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Splinter Cell Conviction and AI When I play stealth action games I am always bothered by some aspects of the AI. And the one thing that gets me the most is the way I play vs how they react. AI see's a dead body, walks over to inves…	27 Last	shotgun May 2011
İOS game release - Fallen 3D Hey guys! We've been working on this in our spare time with a coder friend of mine for a while. Finally it's in appstore :) Basically you are falling down and you need to avoid objects. Crits are wel…	1 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom May 2011
Dealing with uninspired, unwilling, and untalented individuals So this issue has come up for myself and a few other colleagues recently. I like a few others here (i suppose) are currently at university getting a degree in the game-art field. Although the univers…	77 Last	Neo_God May 2011
Free Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse I have this gift code for Telltale Games' Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, that I got as part of a deal while buying flowers for my mom. However, I already have the game so... I thought I'd give it …	2 Last	LMP May 2011
Faster modeling of morph shapes - A 3ds Max plug-in concept! Hello, I'm working in a new contextual plug-in for faster modeling morph shapes. ShapeShop keeps all morph target shapes in the UVW channels of the objects. This allows a small user interface to pr…	0 Last	Mankua May 2011
Obama birth certificate so naturally this was expected to happen.. but i didnt think it would be this quick or this apparent. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g30VCl_cgk[/ame]	119 Last	bluekangaroo May 2011
What happened to this place?! Hi! I am a programmer who isn't very good at 3d modelling. I've been playing around with skeletal animation lately, and that generally requires a rigged model. Now, back in the day, I used to come…	0 Last	JinkJoint May 2011
iPiSoft Kinect Official Affiliate Partner FREE BVH Demo Howdy Folks, I am very happy to announce we are now an official partner with iPiSoft. Please allow us to offer you a FREE 30 Day Demo of iPiSoft Kinect Motion Capture Software. To download the …	0 Last	polybones May 2011
3D Flock Code Challenge Considering it's running in Flash, I've developed some very fast 3D flock code. Despite being art focused, I know polycount has a good handful of programmers, so if you're up for a challenge, see ho…	4 Last	rumblesushi May 2011
D&D Daggerdale .. Shameless plug :) Hey boys, Atari just finally announced the xbla/psn title that we've been brewing here. I've only been on a project for a little while towards the tail end of development. Thought you'd enjoy it. …	4 Last	Andreas May 2011
Black Rock Studios hit with layoffs. [url]http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6312318.html[/url] Sounds like it could be around 100 employees, not good news. Pure and Split Second were great games but went to bargain bin pretty quickly. Hope …	17 Last	D4V1DC May 2011
Crytek layoffs [url]http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34544/Source_Layoffs_At_Crytek_Budapest_Kinect_Game_Moves_Foward.php[/url] the budapest studio is shrinking, anyone from here involved?	4 Last	Neox May 2011
Need help identifiying a model Well this is irratating me beyound belife, This is obviously two models, the guy first claimed this to be his first charcter -___- Since theres retards out there and will not listen to reason, i need…	4 Last	Andreas May 2011
Traditional pencils or mechanical pencils or lead holders? Which do you prefer? In shading? Linework?	7 Last	Allan-p May 2011
Optimization for Video-Games Hey polycounters, lately I've been getting more and more into optimization for video-games, at least the kind of optimization that artists usually have to deal with in a professional environment. Mai…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2011
New Eat3D dvd - ZBrush Hard Surface Techniques [URL]http://eat3d.com/blog/eat-3d/new-dvd-release-zbrush-hard-surface-techniques[/URL] Downloaded it yesterday and so far it is very sexy. Thought some of you might be interested. :)	37 Last	LRoy May 2011
Section 8: Prejudice Just picked this game up from the Steam store. Incredibly fun MP game. I haven't even tried the SP or COOP modes yet, simply because MP is such a blast. It's like Battlefield 2 and Tribes had a se…	4 Last	CheeseOnToast May 2011
Closed New Rage footage (I couldn't find the old thread anywhere?!) Anyway, new footage is out. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5rGrI-YbMw[/ame]	0 Last	[HP] May 2011
Company Acquisition I am hoping to tap the various knowledge base here for something I am curious about. When it comes to company acquisition: One game company purchases and basically controls another. When has this…	56 Last	jimmypopali May 2011
Help me get a job/modeling suggestions Hey everyone, I thought I would end up with 3 guns for my portfolio before I started applying for jobs, unfortunately the company didn't have anything else for me to do after 2. So now i'm looking…	4 Last	Drav May 2011
Good Sound Reducing Headphones? Hey all, Im sure many of you have had the same problem im having, where it be you yourself, or a coworker near by, so i thought id ask you all. The headphones i use right now at work, is actually a…	7 Last	frostymoose May 2011
UniMorph! A New Morph Solution for Unity I do hope this is the right place to be posting this. [url]http://codenerve.com/[/url] We've been working for a while on this, and are really excited to finally release it. UniMorph is a power…	13 Last	Jeremy-S May 2011
Canadian Elections Hey all, figured there should be a post on here about the Canadian Elections, as there are a bunch of us Canucks on here. Hopefully everyone's going to be voting that can, as this is a potentially i…	117 Last	XenoKratios May 2011
Closed Help me with a portfolio review?	0 Last	jocose May 2011
