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Art Institute of LA Hey polycount. So as some of you know... I'm in the college application process. I've been looking at a bunch of schools and one of them is the Art Institute of LA. Last night I had a 2 hour phone…	17 Last	low odor Feb 2010
Dragon Age Memory Leaks Hey, short and sweet. Is there any fix out yet that deals with the PC memory leak issue for AMD processors? [known problem that increases load times for simple rooms to like 3 minutes after aw…	1 Last	TheWinterLord Feb 2010
Primal Carnage site live! (Dino game!) The official website for the new (dino vs humans) indie game called 'Primal Carnage' just went live, check it out :) [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3040251/primalcarnage/primallogo.JPG[/IMG] [URL]ht…	9 Last	Fang Feb 2010
Hello! New member - and a question. Hi all- First allow me to introduce myself since I'm pretty new - mostly a lurker. My name is Gordon, I'm currently a middle school art teacher. I finished my licensure in 2005 and just now got a j…	6 Last	crazyfingers Feb 2010
Star Trek: Online (my first title) Hey fellas, So all of us here at Cryptic are excited about our launch of STO today (early start for preorders) and officially on the 2nd of Feb. The game's been doing well with the community so far…	67 Last	flaagan Feb 2010
Help with education decision My name is sam griffiths, I am 18 (like it matters). So I have a problem, I am currently on a BTEC National course for animation in the UK, the reason I joined this course was that I was planning on…	5 Last	samgriffiths Feb 2010
ImageModeler whatca think? Using photos to create models. Seems more geared toward arch/vis but could have applications in games? I'm not really sure how fast or easy it is to use. Demo movies are always "amazing" and never sh…	5 Last	Cyrael Feb 2010
10 tips for freelancers Saw this on lifehacker this morning and I figured it was worthy of passing along. Enjoy! [url]http://lifehacker.com/5460247/top-10-tips-and-tools-for-freelancers[/url]	11 Last	Karmageddon Feb 2010
Closed Speed Metal Lyrics - Warhammer inspired Hey all, listening to metal and was inspired while reading up on chaos gods (Metal and chaos gods...the most epic things in existance) and wrote this in 8 minutes. First ever lyrics so don't judge. I…	26 Last	EarthQuake Feb 2010
Work PC Questions Been trying to discuss this at work recently, I know lots of art dev folks have some awesome rigs [B][U][I]at work[/I][/U].[/B]. but I know some folks that work at smaller indie studios that have to …	22 Last	TheMadArtist Feb 2010
Scientists can communicate with braindead... [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8497148.stm[/url] yes yes its not my blog ...	7 Last	EmAr Feb 2010
System Shock mouse-look There's a write-up of a mod for Looking Glass's classic System Shock available [url=http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/02/04/unpitiful-hacker-system-shock-m-look-mod/]here[/url] which gives the pla…	1 Last	LoTekK Feb 2010
Closed Old Fountain - Mini Environment	0 Last	JasonLavoie Feb 2010
TF2 Propaganda Contest Runners Up [url]http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3391[/url] Some cool entries, but check out uzumania's entry (adorable soldier category). [url=http://annekatran.blogspot.com/2008/11/hoo-ah.html]Look fa…	29 Last	CheeseOnToast Feb 2010
Hello, new member feeling out the vibe Hey everyone. My friend referred me to polycount and it seems right up my alley. I graduated with my Bach in 3D animation and I am putting together a game to publish on my own. I anticipate to se…	38 Last	Rens Feb 2010
Awesome gift from my wife Ive been helping my wife out alot with her business lately so she made me a mini sculpture of me as a thank you gift...so awesome, she even hand painted my tattoos and everything... She puts my art s…	21 Last	DrunkShaman Feb 2010
oops Kojima did it again [url]http://www.metalgearsolid.org/Articles/Features/hideo-kojima-versus-the-big-robots.html[/url] Hideo Kojima Versus the Big Robots This is an article about Hideo Kojima's life, career and also h…	6 Last	Andreas Feb 2010
