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Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Map Contest A new contest from Torn Banner Studios We're a little late on this one, but our friends at Torn Banner Studios are currently running a map creation contest for Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. They have…	4 Last	Lucas Annunziata Mar 2014
Fuse: Universal Character Creator by Mixamo Mixamo's newest software has been officially released. Mixamo unveils its new release of Fuse, its Universal Character Creator. Unique high-quality characters can now be created in minutes though a…	5 Last	Thousand Feb 2014
Know 3dsmax? Want to Learn Maya? Bradley "Professor Poly" Wascher put together a series of lectures for Max users looking to learn Maya. "Hey guys, I just wanted to share with you a video tutorial class I created for learning Maya…	16 Last	kurt_hectic Feb 2014
ProfessorPoly's Free Courses It's Bradley "professorPoly" Wascher's birthday today but YOU actually get the gift of free courses How crazy is that? In case you don't remember Brad put together some cross over video courses for…	0 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2014
MINI-GOLF deadline extended Havok has asked that we extend the deadline of the MINI-GOLF contest so that all the wonderful entries in development can be completely finished when submitted. As always, if you have any questions …	5 Last	JamesR Feb 2014
Marmoset Toolbag 2 It's here and you need to check it out Featuresmarmoset.co/toolbagUpdates Since Beta Build 4We’ve added some new features, including additive blending, parallax occlusion mapping, GUI controls for…	3 Last	ANTROPO Feb 2014
Substance Painter The witch doctors behind Substance Designer, Bitmap2Material (Allegorithmic) anounced Substance Painter PARTICLE BRUSHESHow much time do you spend making your assets look real by adding wear and t…	10 Last	Formidable John Feb 2014
Sketchfab - Unity Exporter Send work from Unity directly to Sketchfab Our friends at Sketchfab have just released a brand new exporter for the Unity engine, allowing you to transfer your work between the two with a click of …	2 Last	Ippokratis Jan 2014
Alles Im Fluss A new modelling plugin for 3ds Max Christoph "CrazyButcher" Kubisch has recently announced that his newest 3ds Max plugin, Alles Im Fluss, is now available for download. Alles Im Fluss provides a n…	1 Last	Macrow Jan 2014
VR slides from the Steam event Michael Abrash has posted his slide set from his talk on virtual reality at the Valve Dev Days event at his blog. As he notes, it also includes all the text of his talk as well. Joe Ludwig’s slides,…	0 Last	r13 Jan 2014
Maya to 3dsmax Brad “Professor Poly” Wascher put together another course, this time for Maya users looking to learn 3dsmax You might remember a few months ago that Brad put together a course that helped 3dsmax us…	2 Last	Wolvawab Jan 2014
The New Gamedev Cast New design, new features, new content Our friends at The GameDev Cast have been hard at work planning the future of their website and with the start of the new year are ready to introduce it to the…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Jan 2014
LEVEL-DESIGN.org \| Best of 2013 Vote for your favorite level art and design of last year LEVEL-DESIGN.org is conducting a survey to determine the best level art and design of 2013 with the winners of each category recieving prize…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Jan 2014
Mixamo Fuse Customized characters in a matter of minutes Our friends at Mixamo have added yet another tool to their rigging, animation and character creation arsenal. Fuse gives artists all the assets required…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Jan 2014
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Workshop Create custom content for Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Torn Banner Studios now has a Steam Workshop up for their popular title Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, allowing players to download user created ma…	5 Last	Lucas Annunziata Dec 2013
Polycounter down... Ana Kessel is a kick ass artists that was recently hit by a guy driving without a license. She lost her leg and she could use your help and support "...If you would ever meet Ana the first thing t…	7 Last	onizuka92 Dec 2013
Update: Poster Price Reduction We have managed to reach a point on the poster orders that we can lower the price [to 30 USD] for all pre-orders and still cover our costs. So with 5 days left, the price has been dropped to hopeful…	6 Last	Seaseme Dec 2013
Vertex 2 Teaser The next release of Vertex is nearing it's final stages. Last year Ryan Hawkins and Art By Papercut released Vertex, a collection of in-depth and comprehensive articles on the artistic side…	18 Last	unity2k Nov 2013
A view from the space station We've had a little project in the works on the side for a few months to celebrate our 15th year of orbiting this crazy internet. We wanted to do something different and something physical.We commis…	7 Last	cptSwing Nov 2013
Sketchfast #7 Sketchfab's latest contest is up and running! Our friends over at Sketchfab have just launched Sketchfast #7, the latest in their series of 72 hour modeling challenges. As you might expect a…	2 Last	EmAr Oct 2013
IGDA Austin Microtalks Jesse Sosa talked at one of the IGDA Austin 'Micro Talks', about his modular characters that won the Polycount Mutant League Challenge Check out the other videos in the IGDA Austin channel, there …	8 Last	cupsster Oct 2013
Airborn Studios Releases: Backstube Airborn Studios has released a batch baker for xNormal called Backstuben (Bakeries) The whole application is based on the idea to use xNormal settings files as a blueprint for baking an arbitrary …	7 Last	essimoon Sep 2013
Miauu's Script Pack Vol.2 The MaxScripting samurai is at it again, slicing and dicing your workflow into awesome little pieces ... and quite a few others, check them out HERE Check out his other scripts HERE We a…	1 Last	A-N-P Sep 2013
Sketchfab: Contest Express! Sketchfab has launched another contest! The folks at Sketchfab have cracked open another can of contest for you. This one is a quickie sculpt contest with SculptFab. It ends Monday so hit the jump …	5 Last	JellyBee Sep 2013
