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Sticky Bugs! We got 'em! Please post all your bug reports here. Anything wrong with the forums, we want to know about it. We think you want to be informed about what's going on with the forums. In that spirit, here's a …	319 Last	Eric Chadwick May 25 2023
Sticky Information About Polycount & New Member Introductions Information You Should Know About the Polycount Forum Here are some things you should know about the Polycount Forum. New Members Welcome to Polycount! Please reply to this t…	29.8K Last	cdi_88 Apr 26 2023
Sticky How to Post on the Internet I want to talk about the common questions and misconceptions inexperienced artists have, either when they start working towards becoming an artists or when they join Polycount. This is a culmination …	182 Last	MasterWorks Mar 17 2023
Sticky Greentooth Sightings in Videogames If you spot a surreptitiously placed Greentooth in a videogame, take a screen shot and share it here.Please only post legit videogame screenshots.Please only post legit Greentooth's. Similar or …	65 Last	Michael Knubben Mar 17 2023
Sticky Polycount Discord/Slack/Skype/Hangout/etc. We've set up a Polycount chat room[s] on the Discord service. Click the link here and you'll be taken there. This is a no-time limit invite.Check out more here for the service's info and stand a…	40 Last	R3D Aug 2021
Glaze - a tool for protecting your art from "AI" theft [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"statusID":"1636131323847868418","url":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ravenben\/status\/1636131323847868418?t=oi6nt9VBv7e1ch_s09mLhQ&s=19","embedType":"twitter"},"loade…	13 Last	CyberdemoN_1542 Jun 4 2023
AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject. [{"insert":"wow, OK...I haven't posted in a long while, but with all the recent AI drama going on, I felt I needed to voice some concerns, and bring up some perhaps controversial thoughts and opinion…	271 Last	ModBlue Jun 2 2023
Will AI make 3d characters in the near future? [{"insert":"Hi,\ni can se some 2d images created by AI, waht dfo you think about 3d ?\n\n"}]	20 Last	ModBlue Jun 2 2023
Playing devils advocate, what stops artists from using AI art someone else made to create work from? I thought about adding this to the other thread going on about AI art, but I think a separate topic is more appropriate since that one looks to focus general opinions.Note - This is my interpretation…	12 Last	poopipe May 31 2023
fake job adverts [{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I heard something terrible recently online where some of the jobs advertised are actually not real. I would not go as far as saying they are totally fake,, but it se…	4 Last	Ruz May 29 2023
Microsoft to Buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion Microsoft to Buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. https://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyon…	8 Last	killnpc May 28 2023
Youtube timelapses legal and moral dilemma. Hi Everyone. I have one dilemma and i wanted to ask other fellow 3d artists. So, as 3d modeling artist with 13 year professional experience in field of 3d modeling for movies and games i never b…	5 Last	DrunkShaman May 27 2023
What do you make of this AI texturing tool? As a working artist in the VFX/Game Industry; I was sharing with a friend a piece of work that had been produced by an AI from a Youtube video and he as a working modeler became concerned seeing huge…	11 Last	sprunghunt May 25 2023
Does this DPI ppi is overkill? So, I work on game dev company as generalist, and the tech artist like to create and ask the artist to create 1024x1024 with 300 dpi for icon design on PS, that would be displayed no bigger than 300x…	9 Last	pior May 23 2023
What made you feel good today? What made you feel good today? Tell us what us what made you feel happy today. Sister thread,[URL="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116211"]What made you feel crap today?[/URL] I s…	1.1K Last	iam717 May 21 2023
Site styling [{"insert":"Starting to bring back some of the essential site styling, into the new Theme system. \nSo far:\nGreentooth added back to the + button."},{"attributes":{"list":{"depth":0,"type":"bullet"}…	56 Last	Fabi_G May 12 2023
Polycount is 25 years old today! [{"insert":"Polycount "},{"attributes":{"link":"http:\/\/wiki.polycount.com\/wiki\/Polycount:About#History"},"insert":"was birthed"},{"insert":" April 1 1998. So we usually do something funky on Apri…	26 Last	b1ll May 9 2023
HANDHELD photogrammetry, high ISO, AI denoise... Doable/Advisable...? Hello, is doing photogrammetry with Handheld Mirrorless DSLR (Cannon EOS M200), handheld, high ISO (800 lets say) and using newest AI denoise in Lightroom Classic possible...? Like will it look good?…	8 Last	Jonathan85 May 7 2023
