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Any 2d artists wants make chars on The BRAWL Tournament??? Hi guys. I'm kind of frustrate because there's no 2d category on the contest. Problably PC staff took this decision based on the little number of 2d artists on the forum. But I'm opening this threa…	29 Last	dfacto Mar 2011
Difference between Environment and Prop Artists? Hey, Is there really a difference between Environment Artists and Prop Artists? There are many people that say Environment Art include props, but others seperate it as making scenes or more organic…	8 Last	JacqueChoi Mar 2011
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Fighting Games Backgrounds? (BRAWL related) Hey guys , I plan on entering the brawl and ive been doing google searches for a while now...but I wanna work on some Street Fighter 3rd strike levels since I think they had more visual intrests...bu…	6 Last	seforin Mar 2011
Favorite figurative sculptors of modern day I'm looking for good figurative sculpture work and would love to know any favorites you guys have. I don't have very much exposure to this type of work so I just want to see more. :) Example: I like…	13 Last	tacit math Mar 2011
IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grav…	49 Last	Melrick Mar 2011
Get ready to kill a guy and steal his pants... ...because agent 47 is back: [url]http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=424528[/url] And about bloody time too. Hitman BLood Money was one of the games that totally floored my back in the ea…	2 Last	PixelMasher Mar 2011
Maya - Help finding tutorials. I am a student currently doing an ICT diploma. I need to do a project of my own ideas to pass, I want to create something using Maya 2011 and PS. I have a wide knowledge in PS but lack it in Maya. I …	2 Last	harrytraynor Mar 2011
Dominance War 5 rules are finally up. Even if we're not participating, it'll be well worth keeping an eye on the goings on of the Dominance War. Whatever happens, there's going to be loads of awesome art cropping up in the next couple of…	39 Last	ChaosEidolon Mar 2011
Line between 3D modelling and Digital Sculpting Dear Polycounters I'm currently busy graduating for my Game Design master and i'm working on a Low End 3D pipeline with Zbrush integrated. At the moment i'm doing some research into "digital sculpti…	4 Last	Remmers Mar 2011
low budget! pricing question hey, my name is kyle and I'm pondering game creation using the low poly + paintery approach graphically... in this case it would be half chibi proportions for characters and I used to be into art so …	3 Last	aesir Mar 2011
Good For Working From? I am currently a student and i do an ICT diploma. I have to do this project to complete part of it and i chose to do a 3d model in maya. I wanted to do a topology model of my face to start but then s…	0 Last	harrytraynor Mar 2011
PAX East 2011 - Who's Going? Any Polycounters going to be at PAX East in Boston this year? Just got my badge in the mail and will be heading up with a group of friends. A meetup would be cool if possible.	35 Last	Justin Meisse Mar 2011
new mortal kombat?! maybe it's a trailer for a new game, maybe new movie. looks pretty cool though I think, realistic take on all the characters [url]http://kotaku.com/5558339/if-this-is-the-next-mortal-kombat-movie-si…	78 Last	Melonman Mar 2011
Closed Polycount is out of the Dominance War contest, doing our own contest Hey everyone, It's bitter sweet for me at the moment, as I just notified Fred that Polycount (that is, our Forum) will not be participating in the Dominance War contest. They say that creating great…	401 Last	adam Mar 2011
Ambient + Police radio = AWESOME! Someone put them together on [URL="http://youarelistening.to/losangeles"]this site.[/URL] I've been listening while working for a while no, it's frekki'n awesome!	30 Last	sltrOlsson Mar 2011
Polycount Challenge Theme Ideas I was having this conversation with a friend about the polycount challenge and I just thought it would be a good idea to post it and get other ideas. Me: yeah its why I have faith in polycount Me: …	75 Last	Ruz Mar 2011
MSc Dissertation - Game And Survey Hey guys, You may remember I posted here before asking for help on an initial survey for my dissertation ([url]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1259966#post1259966[/url]), well now I'…	2 Last	senor-cojones Mar 2011
PC Cookbook I don't know what most of you guys do to eat, but as a starving artist I enjoy learning how to make delicious food for cheap. So, let's share recipes and techniques. Anything from muffin baking to sa…	126 Last	Kwramm Mar 2011
The Art of Finger-Pointing [B]"Steal from everyone and copy no one." - Charles Movalli[/B] Polycount, being a great forum and community to discuss, share and admire techniques, tools, and work has not only brought about a gre…	15 Last	P442 Mar 2011
lipservice for maya just spotted this on the area [URL]http://www.lbrush.com/index.htm[/URL] looks pretty bloody clever ( disclaimer: I am tech wise, an idiot) I shall be having a play with this in the morning I thi…	1 Last	dur23 Mar 2011
Strange sig behavior Hey, having some probs, wanna ask about it: 1: I can only see people's signatures when I am logged out, is that normal? 2: I just set my signature but I cannot see it - logged in or out, is that no…	3 Last	mortalhuman Mar 2011
Happy Birthday, you Halo lovin' nut!! Made a cake just for you!! [IMG]http://www.mskinrys.com/images/Photos/HaloBdayCake.jpg[/IMG] Have a great one, drink lotsa beer, listen to awesome music, and if I know you at all... get some more a…	26 Last	Funky Bunnies Mar 2011
3dsmax basic preferences tutorial hi finally a new tut. it is another shorty with 10 minutes. check it out, if you are interested in the basic settings of the 3dsmax preferences. target audience: -3dsmax beginner -game artists cov…	3 Last	aphexx Mar 2011
Hard drives & airports - carry on, or pack 'em? Pretty self-explanatory, really. I need to take a couple of hard drives with me when I move in a couple of weeks, and I'm not sure of the best way to do it. I guess it's a toss-up between carrying …	14 Last	East Mar 2011
