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Selling On The Various Marketplaces - Conflict of Interest So this is mainly a question for anyone currently working at a professional game studio and selling assets on any of the Marketplaces. I know there are a lot of people that do both so my question wou…	15 Last	Snefer Jul 2015
Polycount Page Jump Hi guys, Wondering if there's some way to do a jump between pages for thread that have a lot of pages. I noticed i can only jump from "first to last" or to jump in increments of 3 > 10 > 50 pages. …	2 Last	Tenshi Jul 2015
Used Cintiq Purchasing Advice Hey Polyocunt! So I happened across a craigslisting for a used (though description on post: "barely used") Cintiq 22HD w/ an Ergotronic desk arm. I wanted to ask, besides brute force testing it aga…	7 Last	Add3r Jul 2015
Polycount Forum and Flash Player I've noticed that some forums embed YouTube videos with a HTML5 player instead of the standard Flash one. Does Polycount support this function? Yes, I don't like Flash, Mozilla disabled it so many…	3 Last	SonicBlue Jul 2015
Rising Thunder, 3d fighting robots! I'm a big fighter nut, and if you're a bit familiar with the fighting scene you'll know who seth killian is, aside from an interesting concept, his new fighter sports some fun robot designs and art, …	4 Last	Ahoburg Jul 2015
Quick question about experience Hello, I was just wondering if unpaid and royalty based positions for indie devs count towards experience required for jobs at AAA studios?	8 Last	Add3r Jul 2015
Best way to learn 3D animation? Hi, I was wondering what the polycount community thought, regarding how to go about learning animation. - What are the best tutorials/books you have encountered? - What's the best advice for a beg…	7 Last	Lamoot Jul 2015
Batman: Arkham Knight [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuD0Inb9Gs"]Official Batman: Arkham Knight Announce Trailer - "Father to Son" - YouTube[/ame] [url]http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/…	91 Last	cptSwing Jul 2015
Burnout Busters Just curious what are you everyone's burn out busters to get into making awesome art again?	16 Last	sziada Jul 2015
Trying to find the artist and original concept Looking for the Artist who created the concept for this 3D piece. I did it a while back. And I can't find the original concept:poly122::thumbup: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PgSUifX.png[/IMG]	1 Last	ArtLearner Jul 2015
Website Branding Wasnt sure if this is the section but whatever... In terms of portfolio websites. I was wondering if it is more ideal to have 2D and 3D on a separate website, or have them on the same site together.	9 Last	iadagraca Jul 2015
What's the best type of sculpey to buy? Hi, I'm looking to get into sculpting irl. I'm thinking about this: [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Sculpey-Super-Sculpturing-Compound-Beige/dp/B0026C1T8C"]Amazon.com: Sculpey Super Sculpturing Compou…	9 Last	myclay Jul 2015
Desktop Publishing software I'm in the process of laying out a book which will eventually go into print. It's a combination of text pages and image pages with more images interspersed throughout the writing. A lot of finicky la…	14 Last	Steve Schulze Jul 2015
Photography tutorial for textures? Hi I can find alot of tutorials for hand painting textures and alot for photography basics but i'm drawing blanks for tutorials specifically for how to take photos for video games and film textures. …	34 Last	gnoop Jul 2015
Computer stopped working. Parts recommendations? UPDATE: Problem with computer solved. Don't need to buy parts anymore. Crisis averted! My computer is in an endless loop of BSOD's. I've tried reinstalling windows and still have the problem so I'…	15 Last	kanga Jul 2015
Losing my way a bit Hey polycounters! Just wanted to throw up a post introducing myself and to see if this awesome community can help steer me a little more in the right direction. I'm currently a game design student …	4 Last	Wobbly Lions Jul 2015
Google Hangouts Alternative. Me and a couple of class mates use Google Hangouts basically on the daily, just to chill and show work off and for when working on projects together. It's done the job for quite some time now, but it…	9 Last	Sean VanGorder Jul 2015
