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Mmmh needle cake! Saw ur cake!, Happy Birthday to you mr Needles! [img]http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/fleawithfox.jpg[/img]	6 Last	Needles Aug 2007
Heavenly Sword Demo Someone played it? It is fun to play? I cant play it because im from germany. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]	44 Last	Toomas Aug 2007
Shipwrecks! [img]http://www.containershipping.nl/images/casualties/alvastar03.jpg[/img] [url="http://www.containershipping.nl/casualties.html"]http://www.containershipping.nl/casualties.html[/url] reference f…	7 Last	SubPablo Aug 2007
Good News, Everyone! The first of the new Futurama movie length DVD episodes is out on November the 27th. [url="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/28/comic-con-futurama-panel-report/"]http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/28/comic-…	12 Last	Steve Schulze Aug 2007
Milk and Cheese A co-worker picked up this set for me while at Comic Con over the weekend. Needless to say it made my day. Kudos to Mister Dorkin! [img]http://www.polycount.net/r13/pics/milkandcheese.jpg[/img] e…	8 Last	Rick Stirling Jul 2007
the next big thing! or maybe not.. anyway i got this band with some friends and we just released our two first songs on our myspace and i thought i would shamelessly promote and pimp them here since i never pimp artwo…	20 Last	almighty_gir Jul 2007
Unshipped titles hurt your resume? so i've been talking with a couple of mentor types lately, and got some career advice that i thought, coming from game industry vets, was pretty alarming. i've gotten the chance to work on a license…	23 Last	poopinmymouth Jul 2007
Heyyy it's cake o'clock! Today is my 24th! What a wild year, and tomorrow will be the one year anniversary of me getting into the game industry. Here's a picture of a pint o beer, I hope you enjoy a real one soon, like the t…	16 Last	low odor Jul 2007
what to do? If someone were to leave the gaming industry as an artist and goto a different industry say simulations would they have a harder time getting back into the gaming industry as an artist down the road,…	5 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jul 2007
Transformers: The Movie So what are you guys take on this? Think it looks good? Think it's gonna tank? Honestly when I first saw the designs I was pissed and thought this movie is doomed and I lost a lot of respect for Fen…	278 Last	3DRT Jul 2007
concept artist vs. comic-book artist hey guys, this is the weirdest post that i've probably ever put up on polycount, but please hear me out. okay, so i just had a debate with a friend of mine about who had the tougher job... concept /…	8 Last	Tully Jul 2007
Julie Taymors: Across the Universe (Beatles Music) I'm not sure how many here are familiar with Taymor's previous movies. She did Titus and Frida. Both which are stellar in there visualization, costumes, music, and timing. In other words, very art…	6 Last	SouL Jul 2007
happy birthday to me! I'm gonna go ahead and start my own thread, I've no shame [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] actually what I did want to say was anyone in newcastle, buy the Journal newspaper and you'll see my…	22 Last	IronHawk Jul 2007
A question I'm not sure where to start a thread like this, but I suppose here in General is as good as any. I'm a college student looking to get my BFA in Game Art & Design. Problem is one of the gen ed c…	4 Last	Jesse Moody Jul 2007
harry potter 7 --> !!SPOILERS!! <-- i won't make this a spoiler filled thread, unless others have read it too. but: oh----my----GOD! if u _have_ read it, and want to insert spoilers, just mark them clearly like so: [b]SPOILER!!![/b]…	15 Last	Asherr Jul 2007
anyone tried this re Godz seems like and interesting project, with nice next gen features. could n't get it to run on my machine though:[ [url="http://www.cyberkreations.com/kreationsedge/index.php?url=projects"]http://www.c…	3 Last	coldwolf Jul 2007
