and now has released Valfaris!https://store.steampowered.com/app/600130/Valfaris/Thanks firestarter for the tipoff!If you haven't seen all …	3 Last	dotzip Nov 2019
What you post on ArtStation. A few weeks ago, there was a popular post on an Artstation blog (and followup) detailing how it should probably just be for professional level work and experienced artists to host their portfolios.ht…	67 Last	ScopeDragon Nov 2019