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PS brushes for commercial and personal?

any links for PS brushes for commercial use? or personal but mainly commercial? I'm getting tired of using the same ones :/ thanks, in advance.
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Alberto Rdrgz

DOTA2 Character Guide

[URL]http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterArtGuide.pdf[/URL] [url]http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterTextureGuide.pdf[/url] I'm not sure if t…
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zicoV

Pretty nice reference website. (Especially for Environment Artists.)

Hey! I found a [URL="http://archive.cyark.org/project-list"]website[/URL] which I thought was a pretty neat for references. [IMG]http://archive.cyark.org/content/preview/350/perspective-of-muzibu-…
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Paradan

a few art books for sale (uk only, sorry guys)

Evening folks, I asked a Mod nicley and they are letting me post this up..apologies if it pisses anyone off :) I am moving down to London at the weekend and have a few art books that I could do …
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seth.

UDK Tutorial: VFX Application Series - AoE Ground Slam

(Sorry for double posting in general & UDK) I've been promising a new Cascade tutorial for imbueFX and we've finally arrived! I'm starting a new series on practical application, which means focusing…
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sharky84

How fast should I be making models?

Hello, I have a question that is very important to me. I worked as a trainee programmer for a small game company. I thought I was good at it, but it turned out, that it doesn't really matter what I …
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kuujo

Radical Entertainment Shuts Down

[url]http://kotaku.com/radical-entertainment/[/url] RIP. Wow the Vancouver game dev scene is looking pretty grim.
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Orgoth02

Universities UK

I'll be applying for a University within the next month or so to do game design, my favorite so far is Bournemouth I also like the look of Teesside for a second choice. Is there any where else you wo…
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Skillmister

Education - what should I do?

Hey polycounters I've been thinking hard about what I should do next in life to achieve my goal of becoming an artist in a good studio, here's my story so far: I am 21. I studied art & design, com…
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dpaynter26

Happy Birthday to a beautiful man! (r13)

PoCo owes you many thanks, r13. Happy birthday. :) [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L2Bibe5SFVI/TeFePtZCvCI/AAAAAAAABow/HNj6G6zBOgU/s1600/VW+logo+cake.jpg[/img]
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Nemlet17

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

So one of the features we've talked about for the new website is a "TOTY" award - Trailer of the Year award. Were there videos released prior to a game launch that had us more excited for that game t…
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rolfness

Avoiding the Art Depression

I've seen this on web yesterday, and I thought that could be useful to share. Maybe the number of "I lost motivation" threads can be reduced on PC with a simple reading on these rules. Thanks [URL="h…
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Drav

Peter Molyneux new game, "Curiosity"

Peter Molyneux new game, "Curiosity" [I]Curiosity[/I] will be releasing in around six weeks. We’ll also see the first game from 22 Cans in the next three years, [IMG]http://www.tabletpcblog.com/wp-…
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ambershee

Can i be modeler really?

Hey guys, the problem i am facing is i can't model something without a tutorial. With tutorial everything is i do is copy and paste. Without a tutorial, i can't really start to model,i am just starr…
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DrunkShaman

OFFENSIVE COMBAT Closed Beta Keys

So the game that me and a few other polycounters have been working on is finally starting to make its way into the press. Offensive Combat is a free to play browser based FPS built on the Unity engi…
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igi

Closed food for the eye still alive?

hey, this thread: [url]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95135[/url] was locked more then a month ago, because of that there are no stream updates and i wonder if this is still going o…
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jimmypopali

Louie - Season 3

So, this returns tonight... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1auVcOw0J_8"]Louie on FX - Metropolis - YouTube[/ame] ...and I could have sworn we had a thread for it but I guess we don't so.…
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ebagg

Attn: DIY game makers, how did you learn (the coding bits)?

It's been a long term intention of mine to have a go at making a little game or two using one of the 'indie friendly' engines, most probably Unity. I'm not intending to sell it, make an MMO or any ot…
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haiddasalami

Maya Feedback Forum

So I remember there was one of these for Max awhile back, but I popped onto the Area today and saw a blog post about "Small Annoying Things to Fix in Maya". [URL]http://mayafeedback.autodesk.com/fo…
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m4dcow

Fire Ax Model Pictures 1

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IxJOU.jpg[/IMG][/IMG]
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Boyles82

Fire Axe Model Pictures

[IMG]http://
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Boyles82

Fire Ax Model Picture 2

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/yxBqd.jpg[/IMG][/IMG]
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Boyles82

Has Gawker Media shot their own blogs in the foot?

Since the recent layout redesign of most of Gawker Media's blogs (Jalopnik, io9, lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku) to that utterly horrible right-side panel setup, I've been finding myself less and less i…
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eld

Urgent Rigging Question - How would i Rig this?

