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3Daily 2017 Make one 3D object per day for the year of 2017	71	899	3Daily 2017: analogous analogous • Nov 2018 in 3Daily 2017
Allegorithmic's the Beast	444	5.8K	The Beast - The Cursed Queen daizyp • May 2020 in Allegorithmic's the Beast
Allegorithmic's 'the THRONE ROOM' http://www.polycount.com/the-throne-room-challenge/	498	4.6K	The Beast -- Feral children Sophia_Williams • May 2020 in Allegorithmic's 'the THRONE ROOM'
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare	61	591	Chivalry UGC General Discussion SofiaMiglani55 • Jun 2016 in
Arms & Armor, Chivalry: Medieval Workshop	165	2.8K	[Chivalry] - Mason Vanguard - Great Horned Helmet herbertvwright • Aug 2019 in Arms & Armor, Chivalry: Medieval Workshop
Company of Heroes 2: WAR PAINT contest	51	869	WAR PAINT WINNERS! skankerzero • Jan 2019 in Company of Heroes 2: WAR PAINT contest
CS:GO Weapon Finish Contest	1.1K	3.7K	PC-CSGO \|Space Invaders Playonce • Oct 2019 in CS:GO Weapon Finish Contest
CS:GO Weapon Finish Contest Winners	8	209	PP-Bizon / Biomechanical [ Shipping in a Weapon Case ] G99Factory • Jun 2016 in
Enlighten Contest	36	334	The Courtyard – An Enlighten Lighting Contest ratubola303 • Jul 2020 in Enlighten Contest
Game Art Workshops Hands-on Community Learning since 1967.	158	1.3K	Low-poly 3D Characters For Fight Game – GUTS, Indianapolis - Indiana gameyanstudio001 • Jan 2023 in Game Art Workshops
GDC T-Shirt Contest	23	131	Q&A Thread r13 • Feb 2015 in
Handplane Contest Contest Forum for the 3d baking tool; Handplane	47	366	Handplane Baker development roadmap radiancef0rge • Dec 2018 in Handplane Contest
Hexels Contest Forum The Hexels Contest Forum!	4	226	Marmoset Presents: Cubed - Final Submissions GhostDetector • Jul 2016 in
Killing Floor 2	7	38	Killing Floor 2 Workshop General ThiefofBreath • May 2016 in
Killing Floor 2 - Guns 'n Gear - CONTEST HAS ENDED	193	908	[kf2] - Item - Plague Mask SenayAmanuel • Jan 2016 in Killing Floor 2 - Guns 'n Gear - CONTEST HAS ENDED
Low Poly Challenge Oh sure, you can throw as many triangles as you want at a mesh to make something pretty! But what happens when you're limited to how many triangles you can use? Think you're up for the Challenge? Then this forum is for you!	70	1.9K	Low Ploy Weapon Challenge FelixOwO • May 2019 in Low Poly Challenge
Petrol/Blood	229	2.7K	PETROL/BLOOD - Elk Ranger pongstah • Jan 2015 in Petrol/Blood
the Polycount Tower A collaborative project for an endlessly-climbing tower of 3d models	46	355	TOWER - Mothership GeneWiz • Jan 2018 in the Polycount Tower
Reallusion's 3D Character Design Contest 2016	109	1.1K	3D Rigged Character TriGon_ • Jan 2021 in Reallusion's 3D Character Design Contest 2016
Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest	72	1.1K	oneshotmax oneshotmax • Jan 2016 in Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest
Riot Art Contest	2K	20.3K	[Riot Art Contest] - Kevin Collinet Beeltrat96 • Oct 2019 in Riot Art Contest - Animation
Riot Creative Contest 2017	1.5K	12.4K	[RIOT CREATIVE CONTEST 2017] Character Art - Postman Singed - JunkieKong KTENO • Nov 2023 in Riot Creative Contest 2017 - Character Art
Shapeways Dota 2 3D Printing Contest Bring a Dota themed object to life in Shapeways 3d printing contest!	58	233	Cassowary DEBABRATA • May 2020 in Shapeways Dota 2 3D Printing Contest
Team Fortress 2	143	17.4K	Looking for old copies of missing concept/promo artwork from old Polypack threads TF2CutContentWiki • Sep 2022 in Team Fortress 2
UT Master Challenge: Concept Art	141	1.1K	UTMC - Old space Rabro • Jun 2015 in
Warframe	135	1.1K	[Weapon Swap] – Skana – Infested Skana Meyaka • Aug 2016 in
XMD Contest	90	596	Character Inna • Feb 2018 in XMD Contest

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DWIII - 3D - Patrik Johansson(Latarm) - Quasi First time for me with DW. Have been working with 3D for more then a half year know. On a school in Sweden.. So any tips and trix are welcome. Anyway.. My concept is this. Quasi(workingname) is a…	17 Last	Irreal Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - dur23 - Untitled So far i've had a rough time coming up with the concept or even the basis of the idea for the concept. But i've done some preliminary sketches to help that out a little. I like the idea of amphibio…	38 Last	rollin Mar 2008
