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Rezzed 2016 Sorry if anyone has already posted about this; had a quick search and couldn't find anything related. Anyone heading to Rezzed in London this year? I'm there on Saturday and it's the first time …	0 Last	ladyknowles Apr 2016
Daredevil on Netflix Anyone watching this? I`m on the forth episode so far, and holy hell, I`m enjoying every minute of it. The fighting is insanely good, and the camera cuts are actually really good. They zoom out so yo…	66 Last	Mstankow Apr 2016
Houdini: What specific bullet points help with game art production? So what specific bullet points about Houdini matter for us about game art production?Wondering if I should start looking into it as a Character Artist and aspiring Art Director.What I briefly remembe…	1 Last	swann Apr 2016
What tip will you give to someone in order to become a good 3d artist? Question is stated in the title.	16 Last	lefix Apr 2016
VDBfusion - Meshfusion like plugin for maya, houdini, c4D, max Tried this yesterdayhttps://vimeo.com/160025549It works really well and it's free.	12 Last	eltarbos Apr 2016
Metropolitan Museum in NYC Releases a Ton of artbooks online for free http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F&rpp=12&pg=1A fine artist friend of mine sent me this today, I thought some of the Polycount crew might b…	11 Last	RockyS Apr 2016
Suffering Badly from Creative Block Hey Polycounters,As you can probably guess from the title, I'm suffering from a creative block. Booked myself about 9 days off of work so I can get to work on my portfolio and start applying for arti…	4 Last	Whalebones Apr 2016
Best Masters Degree for Animation in London? Hi,I'm currently working and living in London and am looking at what the best options are for a 3D Animation MA. I hear a lot about Bournemouth University but unfortunately cant travel there. Does an…	0 Last	Talix Apr 2016
Graduating Industrial Design, Looking into Entertainment Design Hi everyone,I am a graduating student from Humber College, Toronto and for the past 4 years I been focused on the transportation design sector in the industrial design program. I really enjoyed my ti…	3 Last	beefaroni Mar 2016
Selling 3DCoat 4.5 Windows+Linux Professional use license Heyho :),Since i really just did 3D as a hobby and haven't had much time recently to keep on doing it and 3d-Coat also is a little overkill for the little 3D related stuff i still do, I decided to se…	0 Last	Chuck Tetakel Mar 2016
Polycount Meetup GDC 2016 Polycount Meetup GDC 2016Polycount and Marmoset are teaming up for the second straight year to bring you an awesome evening filled with good drinks and great company.Hang out with some of the most ta…	99 Last	Ave Mar 2016
Deadpool (The Movie) I couldn't find a past discussion, for this movie, this movie was fucking epic. If you were hesitant to see this movie, get over it, stop reading this post, and go see it. Unless you hate sex, vulgar…	16 Last	Mary_Marinez Mar 2016
Batman vs superman(spoilers) one thing i dont understand why so many people hated that movie, i and my mates we freaking loved it, the whole movie had this feeling of dark and cruel apeal on iti liked how batman …	13 Last	ArtisticTiger Mar 2016
Notification Spam in WAYWO It would be good if we can fix the problem with posting in threads like the WAYWO that will keep your notifications spammed for weeks and pretty much break one of the most important features of the s…	6 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 2016
i`m running a mentorship program So i`m going to be running a mentorshipprogram just to test this out, something in the lines of what Hazardous did a few years back with his course. I`ll be restricting it to 5 people and it will …	25 Last	almighty_gir Mar 2016
Junior Artist needs advice for career path Hi guys,I'm a junior 3D character artist, recently completed an one year program in game art last year, and I was fortunate enough to land my first job immediately at an indie studio in Vancouver, Ca…	5 Last	poly_bob Mar 2016
TOONZ animation software going free + open source On March 26, the software used for animation by Studio Ghibli and Rough Draft (Futurama) is becoming free and going open source: http://www.toonzpremium.com/Not sure how many people here care about t…	21 Last	Gmanx Mar 2016
