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Art tests How can I get an art test from a company without actually wanting to be evaluated by the company? Do I have to contact the company, or are there sites? If there are sites, can somebody please provide…	5 Last	Cojax Feb 2011
Call of Duty Parody: Duty Calls made by the makers of Bulletstorm. Did anyone see that, kinda hilarious :D [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIOxjztMZfc&feature=player_embedded[/ame] You can actually download that :D.Gunsounds are epic :D Have fun :poly142:	40 Last	McGreed Feb 2011
killzone 3 (open beta) the Killzone 3 open beta was launched today and. I. Love. It. They tweaked the controls significantly since the 2nd one and it's much much easier to play. The graphics aren't too shabby either. …	8 Last	Shadownami92 Feb 2011
So, I've started a new job. [IMG]http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8558/creaturetechnologycompa.jpg[/IMG] [url]http://www.creaturetechnology.com/[/url]	25 Last	Purplepaint Feb 2011
Happy Birthday Nrek! Ahahaha! I said I would do it, and now I have! Happy Birthday, Nrek! ^_^ [IMG]http://funny-birthday.net/pictures/birthday-pictures/15.jpg[/IMG]	5 Last	nrek Feb 2011
CoD parody Haha, 'someone' made a CoD parody :) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTtsezso4Q&hd=1[/ame]	1 Last	alexk Feb 2011
GDC Vault. [QUOTE]ince you were one of the first to respond and show interest, you'll be one of the first to be offered entry into the GDC Vault individual subscription Beta, ahead of all other individual subsc…	7 Last	rebb Feb 2011
SackBoy Basemesh. First of all, i dont know if this is the best place to post this but anyhow here it goes. I saw the GameArtisians competition for making a custom Sackboy outfit. [URL]http://www.gameartisans.org/foru…	4 Last	EarthQuake Feb 2011
Time Lapse HDR Video of Polish Chapel Built in 1796 Pretty amazing stuff. [url]http://vimeo.com/19107357[/url] Also the show reel for 2010 from the company who created that video is amazing. [url]http://vimeo.com/14175276[/url]	2 Last	Pix Feb 2011
australian criminals from the 20's photographs I ran in to those this morning- some fantastic characters :) [url]http://www.laboiteverte.fr/portraits-de-criminels-australiens-dans-les-annees-1920/[/url]	26 Last	selentic Feb 2011
Snow Stories! The Seattle area's snowfall is weaksauce compared to many places, but somehow we were hit by an early one this year that has left things more shut down than usual, maybe because it's been going nonst…	51 Last	vcortis Feb 2011
best action game ever made (DISCUSS ON) Don't worry, you don't have to come up with the answer, because I already know what it is. The best action game ever made is: [SIZE="6"]VANQUISH[/SIZE] Holy crap it was great. I just beat it the…	51 Last	Bigjohn Feb 2011
HELP: Attachment Manager won't work! Hey guys I was wondering what was up with the attachment manager. I tried searching the forums to see if anyone else has this problem but I guess it's just me o.O haha. Whenever I try to upload a .…	1 Last	Autocon Feb 2011
Athletic body diversity reference This just got posted around at work, it's from a photoshoot of many different athletes (male and female) showing how different their bodies can be. [url]http://ninamatsumoto.wordpress.com/2010/12/18…	15 Last	ZacD Feb 2011
Art Project - Powered by Google [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GThNZH5Q1yY[/ame] Extremely high rez photos of masters work, and google street style views of the inside of museums. Awesome shit right there.	12 Last	Flava-Fly Feb 2011
!!!to anyone that bought a sandy bridge rig!!! [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/news/cougar-point-sandy-bridge-sata-error,12108.html[/url] apparently the 3gb/s SATA controllers are pretty fucked, and intel are going to be ordering recalls pretty…	34 Last	piippo Feb 2011
what about a pixel contest? Pixel Art Competition , this summer we will be starting our journey with flirting with cubes Contest Start Date ?? Contest End Date ?? Here Goes the Rules 1-Only cubes must be used , the spacing b…	24 Last	Swizzle Feb 2011
