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Congrats to Jarred "jarrede" Everson Jarred has joined Blizzard Entertainment on the NextGen MMO project as a character implementation artist. Jarred's webpage is under construction but here is the link anyways: [url]http://www.jjevers…	31 Last	mastershokhan May 2012
Congrats to Andrew "seven" Kinabrew Andrew has just joined Blizzard Entertainment this week as a member of the NextGen MMO team. He will be part of our Character Implementation department. Welcome aboard man! You can see Andrews work …	25 Last	moose May 2012
Reading to far into an interview I have a question, and its kind of stupid, but I am going to ask it anyway. So one my job hunt I emailed a recruiter I know. I wont say who, or what company, but it is a massive game studio (with o…	9 Last	jordan.kocon May 2012
A Few Questions Concerning the Blizzard Internships Hi guys, I'm new to the Polycount forum. It's a great site! I'm currently applying for the forthcoming 2012 Blizzard internships in the writing department. The only thing is, I have a few questions …	40 Last	Jason Young May 2012
Diversity Visa Program: DV-2013 " DV 2013 Program-Online Registration The online registration period for the 2013 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2013) will begin at [url]www.dvlottery.state.gov[/url] on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at no…	13 Last	oobersli May 2012
Gentlemen, I give you HALO 4 [CENTER][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jZruk.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kS2FM.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] Thoughts? More should be coming soon, gamerslive just posted these.	93 Last	ambershee May 2012
Florida schools - my goals I kind of wanted to stay local, I live in Ormond Beach, Florida, with college meaning I wouldn't mind traveling anywhere within the state. Im planning on becoming a concept artist/3d modeler (which e…	24 Last	AZelenski94 May 2012
Art book recommendations? Hey, i'm looking to supplement my anemic collection of art based books, and i thought i'd ask for suggestions. I'm not asking strictly for videogame artbooks or even for art books in general, just p…	42 Last	ErichWK May 2012
horizontal flips of renders... hello why some images when flipped horizontally they become annoying to look at?	7 Last	Brendan May 2012
Bookmark Organization - How do you deal with it? Heya peeps, Quick question, how do you guys organize and keep dump of all your bookmarks? Currently, I'm using FireFox, and I have soo many bookmarks, that it's starting to look like a Rat's nest, …	13 Last	Ace-Angel May 2012
The Paying To Work For Free VFX Business Model An article on how Digital Domain CEO John Textor would like to have 30% of his workforce be students... who pay to "have the privilege" to work for them. I could very well see this happen in the game…	50 Last	MagicSugar May 2012
Happy Birthday Conte! Everyone's favorite Khazahstani is a new birthday! Yagshemash! After 4 long years he is also about to finish his B.A. in painting and women raping. Congrats! [img]http://ottawawarmachineclub.com/sn…	21 Last	Daven May 2012
Is this a solid hardware upgrade? Yup, another one of those threads, eep! I'm pretty useless on the hardware front these days. I'm good enough to know kinda what brand and such I want. I guess I just want verification :s I already …	11 Last	Blaizer May 2012
Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter So, apparently, Tim and the others at Double Fine are planning on making a new adventure game. But instead of going for a publisher, they're asking for funding from the fans themselves! Check it out…	156 Last	eld May 2012
The Valve Handbook! they released a PDF of it check it out: [url]http://www.valvetime.net/threads/valve-employee-hand-book-released.189828/[/url] gotta say its cool to see how they set up everything over at Valve, giv…	56 Last	Autocon May 2012
Computer Glasses Anyone ever try these things? Im on a computer probably 12 hrs a day minimum from work to playing games, if im not playing hockey im usually on a computer. My eyes got bad a few years back, i got gl…	25 Last	Isaiah Sherman May 2012
Figure Arts Greetings Polycount; I came across something while I was looking for the tutorials for figure arts for concept drawing as most of you know that my drawing skill sucks. [url]http://www.alienthink.co…	5 Last	DrunkShaman May 2012
Quick question about character modeling Hi guys, gonna get right to the point here, there's a question that actually came to mind when creating a character, normally i see people creating the whole build of the character and then the cloth…	4 Last	DrunkShaman May 2012
Digital-Tutors presents: Professor Parnell [IMG]http://assets.digitaltutors.com/dtv_/bison_courses/651/assets/banner_xl.jpg[/IMG] Brian just made his first tutorial for Digital-tutors.com. Check it out! Learn pro tips and be soothed by hi…	3 Last	Torch May 2012
help to make a decision !! ADVICE .....	1 Last	Jeremy Tabor May 2012
Game to buy? Hey i want to buy a new game and i would like to have some suggestion of games to buy that are fun. i Usally play alot of fps games but are open to try most kind of games. Cant really find any game a…	12 Last	Mike Yevin May 2012
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Making Of Video Hey guys, Wasn't really sure where to post this. I figured some people that wouldn't normally go into the awesomeness thread, or the deus ex thread may be interested in a making of video. [ame="ht…	4 Last	PaulP Apr 2012
Any tutorials on digital sculpting for toy desing, rapid prototying? Hello people, i think the title says it all. I would be interested where to get any info on the subject, pipeline, technical aspects.	3 Last	Doubles Apr 2012
I got bored from tutorials, but they are the only one to learn. I don't what's the problem guys, but i really got bored from DT. I mean, the way they teach and present the work or something, i really got bored and not showing much interest, and waiting just to f…	27 Last	Kuledo Apr 2012
Daniel Liese - The Wormworld Saga Hey everyone, just a shameless plug for a friend and mentor of mine. Daniel Lieske just published the first chapter of "Wormworld Saga" his online graphic novel. Just thought some might find it cool…	35 Last	Wonkey Apr 2012
