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Are Environment Artists Qualified To Work as Level Designers? Hey All, I've seen threads comparing the duties of level designer and environment artist in games ([url]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84713[/url]), but wanted to know whether an en…	15 Last	chrisradsby Nov 2014
Batman Arkham Knight, how do they do it? New trailer on board guys. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_vqzYOvgvc[/url] Seriously, those Rocksteady guys, they seem to be amongst the top in mastering the unreal engine! Everything looks …	15 Last	weee Nov 2014
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) I must have missed the thread. I can't believe we would all overlook such a beautifully stylized game for just another AAA thread. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_d6sBWQoWY"]Never Alone (Gam…	8 Last	Zocky Nov 2014
Ryse: Son of Rome Just finished this game on PC. Took me around 5 or 6 hours to beat it. Played with everything on MAX in 1080p and got 55-70fps on i5 and GTX 780 OC. Holy shit, this is the [B]best looking game ever[/…	18 Last	SuperFranky Nov 2014
The Path to iCLONE [B][SIZE="4"]Hello Everyone,[/SIZE][/B] Its nice to finally join the PolyCount forums. I am part of the [B]Reallusion [/B]team, the guys that make [B]iClone5 [/B]and the [B]iClone Animation Pipeli…	25 Last	Thousand Nov 2014
Digitaltutors, is it worth it? I stumbled across digitaltutors after not really paying it much attention before, it seems like it is a fairly good website, and the prices are quite cheap. I believe its only £18 for a year subscri…	17 Last	sziada Nov 2014
What To Do? :/ Hello! :) I really need some help making some important decisions. I'm 16 years old and very interested in creating games, especially the art aspect of it and what I'm interested in now, is to creat…	7 Last	PyrZern Nov 2014
Humble SEGA Bundle Check it, I love me some dreamcast games [url]https://www.humblebundle.com/[/url]	2 Last	JedTheKrampus Nov 2014
Virtual Sculpting with the Oculus Rift Would you like to model this way? [img]https://i.imgur.com/dLDx66g.gif[/img]	9 Last	StephenVyas Nov 2014
Sonic Boom [url]http://blogs.sega.com/2014/02/06/sega-launches-new-franchise-strategy-for-sonic-the-hedgehog-with-sonic-boom/?0=1[/url] [url]http://www.sega.com/[/url] [url]http://www.brbent.com/[/url] [url]…	53 Last	.nL Nov 2014
SpaceX Thread. Why don't we already have a thread discussing this badassery! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGimzB5QM1M"]Grasshopper 325m Test \| Single Camera (Hexacopter) - YouTube[/ame] If you aren't up t…	16 Last	Muzzoid Nov 2014
Artists jobs: England vs America Hey guys, it seems a lot of people on here are from America. I hear quite a bit about jobs in America, but I haven't seen much about the situation in England/Europe. Is game art very similar in thes…	39 Last	mattyinthesun Nov 2014
What steps are required for a 3d artist to make a finished game asset? As a programmer i would like to know, what steps you have most in common to do, to create the final optimized 3d model for a game and what steps you think are stupid or you wish you must not do becau…	2 Last	Mask_Salesman Nov 2014
New rig time - worth going with haswell-e / DDR4? Hey guys, hoping someone with some knowledge of hardware can help me out. My computer is getting old and slow, time for a new one. Trying to decide what to buy in the sea of infinite hardware optio…	14 Last	beefaroni Nov 2014
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, Lecturer 2D Animation, please pass this on UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, Lecturer 2D Animation Grade: 0.6FTE 3 days a week or equivalent Salary: £31,342.00 - £37,394.00 pro rata per annum If you know any great 2D Animators maybe in the mob…	1 Last	littleclaude Nov 2014
Empyrion - Kickstarter (Give it a Gander) Yet another one, but I hope they succeed. Think: Space Engineers meets Rust meets No Man's Sky. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXry9m2eSuk"]Mr. GreenLight Presents: Empyrion - Galactic Survi…	1 Last	oXYnary Nov 2014
Using adverts as way to fund your game Hey, seeing a lot of indie devs going for kickstarters to developp their game, I'm wondering if it woudn't simply be easier for them to fund their game via advertisement inside the game. I mean they…	6 Last	Avvi Nov 2014
