Are there any Character art hangouts or communities I can join?

Croftyness · Feb 2016

If not I would be up for making one.

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2016

A few ideas from the Info sticky...

The Unofficial Polycount Slack Group! is where to find a live chat room for Polycount members. Anything goes! We used to do this in the IRC #model_design.
Google+ Hangouts thread for members put up their screenshares, chat to each other, see what each other are working on in realtime, etc.
Streaming 3D Artists Links & Updates! (Twitch.tv, etc.) This thread is for all Polycounters to post links to their streams and to update whenever they're streaming or about to Stream.

iadagraca · Feb 2016

I would REALLY like a Discord channel

Voice chat and chat is SO much easier on discord. I'd make it, but i'm not qualified to maintain something like that for this place.

But Discord would be like combining google+ and slack into a nice functional package, well maybe slack more than google+ cause no screen sharing...

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2016

Why are you not qualified?

bounchfx · Feb 2016

There actually is a discord channel. It's not super active, and it's not character art focused, but there's a steady amount of people on there regularly:
https://discord.gg/0Vu6wFfSmdmpePxp

I wish they would finish building the IRC component into discord so I could use that for both! Hopefully soon.

PyrZern · Feb 2016

Need more reliable screen-sharing stuff to use. We artists want to SEE :P

bounchfx · Feb 2016

Agreed, I'm really looking forward to when Discord adds screen sharing. Here's hoping it's not toooooo far off. Would be mega useful to have it instantly accessible without having to do a hangout or twitch stream.

Michael Knubben · Feb 2016

Slack is apparently adding voice chat and screensharing: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/28/7917857/slack-buys-screen-sharing-app-screenhero , although I don't know if that's coming to its free version (which we use at the greentooth Slack).

I think a 'closed' community like Slack is a better fit for something like this, as you get people who know eachother, and hopefully more active members, and less people who just drop by, ask one question and never contribute.

Panupat · Feb 2016

Slack is funny. I enjoy spending my time there

iadagraca · Feb 2016

MightyPea said:

Slack is apparently adding voice chat and screensharing: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/28/7917857/slack-buys-screen-sharing-app-screenhero , although I don't know if that's coming to its free version (which we use at the greentooth Slack).

I think a 'closed' community like Slack is a better fit for something like this, as you get people who know eachother, and hopefully more active members, and less people who just drop by, ask one question and never contribute.

Discord is invite only, but the invites don't require approval. I dunno if you can change that or not.

Eric Chadwick said:
Why are you not qualified?

....honestly i dunno. I don't think i'm any sort of "figure" here.

Panupat · Feb 2016

Really? But I just clicked the link and then I was in Discord.

bounchfx · Feb 2016

I set that link to 25 uses. You can set who on the server can invite people, their specific permissions, as well as how long an invite(s) stays active. There's actually quite a bit of control. I would say Slack and Discord both are a similar level of 'closed'ness, but it's up to the admin of said servers.

that being said, I'm stoked that slack is adding screensharing... but when? and if it's not free, meeeh. Hangouts and Skype are, even if they aren't built into discord/slack. Integration is nice but I'm not sure I'd want to pay for with free options available.

garcellano · Feb 2016

discord is pretty neat, the layout is similar to slack.

iadagraca · Feb 2016

bounchfx said:

I set that link to 25 uses. You can set who on the server can invite people, their specific permissions, as well as how long an invite(s) stays active. There's actually quite a bit of control. I would say Slack and Discord both are a similar level of 'closed'ness, but it's up to the admin of said servers.

that being said, I'm stoked that slack is adding screensharing... but when? and if it's not free, meeeh. Hangouts and Skype are, even if they aren't built into discord/slack. Integration is nice but I'm not sure I'd want to pay for with free options available.

Is there a forum post made for it? You should make a dedicated forum post.

Also add a art text channel! We can post our sketches and junk.

Are there any Character art hangouts or communities I can join?

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