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Unlimited Detail... soon. Euclideon, after a year out of the limelight, are back with another demonstration of where their unlimited detail technology is at. Euclideon is showing off their in-progress technology that dismis…	65 Last	Orchidface Aug 2011
Eat3d has new ZBrush offerings Eat3D has got a new tutorial available for your educational benefit. The topic is... Tileable textures in Zbrush.This is a wee bit more than just using offset in PShop. Jump over to their site for t…	9 Last	metalliandy Aug 2011
Texture Pilot A new texture site has popped up, texturepilot.com if you've ever found CGTextures.com useful, you'll probably want to check this out http://www.texturepilot.com/ It comes in 3 flavors: Student …	11 Last	Mcejn Aug 2011
Toolbag 1.04 Papa has a brand new bag... and by papa I mean you. 8Monkey Labs released version 1.4 of the Marmoset Toolbag Marmoset Toolbag 1.4 Announcement New Features: 9 new high quality sky lighting pr…	10 Last	Rens Aug 2011
Smooth Edges Smooth Edges is a maxscript that allows you to create smooth edits a bit like patch modeling but within edit poly Smooth Edges is the latest script in a string of jaw droppingly helpful tools for m…	8 Last	Thewiruz Aug 2011
Dr1ver's "The Dock" Andrew 'Dr1ver' Maximov shows us what he can do with 3498 tris and it's pretty impressive Be sure to check out the thread, there are a few tips and tricks he used you might find really useful. &n…	6 Last	dogzer Aug 2011
Max Hotbox Open Beta Andreas Meissner has released Max Hotbox out into the wild. It's like Maya's hotbox but for max, its one of the things I miss most about Maya. If you've ever used Maya's Hotbox (spacebar) and loved…	14 Last	SergioSantos Aug 2011
Source Shader Editor One of the most frequent complaints of the Source engine is that it doesn't have a node based shader editor as some of its younger competitors. Consider that fixed.Biohazard or Kris has released ju…	17 Last	yodude87 Jul 2011
Spaceman George Jipe animated Duncan's spaceman character. It's short, but sweet. We're talking about it here. Spaceman George from Jim Levasseur on Vimeo.	9 Last	cupsster Jul 2011
ReCap This week we have everything from hard surface, to organic characters, to pixel art! Thanks for making this recap possible Marine! Mrskullface's has been working on his Nazi Smasher. Skeptical …	13 Last	cupsster Jul 2011
Word From The Intertubes The internet never sleeps. Therefore, we have found some things you may be interested in, including: Comicon Challenge 2010 CG Bootcamp shader tutorials Brink Dev Diary - Art & Style Philip…	5 Last	Muzzoid Jul 2011
Mudbox Videos for the Artist The Autodesk channel on Youtube has a series of Mudbox 2012 videos that take you spoon full by spoon full through creating a dino. There is 17 videos in all that add up to about two hours of instru…	5 Last	Vidar Jul 2011
Snefer Sci-Fi Slum, Fly-Thu It's been amazing watching Snefer's Sci-Fi slum unfold, now you can see a fly through of the very polished yet still WIP environment Check out the progress and stay current with updates here: http…	11 Last	BradMyers82 Jul 2011
ReCap This week we have some amazing art and hidden in there are some videos and some amazing WIP shots so check out the threads too Thanks to Marine for doing the digging these wouldn't be possible with…	7 Last	JacqueChoi Jul 2011
2011 Game Developer Career Guide Game Developer magazine has released their annual Game Career Guide and its priced just right for you... free. Some of the contents and wisdom of this edition is potentially redundant to a lot of y…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2011
F.3.A.R. Exis Art Dump PeterK from Exis Entertainment posted some of the work they did for Day 1 Studios. Weapons, Vehicles, Characters, Mechs, really good stuff! The PeterK's boys over at Exis have been busting their nu…	3 Last	Mark Dygert Jul 2011
NGHS Interview Helder Pinto NextGenHardSurface posted an interview with Helder Pinto an environment artist on Crysis2. "This time, helder pinto grants us insight into the life of a young level designer from Portugal that w…	6 Last	ZeroCartin Jul 2011
