General Discussion

Topic	Replies	Latest Post
Alright Nintendo, you got me... ....this is just flat out [URL="http://ca.youtube.com/experiencewii"]AWESOME.[/URL] Make sure you maximize your browser window before the movie begins.	17 Last	J Randall Sep 2008
An almighty day... Thats right, it's almighty_gir's birthday! he's probably passed out drunk backstage being raped by groupies, i guess it's just another typical day for him =/. Happy Birthday mate! \m/ [img]http://i…	15 Last	Chunkey Sep 2008
Some good books to read (I wants to be smarted) Hey all, I'm just looking for some suggestions on some good books to pick up, the last book I read was "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy which was a pretty nice read, but now I hunger for more knowledge …	25 Last	Japhir Sep 2008
hangover im a feel a bit tired of all that modeling and skinning stuff, since alsmost everything ends up uncommented and unfinished in some folder and noone is interested in getting it (i sould add that i wor…	5 Last	Michael Knubben Sep 2008
patter of tiny feet No we have n't got mice in our kitchen, my missus has just discovered she is pregnant. its a weird few days as our cat has disappeared and was fairly ill before he left ie he could barely walk. so…	27 Last	Mezz Sep 2008
Slacker Uprising [URL="http://slackeruprising.com/download/"][IMG]http://gobnf.org/i/su/n/header2.png[/IMG][/URL] Free to watch. It's a 'documentary' about Michael Moore's failed attempt to vote Bush out of a second…	22 Last	achmedthesnake Sep 2008
worst technical support in history I'm letting off some steam. do tell similar stories if you'd like, about Adobe or otherwise. so i bought photoshop cs3. i've had it installed on one of my computers -- running XP for a while, and it…	18 Last	snemmy Sep 2008
A Question about Online Portfolios So, I've been building my portfolio web site the past week, and pouring over my notes from resume classes and workshops. I'm feeling pretty confident about the content of my resume and work gallery. …	4 Last	Wells Sep 2008
There will be Brawl Holy hell.. EPIC WIN. :poly142: [URL]http://therewillbebrawl.com/[/URL] [URL]http://kotaku.com/5053965/there-will-be-brawl-a-dystopian-look-at-the-mushroom-kingdom[/URL]	2 Last	Lord McMutton Sep 2008
Favorite developer "inside looks" Especially in the past five years there's been a huge amount of developer-created blogs, vlogs, podcasts, bonus content videos, etc, that are great at showing company culture, project pipeline, the d…	6 Last	Pseudo Sep 2008
Vahl's NA tour '08 Hail polycount so here's the deal, I was planning to do this much earlier on, but well, things got in the way and I had to delay again and again and again. [url=http://www.artbyvahl.com][img]http://…	35 Last	EarthQuake Sep 2008
Environments for Animation Does anyone have any experience working on movies like Shrek or Toy Story doing environments? I wanted to know how hard it was to get a job doing environments or what it was like to work for an anima…	8 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Sep 2008
Adobe CS4 GPU Accelerated. [url]http://www.hothardware.com/News/Adobe-CS4-To-Be-Accelerated-By-NVIDIA-GPUs/[/url] I swear they don't even really do any work anymore over at adobe.	8 Last	funshark Sep 2008
Nature Sounds Strange request I guess, but does anyone know of any free nature sounds programs...I'd like to listen to swamps, rainforests, birds and other such stuff while I'm modeling on my MP3 player. I listen …	12 Last	scotths Sep 2008
Toonami's been shut down Came home from hanging out with friends, put on Cartoon Network cause nothing else worth watching was on. They were playing an episode of Samurai Jack, which I'll always gladly watch... then this pla…	19 Last	Sage Sep 2008
Bored in Phoenix Living in Phoenix until I get my first industry gig [unless it will be in Phoenix], and looking for something to do. Anybody up for doing something sometime? Work session, LAN, some drawing, go car…	6 Last	Richard Kain Sep 2008
