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which console is better? i'm getting sick of all the arguments. i want to know once and for all which console PS3 or Xbox360 is technologically superior? since this forum is visited by people who are in the industry and are …	72 Last	sonic Jul 2008
Congrats to Mythic Entertainment (Whats in a name?) In case you haven't heard, EA Mythic is going to be once again called Mythic Entertainment. [url]http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/239/feature/2040[/url] Why is this important news? Because …	7 Last	Lee3dee Jul 2008
New monitor time So i've been using a 19" and 17" CRT setup for about 5 years now, its time to go lcd. I know nothing about LCD monitors, i dont know what i should be looking for in terms of response time, widescreen…	12 Last	Murdoc Jul 2008
RIP Michael Turner Sorry, im new here and all, but wanted to point out an awesome artist that was lost today. [URL]http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/07/07/obit.comicartist.ap/index.html[/URL]	12 Last	Michael Knubben Jul 2008
Don't forget it's free Slurpee Day today ( 7-11 ) Just walk in. Fill up the tiny cup. Walk out.	13 Last	pliang Jul 2008
Announcing: www.tech-artists.org ! Hi guys, (I post this with Adam Brome's blessing) For the past couple months, myself, along with Adam Pletcher and Jason Hayes from Volition (and our web admin, Bjorn Waumans), have been working on…	15 Last	Emil Mujanovic Jul 2008
Google Lively [url]http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html[/url] Anyone else see the insane potential in this? According to Gamasutra: [url]http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19333[/url] It'…	20 Last	Justin Meisse Jul 2008
Closed Best Burn I got in a long time I figured this would be worth sharing for the sake of laughs Opened my email this evening got this from a old friend (he disguised his name) ========================================= Hello Mr. XXXX…	21 Last	adam Jul 2008
Video player allowing key scrubbing Hey, one of the animators here is having some troubles finding a good video player that allows frame by frame scrubbing using arrow keys like Quicktime. He's got some reference videos that won't open…	3 Last	Tulkamir Jul 2008
Off to Dallas for a few days.. what to do? Any suggestions on what to do in Dallas while I'm there? I'll have a car and be there until Monday the 14th	6 Last	skankerzero Jul 2008
Free Animation Tutorial & 3D Modeling Competition - over $15,000 USD in Prizes! What's up! I wanted to share a new company and website with all of you - Digital Apprentice Workshop. We have some pretty cool features on [URL="http://www.digitalapprentice.net/"]www.digitalappr…	0 Last	dw78nov Jul 2008
Closed Rage thread All things full of anger and rage Name it say it who cares, we got the feeling good and feeling bad, but lets add some rage ------------------------- Everyday I come to my job I feel like I die a…	7 Last	adam Jul 2008
best selling PC game this week [url]http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/column_index.php?story=8874[/url] diablo 2 battle chest... hard to believe... the game is about 7 years old... #2 is wow and thats been out for 4 years now...	8 Last	Squirmy Jul 2008
ecodazoo [url]http://ecodazoo.com/[/url] Cool realtime 3D webpage with an eco theme. Be sure to check out the pop-up books!	21 Last	kiril0t Jul 2008
Unreal Tournament III - XBOX 360: So Who's Playing? OK, so Unreal Tournament III finally made its' way out on the XBOX 360 today in North America...Who's going to be playing on LIVE? I guess I'm UT fanboy since I now own UT3 for PC, PS3 and 360. 36…	7 Last	RazorBladder Jul 2008
Advice on costs to teach? [need quick response] hey there guys, i just got an offer to provide private tutoring for adobe after effects to some ppl [ a group of 3 ], and the lady who asked for it needs a response asap. so i was lookin for some p…	3 Last	indian_boy Jul 2008
Art book references! Hey guys, I'm looking to build up my library of badass art books... and need some suggestions! I also think this could be a good repository for information that everyone could use for some sick refer…	3 Last	Neo_God Jul 2008
Closed I got Angry and smashed my Laptop I was looking forward to completing and texturing my tank. But now all is lost. Everything. But you know what. There was a sense of relief when i smashed this 800 dollar laptop on the ground. It felt…	8 Last	MoP Jul 2008
Wyoming trip Heading to a dude ranch near Jackson Hole for a week, my wife's parents are hosting everyone for their 50th anniversary. [IMG]http://www.cmranch.com/images/cmranch-1.jpg[/IMG] Anyone know the area,…	14 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2008
Anyone ever- -lose multiple weekends cleaning up after a former teammate who's work was a sloppy mess? Fuck lazy egotistical assholes who lack enough integrity to do their work right the first time, then shove o…	30 Last	Asmuel Jul 2008
Congrats parasite7! It's a joyous day for Kenny today (parasite7). He just tied the knot with his lovely wife! Congrats bro!	26 Last	Mark Dygert Jul 2008
What happened to the report button? Is it gone for everyone? I thought it was a great idea, as I could flag spambots easily. Oh, and idiotic hateful posts,such as [url]http://boards.polycount.net/showpost.php?p=819736&postcount=8[/url]…	7 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Jul 2008
Laptop for Sale M1330 - 4gig of Ram, 2.2ghz lightweight laptop. Pearl White not now available. I bought this back when I wanted to get into the industry but my path is now taking a different course so wanting a di…	9 Last	thnom Jul 2008
