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Tablet recommendation I got a 100 dollar apple store gift card. I was thinking of spending it on a wacom bamboo capture. i was wondering if anyone here uses one, do they like it, should i scrounge some more cash up and g…	2 Last	PolyHertz Mar 2013
Searching specific Reference Greetings, about 3 Years ago, I had a Reference Page with Monsters and Comic like Stuff by Artists from the Gaming Business. I hope you can help me, and maybe this Thread helps others too :) Gree…	0 Last	pr1mus Mar 2013
Mass Effect 3 Thread(Spoilers) I think it's time to get a thread about this going. I'm really excited about this game and can't wait to see what happens with the end of this trilogy. Link to some screen shots: [URL]http://www.ga…	461 Last	GrevSev Mar 2013
limit your job hunt to AAA at your own risk I wasn't sure what to write here, I've been the opinion for a while that limiting your job search to AAA Console studios only will severely limit your job prospects - even more than not being up to d…	51 Last	TAN Mar 2013
odd terminology in game art circles Hey folks! I was just thinking today about some of the things you can hear in game dev offices which you don't hear in other places. It got me then thinking about how much clarity we have in nomenc…	51 Last	Snader Mar 2013
maya 2014 looks like maya is getting some new modeling tools... [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EuGuBDhUEWU[/url]	32 Last	System Mar 2013
Kinect Fusion 3D Models Pretty cool piece of tech coming for the Kinect. Possible uses? Love it? Hate it? I'm not tech-saavy enough to understand how this is working, but it looks impressive. [url]http://www.joystiq.com…	5 Last	J0NNYquid Mar 2013
Price of models? I've been looking around at what people sell assets for on turbo squid, 3docean, Unity store and a few others. It seems that for the most part people are selling lowpoly assets and characters at very…	8 Last	DavePhipps Mar 2013
Layoffs at TimeGate. [URL="http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/03/04/layoffs-timegate.aspx"]http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/03/04/layoffs-timegate.aspx[/URL] Hearing from friends that mostly …	39 Last	oXYnary Mar 2013
iPhone model viewer? Hey guys, I just got an iPhone after using an Android for ages. I used to use this model viewer: [url]http://polyviewer.spifftastic.net/[/url] I really loved it and I can't seem to find something s…	0 Last	SideEffect Mar 2013
Dead Space 3 They seem to be moving away from survival horror and more towards action. While most of the fans appear to be bothered by this, I'm actually pretty cool with it. I still thought Dead Space 2 was sc…	66 Last	PixelMasher Mar 2013
Injustice: GAU Delayed [url]http://bkbn.net/profiles/blogs/injustice-god-s-among-us-producer-announces-delay-in-release[/url] I don't normally like fighting games, but I was so stoked for this, hopefully this is the only …	0 Last	J0NNYquid Mar 2013
My iPhone game! Shounen Kung-fu! Howdy!:poly142: Since I've not been able to score a job anywhere, I've instead been working on my own little iPhone game!:poly118: :) It is currently available worldwide and therefore I'd love it if…	10 Last	thatanimator Mar 2013
what is your main job? Hello, let discuss what is each one's main job? for me, i work as a game developer now in a local studio in Jordan [U]My main major is Mechatronics Engineering[/U] which i think is more profitable/…	33 Last	chrisradsby Mar 2013
Forgetting how to draw D'you ever feel like you've forgotten how to draw completely. Or paint, or sculpt or model? You sit down with a whole host of ideas, put your creative fingers to work, and nothing will come out... Ob…	3 Last	X-One Mar 2013
Rotoscoping polygons: Can it be done? Remember Paperman? Disney's latest attempt to revive traditional animation in CG form. I was wondering, is it possible to recreate this technique but with 3D video games? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/1aR…	23 Last	JordanN Mar 2013
Could use some opinions of fellow polycount members (thesis survey) My girlfriend is doing a thesis for her major in Business Administration and she needed some help getting peoples opinions for data in the survey. I would appreciate if you could take 5-10 minutes a…	8 Last	bnosam Mar 2013
Hardware Problems driving me nuts hey folks, iam having some serious hardware problems here for almost half a year now and they are driving me insane. this system already killed 4 graphics cards. i already have a new mainboard and …	21 Last	SnowInChina Mar 2013
Color Select Menu for Racing Game - Unity Engine This is a tutorial where I demo a simple setup for getting paint color selection and decal selection working in your vehicle select menus. This is geared towards a racing game setup, but the same tec…	0 Last	Polynurb Mar 2013
Vimeo, Polycount can you allow it to work please Hello Can someone at polycount allow Vimeo links to work as well as Youtube? For example both of the links below are just the address but only Youtube link works? [URL]http://vimeo.com/33657341[/U…	25 Last	planaria Mar 2013
More Online Courses like Gnomon Does anyone know of more Gnomon Workshop style courses or online institutes? Some place I can sign up for a one time course and certification type thing. I'm already at uni for game design, but in…	3 Last	ceebee Mar 2013
Justified Curious if anyone watches this show here!	8 Last	ceebee Mar 2013
Normal map practical? Hello I am currently doing some research into normal mapping and I need to do a practical after, I'm stuck for ideas on what I could do, it's only a small project so nothing that will take too long, …	3 Last	Snader Mar 2013
Closed valvehammer 3,4 vs 3,5? i cant see my custom model in valve 3,4 can it be fixed if i just use the version 3,5 ?=) is it something different with the model view?	4 Last	adam Mar 2013
