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New to digital format, looking for quality learning materials ! ^_^

Hello everyone,I've finally decided to join the rest of you and start exploring digital format for the first time.I have studied traditional figure drawing and anatomy in the past, but when it comes …
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AtticusMars

Closed Moved: Showreel, Realtime & offline

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Eric Chadwick

Seeking career and skill guidance

Hello everyone and Happy New Year.My name is Dennis and I'm an aspiring 3D character artist. You can see some of my work here:http://dennisbatol.blogspot.com/I've been learning 3D for 5 years now and…
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Denicon

What are your future goals for 2016 ?

Hello Polycounters! Happy NewYear to you all!2016! Woot! :D I wish you all a great productive year full of creativity and progress!Do you have any plans or goals you wanna achieve for this new year?A…
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ascensionX

bit of a late christmas but

Girlfriend has this made for, got my own greentooth with a added bit as a inside joke from work.
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dystopianghost

Why is everyone using massive PNG files for their shots?

Am I the only one who hates waiting for these massive 8mb PNGs to download? I'm using 15mbps, so that's certainly an average net speed, not slow. Peoples' image servers seem to be the gating factor h…
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Bedrock

Need help finding uni pls ;-)

Hello! My name is Zoey and i am currently 16 years old. I live in Egypt and i'm in Grade 10. I also take SAT. I want to study game arts/animation/etc. I've experienced what it's like to look at amazi…
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huffer

Actually using models - Not just wasting space

Hey all,So I'm not sure how many people have had this problem, but I've personally noticed that usually, when working on a project, my motivation/enthusiasm on it depends on whether the project will …
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Aabel

Game with Motion Graphic/ comic/painting as cutscenes

Hi , I am looking for some reference of game that uses  painting with bit motion as cutscenethis is one I can findhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1V-uVtsQIany other game in mind?
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RaptorCWS

Photogram from a movie.

Is there any way i can photogramm a character from movie? I believe they did with han solo and luke in new battlefront
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Eric Chadwick

Polycount on Christmas Morning!

Hey guys. I would have posted this sooner but I've been rather ill :( Anyway, I opened a present from my mother on Christmas morning, only to have this little guy grinning at me! She had it custom en…
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Jakro

Show us how much better you got in 2015!!

I'd love to see some start of the year and end of the year images of what you made. 3D, 2D, animation, show us everything!Here's mine that I quickly made
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Blond

Closed Moved: Do People in Industry Use 3rd Party Scripts?

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Eric Chadwick

Closed Moved: PBR Beginner Intro ( Q-THREAD )

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Eric Chadwick

Closed Moved: Creating a Display for 3d Meshes

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Eric Chadwick

Closed Moved: is substance standard in texturing

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Eric Chadwick

Closed Moved: changing the default material in zbrush... from pixologic

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Eric Chadwick

Intuos 3 VS Intuos Art (VS Intuos 5) ?

Had an Intuos 3 6x8, no problems(sold it). Should I get another 3, and avoid the new stuff, or is the Art and/or Intuos 5 just as good(surface, nib wear)? TL;DR - Intuos 3 > Intuos Art/Draw &…
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beefaroni

Happy New year

Happy new year you buggers, hope you get what you want in every way possible this yearcheersmike
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McGreed

Closed Moved: Blender Mega Thread

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Eric Chadwick

Closed Moved: 3ds Max 2016 VS. Maya 2016 for modeling?

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Eric Chadwick

Flash VFX - Is there any market for this?

Good afternoon and happy holidays! :) As usual, I spent a couple of hours seeing some different and crazy stuff on D.A. I saw something that really draw my attention, Flash FX animation pretty clean …
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ascensionX

Closed Moved: Cinematic Character Creation Guidance

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Eric Chadwick

Harry Potter World - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

A return to the world of Harry Potter with a new film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj1devH5JP4
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littleclaude

"Nvidia, stop being a DICK"

Interesting video - "Nvidia, stop being a DICK"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcF36_qMd8M&time_continue=460
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JedTheKrampus

A parent's gaming curriculum - teaching gaming to your kids.

Caution: Longpost is long! :smile: I've got kids.They're awesome. And I believe gaming matters. It's the best, most awesome and complex content generated by human beings. I want to get my kids…
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Deathstick

Anyone tried creating assets for ArmA 3?

Gah, I'm tearing my hair out over the rvmat materials and the Oxygen 2 editor. That said, I only started my mod this morning, but it's incredibly complex to import a single asset. Anyone here have …
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Bek

Quarter-life crisis

Hey guys,So I'm a pretty amateur artist, looking for advice. This is a long post, so, really, you don't have to read this if you don't want to.This might be one of those posts where I look back to in…
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zetheros

Steam Sales! Great games and 3D Software!