keep on trying just a small thread about the power of persistence. i think that at times you can really struggle with 3d and the associated techniques,but slowly and with much persistence I have found that if you k…	2 Last	Ruz Jul 2015
LF Battle Theme Feedback I don't know if this is allowed or not. If not just destroy the post. But I needed some feedback on the volume levels and stuff because my good headphones died and I'm using a decent but cheapo brand…	0 Last	Pancakes Jul 2015
Klaus - The Spa Studios (Amazing 2D/3D Short Film) People working on this must be very happy to accomplished so beautiful quality and this mix of classic and modern 2D/3D. Lovely... i can't wait to see more. [URL="https://vimeo.com/126287950"]http…	1 Last	Blond Jul 2015
Correct perspective Inspired by this [URL="www.reddit.com"]reddit[/URL] thread about correcting OpenGL perspective: [URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/computergraphics/comments/3dj7cf/curved_perspectives_should_draw_curved_…	10 Last	pior Jul 2015
Using my work? I worked on a large project a while ago and I was responsible for some of the concept design and 3d modelling. The project's recently been released, so I googled it and found an artist's personal por…	3 Last	DEElekgolo Jul 2015
New Descent Game Crowdsourcing Bots I'm the Community Manager for Descent: Underground. We're having a Build-A-Bot contest to let the community build a bot boss for the game. The overall winner gets an AMD 290X card! Here's the info…	1 Last	Dan! Jul 2015
Internet Cartoon, to Animated TV Series to Hollywood Director Live Q&A When [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Jorge Gutierrez[/COLOR] graduated from Art School in 2000 he immediately began pitching his idea for an original animated film. He was met with rejection, countless studios t…	0 Last	LPushelberg Jul 2015
Jurassic World Jurassic World Trailer [url]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2b1wpl_jurassic-world-trailer_shortfilms[/url] Enjoy :thumbup::thumbup:	135 Last	CreativeSheep Jul 2015
tips and techniques for PBR metal I find metal difficult to get looking good, especially fairly plain metal. Does anyone have any tips or techniques for working with these materials? I can't seem to find any tutorials for PBR techn…	8 Last	Joopson Jul 2015
Does anybody know what game this is from? Does anybody know what game this is from? [IMG]http://i.gyazo.com/1097eb1b29aec9e92eb44f9675154a05.png[/IMG] [url]https://vimeo.com/132256061[/url]	2 Last	pior Jul 2015
Classic console development kits, samples (Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Neo Geo, etc.) Hello, Over the past year, I have been gathering dev kits for classic consoles from around the net, fixing them up to get them in a working state, and then wrote small game samples for each. The s…	16 Last	smccd Jul 2015
"The Maestros" Open Alpha is LIVE ; Multiplayer RTS/Arena Game Hey Polycount! I'm proud to say Systence Games, the team of developers originating at USC, has finally released "The Maestros" to Open Alpha! [URL="http://www.maestrosgame.com/"]http://www.maestros…	3 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Jul 2015
How do you write a script? I'm interested in learning how to write a story. I want to write scripts for Comics/TV/Movies. Are there any good tutorials out there? I'm having trouble finding a source with a credible author and…	5 Last	RN Jul 2015
Dyslexic men make great Artists I want to share this link with all our dyslexic artists. Myself being dyslexic. I used to think of dyslexia in a very negative way and often referred to myself as an idiot because I struggled to re…	11 Last	heyeye Jul 2015
Portfolio and hiring: does the toolbelt matter? Most artists that i know use Max or Maya. They are successful environment artists that have good jobs in nice companies and this is something that i've been looking for myself. I've been a programmer…	5 Last	RaptorCWS Jul 2015
Good reference for sculpting? I'm having a hard time finding great reference to sculpt with. I want to study facial features and so on. What type of resources do you recommend?	0 Last	DataDragon Jul 2015