STALKER 2 officially canceled Its very sad. One of my favorite series is not getting a sequel. But its ok, cuz many people who did work on it just created their own studio. Their new game is going to be an mmofps (which I am kin…	28 Last	breyz Apr 2012
Autodesk increase Student Pricing Model for 2013 - by £4000 I've just got off the phone with my local Autodesk reseller who's informed me of the new pricing for Student>Commercial upgrades on Autodesk products for 2013. We were both in agreement that it's qu…	60 Last	nick2730 Apr 2012
Amazon's Kindle--Now with New Take-Backsies Feature So it looks like Amazon deleted 2 books from customers accounts who purchased the books for their "kindle". They took back George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. Irony with a side of hilariously sad, …	19 Last	Mark Dygert Apr 2012
Question on about which computer My dad gave me a 1000 dollar budget on a new laptop, thing is I found two that im interested in - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246326[/url] and [url]http://www.tige…	14 Last	AZelenski94 Apr 2012
Super Spike V'Ball Me and a buddy from work were playing this on the nes today and I really wish they would bring it back for xbox live or something. Its a fun game with good game mechanics that will keep you coming ba…	2 Last	snake85027 Apr 2012
Everybody point at the new guy [FONT=System][IMG]http://flic.kr/p/bFb7er[/IMG]Hey guys and gals, Newbie from England here. Just a quick hello to any interested enough to have clicked this thread. Currently employed as a design e…	4 Last	D4V1DC Apr 2012
All Zombies Must Die! Anyone playing this game? I just picked up the Scorepocalypse version for $4 on steam. It's one of those duel stick, top down shooters. Move around with WASD, and aim and shoot with your mouse. Defin…	6 Last	Andreas Apr 2012
Tech artists, where is your colony? hey peeps, my crew needs a tech artist asap, i was just wondering if anyone knows of any good hubs, forums etc, to find one. or will be like catching a unicorn? thanks the project [url]http://www.h…	8 Last	LoTekK Apr 2012
Unity Something! May 2012 Challenge Hi I', just launching a monthly Unity game deveopment challenge on the unity forum overe here: [url]http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/133987-Unity-Something!-May-2012[/url] This months theme: Arabian…	4 Last	Arowx Apr 2012
New to Town Hey guys, I'm new around here. I was referred by my tutor at university. Worked on a little something yesterday; I usually doodle with a Sharpie when I'm bored, but since I was in a creative mood, …	0 Last	Surplu Apr 2012
Nvidia Gaming Festival 2012 Just caught this on Twitch.tv. Not sure what to expect but they keep saying they have some big news. Discuss? Check it out? [url]http://www.twitch.tv/nvidiageforce[/url]	2 Last	David-J Apr 2012
Reset Debut Trailer Looks Very impressive and only two devs behind it! [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KLd8kEQJIzw[/URL]	1 Last	ambershee Apr 2012
thoughts on moving to US from UK for work?!?! hey guys, just about done with university, doing game art, focusing mainly on characters... my problem being where i live in the north east of the uk there is maybe 4 or 5 studios that i could apply …	18 Last	MagicSugar Apr 2012
Surrealism in Games Design? Short Survey for FYP Hello Polycount users! Over the past few months i have been collecting research on the origins of Surrealism (1920's art movement that focuses on free thinking, creativity without boundaries and dre…	28 Last	Weazel Apr 2012
New members of the Almighty_gir household!!! [img]http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3500/photo0959.jpg[/img] [img]http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9227/photo0993.jpg[/img] ain't they cute? :D	43 Last	Torch Apr 2012
Blogs / Podcasts? Can anyone here point me in the direction of some interesting podcasts/blog things(whatever they're called) to listen to? I want something to listen to while working d:	12 Last	Bal Apr 2012
Google Easter Eggs New easter egg from Google today. Go to google and search for [U][B]zerg rush [/B][/U]IT didn't work for me in firefox, so I had to use IE. It's a game though, start clickin ;)	8 Last	Andreas Apr 2012
Vancouver for Anomaly? Myself and a bunch of the Futurepoly / ArenaNet kids are gonna be in Vancouver for anomaly this weekend. Who is gonna be there? Anyone? Booze probs needs to happen.	0 Last	stoofoo Apr 2012
Fringe I'm not sure what happened to the original thread about this, but how many of you are still watching Fringe? Initially, I wasn't very big on this show, but due to a lack of anything good competing wi…	80 Last	moose Apr 2012
Some questions regarding the game Industry Hi there, I just got myself my first job in the industry and I was wondering how much they pay a 3d environment artist working on UE3. During the interview I was asked if I had an idea of how muc…	18 Last	theSixtyEight Apr 2012
ECGC, Anyone? Any of you fine gentlemen or gentleladies going to attend this little shin dig? [url]http://www.ecgconf.com/[/url]	5 Last	Timmywithag Apr 2012
Seperate portfolios? For the past 2 months I have been trying to find a new job in the games industry, but didn't have any success yet. I am now at a point where I am kind of forced to look into other fields like commerc…	2 Last	MagicSugar Apr 2012
Help with hotkeys in 3ds max 2013 I'm a maya user that has made a transition to 3ds max for a number of reasons. I currently using max 2013 and started setting up nav controls for the viewports similar to maya controls but when i do …	2 Last	Jay_117 Apr 2012
CISPA passed the House Thought there was a topic on this already but search doesn't pull anything up :confused: Anywho, for those that are interested [URL="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/h192"]CISPA passed…	7 Last	Andreas Apr 2012
Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software? Hey guys, I've found myself working on a couple of projects recently where it would've been useful to block out some rough animations in 2D to help me plan the 3D, but it's not something I've ever l…	19 Last	r_fletch_r Apr 2012