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Goodbye Chicago, Hello Austin As some of you may know I worked at EA Chicago which was recently shut down. I just accepted a senior environment artist position a couple days ago at Vigil Games in Austin, TX. I'll be working on D…	15 Last	skankerzero Jan 2008
mp3 player - recommendations sought i'm in the market for a decent, small mp3 player. i've never owned such a device - have been using a PSP for this but need something smaller, lighter that fit's into a shirt pocket or such. i googled…	16 Last	Entity Jan 2008
resolutions? You have a few days to think of them. So get those brain meats working!	63 Last	Emil Mujanovic Jan 2008
Freelance Pricing? I am green to the game scene much less the freelance scene so I would like some feedback, if any of you guys feel so inclined, on how to approach pricing for contract work. This concerns modeling, te…	16 Last	ironbearxl Jan 2008
Curve Studios Tutorial DVD's Problems! Just was curious if anyone here has ordered something from Curve Studios? We recently recieved a Zbrush DVD that I was trying to add to our library here at Ensemble. But the DVD that was suppossed …	0 Last	Spark Jan 2008
There Will Be Blood... Has anyone checked it out? I got a chance to see it last weekend. Hands down my favorite movie of the year or No Country For Old Men. I really recommend checking it out if you like Daniel Day-Lewis a…	0 Last	Jeff Parrott Jan 2008
Ever been harrassed taking pictures? So I recently got a digital camera and on the way back from Austin Tx to were I live recently, I decided to take some pics of some environment stuff in a town along the way. As i drove around this gu…	20 Last	Ryno Jan 2008
Hancock. [url="http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hancock/"]http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hancock/[/url]	17 Last	dejawolf Jan 2008
Hellboy 2 trailer [url="http://media.movies.ign.com/media/041/041373/vids_1.html"]http://media.movies.ign.com/media/041/041373/vids_1.html[/url] Hot! I love the art direction of the creatures.	35 Last	hawken Jan 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! may 2008 bring art, beer and titties! happy new year!	30 Last	rooster Jan 2008
powered speakers recommendations ? Hi all! I'm on a hunt for powered speakers. I used a friend's pair a couple years ago and was quite impressed by the quality and power these things can deliver! And now I want some :P So far I foun…	3 Last	pliang Jan 2008
Drawing Perspective books or dvd recommendation? im wanting to learn how to draw environment stuff better, i know you need to learn all the different perspective lines to do this, anyone know of any good books or dvds i could get, if so let me know…	10 Last	Jesse Moody Jan 2008
Report issues with the model archives here This thread is [b]only[/b] for reporting errors on individual model archive pages. Posts should read something like: [i]The rating scores for the Quake 2 Undead Warrior don't look like all the othe…	3 Last	Vito Dec 2007
Narnia 2 I wonder what the movie is going to be like, since prince caspian is one of the books I enjoyed the least. The costume design looks fabulous and I look forward to the special effects again. What do y…	6 Last	ebagg Dec 2007
AVP2 /\ _ biikiow! well, i like everything these days it seems, yessir, i liked it. how the first one should have been imo. i really enjoyed the unforgiving deaths that good rated R movies had in the 80…	32 Last	Richard Kain Dec 2007
Game Noir? Thought this was an interesting article, talking about film noir vs the games industries big budget bonanzas. [url="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16591"]http://www.gamasutra.…	2 Last	Toomas Dec 2007
Google Tools I may be out of the loop on this, but I just stumbled accross one of Google's tools called Google Sketchup. Appaerntly it's their shot at trying to create a user firendly, streamlined 3D application…	12 Last	Ged Dec 2007
Backups DVDs vs CDs I was wondering if backing up all my data to dvds R instead of cd r was safe. I have heard and read that backing up files to dvds isn't as reliable as to a cd. I was just wondering what you thought a…	10 Last	Rick Stirling Dec 2007
Multiplayer game Im looking for a decent multiplayer game for the xbox 360 i was gonna buy the orange box but does anyone have any other games they recomen i have gears and graw and GH3 sowhat are some good multiplay…	6 Last	Mongrelman Dec 2007
Closed The Resoultions, they start now(What is it?!) you get the deal about time we lie to ourselves and say we will do something we probably wont do very well I'll start off --------------------- starting as of january 2nd (since january 1st I w…	4 Last	bearkub Dec 2007
Townhouse Housing? Normally I don't post stuff like these but its one of those personal issues I address for advice... I'm considering moving to a smaller living space sometime early next year and I currently live in …	2 Last	pliang Dec 2007
MERRY CHRISTMAS War on Christmas? Screw that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Hope you all have a hell of a good Christmas, drink plenty of egg nog and enjoy the time with your families. Wooooooooooo!!!	28 Last	pliang Dec 2007
companion tank I build this as an ode to portal, a companion tank. I know it sucks, it's a prototype and I build it in 2 hours, I'm gonna make the real one asap (He's painted in gloss white, the pictures don't sho…	9 Last	dejawolf Dec 2007
Geezus Have Cake ??? Merry Christmas and bonne fete a toi... [img]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c348/pliang/HamsterBirthDay.gif[/img]	7 Last	Geezus Dec 2007
Get ready for the Violence of the Lambs! [url="http://www.blacksheep-themovie.com/"]Black Sheep - The Movie[/url] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]	6 Last	pliang Dec 2007
