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Portfolios.. Hey all, I am relatively new to modeling and I just had a few questions pertaining to online portfolios. I apologize if this has been asked before. First off, I notice a ton of you guys have portfo…	5 Last	JacqueChoi Feb 2013
Practicality vs Aesthetics Hi guys, which of the two do you give more emphasis when designing? Which approach do you use i.e. have something that's practical then 'garnish' it, or build it from the word go just too look coo…	128 Last	stickadtroja Feb 2013
Looking for a mentor/buddy/friend Hey, polycount, I'm looking for a Character Artist, who can answer some questions. I'm struggling trying to practice character sculpting and such and i really have a hard time doing it, and if someb…	1 Last	Psyk0 Feb 2013
Epic gives BigHugeGames extra life [url]http://epicgames.com/community/2012/06/big-problems-need-huge-solutions/[/url] [QUOTE]Our heart goes out to the people affected by the unfortunate events surrounding 38 Studios and its subsidia…	58 Last	Jesse Moody Feb 2013
RAGE Tool Kit Finally! I can't wait to check this out. [url]http://www.bethblog.com/2013/02/08/rage-tool-kit-available-today-on-steam/[/url]	20 Last	mutatedjellyfish Feb 2013
Crysis 3 So i guess crysis 3 is on his way sooner than next gen .That compound bow looks so awesome. [URL="http://i.imgur.com/6jfig.jpg"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/81jdJ.jpg[/IMG][/URL]	174 Last	Andreas Feb 2013
3D Art / Nerd Jokes I was having friendly debate with a friend awhile back, childish immature stuff but we were both kidding at the end of the day. And thinking back to the insults we threw back and forth, I was slightl…	242 Last	DashXero Feb 2013
Age of Wonders 3 Hey Guys, The game I've been working on for a while has been announced today =) Don't know if there are any fans of turn based strategy or the old age of wonders series around here but some of you m…	9 Last	Jacky Feb 2013
Fell off the bandwagon! Hi guys, So I decided last year during my study of games design at University that I would leave without my honours degree and accept the ordinary degree that I had. I did this because I realised m…	4 Last	Target_Renegade Feb 2013
How do people generally react when you tell them you're a 3D Artist? I find it kind of weird that whenever someone asks me what I do, people tend to be awestruck. Sometimes it's almost as if the whole party/dinner/whatever just stops and gets all wide-eyed and listen …	93 Last	PacoCasares Feb 2013
Crysis 3 Screens and Concepts! Just seen this on Edge... [url]http://www.edge-online.com/news/crysis-3-gallery-new-weapons-and-artwork-revealed/[/url] Looking very pretty indeed!!	0 Last	_Montee_ Feb 2013
Sketchfab Unlimited Hi everyone, We are now over 20,000 members strong! To thank our community, we our offering free UNLIMITED uploads for everyone. If you've not tried Sketchfab yet, maybe it's a good time to give i…	3 Last	woodriffM Feb 2013
Gnomon Online School - 55 courses Hey everyone, Just give you all a heads up, gnomon opened up an online school with a whopping 55 courses!!!! Check them out! It has a huge range of stuff!!! I am not enrolled, but they seem to do li…	14 Last	HardBaller Feb 2013
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Developed by Level-5. Coming to PS3 next year here in North America. New trailer: [url]http://youtu.be/CYsGjza-scE[/url]	52 Last	Kwramm Feb 2013
Researching The Seattle Area Hey all! Sooooo I'll be getting my degree in May, however I'm in a location that's pretty much dead for industry so I'll have to be moving to find work, which is no problem. I looked around at gamede…	23 Last	Filbot Feb 2013
List of launch titles on the PS4, XBox 720 and what ever Nintendo come out with I thought I would start a thread for all the new 2013 up coming titles that are coming out on the PS4, XBox 720 and Nintendo Wiifo..... maybe....see what E3 brings. I guess we need to speculate on s…	29 Last	Baj Singh Feb 2013
Call out for cool Artists/Designers, come and talk at the UH, 1-2pm £190 Are there any cool artists that would like to come and give a talk to our Games Art students. Any Wednesday 1-2pm up to Mid May 2013 at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, 20 minute train ride from …	0 Last	littleclaude Feb 2013
