Hello I just started joining this forum and I'd like to encourage myself to start posting here and receiving critiques in hope of boosting my ability as an artist and my confidence in my arts. I realize myself that I really am not confident at all in my works, but I really do want to improve to be better in painting…
I'm having trouble with my copy of 3dsmax. Its just really slow and laggy overall. I've looked around online and tried most of the tweaks and fixes I could find like turning off windows Aero and stuff but non of it makes a difference. The biggest issue I have is viewport lag when panning or rotating. The perspective…
OK i'm sitting here having a terrible time trying to figure this out. My issue: Using max 9 I am working on a scene and in the texturing phase and everything looks like it keeps having it's normals flipped at random times and things become see through. So I have had to flip the normals back and apply double sided textures…
So on a whim I picked up Phantom Dust for Xbox (the standard $19.99 price tag helped that decision). Well wouldn't you just know it, the game rocks. It's a very well done mix of Magic: The Gathering, Virtual On, and cheesy JRPG's if you can wrap your brain around that. The constant desire to build a better 'deck' in the…
Hey everyone! I'm just curious what a proper workflow for importing meshes like stairs, or guns and such into zbrush is to sculpt detail on them. (mainly hardsurface stuff) I always do it and when I sub divide in zbrush the topology isn't very even so getting decent resolution in the sculpt in some areas is almost…
polycount T-shirts! We're preparing to get some new t-shirts out to you guys to raise some funds for Polycount so that the new magic we're cooking up behind the scenes can be as great as we hope it to be. We're finalizing plans for the new t-shirts (which will include the new logo designed by our very own qubism) and have…
So after buying Dark Messiah of Might and Magic which is a fantastic game by the way, I found that I got 3 levels in and it literally locked up my computer with read writes to the hard disk. I even had a radeon x1650 512 card and I could not play the game when 4 enemies came on screen even with lowest quality settings…
Hello all, I recently came across Ulricks Dungeon environment on these forums (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107729), was heavily inspired and decided to have a go at my own but to combine it with more work I had been inspired by such as Brandon Orden's Cottage Interior (again on these forums). I wanted…
Hey people, i would like to know how you would approach those particle effects from the (especially the most recent) final fantasy games. All the transparent effects that appear when you activate magic. Stuff like those effects: http://final-fantasy-future.de/cms/images/stories/news/190210/final_fantasy_xiii_360_10.jpg…
Hi! I'm Stanislav Galai. I'm a concept artist and art director who currently lives in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. For more than nine years of my professional career in the game development industry, I worked on a full time basis with major Russian studios such as Creat (Coded Arms: Contagion), Saber Interactive (Timeshift,…