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The 2016 Greentooth Awards: Winners!


The Greentooth Awards: Winners!

The votes have been counted and we’re absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of the first annual Greentooth awards. The Greentooth awards seek to honor the best of the best from four categories: Polycounters, software, studios, and games, all chosen by the Polycount community of course.



Trophies

Each winner will receive a physical trophy, something we’re very excited about! Unfortunately we can’t reveal the full details about trophy quite yet, as we’re still finalizing the design.


Winners

Exceptional Polycounters


Josh Lynch - Senior Environment Artist at Monolith Productions

Josh "The Gloss Boss" Lynch is a great mentor, always willing to help out fellow artists. His expertise in PBR and Substance Designer is unmatched.



Tor Frick - Freelance 3D Artist/Art Director

Tor Frick, the undisputed king of bevels, is a constant source of inspiration, developing new workflows and selflessly sharing his techniques on Polycount, Twitch and Youtube.



Wes McDermott - Integrations Product Manager at Allegorithmic

Wes McDermott, expert of all things Allegorithmic, is always happy to share his invaluable wealth of knowledge.


Exceptional Software


Allegorithmic Substance Painter/Designer

Allegorithmic’s Designer sets the standard for procedural texture creation while Painter 2 continues to build on its world-class 3D painting tools.



Marmoset Toolbag 3

Marmoset’s newly released Toolbag 3 expands its status as the go-to toolkit for asset preview, lookdev, and real-time rendering with animation and texture baking support.



Unreal Engine

Epic’s Unreal Engine is a powerhouse that provides a dizzying array of new features with every update offering unmatched flexibility, functionality, and visual fidelity.



Exceptional Studios



Epic Games

The legendary developers of Unreal Tournament and Gears of War continue their reputation by releasing Paragon, and continuing to update Unreal Engine.


Naughty Dog

With a catalog of blockbuster games including Uncharted, Last of Us, and Jack and Daxter series, Naughty Dog cements it’s status as one of the premier studios in the business.


CD Projekt Red

Critically acclaimed developer CD Projekt Red struck gold once more with The Witcher 3.

Exceptional Games


Overwatch

Blizzard has another hit on their hands with Overwatch, a quick-twitch, addictively fun and perfectly balanced MOBA.



The Witcher 3

CD Projekt’s latest installment of their open world action RPG engulfs the player in an immersive world of overwhelming scale.



Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Naughty Dog’s latest installment of the Uncharted series single-handedly defines the genre of story based action games.

Special Thanks

We would like to thank the folks at Marmoset for helping to design and fund the production of the trophies for the Greentooth awards.

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