Game Art vs Game Programming Hey all. I'll be going to college in a year and a half (no, this isn't another college thread), and I'm stuck. I love making video games, and I have no doubt that's what my career is going to be. The…	92 Last	Barbarian Feb 2013
The Oculus Rift Hello Polycounters, Today I was talking with a few friends about the Oculus Rift. The topic came about because one of those friends ordered the dev kit for it, this made mme think about how to imple…	3 Last	GhostWalker Feb 2013
bayonetta 2 tricount? this shot appeared in neogaf... [url]http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=47294548&postcount=371[/url] her modelhas approx. 200k tris o.O i refuse to believe this is an in game model. for me…	8 Last	Andreas Feb 2013
HELP!!!! Advice needed I work in IT and have been getting back into 2d/3d. My manager has arranged me to meet with an advertising company during lunch today. He's putting me forward as someone that can do freelance graphic…	1 Last	Kwramm Feb 2013
Facebook now charges for messaging to strangers Tried to message someone not on my friend's list, and this came up :( [IMG]http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/28893_10151249533571035_1570024053_n.jpg[/IMG] nice to see there's now a premiu…	11 Last	Justin Meisse Feb 2013
Real life poly budgets You can totally see the polys in this bridge! [url]http://www.arthurdomagala.com/blog/2013/01/hoover-dam-bypass-bridge-inspection/hdb1-5/[/url] whoever built the bridge hit the limit. maybe weren't…	19 Last	Norron Feb 2013
LazyMouse/Lazy Nezumi PS CS6 (X64) Windows 7 Pro Hi All, I'm sure most of you all know about this already but I figured I would post it anyhow, never hurts . [url]http://people.happycoders.org/kamih/lazynezumi[/url]. I added the following t…	2 Last	poopsterspappy Feb 2013
I love animation,but i am about unsure about carrer in CG Hello, I am aspiring animator, been in this field for about 2-3 years,i am learning animation in school, is it, 3 years program school. I would really like to work for game or live action movie. Esp…	9 Last	DrunkShaman Feb 2013
Obstacles in path to game design career? -Any tips on self-teaching? I really have no barometer on how to approach my learning process; it's just "watch tutorial -> apply to own work -> watch another tutorial -> apply again -> w…	5 Last	Andreas Feb 2013
Am I really good enough for the Games Industry? Hello all. Let me first state that this post isn't a plea for compliments, it's simply a query. I have been building my portfolio for the past three years, and have been involved in some small pr…	26 Last	jimmyjaba Feb 2013
Art Bibles I'm looking for examples of good art bibles, and I'm finding precious few of these online. I've made a couple in the past, but it's always informative to see how others approach the same situation…	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2013
asked to send more work after application? hulo all! i applied to a freelance position and they asked me if they could put up my work (from my portfolio) and put it on there website . As theyre concepting some ideas for a film. i thought the…	17 Last	Justin Meisse Feb 2013
kickstarter ouya and gamestick Anyone else interested in where these projects could lead? [URL]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console[/URL] [URL]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8722976…	0 Last	Asdf_xuiop Feb 2013
Carbonmade - Not allowing for Zoom/Big mod unless Upgraded? Hey to all, I recently went back to CBM account to spruce it up, and noticed that zoom in/expand image option has been disabled for free accounts, and that you need to sub for at least a monthly in …	8 Last	JohnnyRaptor Feb 2013
Dissertation Research Questionnaire Could I trouble you guys to complete a questionnaire based on game asset creation? This questionnaire is the basis of my final year dissertation. I have designed it so there is no need to talk abou…	0 Last	Dazz3r Feb 2013
Signed NDA, same line of work? Hi y'all, I have a question about NDA's. (Not really artwork related, but somewhat related.:)) Some time ago I signed an NDA during my internship. During that internship I worked on an Augmented Re…	6 Last	the_Adri Feb 2013
