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Pitch to investors at TIGAs Access to Finance Summer Event on 26th August 2015 This looks like a great event if anyone is looking to get a game off the ground. [url]http://www.tiga.org/events/tigas-events/access-to-finance-summer-2015[/url] ACCESS TO FINANCE SUMMER 2015 WEDNE…	0 Last	littleclaude Aug 2015
How should a portfolio piece be presented? I'm not sure if I should've posted this in the Showcase section, but ah well. I just finished a prop for a game and I thought I could put it up on my portfolio. The question is, how should I present…	2 Last	Bluestemos Aug 2015
Would going freelance be the best way to go? all you need to know is in the title :thumbup:	11 Last	Jonas Ronnegard Aug 2015
Vray vs. Renderman vs. Arnold. I am new to rendering software, I'm looking to do realistic 3D renders, both still frames and animations. Is there any clear difference between Vray, Arnold, or Renderman? It seems that Renderman …	7 Last	JedTheKrampus Aug 2015
pay per asset How do you determine how much money you wish to be paid if there is a potential employer that says something along the lines of: "payment is per asset and we need 50 of them"? I know how to calculate…	4 Last	Neox Aug 2015
Disney's interactive revenue falls by $58M Hello guys, Again, Disney tried to ``recycle`` their characters and bring them to the ``games world``, do you think that`s better to give the Disney Interactive (Games field) the autonomy to create …	6 Last	DavidCruz Aug 2015
Wiki Art Dump List Hey there, so I finally threw together the wiki page. I hope it comes in handy for you guys.http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Game_Art_Examples So far it's not in the Wiki table of contents but that'll…	57 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2015
Never use turbosmooth? Today while I was doing some work in my local Internet cafe I was approached by someone interested in my model, he said some kind words then he said (paraphrasing) "You should never use turbosmooth f…	40 Last	Jesse Moody Aug 2015
GamesRadar's Write-Up on Charles Blanchard (DelkoDuck) and his awesome retro art Congrats to polycounter Charles for the GamesRadar writeup! [URL="http://www.gamesradar.com/32-bit-graphics-are-new-retro/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook"]http://www.gamesradar.com/32-bit-gr…	0 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Aug 2015
Gamescom Highlights 2015 Gamescom Highlights 2015 Official Website - [url]http://www.gamescom-cologne.com/gamescom/index-9.php[/url] Live feed - [url]http://uk.ign.com/[/url] Destiny's Leveling System Redesign - [url]http…	3 Last	littleclaude Aug 2015
Anyone using Rhino? - exporting to 3ds Max and/or UE4? Afternoon all, I realise this is a games focused forum so probably very few Rhino users - jut wondering if there are and how you export to 3ds Max? I export as .dwg which is fine except for if I wan…	8 Last	Ruz Aug 2015
2D artist cost I'm loooking to hire a 2D artist to create a beat em up style game in the vein of Golden Axe, Dungeon's and Dragons, or Dragon's Crown. I was it all to be hand drawn artwork that's scanned in. The …	2 Last	thomasp Aug 2015
Chrome Experiments, can you give me the low down? Hi I have been looking through the [URL="https://www.chromeexperiments.com/"]Chrome Experiments[/URL] and it looks really interesting. Where are we at for rookie coder types to get into this or is…	2 Last	littleclaude Aug 2015
Confused Sales Emails Every now and then I get emails from people trying to sell me bathroom tiles because for some reason their system has seen my portfolio which has hand painted tileable textures on. The same thing…	1 Last	myclay Aug 2015
Maxon Announces Cinema 4D R17 [URL]http://www.maxon.net/products/new-in-cinema-4d-r17/overview.html[/URL] I know not many C4D users here, still may be interesting Some good improvements, the new Splines look amazing but see for …	5 Last	kanga Aug 2015
SyWork - Streaming site for artists My cousin came across this yesterday. [url]https://sywork.tv[/url]	13 Last	marceloecheverria Aug 2015
