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Zynga layoffs [url]http://allthingsd.com/20130603/zynga-to-lay-off-520-employees-18-percent-of-staff-and-shutter-new-york-and-la-offices/?mod=atdtweet[/url] [url]http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/03/zynga-global-layo…	28 Last	Wahlgren Jun 2013
Leadwerks on Greenlight We're excited to announce our Greenlight campaign for [url=http://www.leadwerks.com/greenlight]Leadwerks 3: Steam Edition[/url]. [img]http://media.moddb.com/images/articles/1/130/129372/auto/indied…	0 Last	Leadwerks Jun 2013
Spintires [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjqJHa0k1Tk"]SPiN TiRES - 2013 Tech Demo (May) - 1080p - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtSZrHjQQpk"]Spin Tires 2013 Tech Demo Update - UAZ J…	11 Last	SHEPEIRO Jun 2013
of Streaming and Streaming sites Recently alot more people have been streaming their work, and it's fantastic. being able to see others as they work is always a great learning experience. I thought we might do with a centralised thr…	35 Last	Hazardous Jun 2013
COLLIDER Digital Production Conference & Job Fair - NYC - June 9 - 11 Stay Inspired; Accelerate Your Career at COLLIDER in New York! On June 9-11, 2013, talent, studios and brands from all sides of digital production collide in New York for an intensive two-day confe…	3 Last	valuemeal Jun 2013
Occulus (rift) Dev Kit? Anyone got one? Mine should be shipping soon (this or next week?). Was wondering if anyone had insight about what to expect?	6 Last	Reverenddevil Jun 2013
Halo: Spartan Assault Don't know how involved Polycount is with Halo Anyone have opinions about this release? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxsYQtltOco"]Halo: Spartan Assault Announce Trailer - YouTube[/ame] Wit…	12 Last	Spiffy Jun 2013
Groupees [url]http://groupees.com/bm8[/url] A bunch of indie games for sale! $1 gets you a bunch of games and OSTs! Steam keys, desura keys and such included!	1 Last	Avanthera Jun 2013
c++ programmers! Is there a good site to find a freelance C++ programmer? I'm not sure how many programmers are here on Polycount, but I'm about to post a listing anyway. Any help would be greatly appreciated!	2 Last	Zocky Jun 2013
Will 3D retail design help game art career? Hello Polycount! Hopefully a quick question... I currently work in IT and I have an opportunity to take a job designing those kiosks you see in the center of the hallways in malls for wireless carrie…	7 Last	bobkornog Jun 2013
A sad day in the gaming industry just saw an article on the Flipboard app on my phone earlier that was very saddening to me Unfortunately and very sadly Scott Reisse the Oculus VR co-founder was killed in a hit and run today in San…	5 Last	rube Jun 2013
Getting started as a freelance modeler? Hello everyone! As the title may have implied, I'm looking for advice on getting started as a freelance modeler for game developers. For the past couple years, I've been doing 3d work for small cli…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2013
Stomping Land This is just really, just wow! Dinosaur prehistoric survival game. [url]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/524168447/the-stomping-land?ref=category[/url]	1 Last	Di$array Jun 2013
3D Character Art Comp suggestion Hey polycount. Is it time for another comp character art comp yet? I would like to suggest 2k tri and 1024 texture limits. Diffuse / Spec. If anyone else has other preferred guidelines lets collabo…	5 Last	Noth Jun 2013
Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project [url]http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/28/blizzard-delays-unannounced-mmo-until-2016-resets-whole-project-exclusive/#LkSFcisD6IACzgAf.01[/url] Project reset, so when the hell are we going to see someth…	41 Last	David Nilsson Jun 2013
POSTING Pictures How do you guys post pictures? I use " Insert Image" button and copy a image link from my blogger. Is there any easier way?	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2013
Minecraft meets Zelda meets Fable Earlier today, we at Nerd Kingdom launched the Kickstarter campaign for our first game project, TUG. We've developed a voxel engine from scratch, and have a ton of content in the works that enables s…	45 Last	Alismuffin Jun 2013
Polycounters at E3 2013? Finally got the nod from work to go to E3 this year, pretty psyched! I know its a dev-only affair now, but are any other polycounters going? Would be cool to put some faces to names :) Cheers.	1 Last	Flava-Fly Jun 2013
little bit of motivation.... This resonated so hard with me I thought others would find it as inspiring as I did... [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJRBAqClbTg[/URL]	1 Last	Steve Schulze Jun 2013
Just Got My First 3D Artist Role... Hi guys, I'm fresh out of Uni, and applied to so many places its unbelievable for roles in 3D; I didn't care if it was games, graphic design, or film as once i got my foot in the door and had some e…	10 Last	MrNinjutsu Jun 2013
Polycount Korea Any Polycounters in the Daegu or Seoul area? Will be in Korea for the next week if. PM me if you want to meet up.	0 Last	oXYnary Jun 2013
Dear Esther - Kicking the source engine back into the fight! [U][ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3bPjEbenew"]www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3bPjEbenew[/ame] [/U]So I just sumbled across this, while I haven't heard anything about it before, my first thought was…	77 Last	ZacD Jun 2013
Battlestar Galactica So i just finished watching what is now known as my favorite TV show of all time. I know i'm a bit late to the punch but i wanted to savor it for as long as i could but i unwillingly watched the las…	9 Last	Zocky May 2013
New job, yay! Glad to announce I got a new job at Ready at Dawn, Irvine CA I'm going to be Sr. Env. Texture Artist. Wish me luck and I hope to meet some OC people down there.	29 Last	Target_Renegade May 2013