The Making of the Zest Foundation Thiago Klafke (better known around here as Minotaur0) posted a beautiful tutorial about the making of the Zest Foundation A text based tutorial that is well thought out and illustrated wow... I hav…	8 Last	Bruno Afonseca Jul 2011
Angry Birds Live T-Mobile set up a live version of Angry Birds for people in Barcelona to play with. I really don't see what everyone else sees when they look at this game and think its amazing, but I have …	16 Last	malcolm Jul 2011
June UDK update out now! Epic have released their June update for the ever-popular UDK. With a whole raft of changes, this update is one of the most significant we've seen. Head over to the discussion thread to check out m…	7 Last	MainManiac Jul 2011
Eat for Free the 3D from Eat3D The fine chaps at Eat3D have slipped a note under the door of the newsroom that they have a couple of things you might be interested in. Some of it is even free, like candy. The first is that they a…	6 Last	c0ldhands Jul 2011
Meet the Medic Valve released a new update to TF2, if you haven't checked out the new short or the game, they're both free so whatca waiting for!? You've probably already seen this but if you haven't, its more of…	6 Last	ELAGO Jul 2011
ReCap We might as well start this week off with a ReCap of last weeks astounding art. Thanks to Marine for sifting through the monumental amount of awesome art you guys have posted. Thanks to SkudzAlmigh…	15 Last	Sharvo Jul 2011
Kinect SDK for Windows is availble As amazing as it might seem, Microsoft has released the SDK for the Kinect system. This allows anyone to make applications that can properly use the sort of data streams that the motion camera can g…	10 Last	AlanSMitchell Jun 2011
SCULPTRIS Pixologic released SCULPTRIS, its free, its Zbrush's little brother, you should check it out Pixologic has been working on this for a while and if you haven't been following it through beta testin…	26 Last	Mark Dygert Jun 2011
E3 Trailer: Prey 2 - Bounty If the gameplay & location is any indication from this trailer, then Prey 2 looks to be one hell of an awesome ride. Wow.Bethesda Softworks just released their trailer for their open-world sequ…	21 Last	AjdinBarucija Jun 2011
ReCap ReCap is back after a long break, and even if the Brawl slowed us down a bit it didn't stop you guys from cranking out some amazing art.It's not Friday true, but this is long overdue. This ReCap sp…	16 Last	tda Jun 2011
3Point Shader Lite UI Release 3point Shader Lite, gets a UI update v1.1.4 Perna dropped us a line to let people know that the lite version of the 3Point shader has been updated, check out the announcement and the thread HERE &…	5 Last	woody Jun 2011
3Point Weapons Some of the 3D Ninjas over at 3 Point Studios posted A LOT of the weapons they did for Brink. You should go drool Seriously why are you reading this... click the link. http://www.polycount.com/foru…	8 Last	SsSandu_C Jun 2011
Loom Loom is an amazingly well done, 3D short that tells the story of a successful catch. http://www.polynoid.tv/loom/ "A moth being caught in a spiders web. Struggling for an escape, the moths panic m…	17 Last	Tony Nowak Jun 2011
Desert Zombie: Last Stand for iOS mobile devices Desert Zombie: Last Stand has just been announced by Australian developers, Crystalised. Fellow Polycounter, Camikaze, is working on the project so we'll be keeping a close eye on Desert Zombie to …	3 Last	DarkStar Jun 2011
Adobe SendNow Adobe is getting into the file distribution business with SendNow and is offering their services to you for free. The gist of the service is that they are offering a service that you can upload a fi…	4 Last	Vidar Jun 2011
Fan film: Outside Aperture What happens when fans of Portal who also happen to be small film makers get the itch? Click on through to find out. Eisen Feuer, an independent film maker, has created an 8 minute fan film of Port…	11 Last	ShootandRun Jun 2011
MaxScript, part2 This is part 2 of our series on MaxScript. I'll cover some simple ways you can start to use maxscript in your every day workflow. Even if you have never touched code before, there are some simple …	8 Last	leechdemon Jun 2011
