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Welcome Xoliul to Splash Damage! So in case you hadn't heard, Laurens "Xoliul" Corijn (of XoliulShader fame) has joined us today as a Technical Artist at Splash Damage Towers, to help us out with all things Technical Art. It's grea…	90 Last	jimmypopali Sep 2011
Completely random thought but also helped burst an idea :D I was sitting and wondering, why haven't we built anything on the moon? i mean yeah it costs a lot for any country to go to the moon but...why havent we built anything there like space stations ON th…	14 Last	dpaynter26 Sep 2011
Animation Reference [url]http://www.referencereference.com/index.html[/url] Enjoy, fellow animators	6 Last	Sukotto Sep 2011
3D Artist: Focus vs Variety ? Hey guys, so im currently looking for a job as 3D artist, preferably character artist. Now im facing the problem that im from germany, i dont have any gameindustry expirience, other than my education…	18 Last	Rick_D Sep 2011
Website BlogFolio sugestions Hello I have got a domain name and I uploaded some stuff and I am in the process of building a portfolio website , what do you think of this ? [URL="http://www.n-a-i-m-a.com/"]www.n-a-i-m-a.com[/URL…	22 Last	NAIMA Sep 2011
Free half life 2 mod: The best thing you'll do all day [URL]http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable/downloads/the-stanley-parable-v12[/URL] You'll need Half life 2. The less you know the better. Edit: Trying to reveal as little as possible but if…	25 Last	XenoKratios Sep 2011
Can we PLEASE have a rule, no posting in spam threads? There's no reason to bump or add comments to them, just ignore them or hit report. Replying to them just brings them to the top of the page, causes people to check to make sure it isn't spam.	0 Last	ZacD Sep 2011
Creature Model for Internship Hi! I'm participating in ArenaNet's [URL="http://www.arena.net/blog/arenanet-class-of-2012-internship-program-now-accepting-applications"]call for interns[/URL] and have reached a point where I'm not…	12 Last	lymiller Sep 2011
MMORPG character survey - NCSoft A colleague of mine at NCSoft is conducting a survey about player preferences regarding character choices (specifically in MMORPGs). NCSoft actually does quite a bit of this kind of analysis, but th…	18 Last	haikai Sep 2011
Street Fighter III: Online Edition [CENTER][IMG]http://www.ffinsider.net/xbox360-iso/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Street-Fighter-III-Third-Strike-Online-Edition-XBLA.jpg[/IMG] [/CENTER] Anyone playing? I'm having lots of fun with it. I…	7 Last	Andreas Sep 2011
Asus Eee Pad, the ipad for non ipod people? [IMG]http://www.gearlog.com/images/ASUS%20Eee%20Pad%20EP121%2012%20inch.jpg[/IMG] [quote]The Eee Pad is a Windows 7-based device that uses an Intel CULV Core 2 Duo and a touch-sensitive capacitive …	14 Last	Dan! Sep 2011
What made you become an indie? And if you didn't yet, why not? Recently, there was an interesting article on arstechnica.com about developers turning indie: [URL]http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/experience-going-indie.ars[/URL] While reading it, I fo…	58 Last	dcfedor Sep 2011
TheGamersHub I wasn't really sure where to post this, so here goes nothing. I've started doing some community management for TheGamersHub.net It's a media website with gaming articles, tech reviews and event co…	0 Last	y2duggan Sep 2011
Camelot or Game of Thrones? I know where my vote lies already.	187 Last	almighty_gir Sep 2011
Idea for character test [url]http://www.theyfightcrime.org/[/url] How about we do a character comp where your main concept idea comes from this generator :) some tasters: He's an old-fashioned flyboy card sharp haunted by …	16 Last	bbob Sep 2011
Time managment? Hello there! since i a person that struggling with time managment i would like to ask a couple of question regarding that area. How mutch time do you give each segment in yout workflow? I am a hard s…	1 Last	Del Sep 2011
