General Discussion

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DISCUSSION: First Job Prep Ok, so, this being my final year of school, im trying to get as much information as possible. Between talking to people here, getting my friends to hook me up with coworkers (modellers, animators) em…	10 Last	Yozora Sep 2009
Closed Disney to Aquire Marvel for 4 billion!? I don't know about you...but wtf? - [url]http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/31/news/companies/disney_marvel/index.htm?postversion=2009083115[/url]	3 Last	MoP Aug 2009
Portfolio Image Gallery solutions Hi guys, I'm thinking to put together a new online personal portfolio. My current one is quite old and almost empty, but the worst of it is that is entirely in Flash. I love(d) it, as I coded every s…	24 Last	SyncViewS Aug 2009
Yeah! Computer died and i'm poor! So my computer died this morning when i tried to change the texture settings in portal. Looks like its just the video card as the monitor just turned off. Tried another monitor and no go. Computer…	11 Last	sir-knight Aug 2009
Metalocalypse - A little awesome or face meltingly awesome? Apparently a lot of people have missed this and it pisses me off. So go watch it! It´s a tv-show about a metalband called Dethklok and its... ultra violent... and awesome beyond levels our weak human…	12 Last	Kovac Aug 2009
BloodNinja for the win! [url]http://people.ambrosiasw.com/~andrew/funny/bloodcyber.html[/url] seriously if you havent read this its SO great I cant believe I never heard of this till recently! HAARRRRR! HAHAHA	12 Last	Target_Renegade Aug 2009
image tagging solutions? Hey all, Like everybody here I tend to collect a bit of reference imagery. Most of it I store in my Dropbox for easy access from anywhere. I usually dont create complex folder categories, except wh…	11 Last	pior Aug 2009
Animated Mona Lisa [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8201664.stm[/url] Thought this could be of interest to some people. Destroying art or just adding to it?	12 Last	Emil Mujanovic Aug 2009
Discussion: Do you consider yourself to be an artist? [LEFT][URL="http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/b/ba/Crabdance.gif/180px-Crabdance.gif"][SIZE=1][COLOR=SeaGreen]crabcore[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=1][COLOR=SeaGreen][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL]…	95 Last	Joseph Silverman Aug 2009
f*****g hardware man, did I step on someones grave. My eternal hard drive died this morning( only 2 months old) My main work laptop died only 3 weeks ago. I lost a fair bit of stuff, nothing reeeeallly important I a…	7 Last	ghost-d Aug 2009
BRINK at quakecon..... sounds like it's gonna be something new and interesting AND aesthetically sound....i'd just like to say to all the peeps here(MoP and others)....good job. i'm looking really forward to seeing what t…	54 Last	[iWi] Aug 2009
UFC 102 To be honest I wasn't going to watch it, after I saw 101. 102 was great, I didn't expect it to be this good after the last one. All the fights seemed really good. who else watched it? Alex	3 Last	Joseph Silverman Aug 2009
Can someone help me please??.... Hi, I'm working for about a year with Maya and I want to say that it's a powerful program and you can do everything you want with it.... but it's kinda ''old'' ,too.... I'm 14 years old and I really…	14 Last	greuh Aug 2009
aural sex thread so we've had the metal thread and the hangover electro thread. Time for the flat out porn-for-the-ears thread and i'm gonna kick it off with a couple from the coolest two people on the face of the p…	8 Last	konstruct Aug 2009
Flu shots this year? I don't mind shots, but every time I have gotten a flu shot in the past, within a week or two I come down with the flu, without fail. So about 4 years ago I just stopped getting them all together and…	29 Last	mdeforge Aug 2009
absolutely useless thread. but... i just saw this artwork in 2dArtist Magazine(038 interview with Chen Lin. Fanart or what? [url]http://wanbao.deviantart.com/art/Mechanical-soldier-66894917?offset=10#comments[/url] [img]http://th09.d…	1 Last	Zack Fowler Aug 2009
Evolution of robot and creature design styles If you go out and watch a movie or play a game today that features fanciful creatures or futuristic robots you will see a visual spectacle that is a far cry from what you might have seen 30 or even 5…	7 Last	lefix Aug 2009
happy thread!! :D fuck, i'm feeling down. what makes people happy that is NOT game art? I love to cook. there's nothing like preparing food and watching your friends and family eat. Instant gratification. Often t…	51 Last	JasonLavoie Aug 2009
High speed robots [URL]http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/high-speed-robot-hand/328666[/URL] speed is nice... but the precision is really amazing	5 Last	IronHawk Aug 2009
Ronald Jenkee's new album is out [IMG]http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/images/Disorganized_Fun_front_400.png[/IMG] And I know some of you like his stuff as much as I do, so [URL="http://www.ronaldjenkees.com"]go buy it[/URL].* [SIZE=1…	18 Last	mdeforge Aug 2009
view .tga dimensions in windows explore i'm looking for this one quite some time now, maby someone over here might have/heard of it. Thanks..	13 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Aug 2009
Triva / History Dev Question Hey folks, Most games theses days support bone animation in game, having used vertex morph or other means in the past. Can anyone say where this was first used in a commercial game? On another no…	5 Last	MikeF Aug 2009
Best way to kill a fly? I need your help [IMG]http://i29.tinypic.com/2h3oro8.png[/IMG]	49 Last	Zack Fowler Aug 2009
(Hypothetically) Another Megaman game? DO you think Capcom could get away with another Mega man game? I would like to see them take Megaman seriously, and go first person or first/3rd person like Red Faction Guerilla. I played Megaman Leg…	34 Last	eld Aug 2009
