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SSD's rock so hard Just upgraded from a 1TB 7200rpm platter to a 1TB SSD. HOLY F'IN MOTHER. So fast! Finally, I can work at the speed of thought. Why did I wait so long?? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/4G1M888.gif[/IMG]	50 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2014
Quick Anatomical Question: Head size and Head count Ok here is where iam at: a Normal Average man 7,5 Heads tall, Ideal is 8, Fashion is 8,5 Heroic is 9. I really can't find information on the size of the head to calculate the round about body size of…	3 Last	JacqueChoi Sep 2014
Albion Online Been looking around for some new MMO's to check out, wondered if anyone's seen this? [url]https://albiononline.com/[/url] Apparently pegged for release in 2015 but there is alpha testing going on …	7 Last	Kel-Shaded Sep 2014
% 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…	38 Last	ispaure Sep 2014
OI m8, bday innit [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499159/4lee.jpg[/img]	10 Last	Dave Jr Sep 2014
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…	0 Last	WilliamVaughan Sep 2014
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…	27 Last	Blaizer Sep 2014
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…	4 Last	DireWolf Sep 2014
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…	14 Last	GarageBay9 Sep 2014
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 …	23 Last	Isaiah Sherman Sep 2014
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…	10 Last	gsokol Sep 2014
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…	55 Last	RobeOmega Sep 2014
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…	1 Last	PyrZern Sep 2014
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…	29 Last	Luke_Starkie Sep 2014
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…	11 Last	Thane- Sep 2014
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…	7 Last	Jonas Ronnegard Sep 2014
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…	5 Last	Two Listen Sep 2014
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…	6 Last	Stinger88 Sep 2014
Resident Evil Remaster Trailer Resident Evil Remaster Trailer [url]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x252k47_resident-evil-remaster-trailer_videogames[/url] :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:	7 Last	joarwho Sep 2014
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…	7 Last	Amdirant Sep 2014
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…	3 Last	iniside Sep 2014
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.	7 Last	fenceab Sep 2014
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.	9 Last	ZacD Sep 2014
Unity Pro Free (For future playstation developers) [url]http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/09/17/great-news-for-playstation-developers/[/url]	10 Last	Richard Kain Sep 2014
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…	15 Last	slipsius Sep 2014
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…	149 Last	MikeF Sep 2014
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 …	36 Last	HitmonInfinity Sep 2014
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.…	28 Last	ZacD Sep 2014
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…	46 Last	skankerzero Sep 2014
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…	6 Last	weee Sep 2014
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…	7 Last	Leinad Sep 2014
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	0 Last	Scizz Sep 2014
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…	0 Last	Pratish Sep 2014
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…	15 Last	AlexCatMasterSupreme Sep 2014
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…	12 Last	oXYnary Sep 2014
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…	9 Last	Chase Sep 2014
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…	8 Last	Robbie222 Sep 2014
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…	37 Last	Spoon Sep 2014
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…	2 Last	starogre Sep 2014
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…	15 Last	Damian Nachman Sep 2014
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_…	4 Last	Steve Schulze Sep 2014
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…	4 Last	Progg Sep 2014
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…	9 Last	Torch Sep 2014
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…	104 Last	claydough Sep 2014
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	9 Last	tadpole3159 Sep 2014
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…	24 Last	wizo Sep 2014
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…	11 Last	TheWildHunt Sep 2014
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…	74 Last	MagicSugar Sep 2014
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, …	10 Last	Lamont Sep 2014
Closed del Wrong place :)	1 Last	Wesley Sep 2014