Want to get into hand painted textures. Dear Polycount comunity, I am an aspiring 3D artist and am about to graduate and start looking for a job. At the moment the biggest weakness in my skill set is my texturing and i am looking to impro…	16 Last	Justin Meisse May 2013
Arma 3 mods Anyone have any Arma mods they want to share? Like weapons, maps anything? Show em' here!	0 Last	Sensonomirai May 2013
Input On Some Art Theory Hi Everyone, I have reacently started teaching some 3d modeling and art workshops for some local highschool and college students in my spare time. Some of the students are pretty advanced while oth…	7 Last	jocose May 2013
CryEngine for simple mobile games? i everyone. I just started messing around with Unity following Digital Tutor's a few weeks back. My current exercise is an isometric viewed game with a directional controller to the left of the scree…	6 Last	willy-wilson May 2013
Help me find concept art to practice Hello Polycount, I am a beginner 3d artist, and I am looking for character, props and enviroment concept art to work with. I googled for concept art, and found tons of it, but usualy it's copyrighted…	4 Last	Kbrom12 May 2013
Polycount meet-up: Seattle? Hello, Myself and the other 2 fellows who hide behind the curtain here at Polycount (r13 and cheeseplus) will be in Seattle for the last week of May (the week of Memorial Day). I thought I'd toss t…	41 Last	stoofoo May 2013
(possibly) Never eat again - Soylent shake The user and all related content has been deleted.	92 Last	gray May 2013
Looking for participants in our research project concerning middleware Hi, We are Thomas Vanderlinden and Joren Devocht, two management students at the [B]Antwerp Management School [/B](of the University of Antwerp) in Belgium. We're not here to spam, we're looking fo…	0 Last	Joren_AMS May 2013
Bungie Art Test Info Does anyone have the rules for this specific art test? I felt like doing it and wanted to know if there was a triangle limit as well as what the rules for texture sizes was. I was searching for this …	2 Last	AlexCatMasterSupreme May 2013
Seeing Napalm Death next month..... Anyone seen them lately? I've never seen them before. Huge fan, however I know they are getting up there in age. I'm wondering if they still deliver a powerful show.	5 Last	keizza May 2013
Job fair tommorrow... Thanks, bros :thumbup:	4 Last	Jedi May 2013
EA opening new DICE studio in Los Angeles Some good news for the day. [url]http://www.destructoid.com/ea-is-opening-a-new-dice-studio-in-los-angeles-253767.phtml[/url]	54 Last	almighty_gir May 2013
Is it wrong to take a break? Been kinda in the lows and I just finished school, as in graduated, and I feel mentally and artistically exhausted, is it wrong or bad that I don't really want to do any work for my portfolio?	28 Last	Mark Dygert May 2013
Asking for a re-test? Here's the deal, I took a test for a company, they took a month to respond to my test. I called once to ask about the status of my application or if making more characters while waiting would up my c…	9 Last	Jeff Parrott May 2013
King Kong: Live on Stage Hey chaps. I thought you guys might like to see some stuff from my latest announced project - King Kong. It's a musical retelling of the Kong story featuring 7 metre tall semi-mechanised puppet of Ko…	11 Last	Steve Schulze May 2013
Where to find models to practice rigging Hi everyone, I want to start practicing rigging and I was wondering where I can find models that I'm allow to not only practice rigging but use it in my reel. If there's anyone who wants their mode…	2 Last	Brandon.LaFrance May 2013
League of Legends Cinematic: A twist of fate. Crazy work done by BLUR. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnsqpThaFg[/url] Here's the behind the scenes. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-c4TdGrs6Q[/url]	17 Last	Isaiah Sherman May 2013
BORDERLANDS 2 YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!! [U][ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBY1bkgPiJc"]Borderlands 2 release date trailer - Doomsday - YouTube[/ame][/U][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em…	291 Last	HitmonInfinity May 2013
Swearing in games Hi all, Ok got this thing in my head for a while now and decided to share. (I am not saying it will happen or it has happened, just hypothetical stuff lol :D ) As a gamer we have had those moment…	44 Last	Mark Dygert May 2013
best terrain generating software. what would be the best software in your opinion for generating the best realistic terrains such as mountains and eroded goodies and such?	8 Last	Xendance May 2013
Another PC Advice Topic Sorry if your all a bit sick of these topics but looking for some advice on getting a new PC. I had toyed with the idea of building a machine from scratch but I came across this build on scan.co.uk…	8 Last	mats effect May 2013
Things that are Frowned Upon? When building environments for your portfolio, or just any non-work related pieces.(Or maybe even work related) Would you say it's frowned upon to use pre-made vegetation, water shaders, rocks etc th…	2 Last	Bruno Afonseca May 2013
Technical Art : My personal thoughts Hey everybody, I have started writing since I decided to work on what I thought were my really bad skills. And writing was one of them. My blog posts are from my perspective as a technical artist, b…	2 Last	Nysuatro May 2013
Model sheet for environment? What does model sheet for environment look like? I found lots of T-pose character model sheets, but how should I draw model sheets for an out door environment? If I am building it modularly, do I n…	3 Last	tonberry May 2013
Far Cry 3 Expansion: Blood Dragon I guess this got lost in April fool's jokes, because I had never heard of it until today... but it's supposedly not a joke. It's a legit Far Cry 3 expansion coming out next month. It is 80's inspired…	53 Last	The Lama May 2013
Jagged Alliance on Kickstarter. Hello Polycounters, there's been a lot of bad news coming from this industry in the last few months, but I hope with the help of Polycount you can help make this good news for our indy game studio ba…	43 Last	ScoobyDoofus May 2013