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[Sale] DDR3 12gb Triple Chan Ram Hey guys, like thread name says I have 12gb triple channel ram for sale. Patriot Sector 7 DDR3 12GB 1600mhz 3 x 4gb triple channel memory. [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1…	0 Last	Grimm_Wrecking Jun 2011
Anyone knows the Name of this song? This song has been stuck in my head for a while and been killing me, and for the life of me, I cannot find the name of it. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ9yTc-x0xs&feature=feedrec_grec_index[…	5 Last	Ace-Angel Jun 2011
Unity Roadmap 2011 For those of you who use the Unity Game Engine please check these awesome news: [url]http://blogs.unity3d.com/2011/06/16/unity-roadmap-2011/[/url] So many incredible updates coming it makes my he…	14 Last	Fomori Jun 2011
Project Management software for free?! Hello, Does anyone know of any free Project Management software for PC? I'm about to start a couple of new projects and it would be cool to plan out and keep track of the timelines of what I've don…	5 Last	pixelmitherer Jun 2011
Khang Le? Anyone friends with him or know how to contact him, Dude must be super busy workin on that Hawken game :) so hard to get ahold of him but I need to ask him something. Can anyone put me into contact w…	2 Last	conte Jun 2011
I made a plaster landscape You know those kits you see in Hobby Lobby in the diorama section? They are awesome. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5301613/Other/plasterscape_00.jpg[/img] [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5301613/Other/p…	24 Last	Makkon Jun 2011
Congrats to Kenny "parasite7" Carvalho After 4+ years recruiting some of the best art talent in the industry (many from these very forums), I am no longer going to be a recruiter at Blizzard Entertainment. I will be moving over to the Nex…	95 Last	rawkstar Jun 2011
How healthy is the MOD scene these days? Good day everyone. I am curious what mod scenes are alive and kicking these days? I know of a few good games worth getting lost in for their editors and tools. I would love to hear from folks here …	14 Last	passerby Jun 2011
Epic Hacked [url]http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/epic-games-database-hacked-by-contra.html[/url] As well as email. [quote]Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, th…	35 Last	haiddasalami Jun 2011
friday recap does it not happen anymore? :(	9 Last	dempolys Jun 2011
Brawl Results (for those of you who don't know we have a news page) Judging is over and were FINALLY ready to begin announcing who the winners of Polycounts BRAWL Contest are! As you may remember, [URL="http://www.polycount.com/2011/05/24/brawl-the-judges/"]the jud…	18 Last	D4V1DC Jun 2011
Demon's Souls Anyone else playing this? I'd never heard of it until last week, rented it on the weekend, and now I'm scouring sold-out stores around vancouver to try to find a copy. Absolutely awesome game. Nin…	127 Last	THE 5 Jun 2011
Free to Play Games arrive on Steam! [url]http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Free%20to%20Play/[/url] I heartily recommend you try Spiral Knights of course :) This is a big deal for us, so very happy to be a part of Steam's new ventur…	15 Last	Ged Jun 2011
The June 2011 Wallpaper Thread (potentially NSFW) These threads haven't been around in a while, time to start this up again! Thread rules: - Post only the image itself, not a screenshot of your desktop - If you know the source / artist (even if it…	20 Last	flaagan Jun 2011
Human scale 3d model is there some free 3d model somewhere to use as a simple refrence that is correct in scale.	1 Last	ZacD Jun 2011
Online training for games, where to look? So i was looking online for training on modeling/texturing/etc for games and as far as i could see, eat3d is the only source for that? i guess i could use the other general or film related training f…	3 Last	Bibendum Jun 2011
Canvas (HL2 mod) Has anyone seen/heard of this yet? Best.Teaser.ever! [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7kI2pBBKrM[/ame] [url]http://www.canvasgame.com[/url]	10 Last	Makkon Jun 2011
THQ shut down Kaos Studios [QUOTE]Manhattan-based Kaos Studios -- developers of Frontlines: Fuel of War and Homefront -- has been closed. THQ confirmed the closure to Joystiq this afternoon, additionally noting that the compan…	28 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jun 2011
Coming out of final year - Portfolio Hey there folks, I know this type of thread must have been created quite a few times, but if you're able to help me out I'd much appreciate it. Essentially I'm coming out of university in a year fro…	9 Last	Wesley Jun 2011
Belated Congrats to Joe "55Joe" DeAngelis I would like to congratulate Joe DeAngelis (sorry for the late post). Joe has joined Blizzard Entertainment and will be taking his marine building skills to the next level on the Starcraft team. Welc…	21 Last	Ryan Hawkins Jun 2011
Go the F to Sleep yes.... this is a real book.... the reading starts at about 1:00 [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFuyE_VBeO8&feature=player_embedded[/ame]	4 Last	gsokol Jun 2011
Closed Two small children -cartoon-	0 Last	Belias Jun 2011
Would you recommend these books? I'm still learning anatomy, drawing 2D, but I love planning for the future. So I've found these books. Do any of you know them or would recommend me to buy it? [ame]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/…	2 Last	Gustavo.Branco Jun 2011
Volcano Erupts in Chile LOTS OF PHOTOS Barely remembering when mt St Helens blew its top back in the 1980's, I prefer to see this stuff in photos not close up, heh, but I find this stuff fascinating. So amazing... even more can be foun…	20 Last	almighty_gir Jun 2011
Indie Release: Wanderlust: Rebirth (Online Action RPG) [CENTER][IMG]http://media.indiedb.com/cache/images/games/1/14/13742/thumb_620x2000/title2.png[/IMG] [I]Welcome to Wanderlust: Rebirth[/I] [/CENTER] [CENTER]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [/CENT…	5 Last	d2king10 Jun 2011
