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Closed We teach and tutor Game Artists! Contact us at [url="http://www.thepixelyard.com"]www.thepixelyard.com[/url] 866.741.8349 or 858.427.1616	10 Last	MoP Mar 2008
When do u need an art test? Hi guys, I have heard friends got very good offers on site of GDC, while some of us had to go through art tests as a step to get second interview. We are all students, just wondering what kind of co…	25 Last	[Deleted User] Mar 2008
Congrats Cojax! The always lurking, sometimes posting, Cojax has landed an environment artist job with Raven. Grats dude.	17 Last	East Mar 2008
cake day for fly_soup happy birthday man! [img]http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/3127/resizedp1050380ov6.jpg[/img]	6 Last	[Deleted User] Mar 2008
Searching for a game online-- Soyoban? I'm looking for a link to the game Soyoban. Its that mario parody thing. Does anyone have a link for it? I found it at school once and havent been able to find it since and I really enjoy it. [img]…	0 Last	Chevelle09 Mar 2008
Media Catalog Software I figured I'd ask around to see if anyone had some suggestions. My game collection is kinda big as is my dvd collection. I'm trying to find a software for making a catalog of what I have, preferabl…	4 Last	TelekineticFrog Mar 2008
aol anyone anyone on aol in the uk. up until about 2 weeeks ago it was performing great. now it s a big heap of shite. anyone had similar problems ie sites loading randomly or not as the case may be , complet…	20 Last	arrangemonk Feb 2008
Replying to Jobs I've applied to a bunch of game companies recently and was wondering how long should I wait before I call them or email them to ask them about the position. Man it kinda feels like I'm dating again.	20 Last	Sage Feb 2008
The "Cool things from GDC '08" thread. To start things off: [url="http://www.gamevideos.com:80/swf/gamevideos11.swf?embedded=1&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&src=http://www.gamevideos.com:80/video/videoListXML%3Fid%3D17691%26ordinal…	25 Last	PedramK Feb 2008
Elect John McClane! [url="http://www.anationforchange.com/"]Yippie Kay Yay America![/url]	9 Last	Sean McBride Feb 2008
earthquake? no, not the polycounter ... did anyone else in yorkshire feel that or is my house about to fall down?	10 Last	Flynny Feb 2008
Got me a PS3. Ok so with the fall of hd-dvd and already owning a 360 I went ahead and picked up a PS3. Figured I have netflix they do blu ray. Work has a huge game library to check things out so why not. Picked …	58 Last	Jesse Moody Feb 2008
The Most Destructive Weapon in Video game history [url="http://www.filecabi.net/video/81629448875.html"]http://www.filecabi.net/video/81629448875.html[/url]	13 Last	Jay Evans Feb 2008
Exploding Wind Turbine! Luckly no guys were underneath it [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/disintegrating_turbine/"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/disintegrati…	6 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2008
compact digital camera? fed up from seeing loads of great stuff recently and not having a camera within 30 miles of me, i'm now in the market for a really good compact digital camera - needs to be small enough to live next …	12 Last	danr Feb 2008
My movie is done and up I just uploaded the rough cut of my little short film project called the best conversation. No music, mixing, or post processing done yet, but it looks pretty good in it's current state. [url="http:…	1 Last	aesir Feb 2008
An idea for a new sub-forum; please post input Hey gang, I have an idea I wanted to run by you folks first before I did anything or made any changes. This is just a passing idea I have had a few times in the past after visiting conceptart.org. …	29 Last	greenj2 Feb 2008
Ikariam web game If you enjoy playing The Settlers 6, or you're addicted to playing Catan with friends every weekend...here is a new web browser game you may enjoy. [url="http://ikariam.org/"]http://ikariam.org/[/ur…	5 Last	Wells Feb 2008
Keg can has Caek! Have a good one mate!	11 Last	Uly Feb 2008
Screencast.com: anyone use it? I was reading some posts on the Silo message boards and happened across a video posted using this site: [url="http://www.screencast.com"]http://www.screencast.com[/url] The video it had was REALLY …	7 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2008
Hawt Floridian babe wins! In case you didn't know, this dude = foreverendering. hawt. [img]http://www.dominicqwek.com/misc/foreverenderingftw.jpg[/img]	14 Last	killingpeople Feb 2008
mind contol for gaming [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7254078.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7254078.stm[/url] pretty cool. how much will it cost i wonder?	15 Last	notman Feb 2008
Silo in Linux? woo! [url="http://www.silo3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13766"]http://www.silo3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13766[/url]	8 Last	Michael Knubben Feb 2008
redbull flightlab game Well, it's up!! [url="http://www.redbull.com/flightlab/"]http://www.redbull.com/flightlab/[/url] Make your own 3d planes, and fly them	5 Last	rooster Feb 2008
Rackham Holy (explitive deleted) Batman!!! a coworker just showed me these. [url="http://www.rackham-store.com/boutique_us/liste_rayons.cfm?code_lg=lg_us"]Rackham[/url] flipping awesome minitures. amazing …	3 Last	SubPablo Feb 2008
"This form has expired" error fixed. Thanks to Vito, the error when you type up a long post should be gone now. Enjoy. =]	19 Last	Emil Mujanovic Feb 2008
Fun casual game I found this free beta version of a game that is really fun. Check it out here's the link [url="http://www.globulos-beta.com/beta/"]http://www.globulos-beta.com/beta/[/url]	0 Last	JZak Feb 2008
