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[AK]Looking for references Hella, looking for references of AK47 know there is a tons of refs on that iconic piece but i need your help to find references that actually show how different pieces are fitting together , please :…	9 Last	WaYWO Mar 2015
Finding freelance and charging the right rates is hard. I might be leaning into a more controversial topic here but here it goes. I know I'm average at game art. I know that I should be charging less than what's been linked in the [URL="http://wiki.polyco…	15 Last	Noren Mar 2015
6 years of experience with little to show, help! I've worked for roughly six years at a four-man animation studio as a 3D generalist and now I'm out of a job. Granted, I'm out of said job because I moved to the other side of the country (Seattle) …	18 Last	gnoop Mar 2015
Question to 3D artist I'm interested in becoming a game designer and looking for the right college/university that will help me achieve my goals, so I was wondering if anyone know any good college/university I should look…	6 Last	SpaceRogue Mar 2015
sketch books Alright guys I know this may have been asked many times before but I am looking for specific medium for sketchbooks. Anything that is relevant to [URL="http://www.montana-cans.com/products/Sketchboo…	7 Last	DrunkShaman Mar 2015
Unwrapping and texturing large buildings/interiors. I have been an amateur 3d artist for a little over 3 years now, my modeling and texturing skills have improved greatly and i am happy with where they are for now. A friend and i started to develop a …	1 Last	Meloncov Mar 2015
Annie Awards 2015 The Annie Award is an American award for accomplishments in animation. You have categories such as "Best Animated Feature," "Best Animated Videogame" etc. The 2015 edition was published on YouTube, y…	3 Last	RN Mar 2015
Web designer needed HI folks made a post here a few days ago thought I'd make a new one to get better response. Basically I'm looking for a sci-fi artist to help make a moc web design for my games design work. I'm shoot…	2 Last	JVZombie1990 Mar 2015
Looking for a website like this... I found a site that looks like a convenient way to practice figure drawing. Does anyone know of a similar site that has non-figure ref instead? [URL="http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/fig…	1 Last	DEElekgolo Mar 2015
Marmoset Viewer [url]http://www.marmoset.co/viewer[/url] [vv]120704661[/vv] Holy guacamole! This year just keeps getting better and better.	36 Last	almighty_gir Mar 2015
Guidance on the right path So I'm not totally new to 3D modeling, but I need a bit of advice as to going in the right direction. Recently I've discovered 3D sculpting and I'm liking it much more than the traditional polygon mo…	4 Last	PyrZern Mar 2015
Tor Frick Interview Tor Frick Interview: [URL="http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/modcast/audio.aspx?id=300"]http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/modcast/audio.aspx?id=300[/URL]	1 Last	dzibarik Mar 2015
What would be the exact list of things I need to know to get a job as a 3D modeller? Hey guys! I'm a full time self-taught since a little more than a year now and I would like to know what are exactly the things I need to be able to do to get a job as a 3D modeller? What is the lis…	10 Last	pangaea Mar 2015
What texel ratio / pixel density should I use for a PS4 game ??? Hello everybody, my question is simple (or not >	10 Last	Deathstick Mar 2015
3d Printing Miniatures Hey guys, It been a little while so just thought I would post an update with some of the recent 3d prints we have been up to. Been doing allot of miniature work! As you can see the printer is…	2 Last	RandomEyes Mar 2015
RIP Maxis, 1987-2015 Maxis finally lost that final game of rock-paper-scissors with the Grim Reaper after trying to repair a busted computer. I know it isn't still the Maxis of Sim City 2000, SimCopter, SimEarth, and Th…	25 Last	HandSandwich Mar 2015
Source 2 Engine FREE!!! Lets pump up the volume even more. Because you know, UE4 and Unity5 FREE news are not enough :) [URL="http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/3/8145273/valve-source-2-announcement-free-developers"]http://www.…	27 Last	Muzzoid Mar 2015
Jr storyboarding artist job I saw a job posting for a Jr storyboarding artist and was wondering if i could get any feedback pertaining to applying for it here are some of my boards, and was thinking of perhaps posting them up …	1 Last	nelson_press Mar 2015
Destiny PS4 digital code free, only 1 As the title states, I have one left. None of my friends claimed it... so whoever messages me first. [B][SIZE="5"]GO[/SIZE][/B]	4 Last	Lamont Mar 2015
Can one person do it all? Hi, I'm new. Not just to the forum, but all of this in general. I've been practicing modeling for about a month now and learning various other things because at some point I would like to make my ow…	15 Last	von19 Mar 2015
Building a portfolio and the use of tutorials Hi everyone, I'm new to polycount, awesome to be here. I have a couple of years experience with general 3D work but am just starting to specialise more in character art. I wondered, is it a bad i…	2 Last	Gallamanji Mar 2015
Is there a safe gimpShop link? Downloaded gimpShop and got an adware warning. Further reading turned up the following from wikipedia? [QUOTE]Unfortunately, due to pending concerns over rights to the GIMPshop name, and a dispute …	12 Last	Lamoot Mar 2015
Tears How long.....SNIFF HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?!?! HOW lONG.....until I am no longer a triangle Y'all?! I aspire to be something greater! A trapezoid, maybe even a circle! My daddy was a parallelogram,…	14 Last	sziada Mar 2015
Unity 5 freee!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOWWWWW!!!!!!!!	35 Last	huang9012 Mar 2015
How low should you go? I've been learning all aspects of Gamedev for the last year or so now, and I'm feeling like I'm finally starting to get a good handle on everything at a basic level. However, one thing that is consta…	8 Last	EoinOBroin Mar 2015
The 2015 CG Student Awards Issues Call for Entries [IMG]http://www.cgstudentawards.com/images/cgsa14_logo.png[/IMG] Sponsored by Autodesk, the CG Student Awards is the largest event for Visual Effects, Feature Animation, and Next-Gen Gaming students…	0 Last	huntster Mar 2015
