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Forums	Topics	Replies	Latest Post
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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UC'09 "END GAME" \| TEAM UPDRAFT \| 3D Hard to believe it's finally over, here's our final shots: [IMG]http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/uc/2/uploaded_images/uc09_3d_797_Built-to-Blast_24835_1258709925740.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.gam…	243 Last	crazyfingers Dec 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Butter Pants \| 3D Reserving a spot! We're joining the party late, but we'll have our mood board posted shortly! Less than 3 weeks and counting! TEAM: - Tyler / gamedev / 3d - Mike / snight / 3d - Asa / 2d -Tyler	168 Last	Snight Dec 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Mushvana \| 3D Hola Polycounters. So me and the team are ready to start after a wk of prep. Excuse our team name haha: The team consists of me, Blood_Falcon, and Dark-Ninja. END GAME: After going through his land…	29 Last	RAL Dec 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| TBD \| 3D Hi all ! Happy this contest finally starts and here's my artwork for the moment. So here's my concept! Let me know what you guys think ! [img]http://gaetm.free.fr/3d/2009/UC2009/Artwork.jpg[/img] …	61 Last	Minos Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| THE UPPITIES \| 3D -------------------------------Final----------------------------- [IMG]http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh428/Uppity_Sticks2/beauty_01.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh428/Uppi…	39 Last	AlanSMitchell Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Notorious Bastards \| 3D Well guys: I have officially closed this down. I still have to optimize filesizes and stuff like that but here's the final stuff. Thank you for all your support and opinions in this crazy comp and …	122 Last	cowboyorange Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Still Grinning \| 3D [CENTER][LEFT][IMG]http://aelevel.net/stillgrinnninglogo.jpg[/IMG] [/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=Green][B]Team Name: [/B][/COLOR]Still Grinning [SIZE=1](Tribute to one of my favorite game studios that shut…	86 Last	ae. Nov 2009
Anyone using the UT3 engine should grab the UDK! [url]http://developer.nvidia.com/object/udk.html[/url] Global Illumination dudes!	41 Last	Mazvix Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Sticky Rice \| 3D This is the first team Sticky Rice Post! Concepts and sketches are coming soon as well as an outline of our End Game Idea! Team Sticky Rice is... Jonny Rice...Explosivo! Zhen Xiao...Xiao110 Scotty…	28 Last	Explosivo! Nov 2009
UC 2009 `END GAME \| Squirrel \| 3D edit: updated concept work Decided to join in the fun. I have some rough ideas of what the scene will look like, nothing concrete yet though. [img]http://dominicgutridge.files.wordpress.com/2009/10…	9 Last	Target_Renegade Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Love Shackle \| 3D I'm in	28 Last	d00kie Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Carmine \| 3D Hello Me and my friend BjornM are new to polycount and the 3d art community in general and thought we would try our skill in this competition. We are both studying Digital Graphics at nackademin here…	28 Last	3dskillet Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| rage/quit \| 3D [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/BlackGoose/rq3.png[/IMG] oh hai! we are rage/quit because more than likely it's bound to happen. team members are: d00kie imb3nt ivalic3 here's what we g…	41 Last	imb3nt Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Twinkling Again \| 3D Heyo. This year I'm teaming up with friends Kelvin Tan and Jay Hwang. For this challenge, we're going to depict some sort of ancient civilization (trying to stray away from Mayan) being simultaneou…	132 Last	turpedo Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| The Three Horsemen\| 3D [center][img]http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg219/1_jouste/process/banner_3HM.jpg?t=1258480804[/img][/center] The Three Horsemen enter the race! Comprised of myself, Jouste and Funky Bunnies. We…	109 Last	Rory_M Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Daylight \| 3D So here we go. Daylight Team members: Axios 3DK.P. [IMG]http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e6/AxiosVII/collage2.jpg?t=1254789155[/IMG] This is an initial collage to try and show the direction we'l…	33 Last	WiredKnight Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Project S.L.A.M. \| 3D / 2D [EDIT] Whipped up a quick logo! [IMG]http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/280/logo01.jpg[/IMG] I'll be working on my own for this one, it's based off of an idea for a game I've had for a few weeks. U…	18 Last	albino_goldfish Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| B O U N D L E S S \| 3D there isn't much time left but we are going in deep, get ready, here comes boundless.	59 Last	D R E A M N T Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Peter Liang \| 3D Got some time this year, it's game time.	25 Last	killingpeople Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| ivan0v \| 3D Hello and good luck to all!	22 Last	ivan0v Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Ultimate Catnip \| 3D Creating a spot now. Our team consists of DummyYou and BigRedMachine. We'll post our concept soon.	51 Last	d1ver Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| IceBlade \| 3D I'm just reserving my spot for right now. Finally time to stop Lurking! Waiting for Dell to come and fix my desktop to post some art. [B]Concept[/B] I always take a contest's concept and decide wha…	4 Last	IceBlade Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| paranoia \| 3D Hi people! I'm going alone on this one. Good Luck Everyone :) Engine: UDK Title: After the burial Background story: In the middle of the Cold War after a successfull mission a group of American S…	9 Last	paranoidMonkey Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| JAM \| 3D a	20 Last	panic Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Sandbox Castle \| 3D Hey everyone. Our team is called Sandbox Castle, and it consists of 3 people: Mike Hustis, Samantha Howze, and Mak Malovic. This post is just to establish our team on the forum. We will post our Con…	12 Last	SandboxCastle Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Team Tino \| 3D Hi