Modern Warfare 3 Elite - $50/year [url]http://www.gamespot.com/events/codxp2011/story.html?sid=6332574&tag=newsticker;headline;4&pid=995752[/url] [quote]Though Elite will have a free component, paid subscribers will get a number of …	6 Last	Firebert Sep 2011
Summer '11 Desk Pictures Post your photo's of your desk! I'll start. [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12914186/desk.jpg[/IMG]	40 Last	Mike_Carlyle Sep 2011
Bonus Round: PAX 2011 I came across this cool video (apparently more to come) With David Jaffe, Todd Howard and Ken Levine. It's a cool watch, and hear how they came up with their games. Just wanted to share. [URL="http:…	0 Last	aajohnny Sep 2011
Team Bondi shutting down? [url]http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/01/report-la-noire-dev-team-bondi-enters-administration/[/url] not sure what to think about this. any other sources around?	26 Last	ae. Sep 2011
Looking for knowledge Good morning all, other than this awesome forum and its incredible regulars, I'd like to know if there are other useful resources, free or with fee, about environment modeling/texturing, because I'm …	3 Last	thinkinmonkey Sep 2011
Where to buy Wacom nibs in London? Hi all, I'd like to know where to buy Intuos4 pen nibs here in London. As you know, Intuos 4 eats nibs, they result to have flatten surfaces, losing their rounded initial shape and giving me bad feel…	6 Last	ikken Sep 2011
Max 2011 action widgets So, at home I've been using max 2011 for a while now and I just hate the new widgets that show on screen when performing things like chamfer, bevel, extrude etc. It looks like this; [img]http://dl.…	3 Last	Pope Adam Sep 2011
Unity to Flash, I kid you not [url]http://blogs.unity3d.com/2011/09/01/unity-and-flash-a-sneak-peek/[/url] This shit is Black Magic.	33 Last	equil Sep 2011
Groboto v3 Very promising modeling tool in the making and currently on discount! Check it out: [URL]http://www.groboto.com/v3/index.html[/URL]	0 Last	genic Sep 2011
Entry Age - Current Age? [COLOR="Magenta"]~[/COLOR] Kinda interested to know the age of Polycounters whether you are: currently in the industry a student trying to get IN the industry trying to get OUT of the indus…	159 Last	Gufufawug Sep 2011
Knowledge of ages Hey you sexy mouthed vermin, This may seem a little abstract or vauge, I'm writing from my phone, and will be away from a computer over the weekend. I've always wanted a nice source to reference this…	3 Last	Bruno Afonseca Sep 2011
ZBrush 4R2 - "Claytime" Check out the new update guys! It's seriously badass! I cannot wait!! > [url]http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=157573[/url]	59 Last	Jungsik Sep 2011
Germany lifts Doom sales ban after 17 years [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14748027[/url] hahah A German ban on selling Doom to teenagers has been lifted after 17 years. The classic video game was put on an index of controlled ti…	8 Last	Kot_Leopold Sep 2011
Game Engines [using any?] Hi I have been working with BlenderGameEngine for 5 years now and I need to switch to unity right now, I have hired someone to teach me unity using team-viewer. everyone mentions the game engine h…	22 Last	Mark Dygert Sep 2011
Lenova Tablet with pressure sensitive stylus I think this might interest a few folks here: With a pressure senstive stylus and palm rejection, the ThinkPad Tablet can become a creative tool with SketchBook Pro for Android, one of the first ap…	7 Last	Justin Meisse Sep 2011
On a little US trip and want to meet you Hey guys! I'm visiting the US pretty soon to visit some family and friends. And also to try to maybe find a job or something :P Anyway, I love to meet new people and it would be fun to see some polyc…	6 Last	Justin Meisse Sep 2011
website name sugestions? Hello I woudl lik eto ask some sugestions for a personal blog website showcase of my stuff and I was really undecided what to get as a name ... unfortunately naima.com is taken so ... here some hypo…	31 Last	Alemja Sep 2011
Playing Spotify / Lastfm etc on a radio? Anyone know if there's a radio capable of playing Spotify and Lastfm? Or a solution that doesn't need a PC being fired up?	8 Last	TheWinterLord Sep 2011
