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Negotiating Sign-on Bonuses
Hey folks! I get asked a lot about the "business" side of being a game artist, so I thought I would start condensing my brain dumps into short articles. Awhile ago I did a quick blurb in a Discord group about negotiating signon bonuses during interviews. I wanted to take it a step further and make it available to more… -
Retro 3D Art FAQ - Everything you need to know to create PS1/N64/Dreamcast/etc. 3D art!
Welcome to the 'Retro 3D FAQ', a thread dedicated to sharing information about the creation of 3D art for game consoles made before the age of programmable pixel shaders. If you enjoy the look of 3D games from the 90's and early 2000's, and would like to learn how to make such art yourself, this is the thread for you! :)… -
Re: What would an European exit mean for the UK games industry?
Please note that stated below are my opinions from research I have personally done over the past few months along with my general knowledge of the EU and should be taken as such. These are my personal opinions and not those any company I represent. While I usually try to not be political on Polycount, as this directly… -
Re: PC Games dropped from E3
Hahah - I was actually reading an article where Valve were saying why PCs were the future of gaming. Personally I never ever play games on my PC as I spend too much time hunched over my workstation anyway and prefer to play something simple and arcadey/ co-operative while lying on teh sofa with my girlfriend to relax.… -
Little Nightmares Fan-Game Passion-project.
Hello! I've wanted to do a Little Nightmares fangame for so long, and this would be a passion project for me and the team as a whole. This game would be set in a fan-made area with an original story and plot containing themes of greed, labour, addiction, ect. Of course it would be a horror/adventure game with a 2.5D style,… -
Maya Interactive Boolean Tool - Exposing Maya's Procedural Booleans
Hey guys, after seeing a thread about revealing the input object for a Boolean in Maya, i realised that Maya had procedural Booleans under the hood (athough not 100% bulletproof). So I went to work making a script that i would love to use, and that others could use. This script doesn't add any new functionality to Maya it… -
Re: NVIDIA GeForce 301.24 Beta Drivers Big boosts! FXAA! & Surround improvements
Finished reading... Sounds like they have spent a lot of time on this release! Definitely the biggest driver feature packed release I have seen. And it's still only in Beta ( I would be really surprised if there are not many bugs introduced with the 301 series considering some of the longstanding tdr issues they have been… -
Pixar's OpenSubdiv Goes Open Source
Pixar is trying something new, it is taking some of its newer tech and going Open Source First things first you are probably wondering what OpenSubdiv is and what it means for you, the short answers are: 1) Instead of subdividing the entire mesh it selectively subdivides specific areas. 2) It doesn't mean a whole lot right… -
Re: Google's stopped Google.cn, redirecting to uncensored HK host
China does publish some interesting stuff though. Should put some of America's criticism of China into perspective. (all of this is backed up by the HRC an Amnesty international as well) http://www.china.org.cn/world/2010-03/12/content_19596239.htm The United States ranks first in the world in terms of the number of… -
Re: Tweak the Weight Tool?
I managed to make all the changes I wanted but I still have a piece of code to correct. Currently if you select a bone in the viewport, the popup Skintools don't follow. You have to select the bone in Skintool's list to change the weight of a vertex. I'm looking since yesterday, but I feel that it's beyond my capacity with…
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