Well, almost from space. After several weather delays, Felix Baumgartner broke multiple world records by jumping from a baloon-lifted capsule more than 127,000 feet (24 miles) and freefalling back to earth. He's also the first person to ever break the sound barrier without using any form of propulsion, freefalling at more…
INDUSTRY GIANTS 2012: Visual Effects, Animation and Game Conference Presented by A Bunch of Short Guys September 22 and 23, 2012 DALLAS/FORTWORTH: Creating entertainment in today's high-tech environment may seem otherworldly, but it's not. Take a look behind the scenes and talk with the shamen who create some of the top…
Hey all, Super frustrating issue here. I've got a scene I'm trying to render out using Mental Ray and batch render. The batch render randomly stops, either 5 frames or 100 frames in. The # is always random. I've read i'm not the only one with this issue and the solutions brought forth haven't helped (disabling…
so it looks like something died in my motherboard or powersupply on my athlon xp 2500+... It refused to properly power my 2.5" mobile drive, so I decided that rather than risk dataloss, work interruption or just complete failure... rather than spend time and or money trying to replace parts on an obsolete system, I pulled…
We are looking for talented and reliable modelers for our next project: Back To The Roots. I think, if anyone knows STALKER Shadow Of Chernobyl since 2002 when it was announced, then he feels something is missing from game. Well known that many maps were removed from final game, and our main project is to return them back,…
Hey, As I'm getting more and more into 3d, it seems my low end laptop isn't going to cut it. From freezing to crashes to a lot of lag, working feels like an uphill battle. As such I'm thinking about buying a desktop with a bigger budget. I've asked on the buildapcforme subreddit. This is what I've got so far [PCPartPicker…
Greetings! This year hosts the inaugural ReplayFX convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from July 30th-August 2nd, 2015. I'd like to invite the awesome and amazing community that is Polycount to take a look at our event, and encourage any and all artists and design teams to sign up for a space to display their amazing…
Hi I am Fintan the CEO and programmer of Celtic Dragon Studio. We are a small indie team working on our first title Azzy Battle the Darkness in Unreal Engine 4, but we are in need of an animator/rigger to animate our characters and help bring them to life. Azzy is a 5 character 1 player/5 player co-op…