Dark Souls Trailer [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsrNWNc2VCA&feature=player_embedded[/ame] The first game was THE Manly Man game of Manliness. Finishing the first game made my voice drop, grew hair on my chest…	3 Last	moose Feb 2011
hello Hello there, it's me again thanks for the unban, and I promise i will not do a single mistake, if i do a single mistake delete my account! since i am unbanned, will continue Anubis :) .	52 Last	gibson543 Feb 2011
First post, yay! Im in class now and dont have time to think about something to say for my first post. My name is Bruce and Im a 3d student at digipen IT in redmond washington. I am definitely not spam, please accept…	6 Last	seth. Feb 2011
Montreal Polycounters? Hey! So I'm pretty new to Montreal, and I was wondering if there were any fellow Polycounters around here! I thought it could be interesting to see if anyone would be up for some Zbrush/Mudbox/Brain…	2 Last	Will Faucher Feb 2011
Do you use Lite step? Ok So lets try this again. I know there were couple of "Post your desktop" or "what desktop theme do you use" type of threads but this one is different. The program is called lite-step. It modifies …	9 Last	thedaemon Feb 2011
Upgrading work/gaming PC - Crit my rig! There's been alot of hardware talk in the Sandy Bridge thread, but I wanted to get some opinions on my own upgrade, and possibly turn this into a Hardware/upgrade thread if anyone else wants to throw…	6 Last	Lazerus Reborn Feb 2011
material texturing wiki? Was wondering if anyone has created a fairly simple and easy breakdown of the best ways to texture for certain materials. ie, for material A your diffuse would be a patterned texture, spec would be w…	3 Last	Racer445 Feb 2011
Sphinx [IMG]http://www.greatdreams.com/egypt/Egypt%20Sphinx%20of%20Giza.jpg[/IMG] Sphinx looks cool! the ones who sculpted it must be artists! [IMG]http://www.ebibleteacher.com/images/sphinx.jpg[/IMG] I…	18 Last	divi Feb 2011
"Sandy Bridge" is out! Been waiting for the new Sandy-Bridge cpus to be released for what seems like ages. Well they're finally out, so time to upgrade! So anyhow I'm looking to get a relatively cheap mobo that supports u…	107 Last	Yozora Feb 2011
3d jobs non gaming Hey I know that majority of people on here are interested about 3d modeling in the gaming industry. Does anyone have advice or know anything about 3d modeling for military simulations and arch viz. …	12 Last	haikai Feb 2011
8Bit- Retro video game inspired animation a must watch [url]http://vimeo.com/15021852[/url]	11 Last	paperpeoplejokes Feb 2011
Hey, so uh... Hey, I just joined today in a bought of insomnia. I'm a bit of a cartoonist and I've always had a vague but persistent interest in 3D modeling. The Team Fortress 2 Polycount contest first directed m…	6 Last	Jarlsberg Feb 2011
Konami Concept Art Competition [URL]http://www.konami.com/article/KONAMI_LAUNCHES_ORIGINAL_FACEBOOK_PROMOTION_FOR_SILENT_HILL:/170[/URL] [quote]KONAMI today launched the "Be Buried in Silent Hill!" promotion on Facebook giving f…	1 Last	Belias Jan 2011
Kevin Johnstone modular tutorial question I was looking at Kevin Johnstone's tutorial about using the grid in max and making Lego type pieces. He said he used the bend modifier, but I am having trouble how he achieved both domes using it. A…	7 Last	Maxim Jan 2011
Interesting Intuos4 Ripoff found this Today [url]http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Grafiktablett/AIPTEK/Media_Tablet_Ultimate/692224/?tn=HARDWARE&l1=Eingabeger%C3%A4te&l2=Grafiktabletts[/url] and it says the pen has no bat…	4 Last	Chrisis Jan 2011
World Famous French Toast. So a little while ago, we had a get together with some friends for an Iron Chef showdown, which we've been doing for the past few years now. The theme was "Booze in food" and my wife made the most aw…	37 Last	notman Jan 2011