Nintendo's NX leak gamepad prototypes https://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1199996Looks fishy, honestly...Seriously, I don't know what to expect from them anymore...The WII U, as of today, was a terrible disaster and this doesn'…	28 Last	notman Mar 2016
GDC 2016 all the news and eye candy GDC 2016 all the news and eye candy, hit us with everything you have seen and heard.http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/13/11213960/gdc-2016-news-video-game-developers-conferenceCRYENGINE Showcase GDC 2016…	11 Last	littleclaude Mar 2016
GameTextures.com - It's like CGTextures, but for video games! [URL="GameTextures.com"]http://www.gametextures.com[/URL] Hey Guys, Just wanted to share with the community what a few of us Polycounters have been up to for the past year or so. So yeah, announcin…	79 Last	Tekoppar Mar 2016
Environment modeling for Games and/or VFX? Well, i am pretty much done with the characters and anatomy, i can't learn anatomy and i am so bad in drawing human form. Since i am more interest in environment, nature, world. I want to focus 100% …	3 Last	battlecow Mar 2016
Moving to Tokyo This Week.... Anyone There ? :D Hey mates ! How have you all been doin' ? :D I will be moving to Tokyo April 2nd. Although first couple of weeks will be quite busy\| I want to meet anyone around there. Since my sta…	1 Last	xvampire Mar 2016
Need guidance to get my foot into the 3D gaming industry Hello everyone my name is Angelo Im a Graduate from the university of central Florida. Finished my bachelor of fine arts in character animation. Graduated on 2013 and ever since have been battl…	2 Last	Joebewon Mar 2016
[FREE DOWNLOAD] 30GB+ of high quality game audio Hey guys, hope you are all well.This is Mikehl here from Sonniss.Just thought I would drop by and post this compilation of all the free sound effects we have given away over the past 2 years. Everyth…	5 Last	ants95 Mar 2016
A discussion about branding Hi everyone.Yesterday I found myself thinking about branding, as a game artist.Obviously we know our online identity is basically a brand, being the type of artist that we are in the modern age. Cons…	20 Last	AtticusMars Mar 2016
E-mailing companies for internships Hello,I needed to create this thread cause I've been searching for a way to contact studios but I just didn't find how. I'm a student here in Europe in my terminal year and there's this internsh…	5 Last	battlecow Mar 2016
Mirror's Edge Catalyst: Level Design v.s Art Direction Interesting article:http://www.mirrorsedge.com/news/runners-vision-in-mirrors-edge-catalyst?utm_campaign=medgc_hd_ww_ic_soco_fb_mec-fb-runners-vision-mar-22&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=soc…	5 Last	Skinpop Mar 2016
Tabletop RPG App on Kickstarter Hey there Polycount. Long time no post.I hope this isn't too off topic, my apologies if it is, but I launched a Kickstarter for a tabletop / pen and paper RPG mobile app called InfinitasDM that I'd l…	0 Last	Sandbag Mar 2016
Huion GT-220 Tablet Monitor Im thinking about getting a tablet monitor and as I cant afford a Wacom does anyone know if the Huion GT-220 is any good or would it be something you should stay away from?	4 Last	pior Mar 2016
The ABAI Fest & Summit 2016 Animation, Visual FX, Gaming, Comics..! ABAI with support from the Govt. of Karnataka brings you one of the biggest AVGC extravaganza in the country..! The ABAI Fest & KAVGC Summit 2016..! 16th-1…	1 Last	Josephbd567 Mar 2016
Does anyone know who to contact when polycount keeps blocking all your posts? I tried searching the site, I can't comment on posts anymore, everything I post gets blocked and never shows up.	9 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 2016
Allegorithmic @ GDC16 - Uncharted 4 and Substance Painter 2! Hey everyone,It's GDC season again and we'll have a bunch of things to unveil as the conference draws close!First, we can finally reveal that we've been working closely with Naughty Dog for the past …	59 Last	Spoon Mar 2016
