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Just got Hacked!! Hi guys,I can't access my email account and skype. I am from Nigeria and unfortunately google did not give us the 2 step verification feature. So to everyone out there be careful. My recovery email a…	5 Last	melviso Jun 2017
Looking for friends :) Hey guys :)I was reading this article today that was saying how influential friends are - if you have a friend who drinks heavily (for example), you are 50% more likely to become a heavy drinker your…	20 Last	chubbycat Jun 2017
The 2016 Greentooth Awards: Winners! The Greentooth Awards: Winners!The votes have been counted and we’re absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of the first annual Greentooth awards. The Greentooth awards seek to honor the best of…	41 Last	Sk0LLiE Jun 2017
I am now ranked Triangle. How many more ranks until Admin? I received a notification yesterday that said I was promoted to triangle rank. I don't want to the power to get to my head, but I feel like I'm now ready for another bump up to something like site ad…	19 Last	MisterWolfen Jun 2017
Updated the Information sticky Sticky: Information About Polycount & New Member IntroductionsWe added new sections for "Avoid Necro Posts", "Self Promotion", "Flags: Spam, Abuse, Report", "Points and Ranks and Badges", and "Te…	4 Last	RN May 2017
Looking For Polycounters in Spain for romping around Hey PC,I think I will be in Spain for around a week come July, and I was wondering if anyone here who lived there might be down to help show me around and hangout.The itinerary is Madrid>Barcelona…	5 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi May 2017
A question on filtering feedback. So let me preface this by saying i'm on the opposite end of the spectrum - usually people always advise "Learn to take critiques and listen to them!". I've always been good about posting for feedback…	13 Last	Mark Dygert May 2017
Animation Expose , watch live today 10AM GMT, Frontier Games, MPC, Outpost VFX and more Animation Expose 2017Its now sold out but you can watch live today 10AM GMT.Frontier Games, Moving picture Company (MPC), Outpost VFX, Karrot Animation, Milk VFX, Rewind VRSchedul…	0 Last	littleclaude May 2017
tablets vs cintiq ( or similar) so yeah finally got around to trying my missus' ugee for sculpting( in zbrush) and i now realize that I don't really like working directly on the screen.My brain is so attuned to working on a tablet/…	27 Last	Caiterade May 2017
Recent Topics What happened to the recent topics tab? It was called 'Moar' before?	3 Last	radiancef0rge May 2017
Here's another Blender short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0zPOpADL4Still as convincing and charming as the last one. Just thought of sharing!Cheers everyone	10 Last	Mark Dygert May 2017
Polycount Meet up Tokyo? Hi everyone, I've been thinking about this for a bit of time now,I live in Tokyo and most of the people I know doesn't have any interest in 3D :/ .I've seen many Polycount meet ups around the world …	38 Last	RyoClick May 2017
Horizon: Zero Dawn Haven't seen anything here regarding this gem. Reviews are coming out and apparently, it's fun to play. Though, let's focus on the visuals here for a bit.We're talking about the prettiest open-world …	58 Last	AGoodFella May 2017
Popularity of Game Engines: What happened to CryEngine? TL;DR: Why don't more people use CryEngine when compared to UE4 or Unity. Documentation? Or did they simply miss the ball when Unreal Engine and Unity came around?---You don't hear much from Crytek t…	36 Last	seth. May 2017
Game Dev Drink Up Los Angeles - May 11th Super casual, no drink minimum or anything. Just a bunch of people hanging out. Info below. https://www.facebook.com/events/274646016333870/	3 Last	beefaroni May 2017
What Translation services do you use? What services have you used for translation? I need to translate in several languages and I'm wondering what platforms people used and recommend.	8 Last	Mant1k0re May 2017
What's Polycount's rules on separating issues to different threads? I come from a programming background, so I am more used to the One Issue One Thread model.But I understand in a forum this leads to me creating multiple threads, which is not nice to other members.Wh…	7 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2017
Toronto Meetup - Friday May 5th, 7pm So, this is much sooner than usual, but one of our regulars is leaving us. @"Dylan Brady" is venturing off from Toronto, and moving to Seattle. So let's have a proper send off for him! What? &n…	5 Last	slipsius May 2017
New Game Engine Xenko by Silicon Studio Xenko is an open-source C# game engine developed by Silicon Studio. It is free for personal use and small indie (<200k)http://xenko.com/features/	8 Last	Chimp May 2017
PUBG Modding Community #PUBGMODS Hello and welcome to PUBG MODS the PUBG Modding Community. I'm HEYDAE founder of Warlords Clique a modding team currently working on some SQUAD prototypes in anticipation of modding in PUBG. As …	0 Last	DarkAlleyEthics May 2017
Masters of Pixel Art Book Klas 'Prowler' Benjaminsson Interview Revision 2017 Klas Benjaminsson, who also goes as Prowler from BRS is a well known Pixel Artist who compiled by now two books of contemporary Pixel Art from scene artists and even artists from outside the demo sce…	0 Last	VisioRetron May 2017
zbrush 4r8? Haven't heard any news for a long time, anyone know when it is coming out?	17 Last	Justin Meisse May 2017
Why realistic graphics matters to games So I wrote a blog post as to why realistic graphics are important to games. Pick it apart and let me know what you think.https://elicitedresponse.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/games-and-graphics/	35 Last	Bruno Afonseca Apr 2017
Google Hangout Hello Polys,If you're Working with Maya, 3dsMax, Zbrush, Substance Painter or designer, Quixel or building your game in Unreal Engine or Unity and look for room join US and daily basis on the new goo…	0 Last	Tag_MadDog Apr 2017
Esports Will Become A Medal Event At The 2022 Asian Games Esports Will Become A Medal Event At The 2022 Asian Games	8 Last	Jakob Gavelli Apr 2017