Beowulf. Digging the uncanny valley deeper I believe, boys and girls, that this might be the very apitome of stupid Hollywood executive decisions. Behold the new champion for most incredibly pointless use of CG ever [url="http://www.apple.com…	35 Last	HonkyPunch Jul 2007
REBOOT! [url="http://alpha.zeros2heroes.com/content/view/32/73/"]http://alpha.zeros2heroes.com/content/view/32/73/[/url]	13 Last	Rwolf Jul 2007
The predominance of consciousness over matter An interview with physicist Dr. Amit Goswami [url="http://www.wie.org/j11/goswami.asp"]http://www.wie.org/j11/goswami.asp[/url] quantum physics vs. spirituality, materialism vs. idealism, good stuff…	97 Last	Ged Jul 2007
Tutorial forum I'm kinda new at this board and to game modelling in general, even though I've done usual modelling in 3 years. I'm not the very best modeller so tutorial help me a lot. I have not found many tutoria…	3 Last	Ryno Jul 2007
Resident Evil 5 HD trailer.. Holy warm bananas, this looks AWESOME. [url="http://zeus.dl.playstation.net/cdn/JP0102/NPJB90023_00/FREE_CONTENTRpMsi7Tlsg4PmSFvpvQv/BIOHAZARD5%20Promotion%20Movie%20720.mp4?product=0084&country=…	3 Last	j_bradford Jul 2007
MGS4 Realtime Demonstration Sweet Zombie Jesus. I'm sold. [url="http://kotaku.com/gaming/clip/mgs4-gameplay-281772.php"]Kotaku - MGS4 Realtime Demonstration[/url] [i]Thanks to Fuse![/i] [url="http://www.gametrailers.com/play…	54 Last	Uly Jul 2007
San Diego Comic-Con? Just checking to see if anyone here is going this weekend. I've never been, and am still on the fence about attending. Every year I say that I will go, and every year I don't go. I hate nerds. So…	6 Last	Striff Jul 2007
Interesting RockStar Article I'm not stating my opinion, simply forwarding what I thought was an interesting read via Kotaku. The blog post of a former R* employee. "[i]I figure today is as good a day as any to write down some …	18 Last	Ruz Jul 2007
Game Design Education in Toronto hey guys. just looking for some assistance in terms of education in Toronto. I'm just trying to figure out if the International Acadmy of Design and Technology is any good for the Game Art courses?…	6 Last	indian_boy Jul 2007
An Evening With Epic Games [url="http://www.autodesknews.com/epic/"]http://www.autodesknews.com/epic/[/url] Monday, July 23rd, Leicester Square, London. Doors open 4:30pm. I guess it's some kind of Autodesk promotional thing…	42 Last	Michael Knubben Jul 2007
7th grader get 10 years? Such crap.. I'd so be serving a lifetime before I was able to drive if this crap happened back when I was a kid. [url="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/07/24/intv.boy.faces.jail.for.slap.c…	29 Last	IronHawk Jul 2007
Cost of living/salary expectation in Lisbon Evening gentlemen, i know there are a few Portuguese people on these boards. Apartment rent, other living expenses, things to expect, things to watch out for... Any wisdom is appreciated folks.. Th…	0 Last	Fuse Jul 2007
My ticket is bought for Tokyo Games Show Leaving Dallas on the 18th, arriving in Narita on the 19th. Returning on the 24th. Still think you can make it Xenobond? Hawken, will you be available during those days?	10 Last	skankerzero Jul 2007
ASCI star wars(>>loook<<) use "Start" then cmd(comand line i guess) this " telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl " enjoy also check this " telnet gw.boston.ru "	6 Last	Asthane Jul 2007
R.I.P. Glen Angus. "gangus" I realize that Glen wasn't a poster here on PC, but chances are you've seen his work somewhere (conceptart.org, cgtalk, etc). If not, you can see his stuff on his site- [url="http://gangus.net/"]htt…	23 Last	conte Jul 2007
Real Time for Web Applications Hello, I'm looking for other programs that are similar to programs like Anark, which produce real time 3D for the web. My company has been using Anark for awhile and its been great so far, with the …	5 Last	Motz Jul 2007