Pen display flex-arm mounting options [{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"My brother got me an absoutely gorgeous 16\" Huion pen display for Christmas and I'm trying to find a way to mount this thing on an articulated arm that lets me fold…	5 Last	Firebert Apr 25 2023
Camera app for auto-focus and auto-periodic -shooting (every x second)- (photogrammetry) [{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hello\nI have Xiaomi Redmi 5a. Im looking for some camera app (preferably a free one), that can do these 3 things:"}]},{"type":"ol","children":[{"type":"li","childre…	2 Last	ZacD Apr 18 2023
What are you listening to? Artist: Blind Guardian Song: Mordred's Song Genre: Metal/Folk/Acoustic You might like this if: You like any melodic metal or bard melodies. One of my favorite Blind Guardian songs. good working musi…	2.5K Last	iam717 Apr 7 2023
RSI from 3d modeling / Wacom tablet advice Hi, I've been doing 3d modeling for a while now in my spare time and I have a real problem with RSI. The nature of 3d modeling using Maya and Zbrush and painting textures in Photoshop naturally means…	52 Last	Leinad Apr 4 2023
Trying to reclaim an old account. [{"insert":"How would I go about this? I looked for support\/moderator contact with no luck.\nI used to frequent this place 10-20 years ago under the name \"cep\". I have the password, but am unable …	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 29 2023
Do 3D/VFX artists get the same creative freedom as concept artists? [{"insert":"Hi all, \nI'm a generalist 3D art\/3D animation\/VFX student, just wanting to get some industry advice on where I should direct my learning or if I should specialise early on. Do concept …	3 Last	Neox Mar 27 2023
Counter-Strike 2 carrying over skins [{"insert":"Cs2 was announced today and I was surprised to see that all current skins are carrying over. I read on their website that the models have been made higher res. How is it possible that the…	5 Last	poopipe Mar 24 2023
Adobe Firefly - AI tools [{"insert":"This was announced yesterday, Beta for AI-assisted creative tools.\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/firefly.adobe.com\/"},"insert":"https:\/\/firefly.adobe.com\/"},{"insert":" \nAppar…	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 22 2023
I love and hate midjourney [{"insert":"Hi polys,\nI wanted to share my concern with you. You all have heard about midjourney, which is extremly hyped. The discord server is insanely crowed and the results of people using the A…	105 Last	Alex_J Mar 17 2023
How is Blender with Unreal (UE5) these days? [{"insert":"I'm starting an indie project and I'm thinking about leveraging Blender in place of Maya. I'd be using it to model assets, animate characters, render concepts, and export into Unreal.\nI…	8 Last	Thomas1994 Mar 10 2023
Texel Size ? [{"insert":"I'm trying to figure out texel size by means of the object size. How do I calculate texel size by decimal values; by entering in a value of 0.5 for example what exactly is that doing to t…	8 Last	Thomas1994 Mar 10 2023
How actual concept art for characters in movies/games looks like? [{"insert":"Hi evryone, Recently, I realized that I am not actually sure how real concept art looks, so is there anyone here who worked on the game or movie and can solve that mystery for me maybe? …	5 Last	Jorimir Mar 5 2023
How about MidJourney or other AI art [{"insert":"Did not found any current post about this: \nTesting MidJourney for the last two days and it is really mindblowing. \nAnyone testing it too?\n\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"ur…	13 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 4 2023
ZBRUSH - All new updates to require Maxon subscription [{"insert":"So it finally happened, no more free updates. Version 2022.0.5 will be the last release for perpetual license holders.\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"statusID":"154940149664251…	75 Last	gnoop Feb 23 2023
Art Asset Management feels broken, so I built a tool to fix it. [{"insert":"Hi, I’m Pierre. I built a tool for indies to store, version, sync, and organize art assets in the cloud.\nAs an indie, it was hard for me to organize and version art assets before they we…	17 Last	gnoop Feb 13 2023
Crowd funding project: Marking menus for Photoshop and other software Recently I was telling a buddy of mine about how I hate digging through the standard menus in some software like Photoshop. In Maya or Zbrush I am used to creating either marking menus or custom pale…	12 Last	Michael Knubben Feb 8 2023
Multiplayer Blender all in the Browser! [{"insert":"Yo, I’m Pierre. I built a platform that allows you to use Blender, with multiple users, in real-time, all in the browser.\nHere’s a demo: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DFy…	0 Last	pierrehaou Feb 7 2023
