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Tutorial - "Holy Crap! I lost all my work!!"
I posted this on GA.org, but I'll share with ya'll. The best protection from loosing your work is iteration saving. OFTEN. Although you can't protect yourself from spontaneous disk failure. That being said here is a tutorial on recovering Maya Ascii AND Maya Binary files. It is really easy to do, but will be tedious. This… -
Review my portfolio and my future on Polycount.
Time for a recap: My portfolio thread Febuary 2014 My portfolio thread March, 2014 Now it's 5 months later: http://jordannelson2.weebly.com/ Some notes: -This is the portfolio I sent for college admission. I'm aware pieces like the Cabinet or Chair come off as generic but I needed something that was a huge step up from… -
Re: Character Artist Portfolio Review
Thanks everyone, this is exactly what I was looking for and it really got me fired up to get my shit together. I hope this thread can be useful for other people in similar situations as well! @Popol You are right. I have been using style references as not only that but also for anatomy and since I, as you point out, don't… -
Re: Every Game Studio Thats Opened Since 2006.
Cool beans, we are up to N64, I'm an old Rareware boy from the Golden Eye days so its a number close to my heart :) 1. 24caretgames - opened in the summer of '08. 2. 2D Boy (World of Goo) 3. 2XL Games Phoenix, Arizona USA 2006 4. 343 Studios Kirkland, Washington USA 2009 5. 4A Games Kiev Ukraine 2006 6. ACE Team (Zeno… -
Re: Getting rid of your debts...
i live in Kentucky, debt, welfare and poverty are extremely common. currently helping a professor with a website on the arts in eastern KY, trying to get a grant to really beef up the site and provide a much needed database of the arts/artists in east KY... i.e. 'hey give these kids some money for art programs!'. a lot of… -
Re: Steam
I had a really horrible Steam experience too. I have broadband DSL 384/384. I considered wether I wanted to buy a Steam version or a Retail box. In my consideration was the following: -there was NO information on the Steam website that told me if I bought online if I could burn a CD of my purchase so that I could install… -
{Finished} 1996 Toyota Crown Comfort.
I started modelling this Toyota last month in order to practice making cars more. It's pretty close to completion but there are still a fare few things I need to do like the fog lights and the wipers. Currently the model is 45k Triangles but I suspect it will be closer to 47k when I am 100% complete. Would love some… -
Re: Brampton Bus. Next gen AAA prop for my portfolio.
Hi OP you are a lot like me so my advice is this, please open the weekly hard surface challenge thread, open monthly noob thread and do them. On critique, I feel like you should give up 3D art or have a serious look at what you are doing. You should only be doing weekly hard surface challenges or monthly noob threads. Lets… -
Pricing question: How to price a game fairly?
The title isn't that great but here it is. I scoured through Google and Polycount's forums but most asked where to sell a game, can I sell a Unity game or how much should I charge per hour. I read the Polycount Wiki for Freelance Rates which was helpful however, I still have questions. I found a web developer who showed… -
BRAWL Contest Discussion - NEW INFO, CHECK OP ASAP!!!
VERY IMPORTANT: We'll use this thread from here on out to discuss how much of a tool I am. In my editing of the thread to include those FIGHTER submissions that didn't make it due to technical difficulties I completely removed the thread from our database. I had merged in someone's post, which ended up being that thread's…
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