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Drawing on screen

Hello guys. Anyone knows what software uses Ryan kingslien to draw onscreen smoothly like this? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJdtkHLDhN0"]ZBW: Understanding LightCaps - YouTube[/ame] I have t…
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Eric Chadwick

Musician needed for short films

So as some of you guys know I've been trying to put together some short films in my free time as a hobby and have recently started to initiate that whole thing with some friends of mine. So far we ha…
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maximumsproductions

Hello, I need some suggestions plz

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to these forums but I follow the P&P section religiously. I've been running through digital tutors tutorials for awhile now. Mostly for maya. Haven't gotten around to Zbr…
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NegevPro

Advice to someone who is about to graduate

Hey Guys, So basically I am just curious how you guys started out if you went to school, also advice on getting freelance jobs, where should I look, websites and forums I should use. Thanks for…
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dystopianghost

Tutorial Course Giveaway

[UPDATE: From now until Feb 8th (this Saturday!) I am going to be giving EVERYONE that likes the Professor Poly Facebook page a free code to my courses. As a thank you to all you guys for all the sup…
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BradleyWascher

PolyPoles!

*there are spelling errors in the image. I speak English as my first language, I was just typing in a rush. I'm so very sorry.* Hey guys, so the other day I came up with a neat idea. I saw some nat…
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r13

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

[URL]http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/?snr=1_7_suggest__13[/URL] Already preordered, been in the beta for quite a while. [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYCtaNueQY&feature=g-u-u"]http:/…
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Zipfinator

Putting together a study group to learn UDK

If you're interested in learning UDK and all it can offer you should join our: [COLOR="Red"][URL="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1ucsa6ckr3ceg3qfgcv1edott8?authkey=CLi-r-Cj-smMRQ"]GOOGLE PLUS H…
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GabeM

Reading list for college leavers

I've been asked by my college if I'd contribute to a book list for students in their final year - Basically reference works to prepare them for industry. Of course resources like the [url=http://wik…
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RyanB

high res sculpting - why bother?

i am thinking now that since a lot of studios seem to be using scans( even full body scans now) for realistic characters, why bother learning to zbrush/texture heads and bodies. Ok, there is stylise…
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pior

The Untitled Game gets Greenlit!

[center][url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=220041725][img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bfvd_2iCIAA5sfH.jpg:large[/img][/url][/center] Going to do a selfless plug real quick f…
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Rik

Likeness,How?

What knowledge do i need to posses so i can be able to copy the likeness from 2D to 3D? I really admire people, who can draw or sculpt in Zbrush likeness. U know i have to have depth understanding i…
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Stinger88

Matador on steam greenlight

Sweet topdown shootan game by polycount's very own Jack Monahan aka Gauss, and his brother Hugh. [url]http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=224225835[/url] Upvote it, you know you w…
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ScoobyDoofus

Game clones, this shit can fudge off

[url]http://kotaku.com/the-depressing-black-market-where-games-are-ripped-off-1516904667?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow[/url] slightly off t…
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jddg5wa

Scanner recommendations?

Looking to buy a scanner, $100-$150, mostly for pencil work @ A4 size. Sensitivity to soft-values required. Any particular models or general companies recommended?
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shotgun

Photoshop Brush Preset arranging!

one day I saw someone used photoshop preset like that so I just made my brush preset and share it [img]http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/5488/sv78.jpg[/img] [img]http://img203.imageshack.us/img20…
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Bruno Afonseca

Has anyone ever encountered this sort of situation?

Hey guys, i'm sort of new, registered last year and as of now only started posting on here. I graduated with my BA in games design 4 years ago and still haven't got a job in the industry so i'm worki…
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Steve Schulze

Global Game Jam 2014

For those who are not aware, GGJ is a worldwide 48 hour gamejam event that is uniformly coordinated. It's been around for a few years and has grown quite a bit in popularity since. [url]http://glob…
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almighty_gir

I need YOUR opinion - CG Schools?

[B]Hello Folks![/B] [SIZE="2"]I am in that tiny crisis moment in life where you get out of school and need to find a job. In my case, I want to work with games, oh man I really do. The prospect of b…
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LRoy

Internship pay?

Hello everyone, I'll be done with Uni in September and am thrown into the real world of hard labour , in 3d. At this moment I do not really care in which country I land to get a job , moving is not…
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ambershee

To all of you who work abroad

I made this [URL="http://redd.it/1x2l5s"]post[/URL] on AskReddit. I would be really very very glad if I could have your input! If you dont have a reddit account I would be glad if you could post here…
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deohboeh

Quitting

I realize that personal blog posts are not very welcome here, but it's an industry related issue, so please bear with me. Long story short, nearly two years ago I have gotten my first games indus…
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Lee3dee

When did you decide that you wanted to make games?

I came to the conclusion that I was going to make at the age of 12, or so while I was in middle school. Although, the decision to peruse art I didn't make until late in high school. And then, environ…
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lonelysquare

Dialoguer - Unity Dialogue Tool is free for the next few days!

[url]http://www.dialoguer.info/free.php[/url] It's apparently a tool for making dialogue trees within Unity. They're giving it out for free for the next few days. Sounds like it'll be pretty damn us…
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Lord McMutton

3D Art Schools - What should they be teaching and where are they going wrong?

