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Grad Programs Hmm I'm curious and feel like starting to look for a grad program for next year if I can't find a job by then, or haven't built a large enough portfolio. Anyone have any suggestions of Graduate Progr…	0 Last	Cryocat Jun 2008
Stock Animation Hey I was wondering if there's anywhere you can download stock keyframe animations for characters? Basic stuff like walks, runs ect. I know there's free mocap out there but it's a bit hard to work wi…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2008
Gavimage goes to Blue Castle Games... Yay, congrats.. .	25 Last	conte Jun 2008
Closed Home network wizards, please help :( [SIZE=4][COLOR=Yellow][B]HOME NETWORKING[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE].. aaaargh! [B]The gist:[/B] My wireless router shows up on my laptop no problem. My laptop connects to it no problem. It has an 'excellen…	1 Last	adam Jun 2008
Jack Thompson now officially crazy This was passed around yesterday at our offices, and thought I would share it here when I didn't see a post about it. Hopefully soon we will not have to deal with this guy, as it sounds like he is o…	12 Last	Jesse Moody Jun 2008
new military vehicles & weapons from around the world well, seems like the FCS is getting more US funding, so they put together this mockup. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/h18w777/pq4.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/h…	69 Last	Neox Jun 2008
Finally ordered some new figures for my cube~ Just ordered these two last night: [URL]http://www.shopncsx.com/capcomaniaxibuki.aspx[/URL] [URL]http://www.shopncsx.com/assassinscreedaltairpvcstatue.aspx[/URL] The altair one I picked up cause I …	16 Last	Peris Jun 2008
Wow...I'm out of it....this game looks sweet! I was checking out Gamespot.com and saw this for PC. What a nice looking PC game! [URL]http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/draculaorigin/images.html?mode=official[/URL] The visuals and environmen…	7 Last	Ajax Jun 2008
Boston Drawing Group--This sunday! Boston Drawing Group--This Sunday! Hey everyone! Every once and awhile I try and get together the local guys for a meet up to draw and hang out. I haven't done this since the old Cgchat days, but I …	2 Last	Wells Jun 2008
Closed new military stuffs from around the world korea's been developing a new tank called the K2: [img]http://www.armyrecognition.com/Asie/Coree_du_Sud/vehicules_lourds/xk2/tank_XK-2_South-Korea_Black_panther_006.jpg[/img] and japan is making a …	0 Last	dejawolf Jun 2008
Closed germany is modernizing their IFV fleet the new german IFV Puma, is set to replace the older marder IFV by the end of 2008: [img]http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/503/puma_2.jpg[/img] picture of marder: [img]http://www.army-t…	0 Last	dejawolf Jun 2008
QA Tester I'm thinking of getting a QA job with EA, because I need to start working, but I remember most of my teachers at school telling me to never get a QA job, because you never go anywhere from there. D…	28 Last	Pseudo Jun 2008
Let's talk about 'net neutrality' It's been debated for a few years no. Will it happen, will it not? Truth? Malarkey? I've just spent the last while watching this: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XPiqhN_Ns&e[/ame] Personally,…	23 Last	.eb Jun 2008
Help me find that cool Japanese toy! Hey all! Not too long ago we had that retail thread going on [url]http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=53267&highlight=retail+link[/url] I started browsing from there and found that revolve…	5 Last	Blaizer Jun 2008
Polycounter Poll: Which assets get cut/redone? and Why? I am starting a new task, but I need a wider pool of data to feel comfortable moving forward. This is why I come to you guys... In game production, things get cut, or redone. At my studio there ar…	18 Last	spacemonkey Jun 2008
Feedback on art tests I was recently asked to critique someone's art test for another company, and it made me wonder how everyone else feels about this sort of thing. As I see it, the point of an art test is for a poten…	13 Last	Emil Mujanovic Jun 2008
Age of Conan No topic for this yet? I got a copy the other day and sadly my poor pc can hardly run it, but it certainly seems fun enough if totally lacking polish. I wish I could just upgrade my graphics card b…	45 Last	Tumerboy Jun 2008
PicLens I really can't stress how awesome this is for image browsing on websites like Flickr or Google Images! Just... WOW. [url="http://www.piclens.com"]www.piclens.com[/url] install it to your favourite b…	63 Last	sama.van Jun 2008
Consumer HD camcorders: Why? Does anyone have any experience with the new crop of consumer HD camcorders? As a gear geek with a kid (lots of baby videos), I'd love to justify this new toy but I can't. Even though the camcord…	12 Last	Ryno Jun 2008
Art & Love [url]http://www.militarytimes.com/hancock[/url]	6 Last	pliang Jun 2008
external hard drive giving the finger :S hey guys now apparently everytime i plug my external hard drive onto my laptop ( and any other pc ) windows just wants to format it, it happened all of a sudden , i have alot of important stuff on th…	6 Last	D4V1DC Jun 2008
Ugh, shooters I posted this on our internal forums here at work but thought I'd ask here as well... I'm finding myself more and more tired of shooter genre. I do have my favourites that I'll likely play for awhil…	43 Last	Keg Jun 2008
work visa Canada to US. Hey guys, I just graduated recently, and I've been sending a few applications States side. I'm in Toronto, Canada. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way for me to be able to take a job in the sta…	9 Last	Tulkamir Jun 2008
URL for the Gamespy email server? i.e. @planetquake.com Does anyone know the URL for the Gamespy email server? usually I have my @planetquake.com mail re-directed... but I need to change something... and I can't find the URL for the server. Thanks in adva…	1 Last	Xenobond Jun 2008