Hi, Im having trouble with this character im working on, im not after critque i was just wondering how i could Rig it. The idea is the human will control the mechnical skeleton so to speak so would i…
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slipsius

Google's Nexus 7 Tablet

[IMG]http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/06/27/512001992_12348221_wide.jpg?t=1340824369&s=3[/IMG] [url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/27/155855124/google-introduces-tablet-and-streamin…
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WarrenM

Non-US Kickstarter Projects

Hello PC! I'm trying to create a Kickstarter project from the UK, but I've run into difficulties regarding the financial requirements. The requirements are as follows: [quote]—You are 18 year…
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ambershee

Trying to find a commercial collection of Photos/Alphas

I remember a member posted his categorized collection of brushes/alphas that involved a lot of edited photographs of grime and textures that he took himself. He sold them as individual sets or as a …
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Fuse

Valve Teams with 9 Director for Animated Movie

[url]http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/08/valve-teams-with-9-director-for-animated-movie[/url] [url]http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120608005157/en[/url] A film produced on a game engine h…
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Andreas

Meet the Pyro.

Whoo!!! Meet the Pyro video is live and Awesome!!!! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I"]Meet the Pyro - YouTube[/ame]
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crazyfingers

Novice as leade environment artist.

Hi guys, I sent my resume and portfolio to few game studios and one replied me that my " dossier " drawed theyr attention for the position of " lead environment artist 3D " ( damn I probably didn't n…
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underfox

Suddenly Lead Artist

Hello All, since half a year I am a lead artist in a small games company. I was 3d-artist beforehand for a year and before that student at a media design school. The Lead Artist position came somew…
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schneller

Jr Artist: Interview and $$$

Hey Poly, I could really use some help right now. I've been art testing for a mobile games company for some time now, and the AD just set up a phone interview. I've taken classes on the subject of i…
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PDC

Something similar to Gamedevmap.com but for.....

3D production studios? After job searching for a bit I thought I might expand my job market to anyone who has any sort of 3D production (instead of only game studios). Does anyone know if there i…
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krazypoe

Leaked Half Life 2: Episode 3 Concept art

Cross post from Facepunch Click for more images [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1193683[/url] It's all 2008 stuff but it's certainly worth looking at [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/rdrCu.jpg[/I…
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odium

Environment Modelling Tutorials?

Hello Polycount!!! This is my first post so sorry if its a re-post or generally bad or in the wrong place :) I just finished my first year at University and next year im starting a 3D Modelling mod…
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Andreas

Singularity of Loss of Knoweldge? TVTropes Deletes Rape Articles.

To sum it up, TVTropes has decided to delete all the articles pertaining to rape in Movies, Games, Comics, etc on their site, because Google didn't consider them 'Academic' in nature, so refused to r…
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artquest

EPIC - The Movie

This looks.... Fan... Tastic!! Im sure the music adds to it, but holy. As an animator, I will be seeing this for sure in theaters [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xu3JLXfuwQ"]EPIC - Official T…
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almighty_gir

Non-exclusive licenses and charging for use of my old work

Hey guys, Did a search and an old (similar) thread got trolled by someone saying no one should get paid for their work, so I'm making a new thread. Please do not derail this thread into a discussio…
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Isaiah Sherman

New Lara Croft=Young Ralph Macchio?

I thought this might deserve it's own thread.. First thing I thought of when I saw the new Lara Croft pic was Karate Kid poster, when I was trained as a caricature artist you start to recognize 't-…
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vargatom

BBC Sherlock

Just finished the second season. I'm curious who out there has seen it before I talk too much. All I'll say is that whoever pulled focus on that show is a bad ass. If any of you have ever filmed b…
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Talbot

Blink - A Student Based Game

Just watch the video: [url]http://vimeo.com/41821010#[/url]
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Torch

Internship's - Starting at the bottom

Tdl version at the bottom of this wall of text; After applying for job's of all kind's I finally landed a internship at a Social media studio. We we're at a recruiting event and the poor chap was ra…
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Torch

Perspective by digipen students

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS4r9Fq3beU"]Perspective gameplay[/ame] Just like " blink " this game is made by students, It isn't as beautifull as blink graphicaly speaking but it's gameplay…
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Snader

Tips for going faster...

So, I think I just lost out on a job because I'm not fast enough. Fair enough, as I certainly think it's a weakness of mine. So, while I'm in the process of being unemployed, I'm going to work on get…
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rb2610

Any filmers out there?

Recently I've been trying to get out and film stuff more and I was wondering if anyone on here also films. I personally do a lot of biking so I try to film but with my own style. Here's a teaser …
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Gmanx

XBox 720 (codename) docs leaked

[img]http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/lLkIXj6BYAeiDsa7nmKx2g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/ygamesblog/xbox720-leak-top630.jpg[/img] [url]http://games.yahoo.…
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Ged

Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Preview Director's Cut

oh yes [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU2wP5X2pBw"][/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU2wP5X2pBw"]oh - YouTube[/ame]
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Klumpmeister

Selling i7 2600k and Gigabyte z77x-ud5h

I dunno if this is allowed or not but figured I'd give it a go and if the Mods want to remove so be it. Anyways.... I recently won an i7 2600k unlocked at 3.4ghz up to 3.8ghz and a matching Gigabyt…
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PhattyEwok

Max Payne 3

hey guys/girls i'm put this thread together because there's nothing as far as my knowledge of Max Payne in the forum. So if you have anything that is inspired by Max Payne (2D/3D work) from either …
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Nick Carver

Quantum Conondrum

So I just found out about this game cause Steam is having a 10% off sale if you pre-order it. It comes out at the end of the month. I'm really surprised I haven't heard of it before, cause it looks R…
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Mongrelman

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