So I have recently been contracted to help restructure a New Zealand 3D school's Game Art curriculum. Most NZ schools are extremely out of date with their version of studio pipelines, software and ge…
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Meloncov

Creating a Modular Weapon Pipeline

I've been scouring Polycount and the internet for articles about creating a pipeline for modular weapon creation. I was really hoping the fine folks at Gearbox had published a little sum-sum on how t…
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ken0y

Closed Polygon count - MOBA terrane

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Ko0zi

Your Work and the Community

Just curious but for those of you that are employed with a developer, how active are you with your product's community? I don't get too involved in mine. At least not on the product side though I do …
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ErichWK

Interview for a pretty interesting company.

Have a phone interview for Oculus VR next week for an Artist position. I haven't really been compelled to job hunt AAA game studios, being pretty content with my indie freelancing, but I had to give…
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Keepbro

Canada’s booming video game industry facing labour crunch

[URL]http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canada+booming+video+game+industry+facing+labour+crunch/9460427/story.html[/URL] [QUOTE]Industry representatives are appealing to the federal government to …
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fearian

Real World Material Definitions

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows if a chart exists outlining the specular cosine values which accurately represent the tightness of the specular highlight for different materials. Basically I wo…
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agitat3d

Closed How to make LARGE terrain+texture in Maya and export ?

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cmtanko

FMX 2014 Polycount Meetup

The FMX 2014 in Stuttgart is coming up in 2ish months, are any of you guys going? If there's enough people we can get together and grab a couple of beers and have a Polycount meet up. If I remember c…
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Spudnik

What Are the guidelines for baking Normal maps?

Guidelines like how should the model be UV Unwrapped and how should smoothing groups be assigned? I've tried many things but I cannot get a near-perfect normal map to bake
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WarrenM

How To Solve This Issue with Triangles and Smoothing Groups?

I have baked a normal map to an object with one smoothing group. The low poly looks very smooth with the normal map, but when I bump up specularity, triangles start to become apparent on its surface.…
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mrgesy

Would you like to be friends on Steam?

I've set up my Steam machine with the official Steam account for Polycount. If you'd like to be friends, please send a friends request :D [url]http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198065982304/…
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McGreed

Different face vs recognizable face

I'm working on a project where I need to create several characters from real people, but in different setting (personal project, so I can take my time). For example the real person might have a round…
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McGreed

Wacom Cintiq 13HD

[url]http://cintiq13hd.wacom.com/en[/url] Look what popped up on Wacom's site!
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McGreed

Saying hello, and small question regarding 3d modelling.

Hey everyone, hopefully this isn't a bad placement for such a thread. Just wanted to introduce myself and maybe get a little guidance. I'm 29yo, and up to now most of my background has been in 2d wor…
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CheeseOnToast

real time animation renderer

Hi, Im looking for something like marmoset toolbag, but a program that support rigged models and animation, maybe in alembic format. I could theoretically use something like unity for this. But i t…
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e-freak

Displacement maps, help

I have no idea how many i asked it. But so far, i didn't get any good about this. I want to know, for making characters for games, are displacement maps used? Or normal maps are still used? Or displ…
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Snader

Marmoset Toolbag Tutorials, Latest: Getting Started with Toolbag 2

Hello rare and fine people of the internet, I have written a quick start guide to accompany the release of [URL="http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag"]Marmoset Toolbag 2[/URL]. LATEST: [URL="http://www.m…
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Brashen

Coming Soon: ZBrush Character Production DVD

*Release Date - Jan 11th 2010* [IMG]http://eat3d.com/images/news/12_30_zbrush35_character_large.jpg[/IMG] In this DVD Michael Pavlovich starts off by taking up where the first DVD left off and cove…
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awoland

Toroton, ON Meet-up (January 31st @ 7:15PM, Scotland Yard)

[IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1FJFuG-D1cg/T294toLKqlI/AAAAAAAAGIY/fBjwmTtrrsM/s1600/Scotland%2BYard%2B6a.jpg[/IMG] [SIZE=4]When: Friday, January 31st, 7:15pm Where: [URL="http://scotlandyardpub.ca…
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Ootrick

ID an obscure fighting game character for me.

Ok, this one's going to be a long shot, but I'm not really sure how else to source this info. I had a nice character concept that I picked up from Fighters Generation years ago. I was planning to us…
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Steve Schulze

Need Help with Baking issue (3DS Max)

Doing an exploded bake. Going around in circles...I kept all settings default. Whatever info you all need about my setup I can give. This is my UV Map [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/katana26…
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katana

3D Coat V4 Pro Windows License for sale

I am selling my 3D Coat V4 Professional Windows License. This is the full commercial license for Windows. I am selling it for 250.00. PM me if interested. Thanks for looking.
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JermArt

Closed Justin Bieber's new vid

How enjoyable! ♥♥♥ ♫ Oh no, no, ♫ oh, no, no ♪ [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47YClVMlthI#t=285[/url]
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Sean VanGorder

Closed Young Artist first model ( Critique me ! )

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Aquas

Nintendo to focus on 'health' amid weak console sales

Nintendo to focus on 'health' amid weak console sales Nintendo has announced plans to launch a new health 'platform' that will operate independently from its video game business, after weaker-than-e…
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WDewel

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