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VectorMagic..

[url="http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/"]http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/[/url] Someone at work passed this on to us and its pretty fantastic! It's a really slick tool for converting raster images to…
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snemmy

Not announced projects vs job hunting

Hi lads, was a while i wasn't posting, hope I will be able to do so soon. But back to the subject. I'm in some kind personal dilemma. I'm working on a project that prolly will be announced in Februar…
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spacemonkey

Your thoughts on tablets...

I've been drawing with my mouse for so long now [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] I think its about time I get a tablet of some sort. I'm interested to hear any thoughts you guys have on the sub…
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pliang

re travel and hotel expenses for contractors

Just wondered if anyone knew about claiming tax relief on travel and hotel expenses(UK). Can you claim it all back or just a precentage?
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Ruz

sequential art grad schools?

my roommate is looking to go to graduate school and is wondering what schools offer good sequential art programs? more to the point: a sequential art program that allows for cross-disciplinary works.…
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Sage

Asean signs landmark constitution...what next?

glish.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7AC82F70-0163-4D24-8B4A-39B034233809.htm It seems Association of Southeast Asian Nations has passed what is being called a landmark constitution. Without Japan, I can…
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hawken

Closed Formal apology

Just wanted to officially apologize for my outburst a couple of weeks ago. It was just a bout of frustration. Hope no one took it too personally. I'm sure I'm not the first artist in history to su…
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bearkub

Open Canvas, you use it or no?

Just intrested on how many people on here use open canvas, was figuring maybe we could get a few polycounters on a certain night doodling or something? anyone intrested?
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Ged

Ubisoft Announces Rainbow 6 5 2

[url="http://kotaku.com/gaming/breaking/rainbow-six-vegas-2-announced-325012.php"]http://kotaku.com/gaming/breaking/rainbow-six-vegas-2-announced-325012.php[/url] Rainbow 6: Vegas, part 2. The fifth…
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Slum

Free Zone Alarm anti-spyware software

[url="http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index.html"]http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index.html[/url] I was just made aware of this... so hurry... it ends in 75-ish mins from thi…
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pliang

laptop or desktop

still unsure about whether to get a laptop or a new desktop pc. I will have to lug it up to dundee every so often, so obviously a laptop is a good solution for this, but a good un is so damn expensiv…
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thomasp

So many games.....which one?

So COD4, Mass Effect, Uncharted, Rock Band, Assassin's Creed, and I'm sure a few more are out last week and this week. What is everyone going with? Myself I'm grabbing Assassin's Creed and Mass Effe…
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sonic

I need a few answers from a pro concept artist

As part of my film studies, I'm working on a written essay about monsters in movies and other media. I'm trying to find out if monsters need anthropomorphous (human-like visual cues) in order to be …
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dfacto

normal map on cylinder

3-ML-248343-ML- Moving to Technical Talk
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hula

is it really all that crazy?

[url="http://www.macrumors.com/2007/11/14/leopard-overtakes-windows-os-sales-in-japan-for-october/"]http://www.macrumors.com/2007/11/14/leopard-overtakes-windows-os-sales-in-japan-for-october/[/url]
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sonic

Xbox Live Arcade

Hey all, Just wandering has anyone in here tried to make an xbox live arcade game? Got a couple of articles if anyone is interested in the subject:- http://makeitbigingames.com/blog/?p=35 …
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Ged

What beer are you drinking? Top 3 for fall.

Looking for some new beers to try. Here is my top 3 currently. 1. [url="http://www.rogue.com/brews.html#deadguy"]Rogue[/url] - Dead Guy Ale 2. [url="http://www.surlybrewing.com/beers.php"]Surly[/ur…
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seantree

Fox will air Family Guy without Seth McFarlane

[url="http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=d7677427-c425-4264-b6a2-bd64c9159a07&sid=fd-hot1-txt"]article[/url] Fox is considering airing episodes of Family Guy without Seth McFarla…
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pliang

Pandora Radio...

[url="http://www.pandora.com/"]http://www.pandora.com/[/url] Someone clued me into this last week and it's kinda cool. SO far I'm impressed with the music it can pull up, but no frigtmare or bloodfr…
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Ghostscape

Any Dreamcast owners dug their DC out of storage..

plugged it in, pushed Power... and nothing happened? I just experienced this, which is a particular bummer cause I just got my copy of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure off of Ebay. It's been kept in a dry ca…
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Toomas

Adobe Creative Suite - Upgrading specific apps?

Does anyone know if it's possible to upgrade only specific software when you upgrade from any of Adobe's Creative Suite packages. The packages cost less than buying the software individually, but I w…
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alyen

Anyone going to Childs Play in Seattle?

Just bought my tickets for the charity auction. I was curious if any other polycounters may be there. [url="http://www.childsplaycharity.org/"]Childs Play website.[/url]
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praetus

The cake is not a lie for Thegodzero

[img]http://www.vigville.com/forum_images/_Birthday/PortalCake.jpg[/img] Happy Birthday!
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ebagg

I just got jumped

On my walk home from the train station tonight, I was jumped 3 guys. Initially I only saw one of them and he had asked me for the time. So I grabbed my phone to check and as I looked up, all I saw wa…
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Rob Galanakis

Assassin's Creed Figure... I paid nearly $80 for..