Blood Sport Kickstarter Blood Sport Kickstarter Drains blood from gamers while they play for donation purposes. Basically they lose blood every time the gamer is hit. Great idea if it gets people down the blood banks. :th…	1 Last	LRoy Nov 2014
Are there any old games you worked on that you still play regularly? I'm headed to a WWII fighter plane museum tomorrow for what is basically a LAN party playing IL-2 Sturmovik, which came out (depending on how you count it) 7-10 years ago. I was working on the insta…	11 Last	Farfarer Nov 2014
Converting Rough/Metal to Spec/Gloss So I just picked up Bitmap2Material 3.0 and I'm totally loving the software. The biggest problem I have is, I'm trying to create PBR ready textures for use inside of dDo and when I create them inside…	4 Last	fullchaos13 Nov 2014
Job searching whilst already employed? Hey guys, I've recently made the decision to start looking for a new job and leave my current one. Although my portfolio isn't up to scratch I applied for my first position today at a really awesome…	18 Last	RyanB Nov 2014
How do you keep your head in the game? Hi all, Been having this problem basically forever and thought I'd throw it out there to see if anyone else has it, or how to move passed it. I have STARTED many personal project, but only ever fini…	17 Last	Purge117 Nov 2014
keep gettign logged out of the forum... :( Hey, Is this happening to anyone else? It feels like I'm getting logged out every minute or so... It's really annoying. This happens on my work and home computers. It's been happening for some time …	2 Last	Blond Nov 2014
Zbrush 4R6 Trying to buy a single license of zbrush 4R6; open to a used code as well for sale. I am poor and can't afford the price for a new one on their site and ebay is not much better. If someone is inter…	3 Last	dorothysss Nov 2014
3DsMax [Rigging] is point helper necessary ? Okay, First of all thank you for taking your time visiting my simple thread Just a quick question everyone, Is poin helper necessary ? when we could located pivot directly to object then do orie…	3 Last	Zzam_W Nov 2014
Shortcut list-3Dsmax and some tips Hello folks. First of all I'm most likely not a member with a big name on here but i wanna change that and most of all i wanna help newbies to learn 3Dsmax since i know how hard it was for me-so i ma…	4 Last	Goeddy Nov 2014
Far Cry 4 First reviews from [URL="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-14-far-cry-4-review"]Eurogamer[/URL] and [URL="http://www.joystiq.com/2014/11/14/far-cry-4-review-home-despot/"]Joystiq[/URL] looks …	45 Last	BeardyDan Nov 2014
Double Fine layoffs: 12 people from Unannounced Project. Whoever you guys and gals are, Godspeed and praying for expedience ya'll land on your feet soon. [URL="http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/21/7265561/double-fine-lays-off-staff-as-unannounced-project-fal…	3 Last	Neox Nov 2014
Contest at 3D Concept Art Ladies and gentleman. Sometimes there is time when an artist has to flex his creative muscles. Not only against eachother but to test oneself. There are many contests out there for sure, but there ar…	0 Last	lightbird Nov 2014
How do you classify hundreds of saved images? Hello everyone. I'm doing some cleanup on my computer. To say that reference folder is completely trashed and devoid of any order would be an understatement. I understand that a lot of artist save in…	16 Last	SonicBlue Nov 2014
The journey. I can't find the post about my friend (a programmer). He set out to learn art four years ago, then began to take it more seriously. Daily sketches, studies... taking his notepad everywhere. He's shar…	1 Last	Fogbrain Nov 2014
Terrain Editing Software ?????? PLZ HELP I am really hoping that one of you guys/gals will know something about this, So at work I am having to edit some terrain based on an outdated DEM (digital elevation model)/height map and make it look…	9 Last	dystopianghost Nov 2014
Color Guardians Beta! Hello everyone! Some time ago, I asked for your help on naming the game. I posted the poll on various sites (polycount, teamliquid, reddit, 89decibeles, etc) and waited patiently for the overall win…	1 Last	notman Nov 2014