Quad Chamfer for 3dsmax2010+ Why hello there Quad Chamfer, where have you been all my life? obliviboy heard our rancorous saber rattling over the issue and released Quad Chamfer So we've all lamented time and again about the c…	15 Last	yiannisk Jun 2011
Autodesk Webcast: Concept to Rendering Autodesk is offering a online webcast presentation on June 8th, next Wednesday, that I expect will interest some of you. You will have to register ahead of time for it like the others they have broa…	2 Last	VidGameDude Jun 2011
Rage contest deadline today Rage is having a graffiti contest on their Facebook page and the last day to enter is today. You will have to 'Like' them to get all the details, but it is a chance to get some artwork into the game…	4 Last	W1r3d Jun 2011
The Rydan Workshop deadline approaches The live online digital art classes at the Rydan Workshop have deadlines fast approaching; as in the Zbrush intro one starts today. The rest of the classes are starting up in the next week at the la…	2 Last	TheRydanWorkshop May 2011
QuakeCon 2011 pre-registration opens The Bethesda Blog has details and links to get you registered for the August event in Dallas.That is once the doors open on the pre-reg page. It'll be online in a little over 8 hours as of this post…	0 Last	r13 May 2011
Bitmap2Material & Grunge Maps Toolkit Jeremie "Jerc" Noguer let us know about two tools, Bitmap2Material & Grunge Maps Toolkit If you're not familiar with Substance materials you should take a min or two to look them over. I covere…	4 Last	Jerc May 2011
Bioware needs environmental artists Bioware needs warm bodies to huddle in Canada. The Senior Creative Director Alistair McNally has tweeted out a call for folks to come join the Dragon Age team up in the balmy land of Edmonton. ...At…	6 Last	JacqueChoi May 2011
BRAWL: Voting has ended! Voting for the Brawl Tournament has ended! Stay tuned for judges & winner announcements.Public voting for Polycount's Brawl Tournament contest closed today at 9AM EST. With over 550 votes cas…	20 Last	POWER May 2011
City Creation Tools Lets take a look at two city generating tools, ghostTown and CityEngine Lets start off with CItyEngine, If you watch the video on their site its pretty amazing. Point click streets. Feed it a m…	11 Last	WesleyTack May 2011
Marcus Fenix, caught in a moment of thought Epic Games is pimping off their Gears of War 3 flavored Marcus Fenix statute. They have a gallery up of various beauty shots of Mr. Fenix, both with the lights off and on, that you are probably gonn…	3 Last	passerby May 2011
New Marmoset Toolbag Released The folks over at 8monkey Labs recently dropped by to let us know Marmoset has some shiny new updates. As always, Marmoset is a phenomenal realtime presentation tool based on their Marmoset engine …	1 Last	reneemars May 2011
UDK May Update UDK May update has landed. Hit the flip for the deets. You can get the update at the normal place; the official UDK website or more specifically the May update page as well. Not the largest update…	8 Last	KuriousKook May 2011
Voting! Voting for both Fighters and Stages begins Friday, May 13th 2011! Voting for Fighters and Stages for the Brawl Contest will begin on Friday, May 13th 2011 and will end on Tuesday, May 17th at 9AM P…	6 Last	Froyok May 2011
Oasis Damian "teaandcigarettes" Lazarski recently completed a project and posted a fly thru, you should check it out. I admire that he was willing to try new things and even if it didn't come out 100%…	14 Last	Guy123 May 2011
3dsmax2012 Hot Fix Ken Primentel posted some news on his offical Autodesk blog about a hot fix for max2012 that should be hitting the street soon "We're targeting 20 fixes for a Hot Fix release that should be availab…	2 Last	MaVCArt May 2011
Portal 2 Authoring Tools Beta It's time to get crackin on the custom content! The Portal 2 Authoring tools have been released Portal2 was deliciously awesome but one of the things that made Portal so great was the custom conte…	4 Last	VidGameDude May 2011