-The cycles of polycount- Newb Cycle: - School lets out, we get some new people looking for jobs or asking about art schools. They stick around for a week or two but normally as soon as they find out its not all trampolines and hookers they bail. - Shortly after school lets out we get a wave of newbies asking what software…
I found polycount in late 2002 when Hawkprey posted his "looking for a partner in crime" art test for Legend. I wanted to see all the other peoples versions so I searched for the thread title (at the time I only posted on CGtalk) and found polycount as a result. I stuck around when I decided to make game art my major and…
I became a polycount member in September 2001, after my sister Demon Princess discovered the polycount website. Polycount opened my eyes to a completly different world, I wasn't aware of before. I always thought game art was something completly out of my league, and that it would take a lot of programming work to get…
me and a friend in jr. high were downloading Q2 skins from polycount back in the day. i can't say for sure though, it was so long ago. he was heavy into gamespy at the time, i didn't know shit about computers or the internet, i didn't know what a forum was. it's the color scheme, it stands out to me for some reason. i…