The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025
Hi everyone, I’ve created a new Substance Designer material - Weathered Rock
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Gv38gN
Emilia_Krutilina
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Re: Show your hand painted stuff, pls!
https://www.artstation.com/gruno_kromer_ii - Artstation 1
https://www.artstation.com/gruno_kromer - Artstation 2
I'm making a hand-drawn "The Last Of Us 1" but the events take place in Eastern Russia
https://www.artstation.com/gruno_kromer - Artstation 2
I'm making a hand-drawn "The Last Of Us 1" but the events take place in Eastern Russia
Gruno_Kromer
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Looking for Judges
It would be great to have some longtime Polycount members to join the official judges for the BRAWL2 contest.
Anyone interested in helping out, who has been a member for at least 5 years?
We will also have community voting, but a few experienced members as judges would also be great.
We could go direct to you, asking in DMs only. But there are so many deserving folks, I’d hate to miss someone by accident who wanted to chime in!
If interested, DM me and @iam717 with a short bio.
2000AD cover art by Tom Foster!
https://2000ad.com/news/2000ad-covers-uncovered-dredd-s-back/
Anyone interested in helping out, who has been a member for at least 5 years?
We will also have community voting, but a few experienced members as judges would also be great.
We could go direct to you, asking in DMs only. But there are so many deserving folks, I’d hate to miss someone by accident who wanted to chime in!
If interested, DM me and @iam717 with a short bio.
2000AD cover art by Tom Foster!
https://2000ad.com/news/2000ad-covers-uncovered-dredd-s-back/
Eric Chadwick
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Re: [WIP] Night Room Scene – Nov-Dec 2024 Environment Art Challenge
Hey folks been an awful while 😄. I put the project on a long hiatus of months due to life stuff, but that’s behind me now and I’m determined to finish it properly. I made a lot of changes: updated shaders, reworked lighting and the overall prop layout, added stickers and posters, and strayed a bit from the concept to add my own flavour. I implemented an RGB-mask workflow for some assets and replaced the POM floor with real geometry. A few things are still missing; trash decals, floating dust VFX, etc. but hopefully some additions and small refinements remain and wrap this up very soon
GroovyDaft0
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Re: Show your hand painted stuff, pls!
Textured and modeled Troll for a videogame with retopo
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/troll-4e7d08d101284b0f99d054e43e815c84
My Arstation: DIamanteian
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/troll-4e7d08d101284b0f99d054e43e815c84
My Arstation: DIamanteian
diamanteian
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
@okidoki Thanks! Really appreciate your concise explanations and feedback. It's always nice to see the community work together like this.
@stray There's definitely some ambiguous shape transitions that are a challenge. Really like how you interpreted those iffy spots on the concept and translated it into an asymmetric front and back where the spiral ends near the pommel. Keep up the good work!
@5rettski Looks like you have the basic idea down. It just needs some refinement.
Here's the order of operations used in the previous example: Create the basic profile for one of the flutes and copy it so there's four of them perpendicular to each other. Add a screw modifier and set it to something like 32 steps and adjust the distance until the angle of the flutes lines up with what's in the concept image. Increase the iterations to two and adjust the position of the mesh so the whole spiral extends well beyond what's visible in the concept.
Use diagonal slices across the ends of the spiraled flutes then remove all of the left over geometry. Fill in the ends of the channels by connecting the edges and faces until there's a clear loop path around the base of the shape transition. (Highlighted edge in the middle of the image below.) Extrude this edge loop downwards and flatten it to create the cylindrical part of the grip.
Some of the shapes in the concept are ambiguous because they connect to each other in magical ways that only really work in 2D. So how and where the spiraled flutes end on the other side of the grip is open to interpretation. Based on what's shown in the concept: there's a couple visual clues that suggest the ends of the flutes do not extend beyond the center line of the cylinder. If they did, they'd be visible from the front and since they aren't visible, well there's no other place for them to go.
How that's resolved is largely a matter of taste. It's possible to simply slice them all off vertically along the axial plane but that's a bit plain and unrefined looking. Slicing across them diagonally means the ends will be staggered and that creates a V shape that provides some visual contrast to the spiral. It's also possible to reduce the depth of the channel near the ends (not shown) and that way the flutes kind of ease in / out and aren't so abrupt.
From a purely practical point of view, a grip like this would be very uncomfortable and the flutes should probably be a lot shallower so there's more contact area but that's not in the concept so that gets into the whole topic of whether or not it's worth redesigning things a bit... To make it both more realistic and easier to model.
FrankPolygon
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (98)
Been a while since I did an environment, will try my best tho!
The first thing I did was match the point of view using fspy, to built a fast blockout of the room:
The first thing I did was match the point of view using fspy, to built a fast blockout of the room:
par94
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Re: [WIP] The Staircase - Environment
Been a while I posted something. I've been learning Substance Designer for the majority of time. I've made a mahogany tileable material and a trim sheet. Now that I'm kind of got familiar a bit more with the software I should pick up momentum (hopefully 
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Next steps are to finish up plaster material and then dive deep into material blending and rgb masks.
)Next steps are to finish up plaster material and then dive deep into material blending and rgb masks.
Dvin_
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Andor likeness
Hi Polycount! I thought to share my recent likeness study here too.
I Practiced recreating Cassian Andor (portrayed by Diego Luna) with a real-time render in Unreal Engine 5. Artstation link: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8BG5E6
Thanks for looking. Even though I am finished with this project I am still happy to hear critique.
I Practiced recreating Cassian Andor (portrayed by Diego Luna) with a real-time render in Unreal Engine 5. Artstation link: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8BG5E6
Thanks for looking. Even though I am finished with this project I am still happy to hear critique.
Rolang
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