Question: Student Aid for Abroad/Non-Accredited Schooling This may be a bit of a stretch as a goal, but I've been incredibly interested in getting into the traditional art school, Florence Academy of Art for figurative sculpture. [url]http://www.florenceac…	5 Last	c.r.drake Jan 2011
New gig lonestar state bound well around march i start at Kingsisle in Austin, we should be in town around the 15th kittys family has a ranch out near georgetown just a small trailer on a couple hundred acres, and they are go…	8 Last	cholden Jan 2011
DC Universe Online Congrats to r13 and any other SOE guys who worked on it. Released today!	8 Last	Rhinokey Jan 2011
enslaved ps3 spare code hey good people of polycount, I was having a clean of my desk this morning and found a dlc code for Enslaved. The classic monkey skin ps3 version....I has only a 360 so I figure that one of yourselve…	12 Last	Andreas Jan 2011
More Bad News - Game Artist Don Barnes Stabbed to death Game Artist Don Barnes Fatally Stabbed In Attempt To Stop Fight from Kotaku: Donald Barnes Jr., a video game artist formerly of EA Sports and Activision and the father of two children, was fatally s…	17 Last	Joseph Silverman Jan 2011
Significant layoffs at Disney Interactive Studios [URL]http://gamasutra.com/view/news/32616/Report_Disney_Interactive_Sees_Significant_Layoffs.php[/URL] [INDENT] "Sources familiar with the situation" [URL="http://www.cnbc.com/id/41241169"]told CNBC…	18 Last	vcortis Jan 2011
Ancient Artifacts In the name of the recent "conspiracy" vids being posted, here is a pretty damn interesting one about ancient artefacts on earth from the pyramids to the mayan stuff, and a look at how they wer made …	25 Last	notman Jan 2011
Scholarship opportunities? I'm a Senior in high school and I was wondering if anybody knows of some 3D animation related scholarships? I have done research but man they are scarce. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated!…	0 Last	Nemlet17 Jan 2011
Jam-I-Am Bday Bonanza! The man, the myth, the mystery... 1 year old... er. [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rQVu1N2lCnA/SikdpR8v-BI/AAAAAAAAAhU/wbjkcyuTj8o/s400/Bday+slut.bmp[/IMG]	2 Last	Sean VanGorder Jan 2011
Modo 501 [URL="http://www.luxology.com/modo/tour/modo501featuretour.aspx"]Modo 501 has arrived![/URL] :) Has anyone had a chance to mess around with it? Any first impressions? I'm trying to resist just purch…	47 Last	seven Jan 2011
Requirements for an Artist in the Games Industry Hi everyone, I am going to complete my studies in a few months and I was deciding to collect informations about the various Artists positions in the Industry. I am basically into modelling and textu…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2011
best forum for 3d animation? There are lots of great 3d artist communities out there especially for 3d modeling and 3d art. What about 3d animation? Does anyone know?	7 Last	Mezz Jan 2011
In need of some financial/workshop advice Hey guys, I just came back from the unemployment offices in CT and I qualified for a chance to receive a job training grant. All I have to do is go to a 1 hour orientation and then meet with a career…	9 Last	TheRydanWorkshop Jan 2011
Old Flying/floating behemoth [url]http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html[/url] pretty cool.	14 Last	crasong Jan 2011
Lovecraf inspired Perma-deathMMO? [url]http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/20/paradox-announce-free-to-play-mmo-salem/[/url] COUNT ME IN If it's any good at all. as it stands it's just a guy talking about it.	35 Last	HonkyPunch Jan 2011
3D + HTML5 [url]http://www.3dtin.com/[/url] This was posted on CGChannels Facebook page, i thought i'd share it with you guys, assuming you havent seen it already:) Pretty damned cool in my opinion.	11 Last	Purplepaint Jan 2011
How to send images for Job applications Just wondered how people send images of their art when they apply for jobs? Often on line applications ask for a CV and to send work examples. What's the best way to send the images? just JPEGS in …	18 Last	AlexLegg Jan 2011