Looking For a School (GameDesign) Hi fellow Polycounters, I have a big problem looking for a game design school, that is because there are a lot of schools out there world wide. I have been looking for a lot of schools on the Intern…	5 Last	Richard Kain Sep 2008
Warhammer Online release on Sept 18 [url]http://www.warhammeronline.com/pressreleases/20080805.php[/url] Congrats to those who worked/working on it! I'm definetly going to pick it up. And I swear I'm going to play responsibly and not …	76 Last	nacire Sep 2008
Vancouver Sketch? Anyone in vancouver down for doing a bit of sketching? Im down for the day and just seein if any of the polycounters in Vancouver feel like a bit of socializing and a good dose of graphite pushin.	1 Last	Tulkamir Sep 2008
Governor Palin's email was "hacked" by 4chan-tards [B][URL]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330699,00.asp[/URL][/B] The "hacker" simply guessed her forgotten password recovery question. I don't know whats more funny the 4chan explanations or tha…	93 Last	Tulkamir Sep 2008
Gamasutra Is Confusing Me So they ran a story this morning about a canceled Halo MMO, right? [url]http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20153[/url] And then they said this... "The prototype art, which was a…	0 Last	The Ben Sep 2008
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere~ [URL]http://io9.com/5052663/details-about-red-dwarfs-revival-finally-emerge[/URL] Woohoo~ :poly142:	14 Last	bounchfx Sep 2008
Do you have your render farm ready for Rage (modding)? :D [url]http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20291[/url] [quote]"Unfortunately, Rage is going to be more difficult to mod," said Willits, primarily because of the complexity of the g…	8 Last	Spark Sep 2008
True Blood Been watching this on recently pretty good show if your into vampire stories like i am :P [quote]Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed from legendar…	7 Last	Geezus Sep 2008
What Laptop Should I Get? So I'm gona get a new laptop soon. I just don't know what. I'll be working with 3dsmax and photoshop and hopefully will learn zbrush. I haven't studied the market like I used to when I got my current…	10 Last	Nevinvex Sep 2008
Fringe. Wow! Awesome show. Looks like Abrams has still got it. Pretty solid writing, action, and acting all around (aside from Joshua Jacksons occasional annoying one-liners). Looks to be a new, even better…	44 Last	adam Sep 2008
no time for personal models Hey there people, I would like to know if you guys can tell me how do you guys have time to do some personal models, challenges, etc. Like, I have a wife, but i dont have kids, I work like 12-14 hour…	30 Last	bugo Sep 2008
PSP 2.81 homebrew Hello I recently picked up a PSP and considered running some of the 3d homebrew things on it. However it's been upgraded to 2.81 and from what I understand, there is no work around. any clues?	10 Last	Illusions Sep 2008
I'm New.... (Ummm) yay Hello, I just got given this site by one of my lecturers, and I thought I would come and say hello. I have two years experience in 3D modeling on Maya from a college games design course, and …	2 Last	3D Mousse Sep 2008
Recommended free burning software? I've been using Nero for years, but I'm tired of its poorly designed interface, and would like to try out some free alternatives. Any recommendations?	2 Last	Michael Knubben Sep 2008
WoW Detox stories [url]http://www.wowdetox.com/[/url] 1500 pages of people who successfully kicked the habit!!!	34 Last	snemmy Sep 2008
ATI Youtube video contest Warning Shamless plug inside "I Love ATI Radeon™ Graphics" video contest We have our top 10 videos for the ATI Radeon Graphics video contest. Vote for your favorite video. The video with the highest rating will win Solsti…	12 Last	shawnzer Sep 2008
Streaming media PC to Xbox360 HALP! After about 3 hours of trying to set up my PC and 360 for streaming, I GIVE UP. I've tried TVersity and WMP 11 multiple times. TVersity never really worked the way I had hoped from the beginning. WMP…	10 Last	erik! Sep 2008
Starcraft II model images! Hey guys, I was looking for the polycounts of the new starcraft 2 models, so i could try and model out one of their zerg concepts. I didn't find that, but I did find this: [url]http://www.starcraftw…	2 Last	Joao Sapiro Sep 2008
