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Bioshock Infinite I just finished Bioshock Infinite and I gotta say only 'wow' Great game , great story and the ending is a mindfuck. Of course I couldn't stop and look at all the models and characters , and one thin…	33 Last	Darth Tomi Dec 2014
3DS Max Rifle Tut Hey guys, iam searching for a high quality Rifle tutorial made in 3ds max. i only found handguns and stuff like this. if you know one i would be really happy if you can tell me where. the best would…	5 Last	BradleyWascher Dec 2014
A quick survey Hello! Could you help me by filling out this quick survey? [URL="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K5LTXHN"]https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K5LTXHN[/URL] The survey is for a university research project…	0 Last	rosu.kristof Dec 2014
Game Art Tricks, Courtesy of Simon Schreibt So I stumbled on this post on 3dmotive.com and instantly thought that everybody on polycount had to see this. Its a collection of a whole bunch of interesting shader/game engine tricks that were done…	4 Last	SimonT Dec 2014
Black Friday Hey just saw this - [url]http://quixel.se/[/url] - Everything on Quixel is 50% off today ! Has anyone else spotted any deals ?	31 Last	NegevPro Dec 2014
Brainstorm School - Concept Art & Design Workshop II - Fausto de Martini [LEFT][URL="http://brainstormschool.com"][IMG]http://img.ymlp.com/f31p_image01.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=3][B][URL="http://brainstormschool.storenvy.com/products/10769505-concept-art-design-workshop-2-f…	0 Last	BrainstormSchool Dec 2014
Using/Utilizing others' concept art for my portfolio! I'm want to start working on my reel starting this month! Could anyone point me out to ethics and rules while using other artists' concept art! I mean I know it's a really wide topic, but something w…	5 Last	Add3r Dec 2014
Steps for modeling for games or/and movies Is there a course/workshops/tutorials in depth where is shown entire process for creating hard surface or characters for games or movies? I want to know all the steps. Because i don't really underst…	7 Last	Add3r Dec 2014
Using Apple Mac's for 3D Artwork Hey all. I'm looking at getting myself a new laptop. I'm wondering what peoples experiences are using a MacBook for creating 3D. Mainly 3Ds Max i know it cant run on OSX so you have to use a dua…	15 Last	beefaroni Dec 2014
3D photographed anatomy ref [CENTER][vv]111761295[/vv] [/CENTER] [quote]No more working from photographs or studying poor quality hand made 3D models This is 3D photography these are not sculptures or interpretations they are r…	10 Last	Steve Schulze Dec 2014
Environment Art Packages for Sharing So, assuming we already know there ARE such packages on asset stores like Unity Store or UE Marketplace, are there any locations where I might be able to directly contact environment artists for or d…	1 Last	sprunghunt Dec 2014
Russian Translation check To anyone who knows Russian, I'm trying to translate the word "Tracer" (a stage name of a person, noun). Is вспышка an appropriate translation? Or how do y…	14 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Dec 2014
anyone has tried 'The Tomorrow Children' alpha? quite a bit of fuss regarding the graphic and gameplay, so how was it?	3 Last	chrisradsby Dec 2014
Laptops for Modeling Hey guys! To the point: I'm not much of a hardware wiz and need some recommendations on what to look for in a laptop that I will probably end up using as my main workhorse. I do a lot of Max/Zbrush …	13 Last	RabidRabit Dec 2014
Would it still be possible to release Gameboy Color games? Hey there! Is it still possible to make gameboy color games and sell it? I really mean it: printing the cartridge and all. Old school stuff, yknow. Thanks. [IMG]http://www.web-emulation.com/imag…	7 Last	willy-wilson Dec 2014
tdu :: Cyber Monday :: $50 off all courses [URL="http://www.td-u.com"][IMG]http://td-u.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/seizethemonday2-980x340.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [url]http://www.td-u.com/[/url] This week only, $50 off any tdu course including ou…	0 Last	tdu Nov 2014
hayao miyazaki i know, i came late to the party, everybody knows his work, but just... wow. watched spirited away, howl's moving castle and the wind rises. all the three of them, superb works... spirited away had m…	12 Last	Zocky Nov 2014
Ultimate UV Tutorials? Hi I've been trying to find the best approach or "best practices" for the UVing stage in a production pipeline. Please provide links. There's a million amazing well-documented tutorials for everyt…	6 Last	passerby Nov 2014
T Pose Just curious on what some of the T poses you guy's use for your basemesh. As we have been going over what might be best for a relaxed pose and for animation purposes. At the moment the character i…	48 Last	antweiler Nov 2014
No more game trials on Xbox one?? Just hooked mine up and wanted to try outlast before I bought it. To my surprise theres no trial. Dame goes for the other games I looked at. Am I missing something?	0 Last	Chase Nov 2014
"AAA" launches Not a single thread about how COD, Halo MCC, Assassins Creed Untiy shipping with broken features ? Maybe this is an art forum, but what does it say when ever major Fall release launches with broke g…	115 Last	almighty_gir Nov 2014
New Star Wars "ball" Droid Love Gotta say I'm liking the look of the new droid, seems like a pretty energetic hunk of metal. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/utQiRWS.png[/IMG]	4 Last	vargatom Nov 2014
Zbrush 4r7 Discussion Since this community is relevant to this subject and many of us use Zbrush. Here is (according to them,) is a heat of what the actual update would be. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v3714_DrC…	55 Last	DrunkShaman Nov 2014
Unity shader, need help! Hi! As a character artist I was suggested to learn Unity3d as a game engine. I searched, studied it but I can't really find a way to have a material with at least diffuse, alpha, specular and normal…	7 Last	Dantert Nov 2014
WrapX 1.0 is Released [IMG]http://russian3dscanner.com/images/WrapX/WrapXLogo.jpg[/IMG] Today we are excited to announce the release of [B]WrapX 1.0[/B] [IMG]http://www.russian3dscanner.com/images/WrapXBanner.jpg[/IMG] …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2014
Games with Hand Painted Textures Hey guys, the question popped up at work - which game had our favorite hand-painted textures. We started listing them, but think we're barely scratching the surface of the good stuff out there. Hopef…	43 Last	willy-wilson Nov 2014
Testers for my texturing app Polycount staff, please remove this thread if this is not the place to post such a request. I have been working on a texturing app since the start of the semester for my third year computer science …	9 Last	Jean-Pascal Nov 2014
Where Is My Hammer and Shootmephrenia Just wanted to share this 2 small free UE4 games I made that you might enjoy. First of is a game I made for the 7DFPS game jam which is called Shootmephrenia. In it you have to kill no one but yours…	2 Last	Davision3D Nov 2014
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