ddw3 3d galen linnett this is as bad as it gets. I definitely like negative critisisms about my lack of skill. I'm 28 and I'm a virgin [image][url="http://imageshack.us"][img]http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2080/galen…	5 Last	galen linnett Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Warhawk -Barinthus Hi guys! Here is my entry so far. A sea creature.A stalker class,specialized for assassination and stealth. The name comes from water god "Barinthus". Still in the process of making artifact. I hope…	0 Last	Warhawk Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Neo God - Gaon Just a silhouette concept right now. We'll see where this goes. I'm pretty sure it'll be a Clericon and will be of the light/holy persuasion, perhaps an Alien. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums…	12 Last	Psyk0 Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - lirana - Untilted Here are a couple of very basic hair & costume concpets I am messing around with. I'm not completely sure which class & artifact I'm going to go with, though for class I'm leaning towards inv…	8 Last	Lirana Mar 2008
DW3-Frantic27-Aralyn-Elf So I've been playing around with some ideas...for some reason the hot elf idea is kinda stuck in my head [img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w50/shogreen_francois/dominance_conc_1.jpg[/img]	9 Last	Frantic27 Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - dom- Dominus Latest update: [img]http://www.dominicqwek.com/misc/dominus_wip_04.jpg[/img] dom's domwar entry is Dominus. always wanted to say that. lol. here's my entry, its gonna go through a few more passes…	33 Last	Supervlieg Mar 2008
DW3 - 3d - Paul_C - Untitled. Reserving my space. Will post some silhouettes and rough sketches later.	3 Last	Paul_C Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Vademecum so I had my first guy before and he sucked.... did a few thumbnails and picked the one i like... still need to work on his element weapon.... needs to be larger i think? let me know what you think an…	33 Last	fightpunch Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - BoBo - Grumples Grumples the lore smith Summoner!	15 Last	Psyk0 Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - ScoobyDoofus - Undecided [img]http://www.ryan-jackson.net/images/domwar3/domwar_08_thumbnails.jpg[/img] Just some thumbs for now. No strong urges in any direction, so might need a push.	8 Last	ScoobyDoofus Mar 2008
DWIII-3D-Jackablade-Palkhi the Colossal Its about time I got started I suppose. This is barely worth posting, but I was uploading it anyway, so why the hell not. [img]http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/9852/sedanchaircrappyiy0.jpg[/img] …	22 Last	Steve Schulze Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Renaud Galand - Stalker Stalker - Darkness/void Ok, I'm in (sort of [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] ) I've some rough ideas in mind, but the main one would be a young girl who got lost in space during the last war …	37 Last	diZzyWalnut Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Armanguy- Color Splash Reserving my spot for the 3d entry i have an awesome idea for a character ill post up some sketches in a it, [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]	6 Last	Armanguy Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - tores - Untitled Just something to start with, will keep making a few thumbs but I'm liking nr.6,16,25. I have this idea with nr6 with an artifact merged into his tail and it have started to cover him with stone/wood…	41 Last	tores Mar 2008
DWIII - 2D - WickedFingers - Modduum Had to start a new thread for my 2D entry. I have a concept ready to post just give me a few minutes.	8 Last	WickedFingers Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Helixx - untiltled Hey folks, just got back from GDC and figured I'd post some of the ideas that were stewing around in the brainbucket for the last couple days. So far I've come up with a 20-30 old male humanoid, live…	8 Last	Helixx Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - boomz - Colossal Snail [Herb] Name: Colossal Snail [Herb] Class: Warlord Artifact: Vegetation: Nutrient-rich shell for rapid growth of gigantic organic weaponry Back Story: The Horn of War sounded and was heard across the land of…	12 Last	boomz Mar 2008