guys, long time lurker, first time thread starter. THE MADMAN'S LAB The idea I came up with for an 'End Game' scenario is a mad scientists laboratory. It'll be a mix of a throne room, with Fran…	10 Last	tinokun Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Poly Ninjas \| 3D Hi there! i'll be teaming up with afaria for this contest. We've been working on a concept, here is a blocking of the idea so far: [IMG]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1452/ssblockin01.jpg[/IMG] …	17 Last	engelik Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| chaosagent \| 2D Hello, everyone! This is my first entry for this contest. Here are few of my ideas. Any comments, suggestions or critiques are appreciated, thanks!! [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v419/my…	5 Last	chaosagent Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| SS \| 3D Basic idea: This is the last gate still open, all the others have been closed off. You have one last obstacle to get past (end boss) to enter/escape the city. It's still under construction following …	10 Last	SStrickland Nov 2009
Late update Hey Guys I know its late but I'm trying to get done what I can. here's a render of where I am.[IMG]http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx208/leohead7519/progress1.jpg[/IMG]	0 Last	leohead7519 Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Team Crossfire \| 3D Hey what's up everyone, we're Team Crossfire. We're a group of two artists, Apel Keshishian (me) and Andre Gritskevich. Here's our really quick blockout and inspiration/concepts that we're going of…	8 Last	leohead7519 Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Fanboys \| 3D Hey, our team consists of Elliott, Thomas, and Ruben. We will be updating with our concept soon. Sorry for the double post, messed up the title on the first one. Also have our team logo. [IMG]http…	32 Last	Picklock Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Mazvix \| 3D Hello Everyone, I decided to join UC 09, it is kinda late but I will try as much as I can to get a small/focused scene with a powerful messege through the composition. I have many, many ideas in …	33 Last	Mazvix Nov 2009
UC'09 "END GAME" \| Poly Castle\| 3D Myself ,Shatow and Kristykat is our team and our idea is a castle getting raided and inside the castle is secret alien technology that's giving power to the area. It's a mix of Resistance meet's Ass…	18 Last	Explosivo! Nov 2009
UC 2009 ' End Game ' \| Ruins of Greed\| 3D [IMG]http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad267/greed_2009/rockpillerrender.jpg[/IMG] Rock Piller: By Patrick Vasquez	22 Last	onionhead_o Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Team Santa \| 3D [img]http://www.jaalto.com/unearthly/logo.png[/img] Reporting in! Our team consist of Juha 'merecraft' Aalto Antti 'asa00100' Aarniolehto Visa 'vizaz' Pohto Story: Spacecrafts collided to earth…	9 Last	jaalto Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| TEAM SWING \| 3D Hi everyone we are team swing, a 2 mang team we're going for a post-apocalyptic Vegas like scene, stay tuned for updates	18 Last	AJR Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Meow \| 3D Let's start this, I'm going for "Solo 1p" mode as last year, now for the stage 1....let's find a decent idea. I just just know that as the environment I did last year could have fit this year's topic…	104 Last	Titus S Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Sparklepants \| 3D Just reserving a space for Team Sparklepants over here. Team: -jeffro -AirRun -Sacrum (new addition) We're still working on our concept idea. We'll update when we get it sorted out. Edit: Here's o…	38 Last	AirRun Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| BOLT OF HORROR\| 3D Hi everyone who reads it. My concept is a small story, the essence of this is that the guy nicknamed the big bolt at the cost of his life saved by the hero clicking detonator and undermining the who…	30 Last	IsadistI Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Chicken Domination \| 3D Hey there, the theme I'm going for will be a village in the middle of the water, which is going to be struck by a huge wave. More details later. I'm also going to try and make my scene/level playab…	18 Last	smiljan66 Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| The Giant Bears \| 3D Team: blakemetlzer hollaAtMe We're gonna steampunk up Purgatory. References and screens coming up! Holla.	6 Last	hollaAtMe Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Unearthly Kings \| 3D [COLOR=white]Hi everybody, we are the [B]Unearthly Kings[/B]. We're entering this thing a little late, but hopefully that'll just push us to try harder. The three of us all go to the Art Institute of…	57 Last	jacob07777 Nov 2009
350k size upload limit? Anyone know any tricks to lower file size without losing quality/ size? Best i can do right now is to shrink my image down and do a super low quality gif, which really kills my images. I'd post thi…	6 Last	crazyfingers Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| Echo \| 2D Hey folks! I've been aware of Polycount for a long time but I decided to finally join when a friend urged me to join this challenge. So here I am, my team is made up of one person, me, so I'm team E…	17 Last	gamedev Nov 2009
UC'09 "END GAME" \| Crash Site \| 2D FINALS: "Crash Site" [IMG]http://meinturm.de/concept/beach7.jpg[/IMG] "Beneath" [IMG]http://meinturm.de/concept/cave6.jpg[/IMG] ------------------------------------ Hi erverybody ! Here com…	30 Last	florian Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' / Metamatic / 3D Hello I'm giving this contest a try with a game world inspired by the novel, Concrete Island, by the late JG Ballard. In the novel, the main character crashes over a freeway overpass and is marooned …	14 Last	screenstreet Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| rantanplan \| 3D [quote]High up in the mountains lies a calm and peacefull village in the lands of the benevolent Count Poly. One beautiful August day the evil 'Gay Artisans' attack with their airships and lay waste …	28 Last	divi Nov 2009
UC'09 "END GAME" \| acapulco \| 2D Wuhu! Entering for polycount. Cool Theme, lets see what it brings!	33 Last	albino_goldfish Nov 2009
UC 2009 'END GAME' \| TEAM PED \| 3D Hey guys! guess I'm in this year, lets see if I can stand the pace. good luck everyone and look forward to seeing some awesome art from you all :thumbup: [EDIT - so we are now a team of three! …	34 Last	chris89 Nov 2009