Houdini 15 at Siggraph Side Effects will showcase Houdini 15 at Siggraph this year. Some new things that are coming: - Houdini Engine 2.0 - Retopo Tools - Poly Bridge Tool - Poly Expand (whatever it is) - Ragdoll - Edge S…	5 Last	Aabel Aug 2015
OBJ Format Question I'm working at a place that is using GIT hub to transfer files between the art team and our programmer. Sometimes our objs are too big for git to want to deal with. I'm told by the programer that the…	1 Last	JedTheKrampus Aug 2015
Book Review: "The Big Bad World of Concept Art for Video Games" My one-sentence review: Just borrow it from the library (like I did). It's more career advisory than art theory or techniques. Good for students or anybody curious about the role and how to make p…	0 Last	MagicSugar Aug 2015
Is Zbrush the best for hardsurface character modeling? It seems like it is, considering all of the tutorials and artists who use it to create their character's armor. (They get great results) Perhaps I am thinking wrongly here, that is why I ask this q…	6 Last	pior Aug 2015
Halo Wars 2 This is a thing we're working on here at Creative Assembly :) very exciting to be affiliated with such a huge IP! [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMiiffLQcvE[/ame]	17 Last	mats effect Aug 2015
GDC Europe / Gamescom Hangout Edit: We're looking to set up a polycount meetup in a bar somewhere in Cologne the night of Monday, August 3rd, somewhere in the neighbourhood of GDC ( the koelnmesse ) If you're interested, leave a…	11 Last	Neox Aug 2015
Has anyone moved from a commercial modeling app to Blender? At the risk of starting a "Blender is better than xxxxx" thread, I'm just curious if anyone here has made the jump from a commercial app (MAX, Modo, etc.) to Blender and how it's worked out for you. …	139 Last	MmAaXx Aug 2015
Salvaging London's lost video game amusements. [B] The last arcade [/B] …	0 Last	littleclaude Aug 2015
Finally started learning CG myself... Hi. I am a small-scale retailer from California, working in a middle of a ghetto in Inland Empire area. I studied illustration with a useless BFA, and somehow I decided to jump into studying 3DCG, …	6 Last	ambelamba Aug 2015
Side by side Texture to Model creation Hi Guys I've been poking around trying to find a method of having side by side texture painting to a 3D surface. Effectively what Zbrush does but not painting on the 3D mesh, just painting on the UV…	11 Last	seth. Aug 2015
Comics/Mangas/Manhwas/Manhuas etc - Reading/Read If there is a thread like this already then feel free to delete: Just list comics you've read or are reading, talk about em if you want i guess. Unlike most i sort of started super late into th…	21 Last	ArtisticTiger Aug 2015
Level Design / World Design Reads? Hey All! Was wondering if anyone could recommend some good books/tutorials/videos on designing levels or worlds. I'm especially interested in the designs of games such as skyrim, where the assets w…	6 Last	Mr.Moose Aug 2015
MPC launches dedicated VR team MPC launches dedicated VR team, more details here - [url]http://www.moving-picture.com/news/mpc-launches-dedicated-vr-team[/url] [vv]119540843[/vv]	0 Last	littleclaude Aug 2015
[Beta] Astral Ball I've finally released my first UE4 game on Android. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goCMGSXvfw8[/ame] You can play it [URL="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zackmaxwell.AstralB…	4 Last	Zack Maxwell Aug 2015
After Student License ends, what then? I have been thinking come September am going to be in my final year, not soon after that my 3ds max license will dry up. where do i go from there, what did you do? Do I go and buy a license, or do…	10 Last	RaptorCWS Aug 2015
Stuart Baggs dead at 27 Not really a games related topic but relevant on a personal level. The entrepreneur and star of UK show 'The Apprentice' Stuart Baggs died at age 27 on Thursday. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl…	3 Last	mats effect Aug 2015
New Path Goal I now realize that level design is actually my true passion. I really enjoy placing assets into game engines and creating/populating the world itself. But I'm not quite sure what skills that I need t…	7 Last	blankslatejoe Aug 2015
