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New Halo Reach Screens.... Well, that "graphical jump" didn't last long, its already back to looking like... You know... Such a damn shame, I really though Bungie got the hint, but this game really makes the 360 look bad. Not …	45 Last	Master_v12 Jan 2010
Avatar On Friday there's gonna be screenings of some stuff from Avatar in select theaters. Its 15 mins in 3d and its free, pretty nice way to kill some time. RSVP here: [url]http://www.avatarmovie.com/tick…	425 Last	eld Jan 2010
Old games with bust developers! Im curious as to what happens to a games licence per se, when their developer goes bust? Im guessing the title and names and such are not burned and left in the dirt and someone cant just come alon…	3 Last	ShadowFox Jan 2010
China sure does take their bootlegging seriously [url]http://bitmob.com/index.php/mobfeed/piracy-triumphs-demake-of-resident-evil.html[/url] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnFWeujO9ko[/ame] And the page linked in the article: [url]http://ww…	31 Last	PolyHertz Jan 2010
Doom dev diary!...sort of [url]http://vimeo.com/4022128[/url] Dunno if it's been posted around yet. Sorry if it was. Brings back some memories...) And I loved how the hardcore guys doing monsters and all the brutal stuff w…	4 Last	DrunkShaman Jan 2010
Character Design courses in London, UK Hi everyone, I'm currently studying to become a character artist. I work on a lot of 3D models using Maya and sculpting with Mudbox/Zbrush. However after a few years of doing 3D, I've wanted to start…	5 Last	Tully Jan 2010
Money-Driven Medicine (movie) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jrNodP-dEs&feature=player_embedded[/ame] Has anyone seen this? My wife's gonna go check it out later in the week.	0 Last	hobodactyl Jan 2010
Questions about LinkedIn Hey all, I've just got profile up on LinkedIn following the advice from a few people on here and on a GIM podcast I was listening to earlier. I just have a couple questions. Firstly, is it accept…	6 Last	DarthNater Jan 2010
ATTN: GHOSTBUSTERS FANS! I NEED YOUR HELP! Im am currently working on a project for school, in which i am modelling the interior of the Ghostbusters firehouse, complete with Ecto-1 I am having a bit of trouble finding alot of good turn aroun…	18 Last	Xoliul Jan 2010
tattoos in video games i just got done playing DA and one of the most disappointing things i always see are horrific tattoo textures on char models, either blocked out, or lower rez then the skin texture. does anyone have …	21 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2010
Ganz Anybody from Ontario on the board heard anything about or know peeps that have or do work at Ganz in Toronto.	2 Last	Canadian Ink Jan 2010
I'm tired of slow loading flash site for games and movies They are ridiculous! From Darksiders [url]http://www.darksiders.com/#/media-videos[/url] to district 9 [url]http://www.d-9.com/[/url] Do they actually help movie/game sales? They seem expensive t…	22 Last	aesir Jan 2010
Rockstar San Diego I suppose this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who works in this industry, but it's still disheartening to read. Six months of crunch and still going? Performance warnings for not working 11+ hours…	259 Last	oXYnary Jan 2010
Beautiful Places Okay, i am going to offer absolutely [b]nothing[/b] here since i don't even know where to start, but considering the treasure trove Beautiful Women and Beautiful Men quickly became i bet you guys hav…	44 Last	ZacD Jan 2010
hackintosh - making a flash drive bootable creating this thread here since it has nothing to do with 3D directly: ive got an acer aspire one that i got on the cheap, want to turn it into a hackintosh. following a couple of online guides to g…	4 Last	diminished_Self Jan 2010
Modern Architecture Hi, I was wondering if some other polycounters are interested in modern architecture. For example I've been following [url]http://www.spaceinvading.com/[/url] for a while and it just gives me lots of…	21 Last	Ben Apuna Jan 2010
Traveling to Seattle I know a bunch of you guys are up there, we're thinking about doing our honeymoon thing in Seattle. So i just want to get some opinions on some things: 1. Time of year to go, terribly hot in summer?…	21 Last	diminished_Self Jan 2010
Computer help! Hey guys, this really has nothing to do with CG so I didn't post it in tech talk, but my computer keeps freezing every time I go to open an image through a browser, and it doesn't matter what browser…	26 Last	PfhorRunner Jan 2010
polycount site outside of forum hey, i joined during the time that we were still waiting for the new site to be completed. So, i just wanted to know, what was the rest of the polycount site outside of forums? What was there? i just…	30 Last	Xenobond Jan 2010
Closed Nintendo balance board provides cheap alternative for stroke victims [quote][I][URL]http://gizmodo.com/5450150/in-early-tests-99-wii-balance-board-outperforms-17885-medical-rig[/URL][/I] [I]Another day, another story about some cheap, plastic Wii motion control acces…	32 Last	adam Jan 2010
Something that might be of interest Here is something that might be of interest to people here. [URL]http://www.digitaldemigods.com/[/URL] [URL="http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/jobs/viewjob.php?article=190"][/URL]	16 Last	JohnnyRaptor Jan 2010
EA sends out brass knuckles with godfather 2..oops! I thought this was to entertaining not to share [URL]http://kotaku.com/5207521/ea-ships-illegal-weapons-to-press-wants-them-back[/URL] EA shipped out brass knuckles with copies of godfather 2, whi…	32 Last	karlsmith Jan 2010
MSUC Phase 4 Winners [url]http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/phase4_winners.aspx[/url] bang on top yay but now i guess we are out, compared to whats in the best fps and non fps section and not ranking at all, but anyw…	39 Last	bugo Jan 2010
applying so i have a question i'm sure this has been asked before but i couldn't find a thread so i'm asking again. whats the best way to apply for work? spam all companies interest in if they have a posting …	18 Last	Joao Sapiro Jan 2010
