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Primal Carnage - looking for talent! Hey guys, We're looking to add some talent to the Primal Carnage team so if you think you have what it takes please get in touch. Primal Carnage is a global effort built on the UDK and will allow p…	4 Last	oXYnary Oct 2010
It gets better Some of you might have heard of the rash of suicides as a result of homophobic bullying in the US this past month. Dan Savage, an advice columnist had this to say. (he's much more eloquent than I) […	99 Last	Skamberin Oct 2010
Moving to Nottingham (UK), any advices? I guess the title says everything~ I'm moving to Nottingham from Paris to join Crytek UK as environment artist. As I need to find an accommodation (they're helping me, but help doesn't mean that they…	26 Last	Don Karnage Oct 2010
It's been a long time, need some industry advice It's been FOREVER since I have posted here. I just need some advice about getting back into the industry and how it has changed since I left. So back in late 2006 and into 2007 (when I used to post …	6 Last	chrisradsby Oct 2010
Pimping my guesthouse renovations Agust and I bought a 3 floor duplex 6 months ago. It has a fireplace, a greenhouse room, it's own driveway, a backyard (a rarity in downtown Reykjavik) and best of all, A GUEST HOUSE! It was origina…	21 Last	poopinmymouth Oct 2010
Erm, Hi. I guess this is where I should put this, sorry if it is in the wrong place, I thought this would be the most appropriate spot. Anyway. I just registered, a lurker for sometime, figured I might …	13 Last	Mad2192 Oct 2010
PS3 controller probs hey everyone my ps3 controller isn't connecting to the ps3 anymore. it connects if its plugged in but not when its not, and if i unplug it while its on it just turns itself off(the controller). has…	9 Last	dansher Oct 2010
Digital Tutors - Anybody got some favorite videos? Feel free to lock this for being 'bloggy'! My university just pulled its finger out and got us a classroom account (or whatever its called) at digital tutors! It's a shame this only happened in my f…	2 Last	DrunkShaman Oct 2010
Community Made MMORPG [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Yw4ex.png[/IMG] Crimson Haze is a community built MMORPG. The goal being to assemble the artists, writers, musicians, actors, programmers and game designers of the world f…	101 Last	MattQ86 Oct 2010
GAAHHHH REAL WORLD ACHIEVEMENTS!?!? [url]http://www.scvngr.com/[/url] Click "watch how to play" and you'll see what I'm talking about. After Jesse Schell [url=http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-the-box-presentation…	15 Last	danshewan Oct 2010
Ongaku... Hey guys, Ive been directed towards here by a friend who thought some of you would appreciate the vector artwork that we have in our latest game, Ongaku. If you like rhythm action games then you s…	0 Last	SebSMG Oct 2010
New DVD Release! The Dozer - Part 1 - Building & Rendering a High Poly Dozer in 3ds M Hi Everyone! We are proud to release this new DVD and have been working on it most of this year! More information on the product page here: [URL=http://eat3d.com/dozer_part1]http://eat3d.com/dozer_…	12 Last	[HP] Oct 2010
Bonjour from Belgium Hello Hello ! I'm a newbie here so I post some presentation words. I'm a student from the "Amazing Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard" of Namur in Belgium, maybe you already know it and other students are …	0 Last	Obikenowan Oct 2010
Happy birthday, Vig! Many happy returns, fella. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/8506/vigtx.jpg[/IMG]	45 Last	XenoKratios Oct 2010
Video Hosting / Embedding Suggestions? I'm nearly finished with a new portfolio website and was trying to figure out how to show some turntables and animations I had worked on, and initially planned on going with Vimeo, due to them having…	3 Last	Illusions Oct 2010
Interested a career change, maybe teaching Anyone here change careers recently? The game industry and its issues are getting a bit old, even though I love being on a good dev team, rocking a great project. I'm thinking of switching gears, b…	40 Last	Steve Schulze Oct 2010