Where have all the platformers gone? First Id like to state that Im an old school gamer, I grew up in the 8 bit and 16 bit golden era of gaming. By the time the original Sony Playstation came out I was already in my late teens, up unt…	32 Last	thnom Jul 2007
The definition of amazing badassery ok, so get this 'Four armed guys kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him i…	12 Last	Ged Jul 2007
Happy Birthday Pior! Cake for U! [img]http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/03/snakevscrabs.jpg[/img]	57 Last	Michael Knubben Jul 2007
The Darkness Just played through this game, and absolutely loved it. If anyone around here is into horror games, check this out. Story is excellent, gameplay is a hell of a lot of fun, visuals are great. It also …	12 Last	HonkyPunch Jul 2007
United We Stand Movie Wow! What an epic looking movie! Why is no one talking about it? Looks Bad Ass! Sure to be a blockbuster! [url="http://www.unitedwestandmovie.com/"][img]http://static.flickr.com/37/75736883_c2e7…	18 Last	ElysiumGX Jul 2007
WiiFit ... the truth I rather like this parody on the WiiFit. It'd seem I'm not the only one who sees it as totally ridiculous. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYBmAVuBns"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYBmAVuB…	20 Last	Asmuel Jul 2007
Beans It's Saturday night, have yourself a [url="http://www.simonpanrucker.com/beans.html"]laugh[/url].	1 Last	jgarland Jul 2007
mr bones spamming you too? I would prefer my email address not to be used for spam	44 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jul 2007
Weekend excursion to Sweden Hey there,im headed to swden this weekend and i was wondering if anyone here has been to Malmo and can you suggest some fun things to do?	1 Last	Wahlgren Jul 2007
Scion's Kill the Sheeple Game [url="http://www.littledeviant.com/"]http://www.littledeviant.com/[/url] I feel like I'm beating up the kids on the short bus...	17 Last	HonkyPunch Jul 2007
Ben Procter's Online Port: Transformers the movie [url="http://www.benprocter.com/SITEv2/HTML/PROJPAGE_Trans_01.html"]http://www.benprocter.com/SITEv2/HTML/PROJPAGE_Trans_01.html[/url] Pretty neat stuff up there. View it in IE. His server is very…	5 Last	moose Jul 2007
SCHIZOPHRENIC [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9iXsF7lRE0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9iXsF7lRE0[/url]	2 Last	almighty_gir Jul 2007
Rescue the Nuke Scientist Golly! I can't wait! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHRDnfK-PK0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgamepolitics%2Ecom%2F2007%2F07%2F18%2Firanian%2Danti%2Dus%2Dgame%2Dplay%2Dfootage%2F"]Special Operation : …	25 Last	Tulkamir Jul 2007
Something funky going on with polycount I just noticed this, not sure how long it's been like this, but the boards have been coming up as: [url="http://72.232.179.131:8003/postlist.php?Cat=0&Board=1"]http://72.232.179.131:8003/postlist…	26 Last	Renaud Galand Jul 2007
Harry potter fans I usually don't pay attention to anything harry potter, but this is screaming for attention. I've never seen the game they play in the movies/book, but when I saw they're required to hold the broom …	15 Last	Geezus Jul 2007
New Ratchet screens and vids So Sony's Gamers day was this week,and i have to say we made an awesome impression. Still tons of polish to go, but its really shaping up. there are some nice new screens and 2 new vids, one of the d…	47 Last	Spark Jul 2007
Working in Canada? For the people who have done this. What papers do I need to file? How long does the application process usually take? Do I need both Work Permit and Visa? or just Work permit? What differences are th…	21 Last	Hito Jul 2007
Windows Vista So yeh. i was wondering how many of you use windows vista. I recently formated my pc and installed vista but somehow i miss xp. maybe im not used to it yet or maybe is just my laptop asking me to cal…	9 Last	Pedro Amorim Jul 2007