Unreal Tournament Pre-Alpha Hey guys, along with the new UE4 4.7 release, you guys can also download a new pre-alpha build of Unreal Tournament with our first arted up level that Rick Kohler, Chris Perna, and I did in the new l…	21 Last	CharlieD Mar 2015
What colour is this dress? I'm sure you've probably already seen it, but can someone tell me what colour this dress is? [IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/dp1v1hn8kkakvwk3rkxt.jpg[/IMG] To me it…	132 Last	claydough Mar 2015
Hitman: Absolultion - Polycount Face Sup [FONT="Arial Black"][COLOR="Red"]Possible SPOILER![/COLOR][/FONT] Not sure if any of Y'all have seen this yet, but it's pretty cool :D [IMG]http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h375/kepiinskii/…	17 Last	Avanthera Mar 2015
Crowd Dynamics Test Saw this on Reddit, thought you guys might get a kick out of it... [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/iLoDJ9I.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/iLoDJ9I.gifv[/IMG]	0 Last	MeshMagnet Mar 2015
FTP client that works like Dropbox? Hello, Is there anything out there like this? I'm working with a band that's not quite as tech savy. While dropbox would be nice they're also struggling just to pay for a rehearsal spot to play mus…	6 Last	SideEffect Mar 2015
What are normal freelance rates? Hello everybody :D Someone contacted me saying they are interested in hiring me for a freelance job which is great :D But they asked me what my rates are and I have no Idea what normal rates are in …	32 Last	akiratang Mar 2015
Are there indie studios with a goal of moving to AAA? So the indie scene has been going on for a while now, especially with the explosion of smartphones and Sony/MS/Nintendo opening their platforms to them. This has me wondering, what is their end goal?…	8 Last	Torch Mar 2015
Art test, test? I applied to a company for a Game Artist position, and I send them my portfolio which is mainly environment and hard surface. And now they give me an art test which is a Character?? What to do? I to…	16 Last	Neox Mar 2015
Patreon Learning Hey there! Just wanted to let you guys know of an opportunity to learn my process with Zbrush as well as maya, mental ray, vray, substance painter, etc. I'm creating this page as a forum for learnin…	0 Last	sogm8vet Mar 2015
Need input on modular character set to sell on asset stores I'm in the progress of making what is essentially a modular character set to sell on a game dev resource store (multiple ones). But I have some questions on what might be prefered. Here's the conce…	0 Last	iadagraca Mar 2015
Cinematic games Just saw this video by Jim Sterling [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQDFO2KEPo[/ame] [quote]It is high time we stopped using the word "cinematic" as a catch-all excuse for rubbish, and stoppe…	13 Last	SpaceRogue Mar 2015
How Do You Organize Your Projects? I'm currently trying to gather up a couple years' worth of school and job work, and of course it's just scattered everywhere. Photoshop doodles. References. Concepts. UI work. Zbrush hipolys. OBJs fo…	17 Last	oglu Mar 2015
Modular Character Draw Call? I plan on using a modular character workflow, but wouldn't separating a character into several pieces be intensive since it has to make multiple draw calls per character? head, eyes, torso, arms, l…	6 Last	Dylan Brady Mar 2015
How much fur head/bust? Need advice I need some advice from you guys. How much can I take for a head/bust without textures (so mainly sculpted) based on photo references? It should match the photos as closely as possible, skin pores e…	3 Last	SuperFranky Mar 2015
Foliage reference I recently started doing my first environment. It's going well but I feel a bit lost when it comes to foliage. I'm doing an overgrown, abandoned train station. I want to include a bunch of weeds, lon…	6 Last	ghaztehschmexeh Mar 2015
About the discontinuation of Softimage I knew Autodesk stopped the developpment of XSI long ago however I'm still wondering why they didn't just sell it. Is there any way I can download it now? Even previous verions.	24 Last	gnoop Mar 2015
Generating Normal Maps... From Normal Maps? This is a bit of a dumb question, but the internet has no definite answer that I can find (which is, now that I think about it, probably a pretty clear answer). Is there no way to bake down a normal…	6 Last	teaandcigarettes Mar 2015
Would you guys mind sharing your technique ? Okay, this is not really a big deal. But I would like you guys to share some common but useful technique in sculpting For example : [url]http://oi60.tinypic.com/14nh3pz.jpg[/url] I want to elevate th…	4 Last	Neox Mar 2015
Mudbox compared to Zbrush Hey, so i have been exploring Zbrush a bit and i find it really powerful but one thing that really bothers me is the viewport navigation. I don't like the way to zoom and rotating around my geometry…	24 Last	thomasp Mar 2015
Need a kick start Hey folks, i'm a big sci-fi fan trying to create a cyberpunk themed website for my new portfolio design. I suck at starting projects but when I have a visual aid to kick start from I can work off tha…	3 Last	Urzaz Mar 2015
Thoughts about polycount handpainted challenge ? This is to gauge interest we might or might not have for this. This could be monthly or weekly challenge. Or bi-monthly or whatever. This would be along side our already existing character challenge…	44 Last	iadagraca Mar 2015
spock is dead [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31662024[/url] real shame I liked him	8 Last	Ozykz Feb 2015
Portfolio Critique: Character and Prop art Hey Polycount: I have some time before GDC to winnow out the weak pieces and fix things on my portfolio. If you guys see anything that needs fixing, call it out! Thank you in advance! [URL="http:…	3 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Feb 2015
Starting Fresh (Again) Software/Tool Question. Hello all, long time forum and art observer -- first time posting! I had a question for the community in terms of software and how often I should upgrade and keep to the current models. I haven't tou…	11 Last	Krait Feb 2015