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Macbook good for 3D Modeling? Sup dudes! Anyone here have a 13" Macbook? 4 GIG version of the 13" Macbook. 160GB HD 2.0 Ghz CPU Nvidia 9400M [url]http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB466LL/A?mco=MTkzOTIzOQ[/url] I figure it …	27 Last	Rick Stirling Mar 2009
Game Studios In Vancouver Hello! Anyone know how the gaming industry in Vancouver, B.c. is doing- Has there been more job stability in the studios than before, or would you say it's about the same? Any fun studios hiring atm…	8 Last	Microneezia Mar 2009
The Lost And Damned GTAIV DLC What does everyone think of the new GTAIV DLC coming to Xbox360? [url]http://www.rockstargames.com/thelostanddamned/[/url] I personally cant wait to play it! Been watching alot of sons of anarchy l…	32 Last	00Zero Mar 2009
Snow Sculpt I did today It was hot, the snow was melting I made some penguins, But they desepated alot during the warm weather and the wet sticky snow [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/deathelm/Picture.jpg[/IM…	4 Last	Deathelmz Mar 2009
BattleStar Galactica Final Season! Starts tonight, only 10 episodes and then the craprica (by the looks of the previews)	152 Last	Jesse Moody Mar 2009
Kings Any one else watch this? Modern day retelling of King David, slaying of Goliath and all, and Ian McShane kicks ass as Silas	21 Last	Murdoc Mar 2009
Web Based Fun 2D Games Man I had a Blast playing this WW1 2D game [URL]http://www.addictinggames.com/warfare1917.html[/URL] Give it a Go' P.S. Post anygood ones you casually play or have played	4 Last	Kessler Mar 2009
Closed So if I want a SC2 beta key... This seemed like the best place to ask, but are there any suggestions/leads/hax0rz to get a beta key for StarCraft II ? I'm sure there are thousands of people who want in, but damnit I want it more!	22 Last	bearkub Mar 2009
Mythic employees (WAR specific). just curious, if you can say. or at least confirtm some specs for me? i'm thinking that most war characters tend to range from 2000-3000 triangles, with a 512 diffuse + spec map? is that about right…	19 Last	Matabus Mar 2009
503 service unavailable I've been getting a weird error all day from polycount: 503 Service Unavailable. Happens nearly every time I click on links, i've gotta keep refreshing the page till eventually it loads. Not sure if…	17 Last	flaagan Mar 2009
Tekkonkinkreet Has anyone seen this? Its amazing, graphically, musically and storywise. Check it out. Its a story about black and white, two kids growing up in a city where there are criminals trying to control it…	13 Last	Tumerboy Mar 2009
How to Sorry guys having a problem trying to upload and or affix images to my post for the challenge. How is this done?	2 Last	Jesse Moody Mar 2009
Hooray its Funky Bunnies Day!! [center][size=15]Happy birthday Bunny!! :D[/size] Man, good times! You bet ill be coming over within the year! And def party hard with our next birthdays! [img]http://m.blog.hu/tr/trailer/image/0…	10 Last	Funky Bunnies Mar 2009
studying with the tablet !!! [IMG]http://www.maxforums.net/uploaded/33647/1237654775.jpg[/IMG] i think this is so cool , and the colors make it even more memorable ...	1 Last	e-freak Mar 2009
Motivates/Motivated I recently had a discussion with a close friend of mine. He was just hired for the first time by someone and I have yet to get in the industry. We were talking about what motivates us and why our d…	16 Last	Josh_Singh Mar 2009
Zeno Clash - stylish-looking, somewhat odd game [url]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/12/18/new-zeno-clash-fisticuffs/[/url] This looks pretty interesting. At first I was disappointed to see it was all about combat, but nevertheless it looks …	13 Last	nitzmoff Mar 2009
GDC 2009 March 23-27 After the dismal Polycount failure that was GDC08, I want to know who is going to come out for GDC09- I know attendance will be less than last year because the economy sucks, but I want to know who w…	24 Last	killingpeople Mar 2009
new battle.net [url]www.battle.net[/url] [url]http://kotaku.com/5176394/blizzard-unveils-new-battlenet[/url]	8 Last	ae. Mar 2009
New indie game: The Path. [url]http://tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/[/url] Thoughts? Since we're a game artist forum: I think the art direction is pretty good, though I think the individual assets are lacking when taken by thems…	2 Last	Ged Mar 2009
Laptop recommendations Hey there guys. Recently i have had the shit luck of having my laptop die on me and i really really need a new one. I do not need the latest and greatest but i would like that can run all of the 3d a…	8 Last	JO420 Mar 2009
the goon!! fuck yes [url]http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40432[/url]	16 Last	Smirnoffka Mar 2009
Closed In case you felt like watching something awesome... [URL]http://www.soulpancake.com/view_post/210246/just-remember-this-word-muto.html[/URL] "It's like watching art evolve. Literally." Really crazy. Not sure how exactly it was made, but I have a…	3 Last	adam Mar 2009
THQ Shuts Down 3 More Studios...YIKES! Good Luck to all the Guys affected. Scary times for sure. [URL="http://kotaku.com/5172692/thq-cuts-down-big-huge-games-lets-go-two-more"]http://kotaku.com/5172692/thq-cuts-down-big-huge-games-lets-go…	22 Last	breakneck Mar 2009
Wireless Router Death (Not with a Bang,, but with a Whimper) Is there a way to tell if a wireless router is failing? Having many issues lately, and having spent money on items really didnt need. It doesn't help that tm having bandwidth issues with (Broadst…	5 Last	oXYnary Mar 2009
Does water damage your computer? If you completed drenched your computer with water (its turned off) or submerged your laptop and then let it completely dry out before turning it back on, is there any reason why it wouldn't work? I…	17 Last	Vailias Mar 2009
