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Survey :: Damageable Artefact Hi, For the past few months i have been creating a conceptual damage system for Unreal engine using materials transitions as its foundation. To go along with this i have create two characters that…	10 Last	AliasOpilo May 2011
A reasonable RTS web based game Hello everyone; I have been playing ogame for a while like 30 minutes and its not getting me anywhere...I have to wait for like 2-5 minutes just to see if the buildings were improved. Anyone kn…	8 Last	oldbard May 2011
Jagshemash! Conte has a birthday! No. 1 Polycounter in Khazahstan is a 23 years old! High five! [img]http://shotgun-graphics.com/postage/borat-2.jpg[/img]	19 Last	conte May 2011
pMG Messiah for $10? But wait.... Check it out: [url]http://projectmessiah.com/x6/shop.html[/url] But... [QUOTE][B][COLOR="Red"]Rules: Everyone can only receive their license when the goal is met.[/COLOR][/B] That's your incentiv…	160 Last	e-freak May 2011
Dan Vs ! Has anyone checked out this show yet? Rather funny, every episode this guy gets pissed at something and has to destroy it. ....Sad I relate to 3 quaters of these episodes haha [ame]http://www.you…	0 Last	seforin May 2011
FIEA school Have any of the PCers been to FIEA? [url]http://www.fiea.ucf.edu/joomla/[/url] If you went to another school, that has a graduate program, where did you go? t	1 Last	m4dcow Apr 2011
Fast Five [url]http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/fastfive/[/url] Trailer. Hey guys, thought I would post this up. It's been about 10 years since I starting making add-on cars for Carmageddon. And…	12 Last	slipsius Apr 2011
Ventrillo vs. Teamspeak Looking for people opinions on one or the other, what do you use? (if any) would you use the other? Would you be interested in a polycount ventrilo or teamspeak? How big of a room size do you think w…	10 Last	Racer445 Apr 2011
kotor mmo counts Beautiful looking game. Anyone savvy on the the poly counts of the environments, assets and characters?	26 Last	danshewan Apr 2011
Sculpting Too Soon, A Bad Thing? I was wondering what your opinions are. I have been told that jumping too soon into sculpting programs such as Zbrush and Mudbox, before one has a strong understanding of modeling and high poly mode…	12 Last	Mask_Salesman Apr 2011
Thor teaser trailer Swedish viking yarrr!!!! This came recently. [url]http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/112106-the-thor-trailer-is-here[/url]	25 Last	Dan Apr 2011
Was it something I said? Sometimes you have a thread going in pimping and you jsut can't get feedback at all. The work isn't so awful that it doesn't merit commenting and it's certainly not so good as to render people utterl…	18 Last	haikai Apr 2011
Hollerations! New Member Checking In After sometime lurking I wanted to make it official, so hello all. Looking forward to being active on the board and contributing in any way I can. A quick run down: I'm a CG Designer for an a majo…	11 Last	glottis8 Apr 2011
Radio - Morning shows? Hey guys and gals, So, I was talkin to the girlfriend about radio morning shows, and it got me wondering what everyone hear listens to. Ive heard my fair share of morning shows, and there is only on…	13 Last	Oniram Apr 2011
QA position? Hey guys, So, serious question here. Would it be wise to accept a QA 6 month contract position with the intent to get back on to an art team? I'm alright with it, but I'm not sure if it would be the…	10 Last	Flava-Fly Apr 2011
You gotta be kidding me...RIGHT?!?! So ok... Some of you guys have read some of this on facebook but I wanted to share this with the community JUST IN CASE some of you decide to go the same route I went. I was offered a position as a …	121 Last	Jesse Moody Apr 2011
THE GOVERNATOR OMFG!!!!!!! this is legit! hes actually doing the voice and stuff! [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6J9OGSXpg[/ame][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6J9OGSXpg"] [/URL]	23 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Apr 2011