Closed PSA - You can start your own thread! Not too long ago I started a thread on GA.org asking about new talent coming into the pool. About people coming out of school. I layed out the parameters of what I would like to hear. I wanted to …	20 Last	EarthQuake May 2011
Can anybody give me advice on a high end digital camera? Hello there everybody? I am in the market for a digital camera but would like some opinions from somebody with some knowledge first, and unfortunately I do not really know any true camera buffs. I …	9 Last	EarthQuake May 2011
ipiSoftware for Kinect Camera creates motion capture on your desktop I did a search for ipisoft and kinect camera and ipiSoft before posting this. With IpiSoft you can capture full body mocap right on your desktop with one kinect camera! Che…	14 Last	Slum May 2011
Would you agree with this... [IMG]http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk8osrCvbK1qzszvro1_500.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Glass[/URL] I've really started to get a sense of this lately. Its a big, not easil…	31 Last	glynnsmith May 2011
SOE, is all the hate misplaced? So, since most people don't read a whole post I'll say this up front, [B]im posting this for discussion purpose to just see how industry people or striving industry people feel about the situation […	9 Last	TomDunne May 2011
Game Character Design Questions Hi, I am still learning a lot about character modeling for games but I am still unsure about many factors in this. If anyone could help me somewhat with the following questions or point me in the rig…	2 Last	theStoff May 2011
Advice - Wrist pain started developing this last week Hi Everyone, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one whose had this problem before, so I was hoping to hear some advice. Over the last week I've been starting to get some light wrist pain when I've bee…	39 Last	acc May 2011
Trion Worlds Redwood City Artists Hey everyone from Trion reading this. I have a question or two for you. Where do the majority of the employees, who work there live at and if people commute what is the average distance? Also has any…	9 Last	Reverenddevil May 2011
Environment Art Test advice? Managed to get myself my first Environment Art test! Wondered what advice anyone out there can offer? I Don't have the brief yet, so I know a lot will depend on that. I would guess it would be to…	13 Last	Alberto Rdrgz May 2011
Ding! I'm now a level 25 Human, a level 5 CG Artist, and still a level 0 Game Artist... but, hopefully I'll hit level 1 in a few months or less...	6 Last	xvampire May 2011
pc boot problem Hey guys, a few weeks ago i had a boot issue that resulted in having to unplug my dvd drive to get past the startup. I just pre-ordered a physical copy of brink so i'm hoping to get it back and worki…	11 Last	notman May 2011
Gilneas Wagon Hello Everyone! I'm currently a student at the Art Institute of Los Angeles. Thought I'd post up a WIP. Currently, there's no lights in the scene and some textures need polish. I took a Blizzard con…	1 Last	Autocon May 2011
Best Fallout: Vegas Screencap Like the title says, post your best screencap of your F:V character, or something else awesome. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1765296/images/hesdead.jpg[/img]	37 Last	Drumonman May 2011
Portfolio artwork STEALING alert :P Hey guys, This morning I discovered that one fella simply copy/pasted image from my 3d portfolio into his: [url]http://fellauk.deviantart.com/gallery/27983964[/url] Not all of those images are mine…	125 Last	K9GamingStudios May 2011
3DMotive - Hard Surface Vehicle Texturing Apparently it hasn't been posted here yet! 3DMotive keeps on delivering! [url]http://3dmotive.com/product-hard-surface-vehicle-texturing[/url]	27 Last	AlecMoody May 2011
Embed Vimeo Is there any chance we can have a way to embed vimeo video in our posts?	3 Last	feanix May 2011
Help PLZ!!! Normal Mapping From High to Low Poly! So I'm working on a model for just leisure work. I completed my Highpoly and LowPoly and I made my UV coordinates in 3DS max. Now everytime I try to write my normals to the UV coords no matter what I…	0 Last	DaveHansan May 2011
job interview, 2-3 hours, why so long? Hi guys, I have a job interview in two weeks , and I've been told it would take around 2-3 hours.. I am really wondering if we will only talk or if there will be some kind of tests too (they didn'…	69 Last	Joshua Stubbles May 2011
Ubisoft makes movies now! Hi guys, I just found an article about Ubisoft. They plan to make their own motion picture studio in Paris, in order to produce their own movies from their own games. More details on the article. Wha…	24 Last	D4V1DC May 2011
Congrats to Paul Svoboda Paul is starting at Epic on monday as an Environment Artist Intern. So wish him the best of luck, congrats Paul, you're going to do great! You can see his work here [url]http://paulsvoboda.net/index…	50 Last	SouthpawSid May 2011
The X Button Podcast Hey guys, my friends and I started a podcast about 2 weeks ago and I want to bring in some listeners. The Podcast is about game design and we'll basically be giving our opinions on different game des…	30 Last	Justin Meisse May 2011
3Ds Max 2012 sneak peek oooooo new UV tools!!!! [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7ntiFz0gw[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOORCbLq0sU[/ame] and other stuff [url]http://www.youtube.com/user/3dsMaxSneakPeek…	219 Last	Ace-Angel May 2011
Reference IMages Where do you guys get your reference images for modeling. Personally goggle images just isn't working for me.	4 Last	Scizz May 2011
Sketch apps for iphone Hey I know this sound stupid but I wanna know if there are any good apps of sketching or painting for iphone? Any apps you could recommend?	0 Last	vofff May 2011
Airbrush'ers? x	0 Last	StephenVyas May 2011
Evolve CG 2011! Who's going??? Hey everyone :D So Evolve CG is this coming weekend in Orlando, Florida, and im so excited! while I'm sure a lot of you going will have to travel, it's nice having it 25 minutes away from my house :…	14 Last	Razgriz May 2011