Second Skin - Documentary on MMOs Stumbled upon this. Worth a watch. [quote]Second Skin takes an intimate, disturbing look at three sets of computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of computer games ca…	5 Last	Disco Stu Feb 2010
The Bridge - Chief Tyrol as my dad? Hey guys, [img2=left]http://www.aarondouglasfans.com/PhotoGallery/SiteUpdates/TheBridge_CTV_PressRelease_Feb2009.jpg[/img2]Just got word from my old-man that his new TV show, The Bridge, is slated f…	64 Last	notman Feb 2010
President Obama's youtube interview. Obama responds to internet user's questions via youtube. Interesting watch. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqzNJYzh7I[/ame]	21 Last	Junkie_XL Feb 2010
Hey everyone- im new its nice to be a member! Hey everyone, my name is Ryan Smith im a college student majoring in Audio Design and I've always wanted to get into the industry for Sound designing with video games. I stumbled across polycount on …	12 Last	griffinax Feb 2010
Which type of dragon wings? Hi, I'm making a dragon (remaking rather) for my rigger friend. She said however I do it it's fine as long as the typology is good. Im debating whether I should give her a dragon with double sided …	2 Last	Celes Feb 2010
Opinions on Outsourcing Been lurking for a while and decided to post! Working a new game with a couple of co-workers and a friends, but we need art assets. 8 basic character models (think TF2 style). What do you guys reco…	8 Last	Gav Feb 2010
Polycount Top Page suggestion? Hey I dunno if this was brought up But I really think it would be cool if when a member has there image on the top page of polycount as a headline, As well as write there name and such of who made …	25 Last	bbob Feb 2010
Your brain is right Or left, I'm not sure. Unfortunately, I don't know the validity of this claim, since I can very easily change the direction she spins, but the claim is: If you were viewing her from the top, a counte…	79 Last	Calabi Feb 2010
Global Game Jam 2010 Global Gam Jam 2010 \| Jan 29-31 [url]http://www.globalgamejam.org[/url] Anyone participating, or hosting a GGJ event? We'll be hosting a jam here at PlaygroundSquad :) Looking forward to a fun ev…	32 Last	EmAr Feb 2010
Winter/Cold/Snow Movies? I am looking for suggestions. Spine Chilling/Ball Shrinking/Deep/Horrid/Cold/Numb/Conceptual/Surreal/Sci-Fi/Psycho/Thriller movies please. Current list: [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/"]…	22 Last	griffinax Feb 2010
Point and shoot cameras? So a drunken night out, long story short, I lend a guy my coat, forget the camera is in the pocket, get coat back, no camera. I had one of these : [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518qEYD…	3 Last	thnom Feb 2010
Dragon Age question. Bit confused at the moment about this part of the game. It seems the only way to get to the arl is by helping out the townspeople with the monsters that come out at night, yet whenever I accept a q…	19 Last	vcool Feb 2010
Battlefield Bad company 2 Battlefield Bad company 2, whos getting it ? who has played the Battlefield Bad company 2, PS3 Beta ? Unfortunately Myself I have missed out on the Beta. I'm really excited about this game, It will…	63 Last	crazyfingers Feb 2010
New DVD Release! Unreal Development Kit As always I'm posting here before the official press release. Thanks again for everyone's support.:) [IMG]http://eat3d.com/images/news/01_27_10_udk_large.jpg[/IMG] In this demonstration Sjoerd Hou…	31 Last	DarthNater Feb 2010
Steam Saves pc restore, Help! I accidently removed my audio drivers for my creative fatality headset or it was something similair, perhaps even worse the USB headset...setting. I've tried downloading them back, twice and it hasn'…	8 Last	Krypteia Feb 2010
Substance Air [url]http://www.allegorithmic.com/?PAGE=PRODUCTS.substance[/url] [url]http://download.allegorithmic.com/medias/videos/substance_air_intro_v2.mov[/url] Texturing system/compression method. Seems lik…	3 Last	Jeka Feb 2010