Gaming/Workstation Build Hey guys, I'm interested in building a gaming/workstation pc. I am willing to flex my budget a little but I would like to stick around 5k. A few questions I have is how much RAM do I need? How much V…	18 Last	m4dcow Aug 2015
Why do people recommend drawing from life over drawing from photos? I keep hearing this, usually from the more experienced and credible artists. Can anyone explain the differences to me? Confusingly, I see many contemporary artists rely on photos for studying. I'm…	18 Last	sacboi Aug 2015
Health related question I travel often for my job and i'm a bit worried because of my mothers's health condition though it's not that serious. She regularly visits her physician for her check up. The problem is i wont be ab…	2 Last	EarthQuake Aug 2015
eSports Manager: MOBA Do you like MOBAs? Do you like eSports? Check out eSports Manager: MOBA on Kickstarter: [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/evilblah82/Product-Page_zpsypstikbj.jpg[/img] [url]https://www.k…	0 Last	evilblah Jul 2015
A Polycount meetup in Munich? Just wondering whether there are 3D artists in and around the Munich area who'd like to meet up, talk 3D and drink lots of Bier?	8 Last	cookedpeanut Jul 2015
noob texturing questions I found this image of a diffuse and a spec map while reading through the vertex 2 magazine and I had some questions about spec maps. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jRFFHVf.png[/IMG] I was wondering how they…	6 Last	MikeF Jul 2015
Graduation Year Project Advice Hi, I will shortly be beginning my self-directed graduation year project which will last eight months, and I was wondering if anyone could give some advice on what kind of project I should do to maxi…	8 Last	beefaroni Jul 2015
How to inspire artists to learn? Hi, How do you motivate average 3D artists to raise their quality bar or how were you inspired by your leads, if you ever needed to? I think many of you have some thoughts from either side. There'…	29 Last	Avvi Jul 2015
Emo, Blues, Rock, Shoegaze and Post Hardcore. So i never see people around here who share my music tastes, but i was curious if they actually exist. Most of it seems to be electronic or metal. Currently there are a few guys that I'm absolutely …	46 Last	JasonLavoie Jul 2015
Games Done Quick 2015 Love these marathons, Maybe you'll see something you worked on being broken. They're great background noise if anything. Here's a link to the twitch.tv channel [url]http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequi…	3 Last	Gannon Jul 2015
Filling a report Hi, how do you file a report against another user on this forum...	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2015
Examples of great prop artist portfolios? I'm in the process of rendering out some pieces for my first portfolio and wondering what is the best way to display props. Anyone have some links to kick-ass prop portfolios?	4 Last	jackanimated Jul 2015
Draw a Cat With Your Eyes Closed Okay, Art-Dweebs. Let's put your drawing skills to damn test. Are you guys bad enough dudes to draw a cat with your eyes closed?? No Cheating [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14880812/poly…	163 Last	ErichWK Jul 2015
Zbrush start up error; cannot delete default sphere I will admit, I have been attempting to customize my UI. Modifying things like Zscripts, creating macros, etc. Whenever I boot up Zbrush now, despite a fresh install, I get a sphere that cannot be …	2 Last	DataDragon Jul 2015
Toronto Meet-up // Saturday, July 25th [IMG]http://www.milliokerestaurant.com/assets/images/main/ml_main-beer-pic.jpg[/IMG] [COLOR="White"]Who:[/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]You[/COLOR] [COLOR="white"]What:[/COLOR] [COLOR="red"]Beer / social nigh…	53 Last	Dave Dind Jul 2015
Learn like a 3 year old! Ive recently come to the conclusion that the average 3 year old plays a more active role in learning than the average young adult. Read more here: [URL="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learn-like-3-…	0 Last	WilliamVaughan Jul 2015
Need help regarding character modeling references Hi, I would like to know to what's the best place to get character modeling references.	11 Last	kolayamit Jul 2015