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Cinematic The smoke, the fluid and the facial acting, wow. Nicely done Blizzard	7 Last	LuCh! Sep 2013
Level Design Reference DB Level-Design.org started up a new database for reference "Reference Database is a free collection of game screenshots with assigned tags that describe the images' content. This database answers the…	12 Last	yiannisk Sep 2013
CGTrader - 3D Character Challenge A new character contest with big name sponsors. Our friends at CGTrader are currently running their own 3D character art contest with the help of some big name sponsors including Pixologic, Quixel,…	7 Last	cgtrader Sep 2013
Workshop - Fundamentals In Game Asset Creation A comprehensive course in game asset creation CGSociety is gearing up for a brand new CGWorkshop focused on the entire game asset pipeline. Led by Andrew Collins, a veteran of the industry and curr…	4 Last	SirSpangles Aug 2013
Handplane 1.3 Release A new build of handplane is available for download The devs behind the popular normal map tool handplane have just released a new update. Version 1.3 adds beta support for the bethesda creation eng…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Aug 2013
zPipeMaker 2.0 Chris Zukowski has been hard at work making improvements to his zPipeMaker Script for Maya and has released 2.0 In case you haven't been following Chris's zPipeMaker thread since the last time we p…	3 Last	Ryan Spinney Aug 2013
Disney Animated Disney released a new iPad app that lets you explore the art, history and some technology behind Disney's 2D and 3D animated films Disney Animated shows the art, history and some technology behind …	1 Last	JellyBee Aug 2013
Quixel Summer Sale A great time to get some great tools Our friends at Quixel are running a sale on their hugely popular texturing tools, nDo2 and dDo. The offer only lasts until August 5th, so don't miss out!	7 Last	NordicNinja Aug 2013
Stan Winston Robot Design Contest Design a robot, win a 3D print The Stan Winston School of Character Arts has teamed up with Legacy Effects to host their latest contest. Design and model your own robot for a chance to have it real…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Aug 2013
Polycount Recap What Are You Working On? Acid_Wire ae. af3d Callesw chriszuko Cushers danitchu Daven Empty fightpunch Funky Bunnies gothasaxwindsor Grayson Guedin Hazardous …	8 Last	Hellspawn Jul 2013
The Last of Us, Concept Art Naughty Dog released some of the concept art for The Last of Us The rest can be found over at: conceptartworld.com	11 Last	SirSpangles Jul 2013
Darksiders II Hammer Vote The top 3 hammer entries have been chosen and are open to the public for voting. The next and final round of voting is now open on the Darksiders Facebook Page, this time for the Hammer entries. Ma…	11 Last	stubs3d Jun 2013
Hourences - UDK Tutorial Series A new set of training videos from the UDK veteran. When it comes to teaching the ins and outs of the Unreal Engine, Sjoerd "Hourences" De Jong is one of the best, and his previous books and videos …	5 Last	Hourences Jun 2013
The Last of Us rig overview Judd Simantov goes over some of the rigs for "The Last of Us"	12 Last	Thousand Jun 2013
handplane - Source Support Handplane shows it's support for the Source Engine, Steam Workshop and our unofficial DOTA2 contests. The handplane team has been hard at work on adding more functionality to their already popular n…	5 Last	JoelStransky Jun 2013
Quixel Give Away Quixel is at it again. They are giving a few lucky people keys to nDo or dDo "LIKE and SHARE Key Giveaway Take Two! Help us spread the word about dDo & nDo by sharing our page and liking us …	11 Last	haloswish Jun 2013
Marmoset Skyshop Released A new set of powerful shaders for Unity The makers of the massively popular rendering software Marmoset Toolbag have released their newest tool, Skyshop. Skyshop gives you the high quality renderi…	8 Last	Macrow Jun 2013
SciFi Pattern Generator SciFi Pattern Generator Script v.1.1 for 3ds max 2008+ "Greeble-like" custom pattern generation! Make your geometry more interesting with a single click!Wouldn't it be cool if you could solve all y…	18 Last	RezNik Jun 2013
The Game Dev Cast A new podcast focused on game development A new game development podcast AND it's hosted by resident Greentooths? What more could you ask for? Join Mattias Van Camp (MaVCArt), Jason Lavoie (....Jas…	7 Last	Preston May 2013
Eat 3D - New Releases New game art tutorials from the team at Eat 3D Our friends at Eat 3D have recently released two new tutorial DVDs that you don't want to miss. Better yet, both of the videos are created by resident…	4 Last	Preston May 2013
REDkit Beta CD Projekt Red (The Witcher 2), announced that the REDkit development tool is out of closed beta and open to the public http://redkit.cdprojektred.com/	5 Last	ASGUARDVIKING May 2013
zPipeMaker chriszuko posted a great script for making pipes in Maya If you're a Maya user and you make pipes you probably want to check this out. We are talking about it HERE which also has links to the down…	25 Last	Poloboo May 2013
The Art of Moving Points Brian Tindall released a book about articulating the face, its full of great insight from a Pixar veteran You might remember Brian from his amazingly helpful site http://hippydrome.com which goes i…	2 Last	mediochrea May 2013
Adventure Character Contest The time has arrived for the new character contest from Mixamo and Polycount, and this time the winnings are greater than ever! For the first time we are offering a Mixamo All Access pass in additi…	12 Last	DiegoTeran May 2013
dDo - Mega Release A huge update for Quixel's latest tool Our friends at Quixel have just put out what they have appropriately dubbed a "Mega Release" for dDo. V5.0 of dDo includes features such as integration with M…	9 Last	Wiktor May 2013
LEVEL-DESIGN Interviews Robert Briscoe An interview with the artist behind Dear Esther's environments Our friends over at LEVEL-DESIGN.org (including resident Polycounter seir) put together an interview with Robert Briscoe, the environm…	3 Last	minorthreat May 2013