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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…	37 Last	Deathstick Dec 2015
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 …	57 Last	Bek Dec 2015
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…	10 Last	zetheros Dec 2015
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:…	19 Last	ErichWK Dec 2015
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 …	17 Last	LRoy Dec 2015
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…	113 Last	Ged Dec 2015
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 …	7 Last	theonewhoknocks Dec 2015
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…	14 Last	escudero Dec 2015
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…	5 Last	Daew Dec 2015
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	1 Last	EmAr Dec 2015
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…	2 Last	Blaisoid Dec 2015
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?	0 Last	Sunray Dec 2015
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…	1 Last	RyanB Dec 2015
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…	2 Last	Subtle 1rony Dec 2015
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…	42 Last	claydough Dec 2015
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 …	4 Last	low odor Dec 2015
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…	8 Last	garcellano Dec 2015
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…	55 Last	LukeDodds Dec 2015
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…	5 Last	MadLabyrinthStudios Dec 2015
Closed Moved: 3ds max 2016 how to switch back to standard This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2015
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? …	2 Last	Joopson Dec 2015
Closed Moved: models draconians This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2015
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…	3 Last	iadagraca Dec 2015
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…	9 Last	Kwramm Dec 2015
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…	1 Last	Matt Fagan Dec 2015
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="https://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