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% Environment vs. Character Artists

For the games that you have worked on, what percentage or artists were environment/prop specialists in relation to the number of character artists on the team? Effects/Vehicle/Weapon/etc. artists sh…
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ispaure

OI m8, bday innit

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499159/4lee.jpg[/img]
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Dave Jr

Animated Short: The Brothers Brimm

The Digital Animation & Visual Effects School just celebrated the 50th graduating class last night and have just released the latest student short film titled The Brothers Brimm. We are excited about…
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WilliamVaughan

Would you ever sell out?

[IMG]http://i3.minus.com/i8zXI7NNHr68S.jpg[/IMG] If you're entering the game industry, I imagine there are many out there, like me, who actually want to make their own games at some point of your li…
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Blaizer

Looking for info about Sega Saturn game

Me and my father would always play this game together and I cant remember it for the life of me. It was for the Sega Saturn, you would be flying a ship and had to land in a Mother Ship of sorts and t…
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DireWolf

Gotham (TV series)

Here's the trailer for those who haven't seen: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1zpt6k5OI"]Official Extended Trailer | GOTHAM | FOX BROADCASTING - YouTube[/ame] So, the first episode of Gotham…
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GarageBay9

Help me name my game!!!

Hey everyone! We have been working on a game for about 1.5 years, and we are about to show it to press and open a closed beta of it! We are really excited for this, but unfortunately we still don't …
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Isaiah Sherman

Downloading textures for Portfolio Dev: What is acceptable?

What is acceptable for portfolio pieces when it comes to using textures/materials you didn't make? There are textures/materials that you can buy, there are some available for free and some are sittin…
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gsokol

Nvidia GTX 900-series

So the GTX 970 and 980 has been released. [img]http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=12474[/img] [B]GTX 970 & 980 Reference REVIEW:[/B] [url]http://www.guru3d.com/articles_page…
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RobeOmega

Creating and Learning together as a team.

Hey guys, I was thinking about starting a group of people who will learn and create together, helping each other in any project. We can do combined projects and teach each other new stuff about Sculp…
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PyrZern

CGHub is history. Share your inspiration folders!

Everybody's ticked off that CGHub unexpectedly shut down, so let's share dumps of our inspiration folders! There are plenty of great hosting services out there, such as Dropbox, Rapidshare, Mega, etc…
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Luke_Starkie

Need experienced advice on what art path to take.

This question is about 3 weeks in the making because i wanted to try and make the best decision based on my irregular particularities and preferences. I'd really like to do environment art and also d…
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Thane-

postpro on game models

hi there i am a Belgian digital arts and entertainment student and i'm now in my final year. For the moment i am getting my portfolio ready to start looking for an internship but recently i had a dis…
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Jonas Ronnegard

Google Play's new address policy

I heard some indie devs discussing this recently, basically by Sept 30th you must display your physical mailing address on your app page, no P.O. Boxes allowed. This is going to be a disaster. [url…
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Two Listen

Best Mini-Map Systems?

What are the best mini-map systems you all have come across in games? Specifically ones that are always on a small portion of your screen, and have to account for Z (overlapping/layered level-but no…
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Stinger88

Resident Evil Remaster Trailer

Resident Evil Remaster Trailer [url]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x252k47_resident-evil-remaster-trailer_videogames[/url] :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
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joarwho

Game Art for Gamers Article Series - Looking for Input

Hey guys I meant to do this earlier but I'm doing a little weekly side project to both help myself as an artist and also teach other people too. I'm starting a article series called Game Art for Gam…
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Amdirant

Voxelcount? New trends in gaming and real-time raytracing

[quote] Jon and his team have created a very fast, true voxel engine with ray-tracing from the ground up. [/quote] Full Article: [url]http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/feature/8959/Garrett-Ful…
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iniside

Closing problem of zbrush 4r5

Hi Everyone there Please , help me for the my case instead of choice 4r6 . It comes suddenly on working :( my system is xp 86x, 3gb ram , 1,80ghz cpu dual core.
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fenceab

Web hosting

Anyone familiar with these guys...[URL]http://www.2mhost.com[/URL]? Was let down by a company last year so really need recommendations.
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ZacD

Unity Pro Free (For future playstation developers)

[url]http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/09/17/great-news-for-playstation-developers/[/url]
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Richard Kain

Artists/Animators turned Indie Game Designers - Who am I missing?

Hi, I'm trying to gather a list of game developers that were Artists/Animators (on the creative side without much coding knowledge) and decided to go independent and make their own videgame, learnin…
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slipsius

Oculus Rift - virtual reality headset for video games

[url]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game[/url] $300 for the kit, its integrated with unity and UDK, low latency, high field of view, sounds like it could be…
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MikeF

Deep Down

One of the best looking games of the PS4 announcement, It almost looks like the UE4 demo, graphics wise. And it oozes Skyrim + Dark Souls [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9UmHm9HA3c"]Deep Down …
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HitmonInfinity

Why is Polycount so dark and green?