DWIII - 2D - Isobel - Lilith Soooo I'm gonna join with probably a succubus kind of creature. How I'm work her out...well I'll show that some time later. I do have a bit of a story: In time more and more wives where left by the…	8 Last	Isobel Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Dusty - Boomcha Ok this is what my brain cooked up. [img]http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u8/blastamon/silos3.jpg[/img] This guy is gonna be a giant. Not your ordinary giant, OH NOE SIR! These guys walk on the…	30 Last	diZzyWalnut Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Josh Howery - Shadow Lord Arkesh Time to stop lurking and join the war! Here's the concept work that I have for my entry so far, I would love any feedback/ripping apart that anyone would give me. My current plans for the weapon ar…	3 Last	DarkStryder Mar 2008
DWIII_Jimmies_Errr... I don't have much idea of how to do what i'm about to attempt, but that's all part of learning, right? Anyways, I have about two ideas; 1. Invoker character, looking similar to David Bowie; Except w…	12 Last	HonkyPunch Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - gamePat - Narmada Alright, so finally I'm going to sell my soul and join this year's dominance war, too [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]. Here are some first crazy rough tests to find out some cool shapes and id…	6 Last	gamePat Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Oobersli - Untitled Worked a lil bit on the egg artifact. going to try and have the snake/egg done this weekend.. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5907/eggru5.jpg[/img]	19 Last	oobersli Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - WickedFingers - Aceriques O'dinn This is an updated concept so you know where I'm at... [img]http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u144/jordan_nichols13/Concept7.jpg[/img] This is my First Dom War. I'm entering the 2D & 3D compe…	14 Last	WickedFingers Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Dr_Graevling - Shenindra Yeah... I know I'm late in joining, and I only have 1 month 'til deadline, but I'll give it a shot anyway. Let's see how far I come. The idea is a Clericon with Wind/Lightning powers. The name Sheni…	0 Last	Dr_Graevling Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - MoP - Malisce This should be interesting. I want to break away from any sort of thing I have done before. As far from generic as possible. We'll see... my concepting skills are not the best. Let's get the ball r…	93 Last	MoP Mar 2008
DWIII-2D-Tray-Fluid hi this is my first time in this contest, so I'm new to this. please commit or ask questions. thanks	5 Last	tray Mar 2008
DWIII: 3D: Skek: Clericon: 3D mesh update getting a move on for the dominance war project... poly count represent'n... i didnt participate in the previous war.. but with the amount of variation of character design and dev.. we could practica…	24 Last	jmiles Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - ChaosEidolon Yarrr! I didn't want to post anything until i had some drawings to get up here. Didn't get a chance to get my thumbs scanned but ive pretty much fixated on this design anyway so i guess this is w…	49 Last	ChaosEidolon Mar 2008
DWIII - 2D - 8FtSpider - Iron Lion I've deleted the initial write-up nonsense; none of it matters anyway, and I need to focus on visual interest and not story asides. [img]http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/8FtSpider/dominance/de…	31 Last	Jeremy Wright Mar 2008