How far are you from home for the holidays? Howdy all, I'm up in the land of cold and woe for the holidays visiting mom and the family. Bored out of my skull as well as the wind and snow from the lake beat against the windows here at my mothe…	25 Last	indian_boy Dec 2007
the most important question of the year ... in The Great Escape, right, why DOES steve mcqueen - on the bike, dressed as a german - kick the side of that barn? Eh? EH?	10 Last	Chunkey Dec 2007
Sunshine soundtrack Since we are still waiting for the lawyers to decide on the release for Sunshine soundtrack, some people are taking things personnaly in their hands: [url="http://blogs.nofrag.com/__MaX__/2007/dec/…	7 Last	Mister Sentient Dec 2007
Designing your 'perfect' 3D content creation tool Hi all, The Blender Foundation and Apricot Team (who will be making a 'open source game using Blender as the content creation tool, and Crystal Space as the game engine) would like to know what sort…	5 Last	CrazyButcher Dec 2007
Where did the all the player models go? [b]Remember back in the day this site had all kinds of models made by Polycounters that you could download and use in games? Unfortunately due to hosting and database issues, we can currently no lon…	23 Last	dejawolf Dec 2007
'Cloverfield' - New JJ Abrams movie So, we should have all seen this trailer before Transformers. It's J.J. Abram's new movie dubbed 'Cloverfield'. I've spent the past couple hours reading up on it all, and there's just so much to tak…	83 Last	Illusions Dec 2007
Internship ideas? Anybody got any internship ideas? I was looking to start one in January, but haven't heard back from anyone as of yet, and some of those that do have internships take months to get back to you. I had…	11 Last	pliang Dec 2007
"Lock and load" Just curious.. As a non-military Dude - what does it actually mean?? Is the 'lock' locking the bolt open to receive a magazine (which is the load part).. Or what?	8 Last	Motz Dec 2007
WALL-E New Pixar film coming 2008 directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo)... [url="http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/"]http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/[/url]	25 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Dec 2007
The Per128 HATE thread a little balance is a good thing. fuck per.	42 Last	Smirnoffka Dec 2007
Native Lakota peoples announce thier own country? I'm not seeing much discussion about this: [url="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Descendants_of_Sitting_Bull_Crazy_Horse_1220.html"]http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Descendants_of_Sitting_Bull_Crazy_Hors…	15 Last	snemmy Dec 2007
I pity the fool who wanna make this movie [url="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/19/a-team-movie-in-the-works-fool/"]A-Team film in the works, fool.[/url]	18 Last	Rhinokey Dec 2007
PC Games? Just got a new laptop because my old one I used for my work programming just crapped out on me. Its a Core2Duo machine with 2gb of RAM and an 8600M GT overclocked about 25%. I have been a bit behind…	11 Last	pliang Dec 2007
XBox HD-DVD Deal Hey guys, I don't know if you saw this deal at Best Buy for this week, but they have a deal where you get the Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD for free when you buy the HD-DVD player for the 360. That's $10…	22 Last	Joshua Stubbles Dec 2007
Hobbit Bitches! [url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007663-hobbit/news/1698091/"]http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007663-hobbit/news/1698091/[/url] Not too sure about the whole "2 movies" thing, but who knows?	11 Last	pliang Dec 2007
Rock Band With just under a week to go, I thought it was about time this game got it's own thread. Platforms: XBOX 360, PS3, PS2 Release Date: November 20th, 2007(December 19th in Canada), December 11th 2007(…	85 Last	bounchfx Dec 2007
What's the deal with Zones(On DVD's) So, I've just been wondering. Zones..? Is it just to control the market or something? I know the xbox 360 has zones, but does the Ps3 also have that when it comes to games?	2 Last	Dazzle Dec 2007
Game Design: Schools and Courses? For a while now, I've been looking at a career in the video game industry, in game design. I've been looking at colleges around the Montreal area, seeing as there are so many studios there, it seems …	20 Last	vahl Dec 2007
This guy is really coming up with some neat stuff [url="http://kotaku.com/gaming/clip/excite-your-office-colleagues-with-a-wii-whiteboard-marker-332252.php"]http://kotaku.com/gaming/clip/excite-your-office-colleagues-with-a-wii-whiteboard-marker-33…	19 Last	hobodactyl Dec 2007
'ning Since ning networks are getting popular, I snagged one for Polycount just to get a cool name. [url="http://modelsandskin.ning.com/"]http://modelsandskin.ning.com/[/url] I've not set anything up on…	14 Last	FearMe Dec 2007
NOMBZ: Night of a Million Billion Zombies!!!!!! 2-ML-254843-ML- it's a pimp, it's a pimp! we got a forum for those!	0 Last	Tulkamir Dec 2007
We have a King? Apparently the Isle of Man has a King, called [url="http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/39King-of-Mann39-sells-titles.3579858.jp"]David[/url], or "Your Majesty" perhaps. His connection to the British mona…	9 Last	ThE_BirD Dec 2007
Duke Nukem teaser out tomorrow? [img]http://mikecyb.shackspace.com/DNF_Teaser_Shot.jpg[/img] [url="http://www.3drealms.com/"]http://www.3drealms.com/[/url]	2 Last	dfacto Dec 2007
Golden Compass deliciously heretical! XD good movie! bad ass polar bear [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]	62 Last	MoP Dec 2007
No country for old men Anyone see this yet? I've heard its very good, but the closest theatre thats showing it is over an hour away. So i'd like to live vicariously through any of you punks that have seen it ;(	21 Last	John Warner Dec 2007