Substance Indie Pack has Substance Painter + Desginer + B2M3 for 25% off. Or individually each is 34% off!http://store.steampowered.com/sub/62715/Modo 901 indie is also on sale for 40% offhttp:…
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ErichWK

Art Test Questions!

First off I have never done an art test so I'm not 100% if this is the norm but I actually feel uncomfortable with their requirements.Edited to avoid any possible lash back or bad vibes:Got my first …
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LRoy

Star Wars Battlefront

So it looks like we may finally be getting an update next month: [url]http://goo.gl/Bvqo8S[/url] I'm really hopeful for this, because still have 0 confidence in Dice, and the Frostbite engine, righ…
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Ged

GDC Questions

I'm planning on going to GDC 2016 and wanted to know if anyone can help me with a couple of questions I have, this would be my first GDC I attend. I am so excited to meet fellow Polycounters:1. Best …
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theonewhoknocks

best vfx film 2015

HiMy lovely brother is a film critics and journalist he will write an article about the 10 best VFX movie of 2015.What is your take on that?I like to help him out and for once get a journalist to wri…
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escudero

Question for 3d character modelers & sculptors

I'm currently practicing traditional figure drawing and studying human anatomy at the moment. One of the primarily reason is because it's always been something that I wanted to learn and had a fascin…
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Daew

Feng Zhu "Design Cinema" playlist

Feng Zhu has placed his "Design Cinema" tutorials into a playlist and as its the Christmas holidays I thought I would share the love.Design Cinema - LINK
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EmAr

Monetize one model

Hey guys i keep working on this piece in free time i plan to make it pbr  with some animated parts, and being broke ass gamedev im daydreaming of making some money out of it. Im looking for opin…
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Blaisoid

Xnormal doesn't notify tile updates

Hey my Xnormal doesn't notify tile updates anymore and yes i have it on does any one know why Xnormal doesn't show it?
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Sunray

Data from the Skin Reflectance Database

Hey everyone!I'd like to see the data from this research, but the widget for showing it on the website doesn't work for me (on any web browser) and I can't open the .matlab files because I don't have…
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RyanB

Hard surface sci-fi guides?

So I love sci-fi hard surface stuff. But when I try making it myself, I seriously struggle with getting ideas for all the small details required.I'm wondering if anyone knows of some good quality gui…
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Subtle 1rony

Current games console wars are strange?

Do you think the current games console wars are just a bit odd? Do you think to much importance is still going on with development for 360/PS3 consoles? Stores stocking 360/PS3 titles as if in dup…
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claydough

Any good resource for character reference images to model?

Hey, is there any website or place to find/download character reference images? (3 sides with arms open)?  to practice 3d modelling?   I can draw myself... but right now I want to practice …
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low odor

Sounds cheezy, but happy holidays!

To all the masters, newbs, learning, technical, superb, humble artists here. Merry Christmas. Hope you all keep posting amazing stuff in this forum and helping the industry evolve as always.From your…
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garcellano

Fall of Civilization

Fall of Civilization – A post-apocalyptic strategy/simulator game. You play as a survivor of the end of the world, controlling a faction of people you choose how you live in the new world and what t…
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LukeDodds

Tree Hugger on Kickstarter & Greenlight

Hi I'm a 3D designer with Mad Labyrinth Studios, while I might not post here, I do browse the forums a lot to see everyone's wonderful works. I've just launched a project on Kickstarter & Greenli…
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MadLabyrinthStudios

Closed Moved: 3ds max 2016 how to switch back to standard

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Eric Chadwick

Can I put this on my resume?

Ok, so I was recently commissioned to model and print several pieces as well as create a bunch of vector images for use on a website. I was wondering if I should/could include this job on my resume? …
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Joopson

Closed Moved: models draconians

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Eric Chadwick

As a non-artist... do you have any tips for being a client?

So I'm looking for a company logo and am in the position of being shown lots of designs by different designers. I'm a programmer, not an artist, and trying to figure out why I do or don't like a cert…
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iadagraca

become a senior today

I really want to know whats difference betwen a senior and a junior,they both know same software with same tools,learning tools takes 2-3 days max and learning fundamental takes upto 15 or may be som…
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Kwramm

Help Michael Forgey (Mike 4G) Fight Cancer

For anyone who hasn't heard, fellow game developer and producer at Monolith, Mike Forgey, was recently diagnosed with cancer. His family and friends have set up a fundraiser to contribute towards his…
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Matt Fagan

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