DWIII - 2D - Mruk- ??? Hello I would like to give it a try at DW3 but I dont know what to do yet [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] First idea - some warlock with flame-beast-armour-whatever [img]http://img88.imagesha…	5 Last	Levus Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Target_Renegade - Untitled ...and so it begins.	4 Last	Target_Renegade Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Massius - Verkünder ----------------------------- current work in progress ----------------------------- [img]http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3429/verkunderredblackzf1.jpg[/img] ----------------------------- Finally…	27 Last	Massius Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Mynki - Wikpilty Hi Polycount, Here are a few of my initial doodles for this year's contest. [img]http://www.mynkijames.com/DomWar/Images/DomDoodlesInitial.jpg[/img] The first thing that occurred to me was a monk…	25 Last	Tanstar Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Osidio - King of Sac Hey, hows it goin in this land? I almost did dominance war last year but I was lazy, hopefully that doesn't take over this time. For my character I'm thinking his powers are invoker / void or somet…	4 Last	SonofRock Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Clericon - Light/Holy - Effulgence This were my thumbs, [img]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/munkitron/DominanceThumbs02.jpg[/img] [img]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/munkitron/DominanceThumbs01.jpg[/img] but i scrapp…	7 Last	struve Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Mansir - Ternion Hey-yo! Started some ideas, but nothing done yet is what I'm happy with. I'm trying to get the idea of the artifact doing a large radius of damage (mini-nuke) that obliterates anything in it's area.…	28 Last	stalsby Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D -Vivin - Dryad Hey guys, first time posting on PolyCount. Here is the first initial quick sketch of my character. Basic idea behind him is a walking tree/treant like creature which is being controlled by the smal…	20 Last	Asmuel Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - JoanPetit - Sisoma Hello everyone! I'm Joan, got inside Polycount thanks to Dominancewar (a bit late :P) , I'm an environment artist in "Pyro" (Spain) I'm doing this for selftraining because I wont be able to finish …	13 Last	JoanPetit Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - JesseMoody - Unnamed - Reserving my spot. Let's rock!!!	20 Last	vahl Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Caalro - OctoFrog Latest: [img]http://www.powerofgrayskull.com/dw3/OctoFrog.jpg[/img] Taking any suggestions!	5 Last	Caalro Mar 2008
DWIII 2D WildJester - Unknown Hello everyone, new to all this stuff. Heard from a few friends that this was going on and figured I try my hand at it, Hopefully I can get some awesome feedback to help me out! But here we go... Pre…	1 Last	Emil Mujanovic Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - DeathByChris - Schism not really sure what im gonna go with at this point but i do like the darkness/void theme maybe summoning. these are some warm up ideas might scartch them all we'll see I also wanted to try and make …	17 Last	TorQue[MoD] Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - kSeth - untitled Hey all, long time lurker/cgchat refugee. Doing a cleric with a darkness/void artifact. Apologies for the sketchiness, just want something cool before I design anything. [img]http://img.photobucket.…	4 Last	rollin Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Tim Appleby - ??? Very late to play since I've been away.. so I might not make much progress. [img]http://badpolygon.com/wp-content/Taller.jpg[/img]	36 Last	Asmuel Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Syaped - Untitled Really want to take part in this war. Just random messing around so far really. All looks crap to me, except for the guy in the bottom left I like him. Some healer/cleric guy. Anyway just thought I…	12 Last	SyaPed Mar 2008
DWIII - 2D - JBurley0879 - untitled Concept phase Round 1 of 3...Humanoid Earth Invoker. My idea is to make the character with as few accessories/weapons as possible before going into the details, so to speak. Any thoughts, anybody? […	9 Last	JBurley0879 Mar 2008
DWIII - 3D - Ferg - Stone Warlord - Shikaka [b]>> MOST RECENT UPDATE IS RIGHT HERE BITCHES << >> <<>><<>><<>> << [img]http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/domwar/domwar_co…	31 Last	rooster Mar 2008