question about tablets when looking for a tablet what should i look for, besides drawing surface and name brand	46 Last	Tumerboy Mar 2009
Want a workstation with a 2 GB / per second transfer rate? Get you 24 SSDs and follow the manual...or watch this first. Pretty nuts. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&feature=player_embedded[/ame]	7 Last	JackyBoy Mar 2009
What's in the Box? - 9 minute short film... Seriously, watch it: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4[/ame]	14 Last	JKMakowka Mar 2009
Fallout 3 mod contest Anyone know about this contest? Toolkit: [URL]http://planetfallout.gamespy.com/utilities/2/GECK-Mod-Tool[/URL] Contest: [URL]http://planetfallout.gamespy.com/articles/features/559/Vault-Tec-present-…	0 Last	Talbot Mar 2009
Eye Borg Hellz yeah! Bring it! I would give my left and right testicle for one of these when they finish development. [URL]http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52441A20090305[/URL]	4 Last	Emil Mujanovic Mar 2009
OMG GTA CHINATOWN WARS! Trailers are released There's finally trailers out for the game, spent a nice chunk of my life on this game, sadly I did not see the development through to the end. Just chuffed as hell that it's finally about to be relea…	32 Last	Lee3dee Mar 2009
AI San Diego Grads ok i happened to show up to a concept art club thing this afternoon and they had a quick challenge to draw a super hero version of our academic director Christian Bradley... I drew him as a star tre…	7 Last	obeyjohnny Mar 2009
happy green beer [img]http://www.profile-comments.com/images/st-patricks-day/images/green-beer-makes-me-funky.gif[/img]	26 Last	Andreas Mar 2009
new on forums - trouble uploading images Hi all, Im new on these forums and I am having some trouble trying to upload images for my Dom War 4 thread. I looked at the FAQ for attaching files but I can't find a button for it when posting a n…	3 Last	Jesse Moody Mar 2009
Looking for an image transfer program Hey all, I'm looking for a free program that will allow me to instantly swap pictures back and forth with others. When I'm not working with someone in person, I need a way to send and receive images …	8 Last	Mongrelman Mar 2009
Special Effects Art Test...what to expect? Hi all. A certain studio's art director wants to give me an art test to fill for a "special effects artist" position. They contacted me first and their publisher is fairly well known so I'm somewha…	7 Last	Junkie_XL Mar 2009
Don't feed toddlers hot sauce My son Loki has taken to raiding our new refrigerator, and one of the things that he can easily reach is our supply of hot sauce. For the last few days he's been pulling out the tabasco and siracha, …	24 Last	Ryno Mar 2009
Your ideal working environment I'm sure everyone has their own preference when it comes to their ideal working atmosphere, and I'm curious to see what everyone else prefers. When I'm at home working, I usually turn down the light…	28 Last	rawkstar Mar 2009
Bioshock: Breaking the Mold - Developer's Edition Art Book [url]http://take2store.stores.yahoo.net/bibrmodeedar.html[/url] I loved the game, the art and I geek on art books (especially game centric ones) so there you go. :) Figure some of you might be inter…	7 Last	PixelMasher Mar 2009
POLYCOUNT MAINTENANCE -----READ so... what happened...	16 Last	JacqueChoi Mar 2009
MAX 2009 to Maya... Anyone know any good transition resources? Focusing on animation and sticking with MAX is a bad idea... it's time to learn how to use Maya... I've been avoiding this for about 4 years now, but i am just more and more impressed with the stuff…	1 Last	glib Mar 2009
Closed somebody want my job? Post removed.	94 Last	adam Mar 2009
DWIV - You guys make me sick! You guys make me sick! No, not really. I can't tell all of you how much I admire yall. I visit this site every day in hopes that one day I can create art like you guys do. Unfortunately I have no…	11 Last	jeramy79 Mar 2009
Polycount War Team Pride Wallpaper Started this the other day, but finally got it done.. well done enough. Id have liked to have more of our winners from across the years, but Corum took long enough. Even after all these years he's st…	2 Last	doc rob Mar 2009
Self Education versus Guided Education Yes, I know, yet another topic about education, but this is a rather bit more specific (I thnk) than anything I found using the Search function. I've been toodling with 3D ever since the first Open …	8 Last	Lazerus Reborn Mar 2009
DOM WAR IV 'Team Spirit' thread! ok, so we have a thread about how everything was better when I was a kid and dom war was about team spirit yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, this one doesnt have that! all those who are excited and who stil…	78 Last	low odor Mar 2009
Hiyas whets up pc'ers, i used to post on tweak, and the forums went down, im a long time polycount lurker, saw the dom war figured id join poly count side. the names robb, i work at blizz, and hope to fini…	9 Last	Emil Mujanovic Mar 2009
Hahaha fuck Its the day DW is supposed to start and guess what, I woke up, turned on my PC went to make coffee, came back and my PC was off.... Turn on, nothing. My fucking motherboard blew. To make it worse its…	8 Last	Emil Mujanovic Mar 2009
Any new parents, or parents to be? We're not even preggers and I found this to be touching: [CENTER][IMG]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4464/1227663902457.jpg[/IMG] [/CENTER]	30 Last	rolfness Mar 2009
3D artist + concept support for Dominance War 4? Some contest have allowed a 3D artist to partner with a concept artist for help, and some - the later ones - did not. Who knows what will or will not be allowed for Dominance War 4. In the mean time…	126 Last	Del Mar 2009