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfulA4JCegA&list=UUraumsq18UxfuHLK45a-6Yw&feature=plcp"]Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Trailer! - YouTube[/ame] what the hell did I just watch...	260 Last	Pedro Amorim Feb 2013
stylist if i have the money to get one of those pads with the pens should i? i am fully aware that just because i have the tools i wont be great or that i can't be a great modeler without the best tools. how…	14 Last	Velktri Feb 2013
Life of a character artist? While it's not my number one priority, I'd like to know just what goes on in a character artist's life that makes the profession so competitive and hard to attain (as a future consideration). I und…	4 Last	Kwramm Feb 2013
Congratulations to Joshua Stubbles! Looks like he'll be joining us up at Turn10 in Redmond, WA. Glad to have you back up here - hope you enjoy the rain! ^-^ [IMG]http://media.philly.com/images/youre-awesome.jpg[/IMG]	43 Last	KennyTies Feb 2013
turbosmooth pro... [URL]http://mariussilaghi.com/products/turbosmooth-pro[/URL] I already have Quad chamfer has anyone used turbo smooth pro? is it worth my money?	2 Last	Kbrom12 Feb 2013
Rockage in San Jose Hey guys, If you guys are in the bay area check this event out, it's a 3 day thing Feb 8-10. [url]http://rockagesj.tumblr.com[/url] I went to their first one last year and it was pretty fun. I guess …	1 Last	Sean VanGorder Feb 2013
Anzovin Rigging tools - Crowd funding Check it out! Looks pretty awesome! [url]http://www.indiegogo.com/Anzovin-Rig-Tools/[/url]	10 Last	Denny Feb 2013
nDo2 lag Hey guys, I've recently been trying to use nDo2 more in my workflow. I have a pretty decent computer. I built it just over a year ago, I have the sandy i5-2500K processor, 16GB of RAM, and a Geforce …	9 Last	samcole Feb 2013
Free textures license experience. Hi there, can anyone share their experience with textures to be used with their models regarding licence ? Do you guys paint your own textures or are you using some textures stocks ? Do you have a…	5 Last	plaintextures Feb 2013
The Art of Blizzard (Hardcover) [ame="http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Blizzard-Nick-Carpenter/dp/1608870278"]Amazon.com: The Art of Blizzard (9781608870271): Nick Carpenter, Sam Didier, Chris Metzen: Books[/ame] That is all.....	61 Last	FAT_CAP Feb 2013
help hi i just got zBrush 4r5 and was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of some really good free biggener tutorials for this program. i moved from playing around in 3ds max to maya and …	1 Last	loki1991 Feb 2013
Firefall UPDATE JAN 4 2013: [B]Heyo! I've got 8 Firefall Beta invites![/B] PM me your emailz if you wanna get on dat! [url]http://www.firefallthegame.com/[/url] Red5 Studios has announced their new online t…	64 Last	HardBaller Feb 2013
website or blog So I am thinking of starting a website to showcase some art, maybe video tutorials etc but am not a web designer or programmer. I have found some free website templates but nothing I like yet. Have a…	3 Last	MrHobo Feb 2013
Are you a tech junkie? Was just looking through my receipts on everything I have spent in the last 3 years to date, hardware and software and I could buy a new car with it :polytwitch:(not a big one but still). I am up to …	8 Last	passerby Feb 2013
I love non traditional games [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXty2JYIjPo"]? WTF Is... - Antichamber (Hyper WTF is? edition) - YouTube[/ame] It's kinda nice seeing a tutorial level that untrains you mind when it comes to ty…	16 Last	Japhir Feb 2013
Ding Ding! Schools in session (Episode 62 of Feng Zhu's Design Cinema Series) In case you skip the news page (like I tend to do) you should check our Feng Zhu's latest episode about realtime character design. [url]http://www.polycount.com/2013/02/01/11731/[/url]	0 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2013
Digital Tutors - Group Anyone? I really would like to have a digital tutors account, but before paying the full price i wanted to ask wether or not it is legal to maybe get some more people to hop on the band wagon for a group lic…	6 Last	ironbelly Feb 2013