Mocap SW “Submit your dance moves” Challenge [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/9LG8468YFNMQ\/screen-shot-2023-02-02-at-11-57-57-am.png","name":"Screen Shot 2023-02-02 at 11.57.57 AM.png","typ…	2 Last	iam717 Feb 5 2023
Artists just simply doing their thing. [{"insert":"In my opinion, well worth a peek\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/how-being-a-3d-artist-helped-survive-wartime\/"},"insert":"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/how-being-a-3d…	1 Last	sacboi Jan 29 2023
Selling my MoI 3D v4 license for 250 $ [{"insert":"not on sale anymore\n"}]	0 Last	Andreicus Jan 21 2023
Saint Denis in Red Dead Redemption 2 [{"insert":"One day I was doing an image search for \"old french market\" and found this black-n-white photo (see below).\nWhen I saw it, I thought to myself, \"Wait, I've seen this before!\"\nI pull…	3 Last	okidoki Jan 20 2023
Happy New Year Polycount! [{"insert":"Hope you all had a productive and exciting year. We here at Polycount are wishing you all the best in the coming year!\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.n…	9 Last	Iwazaruk7 Jan 7 2023
Is there a protest going on right now at Artstation? [{"insert":"Is there some type of organized protest going on at Artstation right now? The site is slow to load, and seems to getting bombarded with this \"no to ai\" image:\n"},{"insert":{"embed-ex…	72 Last	Alex_J Jan 5 2023
OccultArt: My take on the AI situation and protests [{"insert":"My open letters to Artstation: \nPart 1: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/r9qDqJ"},"insert":"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/r9qDqJ"},{"insert":"\nP…	3 Last	Joopson Jan 4 2023
Have I Been Trained? AI database search tool [{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/haveibeentrained.com\/"},"insert":"https:\/\/haveibeentrained.com\/"},{"insert":" \nA tool where \"artists can search these databases for links to their work and fla…	5 Last	myclay Jan 3 2023
How to Embed Youtube [{"insert":"If you post a Youtube link directly into your edit, usually you'll see this, a boring link: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U93RImC-by4"},"insert":"https:\/\/…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2022
The Atari VCS 800 [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"body":"Discover classic consoles and cartridges, modern titles and never-before-seen art and gameplay from Atari.","photoUrl":"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/file…	0 Last	killnpc Dec 2022
From my peers and the Internet Consumer side, I'm seeing happy and feverishly positive reactions... [{"insert":"...and this has made me question our relation to how people consumes ''content''.\n\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/VQ96C78YCTO3…	3 Last	gnoop Dec 2022
Rokoko a motion capture - New AI tool [{"insert":"Rokoko a motion capture company have just released Rokoko Video an AI tool allowing you to extract mocap data from just a video. It works pretty great!\nHere’s an example Alberto and I do…	3 Last	pior Dec 2022
Communal speaking patterns [{"insert":"I've noticed that reading comments from users online is a slightly different experience then what it was in the past. Which should come as no surprise, things change, and the internet has…	7 Last	iam717 Dec 2022
xgen render or real time hair for portfolio? whats better? [{"insert":"Hi,\nif someone wants to be grooming artist, what is better to have on a portfolio , a real time hair(haircards) or rendered xgen ?\nby better i mean what is more valuable to the industry…	6 Last	thomasp Dec 2022
Post your instagrams Hey guys I want my instagram feed to be a bit more of an inspiration board. can you post your instagrams where your post art and stuff so I can wake up to more Art!here is mine:https://www.insta…	76 Last	Schultzie Dec 2022
Most influential games [{"insert":"I am sure most of people that work or want to work in the game industry at some point had played a game that made such huge impression to make them want to be part of game industry How a …	3 Last	iam717 Dec 2022
Do 3D Art communities alive (3d, substance designer, etc.)? [{"insert":"Hello guys, \nI' am working on the project 3 years already. But I feel that just lagged behind the industry a bit. May be I getting old, but 3 years ago there are was more different discu…	12 Last	Iwazaruk7 Dec 2022
Coffee table art book ideas & Digital Downloads [{"insert":"Hello\nI am looking for coffee table books please, can be on indie games, colour theory, game art, concept art, key art you name it I would like to know about it. \nAlso if anyone has any…	1 Last	Firebert Nov 2022
Use of the original logo [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/9BTTTTV095JT\/111-png.png","name":"111.PNG","type":"image\/png","size":374702,"width":940,"height":476,"displayS…	26 Last	emilywaatson Nov 2022
Unreal 5 Today is the Day! https://youtu.be/d1ZnM7CH-v4	105 Last	Artisan Nov 2022