cheeseplus birth suit Happy birthday cheeseplus, mister backbone of Polycount! Hope your day is full of promise, and wieners. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kcy3Kes.jpg[/IMG]	3 Last	almighty_gir Jul 2015
Hololens for Maya M$ wins! :D I want! [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywXWqNdVtjs[/ame]	25 Last	SyedS Jul 2015
Video teaser of a new Animation software pkg Developed by nukeygara, akeytsu is a brand new 3D program dedicated solely to character animation and rigging, for the animation and video games industries. Simplicity, velocity and ergonomics W…	17 Last	kanga Jul 2015
Survey on rendering : needs and consumption habits Hello everyone, I m Alex, a Digital Marketing postgraduate student at Dublin City University. I m conducting a study as part of a practicum project. The study aims to capture a detailed picture of n…	6 Last	projectrendicity Jul 2015
Noob character art questions I have been trying to learn about topology, more specifically character topology for games. I have not had much luck with finding good tutorials on this subject so I had some questions [B]1[/B] I se…	2 Last	DireWolf Jul 2015
Tutorials on making kickass reels? Hey guys, I'm not sure if this topic has already been covered somewhere but I never actually learned some good tips about how to craft a good reel by using software like After Effects, Fusion or Nuke…	15 Last	rodpv Jul 2015
NEED HELP FOR ART TEST :) Hey guys, Just looking for some tips on an up-coming art test! 'My first one also' Test involves creating a prop to mobile TRI budget requirements. Textures also to those requirements. They also w…	6 Last	PolyLove Jul 2015
New Classes for Brainstorm School Fall Term! [CENTER][URL="http://brainstormschool.com/"][IMG]http://img.ymlp.com/f31p_HeaderImage_4.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/CENTER] [CENTER][B]BRAINSTORM SCHOOL - FALL TERM 2015 [/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][COLOR=#ff…	0 Last	BrainstormSchool Jul 2015
Finding Freelance work Hello I know this is a great forum to find freelance work, I was wondering if anyone else knew another good website or two to look for freelance work? Thank you	8 Last	chilemang Jul 2015
How to include youtube Video in Post Hi, how can i include a youtube video into a post so that it not just appears as a link? Thanks	11 Last	sziada Jul 2015
What ever happened to Next gen hardsurface? Disting used to run a forum that was pretty fun, focused solely on hardsurface stuff. I miss it :( of course polycount encompasses everything that forum did, but it was more focused and feedback wa…	7 Last	sziada Jul 2015
HOW TO stand out to potential employers Hey guys/girls Recently i have been applying for jobs all over the UK and Europe. Obviously coming from a self taught background with no formal education other than a diploma, I was just wondering…	46 Last	Matt Fagan Jul 2015
Bierzerkers on Steam Early Access July 9th (with screens) Hello Polycount :) We've been busy at Shield Break Studios and finally releasing our debut title, Bierzerkers, onto Steam Early Access in 2 days. Super exciting and scary. We really want to supp…	8 Last	Will Harris Jul 2015
Best place to learn how to hand paint Assets? Hi everyone I am needing to learn how to hand paint textures for game assets, but i am still learning photoshop and i dont pick things up very well. So i was wondering if anyone has any hints or sug…	19 Last	Deathstick Jul 2015
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata passes away... Although i'm not much of a Nintendo gamer nowadays, my formative gaming years were full of them. Rest in peace sir. [center][img]http://static.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_medium/mig/8/4/7/0/2288470-…	36 Last	Tenshi Jul 2015
Sprite Anim Program Question I'm thinking of purchasing Spriter Pro, but does anyone know of a better program for sprite animation? Thank you. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZcAszm9ipI[/ame]	9 Last	Steve Schulze Jul 2015
Good place to share content? I'm looking for a place to share my content with other people (textures, models, etc.). Since i'm planning to release the sources (substances, max files), do you guys recommend any good website with …	6 Last	athenahatt Jul 2015