I was under the impression that the figure I was gonna get with AC was that 7" tall one, not this absolute effin joke that came with the game. Did I miss something somewhere that said I was suppose t…
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Mishra

Toys and stuff

Since it's approaching xmas time (I normally buy myself a good gift or two around this time as well :P) I've been kind of in a toy buying binge lately. Mostly I've just been ebay-ing but I was wonder…
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Gav

Troubles after reformattng

Hey, I just reformatted my computer and after reinstalling windows I get an error on a black screen that reads "Windows Could Not Start Because of a Computer Disk Hardware Configuration Problem". I'v…
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pliang

Awesome Sculpts and just cool stuff

I know there are a few guys on these boards that have gotten into sculpting and I just wanted to share this site with ya. It is a lot like polycount but mainly for sculptors and painters and can real…
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Jesse Moody

Zeropunctuationdoesclivebarkersjericho

[url="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2633-Zero-Punctuation-Clive-Barker-s-Jericho"]Linky[/url]
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Marcus Dublin

Failed Search

Hey guys, Does the board still have the helmet guy thread / the bobo's imp texturing thread? I can't seam to dig them up in the search. Found the SDK in the archives, just wandered if anyone had t…
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Showster

New LCD tv problem

I just got a Samsung LN-T 4071 [url="http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-LNT4071F-1080p-120Hz-HDTV/dp/B000U9ZCQS/ref=tag_tdp_sv_edpp_i/105-4599766-9642852"]http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-LNT4071F-1...4599…
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nitzmoff

Jumper (movie)

Looks to be an interesting scifi / action movie... and hey, can't go wrong with SLJ. [url="http://www.jumperthemovie.com/"]Jumper[/url]
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nacire

your os

just wondering what kind of configs most artist have here
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Psyk0

Crash

This happened on Saturday, around 6:30pm. I was playing some TF2 in my computer room, and my gf was getting dressed to go out with some friends. We heard a bang, but didn't bother to look. Our upstai…
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J Randall

ok i like black n white for 5 mins..but always no.

so i bought a ps2 at ebay, it plays all cool ntsc games that i want except it has a problem : it plays black n white on my tv. I heard it was a problem with the tv, that i need to get an ntsc to pa…
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Joao Sapiro

Beautiful Katamari

Anyone else get this? My brother did, and i've been playing it quite a bit, must say, it's a very fun game (much like the previous 2.)
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snemmy

Computer Upgrade (need some info)

Hey folks, I've just recently been given a little bit of money to upgrade my system as I cannot build a new desktop or buy a lappy just yet. I'm currently using: Mobo: Abit IS7 CPU: Intel 2.6 with …
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nacire

Registrations have been suspended

I've just turned off new registrations for the boards a few minutes ago. We've been having a series of Russian folks registering with scripts for what I can only imagine is future spam messages to th…
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r13

Mrs. Slum

Yep! New job, new city, new wife [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]http://stupidfaceboy.com/ring.JPG[/img] I R GETTING TEH MARRIEDZ
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Neo_God

Game Artist salaries in LA?

Maybe some of you SoCal cats can help me out. What are salaries like for character artists in the Los Angeles area. Particularly those people with a few years experience under their belt? According t…
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pliang

Guitar Hero 3

Is coming out tomorrow, anyone going to pick it up? I have mine paid off, however I don't think I want to wait until 10 am so I'll probably just go to meijer tonight and buy it and play all night =)…
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Emil Mujanovic

Should I be mad or happy?

I am a student at the Art institute of San Diego California. And throughout the quarters Ive gone here Ive seen some good things produced in unreal 2 under our prototyping class. But today I was …
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cyborgguineapig

happy birthday joshsingh/ghostrider

have a good one!
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seforin

Buying new laptop

I was just wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for a laptop that would support all the latest games and be powerful enough to use 3dsmax or any other major 3d app. Are graphics cards fo…
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Jesse Moody

Halloween costume thread

Halloween is almost here. Time to break out the outfits, get some cavities, and scare some small children. Let's see those costumes.
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Slum

Top 10 cities with the hottest women.

[url="http://my.mmoabc.com/article/GurlWithSkillz/1771.html?login=no"]http://my.mmoabc.com/article/GurlWithSkillz/1771.html?login=no[/url] I concur. I was in stockholm for a few days, it was heaven.
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hawken

Forthcoming layoffs at EA, Mythic Studios

[url="http://destructoid.com/restructuring-at-ea-mythic-studios-50896.phtml"]http://destructoid.com/restructuring-at-ea-mythic-studios-50896.phtml[/url] hope this doesn't affect any of you from poly…
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r13

Cat Rescue 2007

We just put in new wood floors yesterday, and the cats were in the bedroom...or so I thought. That night, ALL night, meows were coming from UNDER our brand new floor. The pictures in the link below …
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Psyk0

Interview help?

Hey all, as most know im job hunting and ive just been asked for an interview next week, im shitting it. Its: 1. My 1st job interview 2. My 1st job interview Currently my lifes going to shit lol, a…
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Gav

Online photo editing

Judging by the photo threads, there are a good few photographers on here, so I think this will be of interest. I know Adobe are bring out an online editor, but in the meantime.... I've just been pl…
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Joshua Stubbles

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