Most of forums I visit frequently are all bright and easy for the eyes. It's sometimes hard on my eyes to go from dark polycount page to somewhere else, especially at night when my lights turned off.…
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ZacD

Silent Hills

[url]http://kotaku.com/hideo-kojima-and-guillermo-del-toro-team-up-for-new-sil-1620434191[/url] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wkIc1oO.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/q1PxpUt.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgu…
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skankerzero

Looking for a friend who knows zBrush :)

While I do not think this thread belongs here totally in essence, I don't believe it belongs anywhere in the Work Opportunities. Merely because this would only take ten minutes or so, through Skype o…
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weee

Tilt Brush - 3D Photoshop

Just discovered this thing today. Looks really impressive. I wonder what wizardry is hidden behind :p Anyway I just wanted to share this with you guys [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFWw6hGIKm…
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Leinad

Making of Nvidia's Apollo Mission Scene

[url]https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1015610698458387&set=vb.130554466964019&type=2&theater[/url] Thought this was extremely interesting! And congratz to anyone on here who helped work on this
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Scizz

General questions about 3d game artists.

First of all Hello everyone. I am 20 years old and i just completed my studies. And now i am planning to be 3d environment artist for games. I have no background in arts so i will be starting everyth…
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Pratish

WASR -10 (AK) Reference Pics

I took some pics of my WASR-10. It's basically a shit AK. It is missing a few small details that you'd see on a standard AK but is pretty much the same in function and design. Anyways here are a whol…
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AlexCatMasterSupreme

Early Access: When will it stop?

Look, I know, I have heard the comments about Greenlight and Early Access supposedly changing. When though?? [u]It's becoming almost an embarrassment to release your title only on Steam.[/u] Espe…
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oXYnary

Is my graphics card freaking out on me?

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Syyz8cS.jpg[/IMG] :poly115: I can't figure out if it's because I have Max and UDK opened together or if it's a separate issue. I've had them both up before many times without…
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Chase

Modular modern architecture

Hey guys, I am working on a project that involves building among others modern suburban houses ( just exterior). I am wondering if there isn't a smarter way to do. It takes me about a day worth of w…
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Robbie222

Mobile version of Polycount site?

Wondering how others browse PC on their mobiles. For me, the forum is a bit of a pita, requires a lot of zooming and scrolling to see stuff. I wonder if there's interest in a m.polycount.com kind o…
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Spoon

Technical Artist Project Goals or Direction?

Hi Everyone, I was recently hired a few months ago as a Technical Artist at a games company but am not working on 3D content at the moment. I was wondering what sort of scripts and projects TA's ar…
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starogre

Normal Faceting in Modo

Unfortunately the Foundry forums are no help at all. Not a single reply in days. I have no idea how to properly avoid faceting in Modo. There's a setting for Smoothing Angle meant to fix this, but ei…
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Damian Nachman

Need help with cartoon anatomy

Can anyone help me figure out the basic head model\structure that the characters below have? [CENTER][IMG]http://s7.postimg.org/7l1cinua3/wk_chris1.png[/IMG][IMG]http://s7.postimg.org/mndktcetn/wk_…
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Steve Schulze

Darksider's Art Workflow?

I've recently been playing Darksiders 2, and really love the [URL="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=971&q=jak+and+daxter&oq=jak+and+daxter&gs_l=img.3..0l…
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Progg

Archeage

Hey all, as far as I know this didn't have its own thread and since we have a few hardcore MMO-er's on here, so figured why not start one, especially if some are new to it :) Really looking forward…
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Torch

Microsoft buying an Indie games developer "Mojang" for $2 Billion

Microsoft buying an Indie games developer "Mojang" for $2 Billion [url]http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/09/microsoft-buying-mojang-minecraft/[/url] [IMG]http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/80df517…
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claydough

Naughty dog, Pre vis for games

[url]http://www.itsartmag.com/features/naughty-dog-pre-viz-for-games/[/url] this is so cool, I love doing this stuff
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tadpole3159

PAX, GDC, Gamescom etc., which one to attend to?

HHHHHHey there, Some of you were talking about pax, gamescom etc and how they went showing of their game! That sounds very cool. I am curious to know who goes there/what happens at these events. I…
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wizo

Tradtional Clay Sculpting - help a noob out

Hi guys I'm interested in getting into non-digital sculpting, but i haven't got much of an idea where to start. I'm sure there's a few traditional guys among the polycount crowd. What sculpting sub…
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TheWildHunt

Anime movies worth watching!

Yesterday i saw [I]Red Line - [/I]anime movie. I dont' watch much anime. Usually shows with hundreds of episodes are something my body can't handle. Sometimes I find some really cool anime movie (for…
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MagicSugar

So I'm looking for this game and forgot the name..

Maybe you guys can help me out, because no amount of google searching is finding anything.. It's on PC, was recently featured on Kotaku I believe and was talked about as being very similar to XCOM, …
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Lamont

Closed del

Wrong place :)
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Wesley

CG companies conspiring to maintain a maximum wage amongst their workers....

Flash news [url]http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/disney-dreamworks-pixar-lucasfilm-sony-are-sued-in-wage-theft-scandal-103501.html[/url] How long before this happens in the game industry? Oh wait…
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almighty_gir

GDC- 2015, Need a housemate for a week?

Hey guys. I'm sure there are many people hitting GDC next year, i'll be flying over from across the pond for it as well. But i was wondering if anybody would mind having a house/room guest for the …
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almighty_gir

Why the big fuzz about PBR?

So i was wondering why everyone is trying to make such a big thing out of PBR. Because if you look at it from an artist perspective and ignore the underlying math for a moment the only thing that ch…
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passerby

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