Outcasts: Whos Watching? What do you think so far?	9 Last	Mask_Salesman Mar 2011
ZSwitcher plug-in Just got an email about this: [url]http://draster.com/ZSwitcher/get.html[/url] Maya/Max style navigation for Zbrush courtesy of dRaster. Kinda cool, I don't use Zbrush super often but I've gotten …	30 Last	dRaster Mar 2011
Game Programming... Hello Fellow Polycounters, and spammers who cant get passed the Admins and mods. God bless you all :D; anyways I was surfing through the Ontario colleges to find a decent course for game program…	7 Last	fsf Mar 2011
Closed WIP Ninja Seeing as people found my thread so much more interesting before I ruined it with concept art [URL]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81797[/URL] I've decided to start work on a new mode…	1 Last	Skamberin Mar 2011
Stylizing your art; getting rid of the greeble Lately I have been thinking about how to work more effectively on 3D art, and how to make everything look more... well consistent... What the Hawken guy did is of course cool too, e.g. reusing bits …	18 Last	murph Mar 2011
ZBrush 4 training: Characters Made Easy part 1 Here's a couple links for more information: [url]http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=962533[/url] [url]http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=106572&page=3&pp=15[/url] My favo…	0 Last	bisenberger Mar 2011
ULTRA NEXT-GEN AAA SOUNDS.....lol.. Fucking awesome... My personal favorite is the asteroids rendition. 1:40 in. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qukCulDOJzg&feature=player_embedded[/ame]	4 Last	odium Mar 2011
Crysis 2 Demo They released it finally, even though there's some debate going on about some features I think it looks nice. Some complain about it being console bound but it says "multiplatform demo" anyway. So, I…	78 Last	e-freak Mar 2011
Stalker: Call of Pripyat - Complete MoD The uber mod has now been complete: [url]http://artistpavel.blogspot.com/2010/04/mod-call-of-pripyat-complete.html[/url] For anyone looking for maximum Stalker action including all bug fixes, graphi…	10 Last	acc Mar 2011
Ever had your name taken out of the game credits post launch? I have. And it really sucks. Why would they do that? Is this a common practice? Oh, and I quit the company after the game launched, so maybe that's what their policy was. Or maybe there wasn't eno…	20 Last	JacqueChoi Mar 2011
your cocept vs their concept. I hear different opinions based on this, the first being; you should work off your own concepts because people want to see your own ideas. The later; you should work off others concepts because thats…	11 Last	JustinPunio Mar 2011
Closed Anyone else asking WHATS GOING ON WITH DW5?? Ok so that website has been stuck on main challenge starting soon for 3 days! Does anyone have any inside to this? :poly121:	100 Last	Andreas Mar 2011
Cebas finalRender free to try. I searched the forums but couldn't find this news (unless it was in the front page, if so, I'm sorry). [I][INDENT]The trial version of finalRender SE for 3ds Max (2009 - 2011, both 32- and 64-bit) i…	0 Last	XenoKratios Mar 2011
GDC 2011 - Technolergy I was one of the many people who were not fortunate to go to GDC this year. Luckily, afterwards many bits and pieces of talks and tech are posted throughout the internets. This thread is a home for…	10 Last	haiddasalami Mar 2011
Why can't I quit you? Towards the end of last year, I decided to take a little hiatus from all things 3D, and evaluate where I'm at in life, and what I (read: me and the missus) want. I tried to convince myself that the …	26 Last	makecg Mar 2011
Zombie Ants and Mind-Control Fungi Just found this on National Geographic, published this march, some pretty cool stuff about mind controlling fungi. There's a couple of pictures and information about the different fungi and insects t…	5 Last	Skamberin Mar 2011
Question on environmental artist portfoilo pice Hi all So for the last 6 months or so i have been going back and forward between charter artist and environmental. As it turns out I really like architecture and layout, so i have decided to go wit…	7 Last	Ryno Mar 2011
3D printing a.. kidney? Kinda stumbled over this video today, and thought it was a bit too amazing not to share: [url]http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html[/url] Tailor made organs, made with…	13 Last	bbob Mar 2011
What to do?! Hey all, I graduated last year from an Animation course and have had a bit of experiance in preschool animation stuff and i am now currently a runner in London for a post production company. But y…	25 Last	scotthomer Mar 2011
Game design process? Hi everyone. Me and friend of mine are trying to create a game and I was looking around for general breakdowns of what to do first, what not to do etc. I've found that gamasutra is a great resource…	0 Last	martinszeme Mar 2011
Introducing myself I’m not sure if it’s allowed to post this here. But since my first post will be moderated anyway, it shouldn’t be a problem. I searched if there was a introduction topic for ne…	0 Last	Infje Mar 2011
Hey Pedro! Greetings Mr. Amorim, found a little typo on your otherwise perfect portfolio. Sorry mate but I think you should be demodded for this, it's only fair. [IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/2n8okls.png[/IMG]	39 Last	Joopson Mar 2011
Modeling Heads: General Theory/Working without a reference (Not sure if this is the right forum, if it's wrong please move it.) I'm trying to model [URL="http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Jade_Harley"]Jade[/URL] from the Homestuck webcomic, as my firs…	0 Last	Portalboat Mar 2011
Brink @ Pax East I just saw this on Kotaku [url]http://kotaku.com/#!5780810/get-a-taste-of-the-ark-with-brink-at-pax-east]Get A Taste Of The Ark With Brink At PAX East[/url] I don't have a friday PAX pass - someone …	3 Last	Skamberin Mar 2011
My music :) Hello everyone. I do music in my spare time when I'm not modeling or need a little time away from the 3d world. I'm self taught so I don't know all the rules of timing, notes, and writing the music o…	3 Last	Nemlet17 Mar 2011