Hello! I'm new to the Polycount team. Hey folks, If you've checked out the news page recently then you would've seen a new, and weird, name attached to a couple of new posts. Anyway, I'm Hamish (hi!) and I'll be helping out around here …	38 Last	seth. Jun 2011
Brawl winners coming soon Hey guys, Just a quick note to say that we now know who the winners of the Brawl contest are and should begin to be announced this week. However! (Oooh!) Due to the process towards the end of havin…	48 Last	d1ver Jun 2011
sandbox 2 vs unreal ed 3 I've been using udk lately an I'm on the verge of completing a project and am considering using the cryengine 2 sandbox editor after its done. just because I'll probably convert to sandbox 3 when and…	13 Last	Stewox Jun 2011
New to polycount. Hi everyone, I'm new to this awesome community, really cool stuff here, can't find where to attach images so I assume I have to make this first post and then I'll be allowed to post images? Anyways…	20 Last	defpixel Jun 2011
How you got into the games industry Chatted with some friends today at Red Storm (North Carolina) about how they got into the industry. It led to some fun discussions, so, I thought why not make a thread about it? Simple poll, let's …	14 Last	e-freak Jun 2011
Average salary for a character artist in the UK. Hey, Just a quick question for UK-based character artists. I'm currently applying for a games job and it states that I should provide a salary expectation. Naturally I don't want to undersell myself…	3 Last	Del Jun 2011
CONGRATS RENS!!!! Just wanted to give a huge shoutout and congrats to RENS who is now working at DICE on some Battlefield 3 sexyness!!! Nice to see all that hard work payoff. Nice job buddy!	94 Last	gauss Jun 2011
Hard Drive Rescue [COLOR="Magenta"]~[/COLOR] Okay so I was just transferring some[COLOR="Black"] ̶s̶e̶c̶r̶e̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ ̶p̶l̶a…	10 Last	greevar Jun 2011
Red Faction: Armageddon Played through it and finished it... and it's getting a "don't buy" recommendation from me. The visuals are outstanding, the destruction's a blast... but they took an open world game with a great s…	6 Last	flaagan Jun 2011
Feng Zhu Duke Nukem Forever Concept Dump! (NWS) [CENTER][IMG]http://www.fengzhudesign.com/blog/fzd_duke_01.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] [CENTER][URL]http://fengzhudesign.blogspot.com/2011/06/duke-nukem-forever-concept-art.html[/URL][/CENTER] [CENTER]Thi…	22 Last	Pangahas Jun 2011
Sculpting Lingo: Mass vs Volume Mass vs Volume I know how the terms are used in physics but in the art world they almost seam like they are synonyms. Anyone here with some traditional sculpting training that has an intuition for …	2 Last	jocose Jun 2011
Being a nobody, to somebody I just wanted to write this and share my experience for those who are having a difficult time landing a job or need some inspiration to "stay on target". Like many others, when I was young I always …	35 Last	Shogun3d Jun 2011
my first Gamejam :3 Starting next week I'm taking part in a 5-day gamejam organised by my university (Portsmouth), with over 90 participants! Anyone done something similar and want to share their experiences? Any tips…	6 Last	benji Jun 2011
I crashed E3 with my game:) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYXmJLshtZw[/ame]	25 Last	Geezus Jun 2011
Stone Placement Tool I came across this while looking for a position/rotation noise modifier or script. To put it simply... its pretty much a 'WIN' button... [url]http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/stone-placemen…	8 Last	aajohnny Jun 2011
New Tutorials (Rendering & Modeling) Vray Tutorial for Exterior Lighting Rendering This is a Exterior Lighting Tutorial with 3ds max and vray, i will show you how to setup your lighting, camera, shaders and render, we will working with…	0 Last	aleso3d Jun 2011
Fan Art in a Portfolio? Hey guys, I've always wondered what is the professional stance of putting fanart in a portfolio? When I mean fanart I don't mean horrible anime scribbles uploaded to 4chan, more like refined illustr…	4 Last	Jeff Parrott Jun 2011
New Personal Projects? Just curious as to how some of you begin working on personal projects. Do ideas just spontaneously pop up in your head, do you sit or lie down and just think about what to model/create/draw/whatever,…	24 Last	D4V1DC Jun 2011
Books for digital painting Teaching myself how to paint/draw better... i have a lot of old books covering traditional methods which are very useful, but are there any books which aim themselves towards digital painting while s…	8 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2011
Leauge Of Legends. Just curious anyone here play this game? Ive been playing the last 6 months...for a free to play game it's quite awesome....suckered me into buying a few items time and again for the legendary skins.…	117 Last	System Jun 2011
Blender Scam [url]http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/press/re-branding-blender/[/url] An article from blender.org about 3dMagix and IllusionMage, two companies stealing blender artwork and sell…	12 Last	IEatApples Jun 2011
Bandwidth prioritizer? Is there a way to prioritize which programs use internet bandwidth? I've read up about setting QoS on your router but ours doesn't have that, are there any programs preferably free that do this on wi…	3 Last	scourgewarper Jun 2011
inFamous 2 Anyone pick this up? Releasing E3 week is tough. The game is really fun. Art is really great and the gameplay is polished a lot from part 1. I haven't messed with the UGC create a mission thing tha…	1 Last	thatanimator Jun 2011
Prove I am Human :O Don't know if Im missing something or not but can't leave a comment on the news posts. Have about 100 posts so the moderator approving my post shouldnt apply or something was broken recently :(	18 Last	achmedthesnake Jun 2011
Blender Scam Yeah I know the topic name might be a bit misleading, but someone is trying to scam people into buying blender as his own program. [URL]http://illusionmage.com/screenshots.htm[/URL] So apparently thi…	2 Last	Traix Jun 2011