OS question Hey, I'm new to this forum soooooo yeah hi. I have xp 64 bit right now but i think its buggy so i am going to format soon but before i do ... i wanted to know everyone's opinion about my other opti…	9 Last	thomasp Sep 2008
Physical Portfolios - recommendations? [I](apologies if this is in the wrong section)[/I] In the coming month or so I'm finally going to be ready to send off my Env/Prop portfolio for junior positions (pending final crits on layouts etc …	6 Last	ImSlightlyBored Sep 2008
spore is fun :) Are you guys playing spore? Im loving it. :) Having a little trouble with save games though, I swear I saved multiple times after entering civilisation stage and got all the way to having space cra…	90 Last	Justin Meisse Sep 2008
X-Men Origins Wolverine Movie [url]http://www.flylyf.com/x-men-origins-wolvering/[/url] yes, that is gambit. GAMBIT!	31 Last	JDinges Sep 2008
Ultimate Textures Feedback Tier2 Hello, After alot of good feedback from this forum we have changed our page a bit and once again are ready for some more feedback. As said before we are trying to create a good texture resource for…	24 Last	menorian Sep 2008
The view from my desk > the view from your desk I dare you to prove me wrong: [IMG]http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/17188/hoff.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://twitpic.com/img/c9mp-f81a2c6d08a89e77e3c686e3ec1cc499.48d41494.jpg[/IMG]	9 Last	adam Sep 2008
Closed Quick Color Test - How did you score? Heres a quick color test one of my co workers sent out to all the artists. The lower your score the better. I scored 11. What about you guys? Heres the link: [url]http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.as…	2 Last	adam Sep 2008
Ya horn swogglin' bilge rats! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! How will yer travels be on this tide? I hope ya lily livered scurvy curs make th' most o' 't! [b]There better nay be any land lubber talk in this 'ere …	12 Last	dejawolf Sep 2008
Pirate jokes whats a pirates favorite way to waste 50 grand? arrrrrrrt school. Please add :) today is good joke friday and lets start it off with this bad yet funny one. ;)	8 Last	HonkyPunch Sep 2008
Photoshop brushes in GIMP. Found this while poking around this morning: [url]http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/tutorial-How-To-Convert-Photoshop-Brushes-4349-1.html[/url] along with this: [url]http://lifehacker.com/5051…	1 Last	Michael Knubben Sep 2008
Poll: Working Overtime I recently asked my boss wether we get paid for overtime work or wether we get time off work to compensate. He said we get neither and that its pretty standard industry practice but they will try to…	21 Last	danr Sep 2008
GlitchDS, RepeaterDS, CellDS: DS Homebrew music-making Hey guys, I thought I'd point you in the direction of a new sequencer for the ds, as well as the creator's excellent other two tools: [url]http://www.glitchds.com/about/cellsds/[/url] - For CellsDs,…	1 Last	Flynny Sep 2008
Congratulatsions Davision3D ! -Make Something Unreal Saw this in my inbox today and I thought it deserved public recognition: "The Best Character/Customization Pack category winners are as follows: Rodents Faction, a mod featuring beefy, mutated beast…	23 Last	Mangled Poly Sep 2008
Fracture Demo... What did you guys think of it? Personally, I really enjoyed it, enough to play it twice in one sitting, which never happens with any demo for me. The terrain deformation was cool and a nice twist t…	1 Last	Jesse Moody Sep 2008
Music and Work Wondering what types of music everyone listens to while creating their amazing pieces of art. I really want to expand my music I listen to while creating my 3D stuff, and if you can give a particular…	31 Last	Zephir62 Sep 2008
looking for psp,ds environment artist examples hey guys can anyone direct me to some good PSP,DS environment portfolios or examples,please? I got a possible job comming up but I need to build out a portfolio, and having a hard time finding refer…	4 Last	copain Sep 2008