maya 2012 new modeling tools Has anyone used it? does anyone know what the new modeling related tools they added?	11 Last	jam-i-am Apr 2011
anyone here been to anime expo? I'm considering going to the one here in LA, in early july, but heard it's full of weirdo's and idiots. Anyone here have positive experiences with the expo? I'm freaking over comic-con, like ... I d…	14 Last	Lamont Apr 2011
Austin, Tx job hunt Im here in austin, where i grew up. Ive been visiting studios, some seemed promising. Others seemed impossible to infiltrate. I had the most luck with twisted pixel. Actually got to talk to some one.…	19 Last	Cody Apr 2011
Google Image search is a virus/malware haven. Has anyone else come across this? I've used google image search to find references and I click on a few image links. Its almost gauranteed everytime now, that if I'm lucky I'll get my anti virus co…	30 Last	Ace-Angel Apr 2011
Make something unreal contest - 2011? Hey pc, This might be a newby question, but are epic running their "Make something unreal" tournament this year? If not, are there any similar indy tournaments around? Cheers	9 Last	Andreas Apr 2011
Stupid camera tricks I was messing with my camera, taking the lens off and holding it slightly in front of the body detached trying to do some closeup stuff, and this got me thinking. It should be relatively easy to make…	75 Last	nrek Apr 2011
Whats happened to Game-Artist.net? Sorry if this has been asked before, but in recent day it seems Game-Artist.net servers have been down for some amount of days..coincidence that's it is running parallel with PS3 network's hack? …	8 Last	Oniram Apr 2011
Best Dating sites Hey, this is general after all. What sites have you that have gone this route had the most luck on*? -Match seems superficial with pictures being the main interest. -Chemistry is spamming my box w…	152 Last	Ace-Angel Apr 2011
Sub 15" Laptop Super Duper non Pooper My turn to start such a thread. I cant wait any longer for Bulldozer. Need something for meantime and portability after I get a new desktop eventually. So since just had bday, treating self. Want:…	60 Last	oXYnary Apr 2011
Have you ever asked to see anyones Badge? Sorry guys I gotta get this off My Chest. So It's Monday Morning, I am exhausted from driving all night, and I get into the top secret area of Blizzard. Before I can swipe My badge, The door opens w…	55 Last	stimpack Apr 2011
Layoffs at Obsidian This is very weird, for I thought the industry was actually stable here for a while. Now I see this and it makes me afraid that more of these threads and articles will appear again like recent months…	10 Last	beancube Apr 2011
Immortals trailer just saw Tippett's working on this: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HrR4B-z5vk&feature=youtu.be"][IMG]http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=3902172b9a585cb34a5b8792771cc7df&w=130&h=130…	2 Last	Maph Apr 2011
Congrats to IronHawk! I'd like to send out a big congrats to Jesse Hall , a.k.a. [url=http://www.polycount.com/forum/member.php?u=17367]IronHawk[/url], who is joining the Halo team here at 343 Industries as our newest Env…	29 Last	JDinges Apr 2011
Dynamic Figure Drawing: The Body Greetings Polycounters; I have been looking for 2d figure drawing tutorials that are in the detail. I have Drawing Dynamic Hands, Drawing figures by force and all sort of random books that are used …	20 Last	XenoKratios Apr 2011
PS3 game suggestions? Ok, i know the network is down. i dont care. games are still playable without it.... That being said, my xbox redringed a month or two ago (first gen.. got my use outta it :D ), so im trading in my …	19 Last	Autocon Apr 2011
So where did you learn your skills? So that's right, where did YOU learn all of your 3D, 2D skillwizz? I'm a college student, studying Digital Arts and Entertainment in Belgium. This is their site: [url]http://www.digitalartsandentert…	92 Last	leslievdb Apr 2011
Industrial Design: Best educational reasources? I've been working on a lot of highly designed props lately. The types of things that use multiple rules of organization ( e.g., convergance points, radial/sphereical symmetry, and consistent repeated…	5 Last	jocose Apr 2011