Escape Challenge: discussion and inspiration I figured it'd be nice to have a thread just to talk about the contest. Discuss ideas, share possible concepts and reference materials you aren't using, etc. If you have questions about the terms, us…	19 Last	Zpanzer Mar 2013
Open Source Art License? At Carbon we're very supportive of Open Source software--in fact we use a ton of it in AirMech. (not art production tools, but things for building the engine) We also have open sourced parts of the e…	8 Last	Conor Mar 2013
intuos 5 courtesy of conceptart.org: [img]http://i.imgur.com/TcVO1.jpg[/img] [url=http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=237616]original thread over there[/url] launches on March, 16 (idk if Japan only…	130 Last	joshbailey Mar 2013
Learning Everything Or Specializing? As somebody who would like to dedicate themselves to Maya and Zbrush. My goal is to freelance for small to medium sized studio's that are often advertising here on the forums. I feel comfortable with…	5 Last	VeeJayZee Mar 2013
Escape team, ALSO looking for a concept artist If you didn't get picked up by the Almighty Gir, don't fret we're also looking for a concept artist! Our team so far: [URL="http://www.yurialexander.com/"]Ysalex[/URL] - character artist [URL="http…	1 Last	Andreas Mar 2013
custom model into my map? Hello, i have made a custom model for halflife and i want it to be in my map,like a statue that just stand there,my mate have tryed with a normal halflife model and thats work,but my custom model don…	7 Last	sasuke88 Mar 2013
Escape team, looking for concept artist. Hey guys, Our team is made up of the following: Metalliandy - Enviroguy Lee3dee - VFXguy Slipsius - Animatorguy Myself - Characterguy we're looking for a concept artist to complete our setup. you'l…	4 Last	almighty_gir Mar 2013
wacom dies but comes back with new cable? Hi all, my intuos4 kinda jus packed up one day and threw loads of 'usb device not recognised errors'. the light isnt blinking,its just dead. then i tried my camera cable, and suddenly it works? di…	3 Last	HardBaller Mar 2013
tressfx hair looks interesting... [url]http://blogs.amd.com/play/tressfx/[/url]	12 Last	andycotterC Mar 2013
DARE to be Digital Hello, My team is looking for a 3rd programmer for our team (2 programmers and 2 artists/sound). If we are successful we intend to use the PlaystationMobile to create our game for the Vita. We are l…	1 Last	andycotterC Mar 2013
Monthly Noob Environment Challenge Hey guys, Noob Challenge 5 is up. [url]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1786752#post1786752[/url]	36 Last	AlexCatMasterSupreme Mar 2013
Closed is it possible to have barneyhat? is it possible to have a party hat like this [url]http://www.2shared.com/photo/7woTA4mg/partyhat1.html[/url] on barney or is the helemet attached to his head?	6 Last	adam Mar 2013
Escape challenge, anyone want to team up? Any takers? Mainly lookin for concept or environment artists, for a fun collaboration.	2 Last	TrevorJ Mar 2013
Some help from the commutiny please! DDO/LOTRO Hello everyone. Yesterday i had a conversation with a friend about DDO (dungeons and dragons online). Im a 3d artist and i was trying to explain to my friend(playing ddo) what is a normal map. I figu…	2 Last	Various22 Mar 2013
Polycount's Twitter & Facebook If you're not following us on Facebook or Twitter, now would be a good time to do so. [url]www.Facebook.com/polycount[/url] [url]www.Twitter.com/polycount[/url]	49 Last	Sukotto Mar 2013
Diablo-like game posted about here.. hey, maybe a couple months ago someone posted a link to a project they were working on, it was an action RPG but they had this crazy huge skill tree. anyone got a link to that?	2 Last	Paradan Mar 2013
Closed my model need a hat? i have created a model, but i want a party hat like this [url]http://www.google.no/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cookies-in-motion.com/images/partyhat.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cookies-in-motion.com/Coo…	10 Last	adam Mar 2013
Before and After Does anyone have some of there old work?Old as in when they first started out and things were rough.For encouragement purposes I would love to see work from years back and where you are now.I'm tryin…	43 Last	D4V1DC Mar 2013
Dreamworks Layoffs I just read/heard up to 350 layoffs at Dreamworks, can we start fixing this industry now please? [url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeffrey-katzenberg-dreamworks-animations-very-424699[/url]	43 Last	reverendK Feb 2013
Tutorial : Blender Game Engine & Databases Hi, this might be helpful for some of you guys who use Blender Game Engine , [URL="http://octopus4.blogspot.com/2013/02/blender-game-engine-and-database.html"]tutorial[/URL]	0 Last	Belias Feb 2013
Modular City Kit for Unity In the vein of giving back to the community, here is another cool freebie. These are low poly modular street sections and buildings that can be used to populate your own city in Unity. The video demo…	8 Last	Polynurb Feb 2013
fatBOX Software I've started my own small studio here in Florida and will be documenting the entire process of developing a new iOS title. I have set up a new Facebook page, a Youtube page for video tutorials on dev…	25 Last	Polynurb Feb 2013
UK polycount meetup - February Polycount UK meetup will be Saturday, February 23rd. Polycounters are invited to meet up early in the day, or in the morning, and have a day out in london if they choose to. usually we visit art gal…	115 Last	Elod.H Feb 2013
Flown Out for Interview, What to Expect? Hey guys, I'm being flown out for an in-person interview on Monday. I've had two interviews with the company previously, one with the Art Director and the other with the COO. Obviously they're pret…	14 Last	Norron Feb 2013
How to find an artist ? Hi ! I'm a d	11 Last	Shudrum Feb 2013
Portfolio Content/Layout Hey Polycount, I am planning on restructuring my portfolio and I was just wondering if it would be possible for any of you kind folk to offer me a bit of advice. I have looked at lots of portfolios…	4 Last	Broadway Feb 2013