You can sell guns in CG Trader/Turbosquid.. right? Yes I know, obviously you can sell your own made-up Sci-Fi guns on CG Traderbut what about the ones made by corporations like Steyr, is that okay?Basically I'm asking if I can sell a game ready…	10 Last	sacboi Apr 2017
Santiago (creator of xNormal) appreciation thread Santiago Orgaz, the creator of Xnormal. A very generous man who has for years now, given up immense amounts of his personal time and energy to provide polycount and the entire game developement commu…	40 Last	kolayamit Apr 2017
The new paper-like tablet Hey guys, i've noticed an advertisement i got on facebook with this "ReMarkable tablet" which they state is like sketching on paper but it digitises it, and you can sync it with other devices so that…	10 Last	Chimp Apr 2017
Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk Long-time users of Autodesk software have started a thread on Autodesk's forum, protesting the price raise of the maintenance plans and asking the company to keep the perpetual/maintenance licens…	87 Last	CreativeSheep Apr 2017
Art here is video game only? This discussion was created from comments split from: MY FUCKING ACCOUNT.	28 Last	MochiProcrastination Apr 2017
Brexit and games So it's official.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/30/uk-games-companies-leaving-brexit-vote-eu-workersthe study cited by that article http://ukie.org.uk/brexitI'm curious about story f…	31 Last	Sugus Apr 2017
Toronto Meetup - Friday, April 7th It's that time again! A few people have been bugging me for another, so here we go! What? Social gathering of like minded individuals. Where? Scotland Yard, of course! When? Friday, Ap…	12 Last	JasonLavoie Apr 2017
Gaimoria Hey guys!Finally after several years of work, we have finally reached the point that we can launch our Patreon page :smiley:!I'll fill you guys in with a bit about the game, and why we're doing …	43 Last	Isaiah Sherman Apr 2017
Traditional Sculpting classes in Los Angeles area Hey guys, I am interested in taking some clay sculpting classes and was seeing if anyone here knew of any schools, classes that I can do on weekends or weeknights. Thanks guys. -Kenny	2 Last	pagolo81 Apr 2017
Moved: How do I create a tassel shape? This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	slipsius Apr 2017
Windows 10 ads what is happening? first saw it in the start field, "suggested apps", and ive read that the explorer has it aswell. have i missed something,is this not a product that costs $199? i wonder whats has h…	29 Last	Dataday Apr 2017
Poll Theme-a-month? Should we change up the site theme once a month?Vanilla won't allow us to provide a list of skins for users to pick from. But we can easily swap the colors site-wide, as often as we wish. I'm thinkin…	14 Last	Asura Apr 2017
Completely new... looking for 3D artist? Hello!So I'm completely new, and no idea if this is the right place to post about looking for a 3D modeler. I'd love it to have a 3D model of a character of mine, one you could animate your self on a…	4 Last	Dylan Brady Apr 2017
Happy April 1 From all of us, to all of you!Happy birthday Polycount!	74 Last	lotet Apr 2017
Thread thumbnails Hello all - and especially moderators.This topic has been brought up in the past but since I noticed a recent thread collecting bug reports I thought now might be a good time to bring it up again.Thr…	45 Last	Bedrock Apr 2017
searching for a "T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger" T'ai model I've really loved this game when I was younger and I've been dying to animate a T'ai model perhaps for portfolio purposes. If anyone knows of a model or where I can get one you'd would be a great hel…	2 Last	Beastcramps Apr 2017
The London Games Festival Fringe 30 March – 9 April The London Games Festival Fringe 30 March – 9 April http://games.london/the-festival-fringe-2017/The London Games Festival Fringe is an exciting and diverse array of independently organised even…	0 Last	littleclaude Mar 2017
How much to charge for this sort of freelance work? I'm doing some freelance work for some people and I was just wondering what sort of fees I should be charging. My last one had me doing the design for a ring, which I rendered in 3D. I only charged $…	20 Last	Sk0LLiE Mar 2017
Westworld star vs real A.I. I'm very excited that a long time friend of mine, working as a programmer for Spirit AI is on the team behind this event at the London Games Festival. They gave a great talk at GDC this year too.http…	2 Last	Gmanx Mar 2017
EGX Rezzed in London news and updates, this weekend. Rezzed is currently on in London, can we have your reviews, news, photos and updates please. https://www.egx.net/rezzed EGX Rezzed 2017 - Developer Sessions Day 1, Ken Levine (game dev…	0 Last	littleclaude Mar 2017
Any good books on animal anatomy for artists that aren't only about mammals? I'm trying to get a superficial understanding of the anatomy of the most known species except maybe insects and mollusks, but the majority of books I find treat only mammals. Is there any book focuse…	5 Last	Ruflse Mar 2017
BetaCon and Polycount: Looking for local 2D and 3D NorthWest artists Hello all, Polycount is currently working with BetaCon Game Expo, which is happening in Portland, Oregon next month. This is a general public event, not a professional developer event. This…	4 Last	ysalex Mar 2017
Life Is Strange Environmental Art Contest - WIN signed art by DONTNOD Entertainment I run LifeIsStranfeFans.com, a fan site for the narrative-driven choice-based videogame Life Is Strange, developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Square Enix and we're currently …	0 Last	Windurin Mar 2017
Adobe SneakPeak - Extract Shading [COLOR=Silver]Adobe is currently working on a way to automatically separate the color and shading information in an image. It seems like it could be a real time saver when using photo references that…	19 Last	melviso Mar 2017
The War of Art - 10/10 \| other book recommendations? I recently picked up The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It's a very short book but was extremely helpful. Although the primary focus is on writing, anything in there can be applied to any art…	9 Last	alekseypindrus Mar 2017