Closed i began animation ! .	0 Last	Belias Jan 2010
how to sell my domain ? hello , i need help , i want to sell the domain [url]www.3dkernel.com[/url] what site do you suggest to sell it in ? didn't like sedo ...	37 Last	cycloverid Jan 2010
why people love my thread ? it seems that people love this thread !! [URL]http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=64576[/URL] why ? am i funny ? if i'm so , i don't mean it ... :) hello anubis ... :) [IMG]http://img18…	23 Last	bugo Jan 2010
Can I haz new Rig? Hey all you computer literate polycounters out there, I need some help :) Recently I've come across a little bit of spending cash, and my current computer is dying a slow and VERY painful death (as …	49 Last	NyneDown Jan 2010
Thunderdome Channel on IRC We're doing regular thunderdomes on IRC and we'd like [I]everyone[/I] to join. What's a thunderdome? We get a set time (60 minutes for example) to do a set topic, and produce the best image possible…	0 Last	vatsel Jan 2010
$1 million sports car into marshes Why rich people shouldn't drive these cars :(. [URL]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33906595/ns/us_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001[/URL] He was calm, Harrison told the Chronicle. If it had been me, I'd…	40 Last	Lamont Jan 2010
Can vampires ever be cool again? Its tough to be optimistic with new moon destroying the hopes of vampires ever being cool again, but I saw this preview for [I]Daybreakers[/I] and thought it looked interesting: [url]http://www.appl…	88 Last	Japhir Jan 2010
printing my stuff ? Hi , i been asked to print my WIP when it is finished for money [QUOTE]Can you render one out at 10 feet wide by 6 feet high?[/QUOTE] my problem is that the dimensions wanted are 16feet by 10 feet …	7 Last	Belias Jan 2010
CGChain Matcaps? Anyone remember that great collection of matcaps that used to be on CGChain? Anyone got them? It seems to have been pulled from their site. :/ If anyone has them and wants to send me a dropbox link o…	1 Last	Firebert Jan 2010
roadkill pro looks like some nice stuff in the manual, going to have to try it out next time i do UVs Coming soon for 3ds Max [url]http://www.roadkillpro.com/download/maya/[/url]	15 Last	firestarter Jan 2010
oh ,my! 3D art in a museum! I've always wondered what would it take for 3d art to be put in a real gallery or a museum and not feel out of place. [url]http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=841909&utm_medium=pl…	16 Last	BradMyers82 Jan 2010
Lee3Dee can has birthday! Happy Birthday dude. :) Next time we go out, we got your dinner. :) [img]http://www.zanyimages.com/Belated%20Birthday/Happy%20Birthday%20to%20You%20!!!.jpg[/img]	33 Last	BoBo_the_seal Jan 2010
The Spiderman the could have been... Imagine if James Cameron would have directed Spiderman . What would it be like? Answer: [URL="http://dantom.altervista.org/spider_ing_script.html"]James Cameron's script for Spiderman.[/URL] I hones…	11 Last	Jeremy Wright Jan 2010
Game Success vs. Art Quality As game artists, how significant is a product's commercial success when it comes to an artist's portfolio or even word of mouth? There are plenty of games that ship and are very successful even if th…	44 Last	Richard Kain Jan 2010
Pretty grim read on the state of EA from an executive [url]http://bizpunk.blogspot.com/2010/01/after-bell-today-ea-announced-massive.html[/url] Definitely an interesting albeit grim read on the state of EA and it's inner thought process on operations.	16 Last	achillesian Jan 2010
suggest montage !! Hi what is the most easy software that can add texts watermarks montage audio and stuff like in this video ? [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ZfnXU1Gow&feature=player_embedded[/ame] please he…	8 Last	sir-knight Jan 2010
B&W Zeppelin Has anyone got / heard the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin? I'm currently looking to get a decent iPod dock since my iPod is pretty much the main source of music in my home office, and while my PC speaker…	2 Last	Tom Ellis Jan 2010
Guns references anyone have a link to a site with some good high quality gun pics? i use to have one but i lost the link :(	7 Last	RAL Jan 2010
Spiderman 4 scrapped, Toby and Raimi no more [url]http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1399369/[/url] Kinda of a suprize to me... although Spider-man 3 sucked, I was sort of looking forward to see what the 4th one might bring... oh well..	52 Last	arrangemonk Jan 2010
TRUE TRANSFORMERS game ( possibly) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmqgTX66tJU[/ame] true, transformer done faithfully ...? no michael bay ..... style .... let see ...	32 Last	Lonewolf Jan 2010
2KBoston is back to Irrational Games Name changed and with it a new logo and website too :] [URL]http://irrationalgames.com/[/URL] Pretty sick! A lot of content to scrub through ;)	18 Last	LoTekK Jan 2010
New jobby at United Front! hey guys, Starting January I will be leaving Big Sandwich Games and joining United Front Games to work on the recently announced True Crime. Its been a great 2 year ride at Big sandwich but its time …	38 Last	glib Jan 2010
violent games are worse than porn [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8453043.stm[/url] you have to laugh really	29 Last	Sage Jan 2010
Closed Porn better than Games. Discuss. [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8453043.stm[/URL]	1 Last	Polyjunky Jan 2010
Franklyn So... I just stumbled across this movie called "Franklyn" and man... does it ever look awesome. It was by the same dude who did The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus (Terry Gilliam) which I haven't seen …	9 Last	Gallows Jan 2010
Inklet Trackpad- Convert macbook trackpad to a tablet Just saw this on end gadget.. Pretty cool "replacement" to a wacom tablet.. Well not really, but it is perfect for projects on the go :thumbup: [URL]http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/inklet-trackpad…	2 Last	hawken Jan 2010