Richard's Evolving Sprite Tool i don't know what subforum to post this. [url="http://www.retroremakes.com/forum2/showthread.php?t=10804"]http://www.retroremakes.com/forum2/showthread.php?t=10804[/url] [url="http://www.allegro.c…	2 Last	pior Feb 2008
Resistance 2 info okay finally i can talk about what i have been working on, The newest gameinformer hit subscribers today and should be in stores in 5 days.. R2 is going to be pretty nuts.. 60 player multiplayer and …	40 Last	arshlevon Feb 2008
March 2008 Game Informer [img]http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/02/aliens.jpg[/img] [url="http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200802/N08.0213.1711.09335.htm"]http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200802/N08.0213.1…	21 Last	flaagan Feb 2008
Dominance War 3 Sharpen your blades and oil your barrels lads, the Dominance War 3 website is live [url="http://www.gameartisans.org/dominancewar/en/index.htm"]http://www.gameartisans.org/dominancewar/en/index.htm[/…	545 Last	Keg Feb 2008
2008 polycount GDC meet up Ok everyone since im only allowed to edit the top post so many times , every person who is official on the times, please post your in or not and I will add you to the list and PM you info (dont wanna…	12 Last	seforin Feb 2008
Polycount Recuitment Officer I played the part of recruitment officer today. I stood up in my science fiction and fantasy illustration class to tell everyone about the Dominance war. My teacher liked the idea so much that he i…	6 Last	Tumerboy Feb 2008
XNA Creators Club - XBLA I noticed the big advertisement on the marketplace page tonight. You can play games developed by the XNA community. Dishwasher Samurai & Little Gamers are probably the best out of the bunch!	9 Last	Jeff Parrott Feb 2008
Street Fighter 4 [url="http://www.capcom-unity.com/"]HADOUKEN!!!![/url] Site is getting heavily hammered and it's just being unveiled at this minute so some patience must be had for all this is the thread for it …	127 Last	Jeff Parrott Feb 2008
The cake is a lie (Portal discussion) PORTAL TONIGHT BITCHES!! Am I the only one who doesn't give too shits about TF2? Ep2 looks rad, but most of all I want Portal! Mind-bending adventures through a fucked-up lab run by psychotic monkey…	114 Last	IronHawk Feb 2008
lol umbrella chronicles so I've been playing this game and apart from the ludicrous spin they've put on wesker and TOTAL lack of visible body damage on zombies (god damn I want to blow chunks off in a good way) its really q…	9 Last	Xenobond Feb 2008
illustrator or game artist I am seriously thinking about getting back in to illustration of some kind . Been doing game art since 1997 and TBH I am starting to get a bit jaded with it. Its been a real hassle working in games f…	18 Last	Ruz Feb 2008
post your favourite ebay search y'know, the one you check most often. I have a few typical searches that eat up my disposable income, but i'm starting to get pained looks cos all our storage space is dissapearing always good to…	5 Last	MoP Feb 2008
Death in the family At around 4:15 pm this afternoon my xbox 360 died,I recieved the rings of death and wept for several minutes, I have not contacted Microsoft yet but i will on my monday. it sucks i was really getting…	60 Last	ImSlightlyBored Feb 2008
3ds max error Ive been having a problem saving rendered scenes from 3ds max there is no error code just the message that pops up saying "Error Creating File Output". Is there anyway to fix this? Thanks	2 Last	Ruz Feb 2008
Off topic: Question about online virus scanner This is really nuts. I have AVG free installed on my workstation and I have it scheduled to run once a day. Along with that I run CCleaner, Ad-Aware 2007, and Spybot religiously and rarely catch spyw…	1 Last	PeterK Feb 2008
Plagiarism Hello Friends. This is the first thread I've started. I'm a long time observer of this forum. If you notice anything about my past posts, I only post when I feel there is something I can contribute …	30 Last	Slum Feb 2008
Earthquake (Earnest Redding) Cake! Happy Birthday Man! [img]http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs11/300W/i/2006/176/5/6/Chuck_Norris_Facecake_by_ministerofevil.jpg[/img]	40 Last	pior Feb 2008
Mustaches GREASY. [img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2247/2272014519_97bc42d505.jpg[/img]	56 Last	Matabus Feb 2008
Pineapple Express Rogen (one of my favourite actors)'s new movie: [url="http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/02/12/...movie-trailer/"]http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/02/12/...movie-trailer/[/url] "It smells like God's vagina.…	5 Last	Marine Feb 2008
Top 9 structures soon-to-be-built The future is now! [url="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/22/top-9-unique-structures-soon-to-be-built/"]http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/22/top-9-unique-structures-soon-to-be-built/[/url] Personally, I'd…	30 Last	SHEPEIRO Feb 2008
Spiderwick Chronicles I really enjoyed it.... a lot! They did a great job of maintaining the feeling of the books. They changed the story up a bit but the essence was still there. They took the dwarfs and elves out all…	3 Last	Jeff Parrott Feb 2008
Autodesk Launches 3ds Max 2009 Autodesk Launches 3ds Max 2009 Entertainment Software and Introduces 3ds Max Design 2009 for Design Professionals, [url="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080212/aqtu080.html?.v=40"]http://biz.yahoo.com/pr…	48 Last	Sage Feb 2008
question about art collaboration i was wondering are there artists here who work on games or movies who wish that the entire thing was their vision only. Do any of you have a vision of a universe that you want to create and you don'…	4 Last	Ruz Feb 2008