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Automodeller Pro for 3DS Max Just stumbled on this on facebook randomlyhttp://www.automodeller.com/index.htmlNot using 3ds myself but very interesting stuff.Seems really cool and advanced, but expensive.	8 Last	malcolm Dec 2015
Personal Face 3D Model, then 3D Print the person Hey, I have had a thought for a while now, which was I have wanted to speed up and improve my character modelling and facial modelling. I also want to get hold of a good 3D Printer. So, for exam…	3 Last	Neox Dec 2015
Tutorials for ZBrush, Fusion 360, Substance, armored reptiles, and more!! Hey everybody, I've been meaning to make a post for a while once I've got all my ducks in a row, and now that they're all in a row...it's a lot of ducks!! Apologize in advance, this is going to take …	7 Last	Pavlovich Dec 2015
Should i buy SSD or more RAM for 8K texturing? Hello guys! I've been struggling with 8K texturing. Every software that using 8K textures becoming very very slow. Rendering, painting textures on mari etc. In photoshop its workable. But its not for…	9 Last	thomasp Dec 2015
3Dcoat on sale http://3dcoat.com/home/newsletters/christmas-sales/"Dear Friends, We wish you peace, joy and family warm-heartedness during this Christmas and the whole New Year! In the light of upco…	0 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Dec 2015
Ghost in the Shell Online Dawgs.......... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYucNjpnXHg"]Ghost in the Shell Online Debut Trailer Nexon X Neople - YouTube[/ame]	38 Last	InvertedVantage Dec 2015
Where do you host your portfolio? Hey guys. I finally finished building my website, now it's a matter of finding a good hosting service. So I was wondering, what web hosting services do you guys use? How do you like them, and would y…	25 Last	LuisCherubini Dec 2015
Does the new Vanilla forums accept HTML5 videos links or iframe code? Recently, I've found HTML5 to be a better option than displaying loopable animation gif files. (Smaller sizes, increased resolution) Would html5 video links from other hosts be supported? (i.e G…	1 Last	RN Dec 2015
Closed Moved: A rookie in need of advice about joining objects together- can you help? This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2015
AppleTV games Some of you have 'em. Some of you worked on 'em. So let 'em rip!Also, any good games you have found? Discoverability is a bit of an issue on the platform.I'll do the first shameless plug: Pirate Pop …	0 Last	hawken Dec 2015
Closed Moved: I'm after a very specific UV editor This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2015
Taylors Tools: Free Zbrush Plugin [URL="https://gumroad.com/l/TaylorsTools"][img]http://i.imgur.com/NQLlB4y.png[/img][/URL] Hey Guys! I’m posting up my own personal plugin to Gumroad for free! It’s just a collection of …	13 Last	DanaosC Dec 2015
Current Nvidia Driver Issues Hi,I just want to know if anyone else got issues with the current Nvidia Drivers, too?The last working driver for me was 355.98 (currrently installed) - every later built:- > leads to runtime erro…	5 Last	iadagraca Dec 2015
Need to talk to people working in Russia Hello guys does anyone of you who is working in russia as a graphic designer or anything related to it can we have a litle chat please? Thanks	0 Last	levsingh Dec 2015
Closed Moved: NEED HELP WITH MUDBOX PAINTING PROBLEMS This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2015
3D Studies? Hello guys!I'm on a very bad situation, i need some professional help...Ok, im 15 years old right now, next year i'll start focusing my studies on what i want. I want to study 3D Art. For movies or v…	15 Last	miguelnarayan Dec 2015
Research Thread inspired by this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlK9ANKWSN8 (never expected Squix to put so much effort into live exploration research like that).Researc…	1 Last	miguelnarayan Dec 2015
AutoCAD Tecnician wanting to learn more 3D visualisation skills Hi all,It feels good to sign up on here. Hopefully the start of good things. First thing, what a great community this forum seems to be. I have been looking around online for information with regards…	2 Last	Mantis_Kung_Fu Dec 2015
Closed WTF is this new Polycount??? Hey,Haven't been here in a while and just posted, noticing this awful awful new layout. The first thing that struck me was the avatar image is like 512x now, and all text defaults to double spac…	21 Last	adam Dec 2015
Is 3DMotive subscription plan worth it? Hey there, I'm learning Maya, right now I'm in the middle of a 1 month course, and I'm seeing some nice progress already, I'm subscribed to Digital Tutors as well, lots of tutorials there...However I…	12 Last	Optinium Dec 2015
Star Trek: Beyond https://youtu.be/XRVD32rnzOwI'm a huge Star Trek fan, but...This trailer looks like they decided to turn the stupid up to 11.Because when I'm watching Star Trek I'm usually thinking..."you know what …	21 Last	notman Dec 2015
Jungle hut help I've got this reference from the show NARCOS on Netflix as I'm going to start working on a little project aimed towards a jungle map filled with little drug shacks, huts, encampments, tents…	2 Last	Mitchyy Dec 2015
Environment Art test questions Hey all,I had some questions on what you all think are some good ways to tackle an art test. Like is it better to have a fully lit and textured space, compared to having some un-complete but more ass…	5 Last	Ged Dec 2015
Why game companies don`t use Blender Engine for FX? I saw some companies`s job section (mostly looking for FX), and most of them requires the candidate to know how to use Unity or UE4, you guys know why? I think you can do a pretty decent work using b…	6 Last	Prime8 Dec 2015
Best Software to create sketches to be used in Maya? Hello, I heard somebody say about a software that was great to create reference images and sketches to be used in maya, unfortunately couldnt catch the name. Any recommendations? Thanks.&…	15 Last	Wolthera Dec 2015