Do you like the Unreal Engine look? Sometimes when I'm reading through other forums or news sites, I notice there's a distinct hate for any game that uses the Unreal Engine. The usual complaints I see from people is that any game made …	36 Last	Leinad Nov 2014
FREE LESSON on Design. Print. Sell - 3D Printing For Artists! Hey Guys Joseph Drust and Tomas Wittelsbach have joined forces to bring you an incredible, fully loaded 3D printing program with Uartsy. We just wrapped up an awesome webinar with Joseph Drust & Tho…	0 Last	ZBrushWorkshops Nov 2014
Question about recruiters Hi Polycount, I have a quick question about recruiters that I havent been able to find an answer for through researching online. When a recruiter applies for an artist to a job, is the potential emp…	7 Last	MephistonX Nov 2014
Twiddler 3 - One Handed Keyboard for Tablets [url]http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/twiddler-3-a-one-handed-keyboard-for-tablets-and-amazing-for-artists.64565/[/url] I think this is the best solution out there right now if you want to do…	0 Last	Count Vertsalot Nov 2014
How much time do you take prepping before modeling? I'm slowly starting to realize that I spend a LOT of time prepping before I tackle modeling a prop. Big or small, I spend a lot of time looking at multiple references, average or standard dimensions,…	16 Last	Jeff Parrott Nov 2014
Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars Is anyone else feeling the awesomeness from this? :D Been dancing a LOT to this [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0[/URL]	0 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Nov 2014
Taking A Break from Art ? I just wanted to ask if you really feel sometimes want to take a break from doing what you are doing everyday. It could be 2D, 3D, music, design, performing etc. Especially towards the end of the yea…	46 Last	sziada Nov 2014
Greentooth in Marijuana Cells? WTF! No comments. [IMG]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tdMXLWNe2_U/VF7Qncgno5I/AAAAAAABEvc/iFmwER_E3-M/w604-h390-no/PdMc3VJ97LI%2B%281%29.jpg[/IMG] It looks cool for a game :)	9 Last	sziada Nov 2014
Swivel Angle Issue Hello Everyone, this is my second thread today, seems I got no idea how to describe my problem for solution when googling over 30 minutes and I have no clue what kind of problem it's called. I p…	3 Last	Zzam_W Nov 2014
Hey all! New to game art Hello everyone, My name is Don, or Donnie, Im pretty new to game art forums and game art in general. I just wanted to know if starting a career in game art at age 29 is too late or something, I s…	21 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2014
An idea: Video games should target black and white. I was thinking about how advance games (as well as CG in general) has gotten. But even with these advances, games still aren't close to photorealism. Look at any old black and white photo and it st…	15 Last	Deathstick Nov 2014
Disney's Cinderella Trailer. Seems they finally got a remake right. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20DF6U1HcGQ[/url]	5 Last	almighty_gir Nov 2014
Should I Go Back To College? I went to a very shotty college. They screwed me over and no I am in debt. I have been busting my ass for over a year teaching myself. I feel like I am at a dead end. All I get is either a no or be i…	26 Last	RobeOmega Nov 2014
The Peanuts Movie trailer. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XmV3zGifOE#t=106[/url] I think the designs are good, but I don't know about translating it into 3D.	7 Last	ErichWK Nov 2014
strange caustics Hello, was trying out some caustics last night as part of my course work and got a little confused when I got strange reflections on the models and coloured lines. I thought it my be the refractions …	2 Last	Moltar Nov 2014
cant find a proper Painters Wheel for photoshop So i formatted my harddrive, and lost a plugin for photoshop, a painters wheel thingy that i dowloaded some time ago. I searched for a while, but cant find it, all that i get is one by len white, and…	45 Last	stickadtroja Nov 2014
Games sales figures, what website do you use? Hi Guys What website do you use for Games sales figures, maybe some news on markets and future trends would also be good to look at. Also finding it hard to find IPad games sales figures. [url]htt…	0 Last	littleclaude Nov 2014