Global Agenda - FPS MMO So I saw Global Agenda has released to those that have pre-ordered and goes retail live tomorrow...anybody try it out yet? It looks interesting and is one of the few FPS MMO games that are starting …	6 Last	Shogun3d Feb 2010
Polycount Snow Trip 2010 I'll be heading over the United States on Saturday 6th Feb (less than a week) with hopes to re-locate to the country. But this isn't my blog so I'll leave it at that. The purpose of this thread is t…	16 Last	Emil Mujanovic Feb 2010
New DVD Release! ZBrush 3.5 Character Production Ifs finally out!! Im posting here before the official press release. Thanks again for everyone's support.:) [IMG]http://eat3d.com/images/news/01_08_zbrush35_character_large.jpg[/IMG] In this DVD M…	17 Last	yoyomon Feb 2010
One for you Xbox kids :).... Hey Guys, My first gaming project was released on XboxLive:Indie Games yesterday. minus points for originality as its based on the good old 'tower defence' concept, but it started out as a learning…	1 Last	Vailias Jan 2010
EA Pirate Office! I recently got a tour of the EA Tiburon Studios and figured I would share this awesomeness with Polycount! They are a really cool bunch of guys and definitely like to have fun! The pirate office …	22 Last	Whargoul Jan 2010
Repo! Genetic Opera sci-fi, rock-n-roll [I]opera[/I]-musical about reposing human organs. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xETgGym8cnE[/ame] Has anybody else seen this?	13 Last	roosterMAP Jan 2010
web-based shader editor [url]http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/[/url] Found this on gamedev, thought I would share it here, requires a web-gl capable browser.	7 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2010
Any Chicago Based Polycounters Going... Hey I was just wondering if anyone else is going to the CG Society meeting at Flashpoint on Friday? [URL]http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=290&t=841775&highlight=chicago[/URL]	7 Last	Filbot Jan 2010
Inspirational Printed Art Hey Guys and Gals! I am getting ready to decorate a new work area. I want to get some inspirational environment pieces to place on the walls. The bad thing is that most of my favorite artists don'…	5 Last	Andreas Jan 2010
Sony 'Restructuring' Liverpool studio And again.... [quote]Sony Computer Entertainment has revealed that it is in the process of restructuring its Liverpool studio following "project prioritisation" by the Worldwide Studios division.[…	3 Last	thomasp Jan 2010
New Years Resolutions So you have less than a week to think about it, whats it going to be? Also has anyone ever successfully done one before? Mine is to stop sitting on my butt so much and be more active before my body…	97 Last	John Warner Jan 2010
Ergonomic Recall! [url]http://furniture.about.com/b/2010/01/20/mooreco-ergonomic-office-chairs-recalled.htm[/url] Coming back from the holidays and I get this letter in the mail stating I have to pack up my chair and…	30 Last	Sage Jan 2010
Closed This is my blog blog away	13 Last	teaandcigarettes Jan 2010
Stock investment / trading Folks, I'm looking into investing / trading in a multitude of areas. Seems about the right time to do so. I like the way google, apple, steam, activision-blizzard, and a few other companies are hea…	12 Last	notman Jan 2010
For all you wanting an easy Portfolio [url]www.weebly.com[/url] You have to buy yourself a domain, but hell, I think I pay 8 dollars a year for mine.... Anyway, I'm currently switching over to it now, and its awesome. You can use one …	15 Last	downarmy Jan 2010
Retarded lack of support for XBox controllers on PC Titles. [B]WTF[/B] is up with titles like Mass Effect and MW2 having no XBox controls set up on the PC version despite having XBox versions out there? Is there any way that the code is there, that can be acc…	15 Last	Andreas Jan 2010
The TESTER - PSN So Sony is doing this reality TV show (8 episodes) which features avid gamers wanting a shot at being a game tester at Sony. I'll just quote it from [url]http://www.thetester.com/[/url] [quote] Pl…	19 Last	Heart_Murmur Jan 2010