Soul Calibur 5 trailer latest Soul Calibur trailer which I luckily got to work on. I did the rusty swords( zbrushing/texturing) and the texturing/materials on the shiny swords. [url]http://keyframestudios.co.uk/soul-cali…	9 Last	DeeKei Aug 2011
Friends! Textures, kplox! If you would be so kind... I'm having a hard time at the moment finding certain types of textures, such as rusted metal panels for use as base textures. The usual haunts, such as CG Textures and the like, are all coming up a l…	8 Last	Andreas Aug 2011
Reference for drapery? Id like to study drawing drapery because thats our next task in class, but i've tried every kind of keyword combination there is on google images and all I get is other peoples drawings :(	18 Last	Karmageddon Aug 2011
Terrible Idea to turn off autheticating posts D: Suddenly, spams everywhere! I did press the report button on some of them, but onces the dam is broken, id think that all the water is gotten get loose :I	13 Last	r_fletch_r Aug 2011
Age of Empires Online [URL="http://www.ageofempiresonline.com/"]http://www.ageofempiresonline.com[/URL] A sequel to the classic :D [IMG]http://www.ageofempiresonline.com/Images/screenshots/battle.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://…	78 Last	glottis8 Aug 2011
I fancy a little vacation to Vancouver .. Can anyone recommend places to visit while im there? I wouldnt mind meeting some fellow PCers either ;) looking for a change of scenery from where i am now but i want to dip my toes in the water 1st…	3 Last	Nemlet17 Aug 2011
Does pixologic have a zbrush student version? I have to be missing the link somewhere, if zbrush's top competitor released free student versions of software then pixologic has to have topped it :S	12 Last	MainManiac Aug 2011
watch out for linkedin scam/trojan Hi all, long time no see, etc etc. Um, not to fear monger, but since loads of people here use LinkedIn I thought I'd share this. Apparently there is a new phishingscam going on where you get a mail f…	2 Last	Minos Aug 2011
Does the bamboo pen feel different than craft? I had gotten the craft for Christmas a year ago, and its difficult to sketch on it because it feels like a laptop touch pad, and its plastic on plastic slippery when drawing. I just wanted to know if…	6 Last	MainManiac Aug 2011
I think we all can enjoy this: Mac 'n Cheese Animated Short I dunno if this has been posted by I just found out about it. Kudos to the creator of this, amazing work. I love it! The style, colors and animation. :thumbup::thumbup: -- [IMG]http://behance.vo.l…	3 Last	rooster Aug 2011
Congrats Michael "Orb" Vicente Michael will soon be joining the NextGen MMO team here at Blizzard Entertainment. The World team is coming along very nicely. You are going to love California! Muito bem vindo Michael! -Kenny	72 Last	Quack! Aug 2011
3ds Max Workshop this weekend in San Diego! Hey everyone! In case you happen to be in the area, I wanted to invite everyone to come out to my 3dsMax workshop hosted by the Art Institute of San Diego. I'll start with a fast paced introduction t…	5 Last	Snight Aug 2011
Out-sourcing and game art development. The Future? Hello all. I have been working as a professional graphic designer in Canada for 10 years. During that time I have watched my industry take some terrible turns. I have been working for the same lar…	31 Last	okkun Aug 2011
PAX Prime 2011 Searched to see if anyone else had made a thread yet. didn't see one. Anyone else going? Beers are in order. Got a company pass so I'm going Saturday only.	10 Last	Jeff Parrott Aug 2011
W00t! Heading to austin, looking for housing. Hey guys, I just got picked up as an environment artist for Vigil Games. Super stoked and happy about this, sounds like a fantastic studio.:) Atm, I'm in Atlanta, and I'll be moving to Austin in abo…	25 Last	EmAr Aug 2011
ArenaNet Class of 2012 Internship Program I know there were a lot of people around here who only heard about the last one of these after the fact and were pretty sorely disappointed, so I figured they'd want to know about it. [SIZE="5"][url…	28 Last	m4dcow Aug 2011