Closed Ecodazoo Hella Cool website: [url]http://www.ecodazoo.com/[/url]	5 Last	adam Jul 2008
Relocating to Portsmouth Hey guys, I hope to be soon at Portsmouth UK as I got a job in Climax Group :). I´m really excited about the place and the company. I would like some help of cost of living on this place and if someo…	28 Last	bugo Jul 2008
local access only I have a new del xps 1730 and its a pretty smokin system, i have verry few complaints about it, but 2 days ago it started giving me trouble connecting to the home wireless network. its a vista 32 ma…	8 Last	Pedro Amorim Jul 2008
Game Development Household (SF) [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Sup guys,[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri] I’ve lived here in San Francisco for the bett…	6 Last	John Warner Jul 2008
Closed hard edge subd modeling videos?	0 Last	Justin Meisse Jul 2008
Best Batman script EVAR One last explosion, this time in slow motion, with tanks flying out of it. [url]http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506[/url] Some of the comments make my brain hurt …	20 Last	Ryno Jul 2008
game art workshop here is the website! well of to a 14 hour day at work....... game art snacks and life drawing!!!! [url]http://www.divergeworkshops.info/[/url]	13 Last	TWilson Jul 2008
Chrono Trigger DS, etc. Am I the only one in Bonertown over Chrono Trigger being re-released on the DS? Not to mention the remakes of Dragon Quest. Looking forward to playing through FFIV on the DS, too! It's like being rid…	9 Last	hawken Jul 2008
Cakeday for Gavku Happy Birthday, Gav. Hope you have a great one, mate. -caseyjones	12 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jul 2008
Why The Superman/Batman Movie Will Never Happen [url]http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1757347[/url] and thats why :P	13 Last	SHEPEIRO Jul 2008
Wall-e I caught the midnight showing of Wall-E last night. It kicked ass! They did a great job portraying emotion in simple shapes. They also did well with carrying the story along with very little dialog f…	50 Last	aesir Jul 2008
Seeing Polygons After spending a long time working on some 3d modeling or texturing I have these "glitches" where for a second I think I am in an app then quickly realize "WTF was i thinking.." Here are some I can r…	51 Last	osman Jul 2008
Darn video games keep corrupting the youth [URL="http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=94958&catid=188"]Click[/url] I really don't know what to say. sry if this has been posted... it's new to me	29 Last	Asmuel Jul 2008
feeling so-so Working confortably, but its so effin hot im melting my head. ok go.	10 Last	Blaizer Jul 2008
Tribes 3? [url]http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53297[/url]	13 Last	Michael Knubben Jul 2008
motivation What do you guys do to keep motivated? I mean, I've been trying to finish a model I've started to salvage before and then redone from scratch. I still feel like it's not done but even looking at it b…	20 Last	_Gr9yFox_ Jul 2008
Titan Quest Gold? Hey folks, I was thinking about getting this double pack for 20 USD over steam, but I'm having severe problems running the demo. I know a lot of pc'ers worked on the title so I was curious if the pa…	42 Last	nacire Jul 2008
Happy 4th - Watcha doin? Working on my folio and going to go for a big bike ride later. =)	8 Last	Jonathan Jul 2008
8-bit has returned! For anyone who hasn't heard, Capcom recently announced Mega Man 9 for WiiWare. Not being much of a MegaMan fan myself this news wasn't of much interest, until it was revealed that the game would be d…	10 Last	sub_roland Jul 2008
Out of state releases! Yea I'm a noob...have a drink on me... So a title I worked on with a small studio had a release in europe but not in the states but never-the-less the title is out there can I still display the art…	3 Last	D4V1DC Jul 2008
Battlefield : Bad Company - Who's playing? Just thought I would see who else is playing BFBC. Having a great time on multiplayer so far, the graphics are great and the gameplay is addictive. Singleplayer is great so far as well. My Gamertag …	10 Last	MoP Jul 2008
UE3 Editor So I bought Gears for the PC so I can learn the engine. But I have one major problem. I cant find the editor. I have Vista Home Premium 64bit. I checked the box for install editor when I installed…	8 Last	Hourences Jul 2008
Programmning vs Artist in the Game Industry I'm sure 95% of the people on this forum are artists, but I thought it would be interesting to get the perspective from any programmers / technical artists out there that do visit this forum. I star…	47 Last	PeterK Jul 2008
4th of July in Orange County: what to do? I've been here in Orange County for 3 years, but have spent my July 4th celebrations elsewhere each year. Time for a change! I'm thinking I might head over to Huntington Beach at some point or maybe …	7 Last	Pseudo Jul 2008
PC Games dropped from E3 [URL]http://www.qj.net/E3-Media-Summit-2008-now-narrowly-focused-on-console-games/pg/49/aid/121612[/URL] This just in, E3's board of directors makes more bad [I]decisions[/I]... Shocking news I kno…	37 Last	[MILES] Jul 2008
guess who has a birthday today anyone who doesn't know gets banned. [color="#888888"]Happy Birthday R13!!! Thank you for all you've done for us.[/COLOR]	26 Last	Jaco Jul 2008
happy birthday, Canada I know theres a few of us on these boards, what are your plans for the day off (hoping you get it off)	18 Last	indian_boy Jul 2008