What it takes to get in the Game industry? I am soon to finish high school and in need to pick a college(if thats how its called) to go to. Now im having a lot of conflict as to what college i should go to,as it determines what i will do in l…	18 Last	EpicBeardMan Mar 2016
I need some advice! Pursuing a career in 3d modeling! Hello guys i just joined because i want to start a career in 3d modeling so i was wondering if anyone could help me and give me some advice on the specs in order to build a PC from scratch since i do…	4 Last	AtticusMars Mar 2016
S2Engine-New Game Engine http://www.s2powered.com/copiasito/Well i can say its better then Lumberyard :)	11 Last	Blond Mar 2016
Is anyone familiar with this blog and has access? gotwires.blogspot.comI want to join the blog but cant, any help?	6 Last	Nerono Mar 2016
artstation's 15mb upload limit on viewers so somehow the 15mb viewer upload limit is frustrating it realy limits me sometimes on my models i have made a lich king wip cinematic quality version and a low quality game version, i have upl…	10 Last	Eleszar1 Mar 2016
The search for a Narrative Shadow. [Testing waters] Hey fellow polycounters!I have a younger brother who is interested in the narrative side of game development. I would offer to have him come to the studio im at for a job shadow but WA USA to Sweden …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 2016
What are important things to being a successful environmental artist? What are important things to being a successful environmental artist in the industry? How much has it changed over the years and how competitive is the field.	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 2016
Info about getting into the gaming industry Hello everyone. :) I have always been determined to work with graphic design, whether it be Photoshop or modeling. I am not American however. And nor am I from a country where the gaming indust…	2 Last	Athorigos Mar 2016
DemoScreen - an indevelopment indie showcase @Loading Bar Hi folks,I just wanted to share with you an event that I am putting on quite soon. Here is the blurb:DemoScreen is a showcase @ Secret weapon/Loading bar Stratford, where players can try out ne…	0 Last	uk_resistant Mar 2016
Games Design Websites HiIf you know of any personal Games Designers websites can you list them please.http://www.davidshaver.net/index.htmlhttp://www.tesla-dev.com/http://www.hourences.com/tutorials/FYI - Other Games Desi…	3 Last	littleclaude Mar 2016
ArtStation Challenges Just noticed ArtStation now has a bunch of art challenges. Looks like fun, get stuck in!https://www.artstation.com/contests/the-journeythe categories:2D Character Art Challenge2D Environment Art Chal…	8 Last	Autocon Mar 2016
MayaLT Ext2 - Ext3 looks like there is an extension 2 on the way...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLRKGeiucvo	2 Last	Hakon Mar 2016
Working Permit/Visa without a degree? (Canada to Norway) Hi.So I have a job lined up in Norway. Everything has been sorted out, I successfully passed an art test the studio gave me, and they want me on their team. The last remaining step is getting my work…	2 Last	Savannakhet Mar 2016
Where to begin learning? Hello, I've been looking into getting into 3D design for a while now. I've been fooling around a bit in 3DS Max, but I feel that I am not getting anywhere.I am really interested in environmental and …	4 Last	Burpee Mar 2016
Job advice/recommendation for an amateur 3D modeler Hello, a couple of years back then I have graduated from Humber College (around 2009) which taught me 3D modelling and animation. After graduation, I took programming and was on a long hiatus, …	3 Last	Joost Mar 2016
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Surface Pro 4 and 3D Modeling Hey guys, I just got a Surface Pro 4 for mobile 3d modelling. I'm loving it so far, but I'm having one issue I can't get around: No middle click. The stylus and the touch pad are mi…	8 Last	Neox Mar 2016
Looking for a making of Guild Wars 2 trailer, behind the scenes. helloI am looking for a making of Guild Wars 2 trailer, behind the scenes, can any one remember where they saw it? its the 2D animation I am more interested in, thank you.https://www.youtube.com/watc…	3 Last	adrxzero Mar 2016