In Phoenix until friday Anyone else wants to hang pm me or Empty. We are both here til friday. empty went home but im here til the 4th. we should set something up	9 Last	eXpendabLe Jun 2008
Indy 4 Here we go. Saw it at a midnight screening, and might see it again today at a company screening. Though not necessarily because I thought it was great, more to clarify if I liked it or not. I...don'…	62 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jun 2008
Struve goes to Id! Just wanted to send a congrats to our fellow Polycounter Struve, in joining the Id team:). He is a great artist and good guy, and I know will be a welcome addition to the already awesome team of tal…	35 Last	Emil Mujanovic Jun 2008
Simply Awesome. [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1022840/Al-Qaedas-terrifying-vision-devastated-America-wake-nuclear-attack.html[/url]	19 Last	Firecracker197 Jun 2008
Dominance War 3 Winners It's up. Didn't see a thread already. [url]http://www.dominancewar.com[/url]	38 Last	kat May 2008
RIP Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) [url]http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/29/korman.obit.ap/index.html[/url] Thanks for all the laughs, big guy.	5 Last	Em. May 2008
Hey smart folk, I was wondering if anyone new of a simple way to stop all these douche bags from sending me spam mail to my email which is posted on my website. Someone i talked to briefly mentioned something to the…	16 Last	notman May 2008
StarWars & Matrix Artists Offers New Products for Artists [CENTER][URL="http://www.digitalapprenticeworkshop.com/"][IMG]http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/7574/digitalapprenticelogo30yk6.jpg[/IMG] [/URL][/CENTER] Hey All, I wanted to let everyone know about…	14 Last	dw78nov May 2008
Beyond Good & Evil 2 announced [URL]http://kotaku.com/5011404/ubisoft-officially-announces-beyond-good--evil-2[/URL] Woo-hoo~! :poly142:	25 Last	rooster May 2008
Recommended 3D Software Alright here it is. I've been learning Blender for a while now and can do some basic things with it, but I just feel like the program itself is hindering my learning abilities. I downloaded SILO a…	60 Last	jeramy79 May 2008
Congrats to Mashru! Mashru’s easily one of the most talented artists that I’ve had the pleasure of working with and it’s awesome to see him getting his props on the Area interview! Make sure to check i…	12 Last	MoP May 2008
Flash Web Player Exploit: Make sure you are updated.. [url]http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/05/potential_flash_player_issue_u_1.html[/url] Make sure you update your flash player in all the browser you use.	2 Last	Toomas May 2008
Prince of Persia Prodigy holy shit awesome. So glad they took this direction. [URL="http://games.tiscali.cz//images/princeofpersiaprodigy/bog2.jpg"][IMG]http://games.tiscali.cz//images/princeofpersiaprodigy/bog2.jpg[/IMG][/U…	63 Last	Tulkamir May 2008
Hello. OK first things first. This is my first post! Growing community FTW! Anyways, I have been attending a community college for a year and a half now. Before that, when I was 18(I am 23 now), I got a jo…	0 Last	Quokimbo May 2008
Images from the Pheonix Lander (Mars) Here are the first few publicly released photos from the Pheonix Lander that touched down on Mars a few hours ago. : ) [url]http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=8[/url] Some info on …	27 Last	TomDunne May 2008
will the next photoshoppee actually be awesome? [url]http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37611/140/[/url] huge performance boost with gpu acceleration, rotatable canvas and the ability to paint on the surface of 3d models?? sounds pretty bad ass.	43 Last	hawken May 2008
Desktop PrtScn! Once upon a time there used to be completely pointless threads where we would post printscreens of our desktops. I haven't seen one of these lately ...although I don't molest the boards too frequentl…	4 Last	Marine May 2008
Morality of Keeping Previous Job Titles So I have a hypothetical situation I'd love to hear some opinions on from people here. Say you were working at a company in the games industry, and you were given a temporary title, say a temporary l…	21 Last	hawken May 2008
Best layout for sending in an art test? Alright, I'd like to really impress them by not only the art test itself I've been working on, but the presentation. They asked for the usual things like various render forms (flat-shaded, etc.), t…	5 Last	pliang May 2008
Is this software site legit? I was cleaning out my spam box when I came across this email. This software site claims that they can sell this software for so cheap because they are selling Downloads of OEM software. Take a loo…	11 Last	Jeremy Wright May 2008
Xbox 360 GTA locking up on me! I know that many gta owners out there had their share of technical difficulties and I had thought I was not one of them. Never had a problem until yesterday, around the 10 or 15 hr or so mark in the…	8 Last	obson May 2008
The Spirit Trailer Sin City with luminous ties and funny walks. [url]http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/thespirit/[/url]	5 Last	Asherr May 2008
Need help for relocation [England, West Yorkshire] Hi! Actually I live in France (Paris) and I'm must do a relocation for Team17 (England). The compagny is to Osset near Wakefield or Leed town. I never lived in England before, so I have lot of diff…	35 Last	sama.van May 2008
Closed Modelling Timelapse	0 Last	Blaizer May 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV Chat [url]http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/869/869381p1.html[/url] 10/10 ! Grats to Rockstar North ! Looks like you guys knocked it outta the park and into the stratosphere :)	234 Last	Slum May 2008
Trash into Shadow Art Saw this on digg today and thought I'd share it in case you missed it: [url]http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/onemanstrash.htm[/url]	5 Last	Neo_God May 2008