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Recently alot more people have been streaming their work, and it's fantastic. being able to see others as they work is always a great learning experience. I thought we might do with a centralised thread for streaming discussion and to share channels. I figure also if people post in the same thread when they start streaming, it stops small 'I'm streaming!' threads from being missed.
Everyone I've seen stream on polycount so far has been using Livestream, which upon closer inspection, I have decided kinda sucks. As far as I know, there is no way to follow a channel, or get an alert when they start streaming. There doesn't seem to be any way to broadcast in HD without paying out the ass, and the transition to the 'new' livestream seems aimed at large scale productions, not bedroom broadcasting.
I've been looking around at alternatives and Justin.tv or twitch.tv seem to be good sites. They're very community orientated and feature HD support. Twitch.tv is solely a game streaming community, but have said they allow streaming of game development. It would be easy to stream under the game title 'polycount' for easy organization.
edit: Just noticed another bonus from Justin.tv - It's forum embeddable! But that's getting ahead a bit :P
So basically my biggest issue with Livestream for me is the quality, you can't see the settings someone uses, or fine details, and considering we are all artists, these things matter alot. I'm messing about with justin.tv settings now to see if I can get a HD stream, I'll post the results in a bit.
Post your streams here and I'll put a list in the OP!
aajohnny - http://www.twitch.tv/aajohnny
Abyss Studio - http://www.livestream.com/hugh?t=438831 (Environment Art)
Ceebee - http://www.livestream.com/curtbinder
Crazy Matt - http://www.livestream.com/cm3d (characters, etc.)
Daphz - http://www.livestream.com/ihatedaphz (Character Art)
eooo - http://www.livestream.com/eooo (Character Art)
Emil Mujanovic - http://www.livestream.com/artbyemil (Character Art)
Fearian - http://www.twitch.tv/fearian (Environment Art)
Frump - http://www.justin.tv/frumpl
Jessica Dihn - http://www.livestream.com/joshiemoo (Hand Painted)
Jesse Moody - http://www.livestream.com/thejessemoody
Justin Meisse - http://www.livestream.com/jm3d
Konstruct - http://www.livestream.com/konstruction
Racer 445 - http://www.justin.tv/racer445
Ryan Hawkins - http://www.livestream.com/icrywhenipoo (Book edits)
Vigil Staff - http://www.livestream.com/vigilnights (Darksiders stuff)
Everyone I've seen stream on polycount so far has been using Livestream, which upon closer inspection, I have decided kinda sucks. As far as I know, there is no way to follow a channel, or get an alert when they start streaming. There doesn't seem to be any way to broadcast in HD without paying out the ass, and the transition to the 'new' livestream seems aimed at large scale productions, not bedroom broadcasting.
I've been looking around at alternatives and Justin.tv or twitch.tv seem to be good sites. They're very community orientated and feature HD support. Twitch.tv is solely a game streaming community, but have said they allow streaming of game development. It would be easy to stream under the game title 'polycount' for easy organization.
edit: Just noticed another bonus from Justin.tv - It's forum embeddable! But that's getting ahead a bit :P
So basically my biggest issue with Livestream for me is the quality, you can't see the settings someone uses, or fine details, and considering we are all artists, these things matter alot. I'm messing about with justin.tv settings now to see if I can get a HD stream, I'll post the results in a bit.
Post your streams here and I'll put a list in the OP!
aajohnny - http://www.twitch.tv/aajohnny
Abyss Studio - http://www.livestream.com/hugh?t=438831 (Environment Art)
Ceebee - http://www.livestream.com/curtbinder
Crazy Matt - http://www.livestream.com/cm3d (characters, etc.)
Daphz - http://www.livestream.com/ihatedaphz (Character Art)
eooo - http://www.livestream.com/eooo (Character Art)
Emil Mujanovic - http://www.livestream.com/artbyemil (Character Art)
Fearian - http://www.twitch.tv/fearian (Environment Art)
Frump - http://www.justin.tv/frumpl
Jessica Dihn - http://www.livestream.com/joshiemoo (Hand Painted)
Jesse Moody - http://www.livestream.com/thejessemoody
Justin Meisse - http://www.livestream.com/jm3d
Konstruct - http://www.livestream.com/konstruction
Racer 445 - http://www.justin.tv/racer445
Ryan Hawkins - http://www.livestream.com/icrywhenipoo (Book edits)
Vigil Staff - http://www.livestream.com/vigilnights (Darksiders stuff)
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That's my stream, I haven't streamed lately but might start soon.
For me livestream always seemed to be more acceptable with the 'questionable content', because you see much more of that stuff over there.
I also have seen a stream going down twice in justin.tv because someone was drawing a bunch of females that weren't fully clothed.
I don't know why, but it could be that if some trolls decide to report a channel it just gets taken down for 'review', because the channel always was back up shortly after the ban after the admin wrote an e-mail to the justin.tv support.
I'm just talking about personal experience here, could be just a weird worst case scenario though. ^^
Twitch has stated on their FAQ that they will take down pornography instantly to remove it from the site asap, but explicitly state that nudity is allowed as long as it's not for the sake of pornography. Nude sculpts should be fine, but it might be worth messaging a mod, and avoiding pinup art.
Twitch and Justin are part of the same company, so I'm not sure if the rules differ, but if they do, I guess its because twitch know to expect nudity in several games.
Wierd, I went to edit my justin.tv channel, and it's now a twitch tv channel. Don't know if this is automatic for a 'gaming' channel, or if its because of a moderator moved me. Oh well!
...and then notices the penis helicopter on the first page of it after I click send. Welp.
Edit: Answer! Not any more clear than the FAQ, I'm going to interpret this as no nude pinups or pornagraphic details in your work.
http://www.livestream.com/vigilnights
Jessica Dinh http://www.livestream.com/joshiemoo
Emil Mujanovic http://www.livestream.com/artbyemil
I promise to do some hand painted texturing stuff in the future
[Environment art]
http://www.livestream.com/hugh?t=438831
Here > http://www.livestream.com/mattfagan (characters, etc.)
I've got everything set up for smooth 720p streaming but I don't know if I'll stream anything in the near future.
http://www.justin.tv/frumpl
games and occasional hard surface crap
Yeah I think it's because livestream was around first/alot more popular than others a few years ago. I'm tempted to become an annoying justin/twitch evangelist who harasses livestream users to jump ship.
I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING ITS ALL FUZZY Y U NO HD!
http://livestreamstatuslist.appspot.com/
If you're discouraged by low viewership, try posting your stream on teamliquid.net; it's a pretty popular gaming community that typically publishes listings of streamers for RTS and MOBA games, but I think anything game-related is allowed.
If you're still considering streaming, please do! Newer modelers like myself would value them a lot (even if there is no voice commentary)!
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/220259
http://www.twitch.tv/froyok
I'm doing a lot of stuff : characters, programming, env Art and playing some games.
For the moment I'm talking in French but if I see someone on my chat talking another language I will try to talk in English.
http://www.livestream.com/artofjin
me and mrskullface and a couple other dudes usually stop in and make random noises.
http://artmagix.deviantart.com/
http://www.twitch.tv/hazardousarts/new
Thats my stream