Schools I have been looking around the internet for schools that offer animation and modeling, yet I can find very few. the only ones that I have found are Aniamtion mentor, full sail, digi pen, academy of a…	0 Last	sek19howell Oct 2010
originality, paintovers et al. A friend of mine who enjoys digital painting recently produced incredible works of almost photoreal quality. He really does draw well, so although I was surprised at his leap in skill, I didn't suspe…	24 Last	dejawolf Oct 2010
For the oldschool sim geeks.. I know you are out there lurking somewhere.. Just tried the demo of this game [URL="http://riseofflight.com/en"]Rise of Flight[/URL], and even with the horrible controls a keyboard has to offer, I w…	26 Last	empeck Oct 2010
ACL 2010 [url]http://www.aclfestival.com/[/url] the ACL festival is this week. Kub has come down to hang out with me and cheeseplus for a weekend of sitting out in a field, listening to music and relaxing. :)	1 Last	r13 Oct 2010
Medal of Honor Beta Hrmmm. anyone playing? Been playing all morning seems more like COD then any battlefield games, the maps are soo small. I've been playing a lot of Bad Company 2 still so the maps seem so small to me.…	13 Last	odium Oct 2010
So it looks like the Polycount Pack is out [url]http://www.teamfortress.com/mannconomy/item_sets/[/url] where is our news post, adam? :poly124:	61 Last	oobersli Oct 2010
Hey USA: When do I register and vote? Whenever I think politics, I think polycount. I think I have to vote or something. Someone help this lost soul. Thanks for doing the work for me, kp And a side-task for the others: Post a picture …	6 Last	ZacD Oct 2010
Students not performing?! Lower the bar! [QUOTE]Saskatoon's public high school students will no longer be penalized for plagiarism or for turning in assignments late under a new evaluation method for report cards.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.c…	27 Last	Jeremi Eldridge Oct 2010
Somebody wanna call SEGA...? Tell them THIS is what they were supposed to do...? [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxXycBv3Rlk[/ame] i.e. sexy as hell and none of that homing bollocks...? Kthx.	46 Last	rooster Oct 2010
My favorite YouTube tutorial video This one is pretty awesome. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGlQybb_W1c&feature=related[/ame] The music, the video camera, and such in-depth tips like "Make it about normal size" and "Put it he…	45 Last	D4V1DC Oct 2010
How to start a career in video games I recently moved to the Seattle area after quitting my job as a hotel night auditor. I got a temp gig as a video game tester that went really well. I'm now on my third contract. I love the indust…	7 Last	Joshua Stubbles Oct 2010
Eurogamer! London! October 1st-3rd! [IMG]http://imgur.com/GyOBn.png[/IMG] Who else is going? Who else would like to meet for a pint? I'm going to be down there on the Friday (and [i]maybe[/i] the sunday) at the careers fair and taking…	12 Last	crazyfool Oct 2010
OnLive is live...but is it any good? OnLive has finally been tested, is currently open to everyone. They are running free trials, and recently [URL="http://kotaku.com/5655455/onlive-monthly-subscription-fees-are-dead"]cut the subscripti…	2 Last	Joshua Stubbles Oct 2010
SEATTLE POLYCOUNT BEERS @ SHORTYS What would you guys say meeting for Imax Toy Story 3 19th or 20th at the Seattle Center Imax for 3d, then afterwords, meal at a Belltown pub? Good? Bad? Too early? ::::: Or Meeting at someone…	132 Last	IronHawk Oct 2010
Concept Art Artist I came across this concept art a while back and was recently trying to find the concept artist. Couldn't find who did it. Have any of you come across this concept? [IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/…	2 Last	dang87 Oct 2010
Looking for Windows 7 UI Skins Hey guys, I was on the LFG forums and found this guys UI. Any idea what it's called or if there is anything similar out there? Thanks. [IMG]http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4650/desktopsbv.png[/…	11 Last	jakelear Oct 2010
Unity 3.0 Released! Hey there guys, Check out the new version of Unity here: [url]http://unity3d.com/[/url] Thomas P.	33 Last	hawken Oct 2010