New pc, good option? Hey guys! Sometime soon I'll be buying me a new pc, I have budgeted around 800-900 euros. Obviously I wanted to buy all the parts separately and then box it all together (cheaper) but my dad just ca…	22 Last	Japhir Aug 2009
Blizzcon Art Panel! It was pretty awesome what they were doing with the game and how they are incorporating new techniques. I got a chance to play it at the convention but it didnt seem like the texture blending was imp…	13 Last	Proxzee Aug 2009
ARTtech '09: the technology of Love [URL]http://vimeo.com/channels/asmsummer2009seminars#6010060[/URL] Might already be posted somewhere, if so feel free to delete or tell me where. This video is really fun. It's about an hour long, b…	0 Last	Vrav Aug 2009
Fez! Have you guys seen this game yet? It looks pretty awesome, it is now my most anticipated indy game. Skip to about 6:22 in this video to see a cool interview with the guys behind it and demonstrations…	4 Last	Tumerboy Aug 2009
Artist's rights to credit? Hey guys, long story short, what are the artist's legal rights to accurate credit for work performed on a project? I hear a lot about 'moral rights' or what SHOULD be an artist's rights to credit, …	23 Last	Rhinokey Aug 2009
How I feel about Maya Maya to me is like dumpster diving. I'm in a giant dumpster filled with garbage bags. I don't know what's in each bag but I'm going to have to open each one and search through all these unrecogniz…	122 Last	malcolm Aug 2009
What do they look for? I am a 14 year old 3d modeler that is going to attend saturday college classes for intro to 3d game art. I need to make a small portfolio with 10 pieces of artwork in it but I am unsure of what kind …	10 Last	bgoodsell Aug 2009
Lost Planet 2 demo Ever want to shoot out a monster's b-hole from the inside? Now you can!	4 Last	skankerzero Aug 2009
EmAr's thread of personal stuff and education Hi guys! I'm about to make some important decisions about education so I'd be glad if you share your opinions. If you'd like to skip the story part, you can jump to the paragraph which starts with a …	3 Last	EmAr Aug 2009
Portfolio techniques Hey all, Are there websites dedicated to portfolio creation like "Renderosity" or "Deviantart" that are a little more professional? I could dedicate the time to a website , but I need something n…	4 Last	Mark Dygert Aug 2009
WOLFENSTEIN It's out. Go pick it up. Quite a few polycounters worked on this bad boy. Cojax, Slum, General Vivi, Konstruct... Can't remember everyone else here at Raven that worked on it. Congrats Fellas!!	43 Last	danshewan Aug 2009
Happy Birthday Struve! Can't find any great cat pictures to put this day into words for you, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY!, hope it's a good one:) Spark	7 Last	Lee3dee Aug 2009
Half life episode 3? So yeah, what ever happened to that half life 2 episode 3? Ironic how valve invented episodic content and couldn't actually deliver on it?	58 Last	Mark Dygert Aug 2009
MOVIE: The Fourth Kind Creeeeeepy [url]http://thefourthkind.net/[/url] Man, gave me chills.	29 Last	yoyomon Aug 2009
Michael Jacksons death officially ruled a homicide oh snap! [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_en_ot/us_michael_jackson_investigation[/url]	23 Last	MattQ86 Aug 2009
Not using a demo reel on my portfolio? So there is a thread up in Pimpring and Previews right now discussing how it's almost counter productive to create a demo reel if you have no animations. My goal in landing a job in the industry is e…	15 Last	Oberyn Aug 2009
MOVIE - Let the right one in Vampire flick with a decent twist. Made by the crazy swedish people.. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp4g9p_rgo[/ame] Awesome film	14 Last	rolfness Aug 2009
Question about my image quality Hey guys, I'm not sure which forum section to put this under, but it's not a portfolio thread so I'm not putting in the Pimp & Preview section. I was wondering if a couple people could do me a quic…	14 Last	Isaiah Sherman Aug 2009
UK government + File sharing = Stupidity. What a surprise! [url]http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/08/new-fast-track-clampdown-proposals-expected-today/[/url] This week, the evil "intertron" baffles and confounds those zany politicians. Watch as they fall…	9 Last	ZacD Aug 2009
Racer445 - An Introduction to Subdivision (High-Poly) Modeling Tools and Techniques So the kind and talented Racer has recorded a "new" (don't know how new it is) video on subdivision modeling, and I don't think I've seen it pimped here yet... so I'm gonna post it here (hope you don…	14 Last	ImSlightlyBored Aug 2009
YO I need some more V's up in this PIECE VIK Happy birthday bro ........... ...................__ ............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸ ........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\ ........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...') .........\.................'...../ ..........''…	12 Last	dejawolf Aug 2009
Sci-fi feature in Advanced Photoshop magazine! Ahoy, I was asked to write a short image walk through for a character i made a long time ago (because it was basically the only organic sci-fi character I've made, and my domwar entry would clash wi…	18 Last	Rens Aug 2009
Artists like Banksy? I'm looking for humorous artists that are like Banksy, anti main stream society, anti authority [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Banksy.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimed…	19 Last	ChrisG Aug 2009
Closed Try this one! (male only) Touch the skin of your elbow. Feel it. Then touch your balls (scrotum). Feel them. Do you feel any similarities?	1 Last	adam Aug 2009
Blizzard adds Furries to WoW [img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/august/images/ss18_hires.jpg[/img]	44 Last	Asthane Aug 2009
NEW DIABLO CLASS LEAKED!!! MONK [url]http://kotaku.com/5342791/korean-diablo-iii-site-reveals-fourth-character-class[/url]	40 Last	kite Aug 2009