L O S T I figured since the series starts again tonight, I'd post this both as a reminder and a place to start new discussions on the show [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Oh, and new time tonight... a…	1.8K Last	Mark Dygert Apr 2011
Closed chinese lantern 3D model	0 Last	Bartimenus Apr 2011
Good and easy to use printing service (2D) My mother is and traditional artist but she's awful at getting "out there" besides the traditional way of exhibitions. So i thought, hey! Why not print a few paintings or makes some new ones for prin…	1 Last	sltrOlsson Apr 2011
Dual Monitors Different Sizes Yea or Nay I'm currently running dual 23" LED monitors. The new 27" LED monitors look great, but I can't afford two. I sat a 27" LED and 23" LED next to each other in Best Buy and "just had a feeling" that havi…	25 Last	ariofighter Apr 2011
AudioController 3Ds Max issue Hey guys, So I'm messing about with the audio controller in 3Ds Max, taking individual layers from my new song and exporting them to different rings of a model. I've set my frame-count to 5000, howe…	2 Last	Sythen Apr 2011
Forums acting weird on me Hey uh, not sure if i'm posting this in the wrong place, but the forum seems to be logging me in and out, mostly out. Cleared all cache and cookies, and forum used to be fine. Weirdest thing is that…	1 Last	crasong Apr 2011
Environment Artist portfolios, any recommended ones? I'm in need of slight re vamp of my web site. So I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions of any environment artists websites that they think are good, in terms of content and/or layout/design.…	4 Last	AlexLegg Apr 2011
Sword & Sworcery EP on iPad GET THIS GAME! five bucks. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/aa9B9.jpg[/IMG] Super dope retro pixelart adventure game with great music.... get headphones and curl up with it. iPhone version coming in April. …	26 Last	Ben Apuna Apr 2011
Mortal Kombat 4 Played last night with a bunch of people. It was a blast! We had a lot of fun. The level of co-op in the game is really cool and surprised me. The game has great impact and is pretty consistent ac…	6 Last	rv_el Apr 2011
Q: What do you do again? When someone "outside" of the industry asks about what you do, how do you reply? Sorry if this seems a silly and irrelevant thread to start. I ask because at the moment I don't have an industry job.…	117 Last	monster Apr 2011
Serious Question - the future of art development in games [IMG]http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/4748/sirgreentooth.jpg[/IMG] Greetings Polycounters, [B]tldr : Would you be willing to create next-gen art alongside mobile/handheld art in a single dev…	6 Last	Mongrelman Apr 2011
is 12gb ram unnecessary? Hey, So I currently have 4gb ram and I was thinking of getting an additional 8gb ram...I have 4 more slots on my Mobo and I was wondering if I should go for 12gb ram or go for just 8gb ram? Would I s…	125 Last	Lamont Apr 2011
Consoles Are the New Coin-Op [url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/3050-Consoles-Are-the-New-Coin-Op[/url] Found this really interesting,	27 Last	Richard Kain Apr 2011
Mortal Kombat So i didnt see a thread about this, and i was just wondering if anyone else here got it. I bought both portal and mk on tuesday, and i have to admit, to my surprise, i am enjoying mk a lot more than …	10 Last	BadgerBaiter Apr 2011
Interactive Trailers Discussion After checking out portal 2, I stumbled across the interactive trailer for "Super 8." I must say I really grabbed my attention... but was kinda sad when I found out it wasn't a teaser for HLE3. With…	3 Last	Ace-Angel Apr 2011
Seeking Advice on entering the Gaming world, post college. First and very foremost: [U][B]I AM SORRY[/B][/U][B][U]! [/U][/B]I have been to many forums, viewed previous posts along the lines of mine before and I know and understand how tiring seeing 'One Of …	19 Last	Jason Young Apr 2011