ERGH Business Cards and copyright, fffffffffffffffff ok so, yea, running into a problem. For class right now we are required to get all our shits together and get a working resume, web presence, business card, etc etc etc....because of this, I have a 2…	13 Last	[SF]Three9 Oct 2010
New episode of Crysis 2 Tv [url]http://www.mycrysis.com/gallery/trailers/crysis_2_tv_episode_3[/url] Looks interesting.	4 Last	Autocon Oct 2010
The Game Creators. I'm sure you guys have already heard about these guys, they have that famous FPS creator engine that lets you make FPS games without any coding (custom dynamic scripts makes everything like pointing …	9 Last	gibson543 Oct 2010
Stylised influences... where to begin? I have always worked in a realistic fashion, to help broaden my horizons I wouldn't mind doing some stylised work, in some cases you could say cartoon style, over exaggerated world and human features…	6 Last	IchII3D Oct 2010
[Rant] Tutorials Sorry of this is the wrong place but it's annoying the hell out of me and I need to get it off my chest. I'm sick and tired of every yokel with a 5$ PC mic and some desktop recording software thinki…	50 Last	Super Oct 2010
Good Moving Companies So im sure in the vast history of PC a few people have had to move and deal with moving companies. So my question is who are the good ones to go with? I no really nothing about them so I am a bit i…	4 Last	Autocon Oct 2010
blender open movie project : sintel released they were working quite some time on it, and now its finished and free to download short movie about 15mins long here you go [URL]http://www.sintel.org/wp-content/content/download.html[/URL] absolu…	1 Last	Entity Oct 2010
My wife on TV. Hey all. I usually post up my animations and art from my cartoon im making. but this post is for my wifey! She has just wrapped a show on VH1 and is now hunting down her acting career. here are som…	10 Last	danshewan Oct 2010
Damn, I'm 631,175,396 seconds old... and still alive, amazing, isn't it? (Self 20th birthday thread cause the calender is broken (and I still got a year until I can legally drink D:)	16 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2010
Humbly asking for help Hey guys, I must be 1 out of 100000000 with this problem I'm sure, but it's worth a shot.. I need help finding work, I feel like a total failure these days.. The story.. I've worked for a high end o…	17 Last	PixelMasher Oct 2010
Gcap! So this is the Australian version of gdc but smaller and probably consists of 2 men a bbq and a cork hat. Whos going? All of Halfbrick will be there, and i think we are sponsoring the poker night. …	14 Last	The Flying Monk Oct 2010
Nintendo 3DS launch video Well, the date is set for the 3DS, here's the video: (Feb. 26 in Japan) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggta_FpzQOg[/ame] I found it a bit creepy to be honest.	16 Last	hawken Oct 2010
New job at the Dog Kennel I am super excited to finally get to say that I just recently accepted my offer to become the new full time environment artist over at Naughty Dog :) Beyond happy and excited about this new opportun…	40 Last	Paul Pepera Oct 2010
Closed TF2 Mann-Conomy update (polycount pack too) [url]http://www.teamfortress.com/mannconomy/[/url] Polycount pack released among other things.	2 Last	Keg Sep 2010
New portfolio option? Today, I saw an article on lifehacker, about a site called [URL="http://www.DropMocks.com"]DropMocks[/URL]. It allows you to drag-drop images directly into your browser, and it creates a photo galler…	3 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Sep 2010
Pranks at work Tuesday night: I set up a long series of renders just before I left. Instead of sending them to the network I decide I'll just get it done locally on my machine which means I leave my system unlocked…	95 Last	Bigjohn Sep 2010
Brink video interesting vid. at the beginning, there's a dude wearing a polycount shirt! lol [url]http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/brink/video/6275321/brink-developer-diary-5--minds-on-the-brink?tag=gumballs%3…	3 Last	MoP Sep 2010