Selling my Wacom + Zbrush Hey guys, Did the freelancer gig for nearly 9 years, going back to doing security work at a correctional facility and part time job doing EMT stuff. I figure since this is a community of artist pret…	8 Last	xChris Dec 2015
GDquest - Weekly free design tutorials / On Kickstarter! Hey there! I'm Nathan, a professional game designer. I release free video tutorials every week on Youtube. The channel is dedicated to game art and game design.You can find all of the tutor…	11 Last	Valerien Dec 2015
MODO/MARI Games Webinar Series It’s game on! Join our Game Jam webinar series.This December and January, join us for an exciting series of webinars that will show you how to use MODO and MARI for game asset creation. As you probab…	29 Last	dzibarik Dec 2015
Anyone upgrading to Windows 10? Just curious, it comes out Wednesday. I might wait awhile and see what the word of mouth is, but being on 8.1 I'm curious to get some of those windows 7 features/workflow back.	240 Last	Technomancr Dec 2015
Phantom Pain/ Metal Gear Solid 5 anyone see this, suppose to be all in game footage. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSfajBs2nyQ"]The Phantom Pain Trailer! (Metal Gear Solid 5?) - YouTube[/ame]	371 Last	teaandcigarettes Dec 2015
Create a Top-Down Shooter/Rpg Anyone have any good links or tutorials on making a top down game? I am leaning towards using the Unreal Engine.I have Zbrush and Maya so i can make the 3d art assets, i just don't know how to a…	9 Last	Justin Meisse Dec 2015
Massive Concept Inpiration folder Hey, So these past few years I have been collecting some really awesome concept art and I decided to finally share it with everyone. This started out as a simple concept gathering to get an idea or…	90 Last	acealmighty13 Dec 2015
Best tool for Industrial Design Hello Guys.. Currently I am making some industrial designs for 3D Printing.. Kindly suggest me the more efficient tool for creating some Hard Surface Assets.	8 Last	InvertedVantage Dec 2015
Please do something about the bot-spam For several days now the Technical Talk -section has been plagued by spamming bots posting telephone numbers. This is similiar to the spam that has plagued the Blizzard forums in the past.PLEASE do S…	10 Last	skankerzero Dec 2015
Selling Windows ZBrush Licence Hello guys, I'm selling my Windows ZBrush Licence for 600$ so you basically save 200$ If you are interested please let me know. More info on my e-mail.	1 Last	Jean-Pascal Dec 2015
Charging client for tools you'll continue using When freelancing, I know it's normal to charge the client for tools you need for the job. But would that still the case if you intend to continue using the tools after the job is done? Since you woul…	11 Last	battlecow Dec 2015
2D Vector Art // Mobile Game development (advice needed) Hey all, Me and my good friend the programmer are looking into developing a 2D mobile app/game in our spare time and are wondering how and if we can use vector art for it. I know most of us are 3d ar…	6 Last	RN Dec 2015
Whats going on with the wiki? http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/PolycountI go there and the links on the left and the background loads but theres no links to 3D modeling and texturing guides and info anymore. Instead in the centre o…	12 Last	PolyHertz Dec 2015
Buy 3DSMax 2016 or rent it? I live in Europe and 3DSMax is 5000 euro's here for the Perpetual Licence, that's even more in dollars. It does not seem possible to buy 3DSMax in the United States (Th…	15 Last	Stranger Dec 2015
♠ Toronto Meetup ♠ Friday, Dec 11th, 7pm ♠ It's the HOLIDAY SEASON! So what better way to celebrate than with 1 final Meetup before the new year? This is at the start of the month to hopefully avoid any family plans and what not. you know the…	22 Last	MikeF Dec 2015
Uartsy holiday subcription Hi to all of you,Are here artists around who took the holiday subscription on Uartsy website?If so can you tell me if you have access to David Lesperance courses as well?Should be awesomeThanks	2 Last	Ducky_ Dec 2015
Resident Evil 2 Prototype: Battle Coliseum [PlayStation, download available] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3JeTpgqX1YBattle Coliseum is a retro game I've been working on for a while, a technical demo of sort for my 32-bit engine, Squeeze Bomb, which runs on the original Pl…	0 Last	Loboto3 Dec 2015
Game UV for Large scale object Hi, i have some problem with uv, in this project im working on large scale shipim curious about how to maintain texture detail, should i detached the body into two or three uv pack to maintain the de…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2015
Learning 2D Game Art Hi, I want to be able to design 2d game art for mobile games.I have been learning art fundamentals for around six months, what should I be doing to learn art for this specific genre?Are there an…	3 Last	DrunkShaman Dec 2015
Rendering an interior with Mental Ray in 3ds Max Whoops...moved this to the Technical discussion.	0 Last	ozzman1997 Dec 2015
Question for LOD survey Hi all,I am doing a research piece on Lod(level of detail) in underwater environment and was thinking about doing a survey on how good the Lod look. I was thinking about showing the outcome of the th…	3 Last	lotet Dec 2015
Closed Moved: Incorrectly Baked Normal Maps This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2015
Greeting News for Artists who are selling 3D Contents, Creavorite! Hi guys! We are Creavorite Team. Let me introduce you newly launched online service platform, Creavorite! www.creavorite.com Creavorite – CNS (Creative Network Service) - is an o…	13 Last	creavorite Dec 2015
graphical quality testing survey Hi I am trying to test people on a couple of model I had done. I was wondering what I should have in the survey. I know should ask about realistic, identification if they know what it is and if they …	3 Last	ZacD Dec 2015
Bethesda opens a new studio in Montreal https://www.facebook.com/BethesdaGameStudios/https://bethesda.net/?utm_source=Twitter.com&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=12052015-BGSMontreal&hootPostID=59d202e497fbbeaf552fd8da42ebd5bd#e…	2 Last	ironbelly Dec 2015