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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 thre…
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kelly_caroline

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 …
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Eric Chadwick

Sticky Polycount Discord and Slack

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…
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R3D

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 …
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Rnz

Future of 3d modeling and texturing

I have been learning 3d since last few years and i am very passionate about that. Recently i saw a video on Youtube from BlenderGuru, he had an interview with the Blizzard's Environment Artist Michae…
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Neox

Moved to Solo-Abberation Tan Fun-Spud Werds: Thug Cat animation for song

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Eric Chadwick

Polycount Spam E-Mails STAWP IT

yo, something broke just nowi am getting spammed with polycount notifications and i didn't do nuffin !did anyone change the notification settings, because i sure didn't
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RN

Moved to Pernicious Poke: Start up looking for feedback on 3D asset control platform

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Eric Chadwick

Maya Bifrost

Bifrost is now an open graph.For now more a Fx tool but there is more in the pipe. https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-maya-blog/introducing-bifrost-for-maya/
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oglu

Why dosent big film studios just use Blender?

Hi and Merry Christmas to all :)I want to ask this big question because I allways wondered why big studios just dont use Blender.Is it because of the compitablilty for tools? Functionality? Because o…
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sacboi

craminated jiffy bread

one rule. must relate to gaming or art. or cats. jiff on!
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sacboi

"Your comment will appear after it is approved" -- What ?

What is this exactly ??  Is this anti-spamming ? Is this to ensure the forums is free of penls joke ?  I usually get this posting in the Monthly Challenges thread. And, so far none of them …
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CopyWheelEye

Moved to Crackers n' Edamame: What proble do new 3d artists from India face while applying for jobs.

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Eric Chadwick

VR Headset - Which one is the best ?

so there's a lot of VR headsets out there, but which package is actually the best ? and what about the upcoming ones like the htc cosmos ?anything you could recommend ? i am mainly interested in sets…
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AlecMoody

Moved to Cantankerous Crunk: CHARACTER COLLECTIBLE (OR HIGH POLY), SYMMETRY, POSING

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Eric Chadwick

Does anyone know how this actually looks like in real life? XM25

I'm working on a model of the XM25 CDTE airburst grenade launcher. Right now I am working on the fire control (scope) and I was looking for hours but I could not find any detailed picture where the b…
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SamIndeed

Looking for an easy cyberpunk city kitbash

I need to make a big city scene, and I'm not interested in modeling a city for 4 months. I'd much rather find a kitbash set, and I don't really know where to look. Cube brush and Gumroad offer a bunc…
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defragger

Racing game suggestions?

I forgot how much I loved racing games. I've been playing GTA online on PC and all I do is race and checkout my sweet cars.I loved the shit out of almost every F-Zero game, Mario Kart, Extreme-G, Wip…
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Zi0

Moved to Feckless Fracking: Question regarding UDIM's

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Eric Chadwick

Polycount Store/ Stickers?

Hey I just saw a luggage on Twitter with a greentooth sticker ... and I want to have one too!It seems like the shop is gone, or is it? Couldn't find it, only old posts about it.
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Prime8

Moved to Konventional Kock: zbrush core?

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Eric Chadwick

Music You've Made

I'd like to mention that I created an cinematic ambient track. It's released under the basic attribution creative commons license so you're free to use it however you wish in whatever commercial or …
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Ashervisalis

What you post on ArtStation.

A few weeks ago, there was a popular post on an Artstation blog (and followup) detailing how it should probably just be for professional level work and experienced artists to host their portfolios.ht…
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tptrego

Moved to Creedy Crarty Crowcrase Cran Croat-creekroes: Creating a Stylized Stone Asset

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Eric Chadwick

Weird artstation posts happening today

Anyone know what these posts are about?https://www.artstation.com/artwork/KadKPWhttps://www.artstation.com/artwork/N5eDmPhttps://www.artstation.com/artwork/xzrEzOI've seen several pop up today. Comme…
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sacboi

Posture?

Once upon a time, there was a guy who sat in this comfy living room working tirelessly away on his computer. And everyday, he'd spend entirely too much of his time in just this one position. Until on…
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JohnnyRaptor

Moved to teh 'tude, dude: iAniMagic 2019: Animal Party

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Eric Chadwick

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…
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Ruz

New Guilty Gear planned for 2020

After Xrd and Fighterz, as well as the recently released Kill La Kill, ArcSys have  become complete masters at Anime Looking 3D game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVd6vhFhYiMStill remember how…
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Eric Chadwick

3ds Max Indie ~ (limited to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK or the US)

https://area.autodesk.com/3ds-max-indie/
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zachagreg

3DSMAX perpetual license -> softsking?

Hey folkz!Has somebody of you experience with softsking?https://www.softsking.com/3ds-max-2016-p-211.htmlThey´re selling perpetual 3DSMAX licenses for only 350 Bugs.I found some reviews on the intern…
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Gazu

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 …
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Dash-POWER

How do you feel about Autodesks recent decisions?

I know many of you have seen that Autodesk is trying to kill the existing perpetual licenses by not providing activation codes and linking a perpetual to the X life of your workstation>converting …
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majic12

Siggraph 2019

There is some exciting stuff coming.UDIM support for Painter is my favourite beside materialX.https://youtu.be/aVlfgl32eOk
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Eric Chadwick

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…
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Spag_Eddy

Innovative use of low poly modeling.

Not sure if this is top tier, but I found the approach of making craft using low poly modelling as a guide pretty interesting.https://mymodernmet.com/anubis-costume-martina-hugentobler/
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Eric Chadwick

Forums for critiques on weapon 3D weapon models?

Hi all,I'm currently working on my first gun and wanted to know, apart from Polycount, what are some other places to post to get critiques/feedback on original weapons? I've posted to CGSociety and B…
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Eric Chadwick

Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund

Today Ubisoft announced that they will join the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Gold member. Not only will Ubisoft help funding online support for Blender developers, Ubisof…
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xrg

Where do all the cool kids hangout and screenshare

since the google plus group is now dead I am lost without being able to mindlessly chat while modeling. Where do people go to now?
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Eric Chadwick

Artstation missing thumbnails/images etc

Looking at my Artstation profile, I noticed half the thumbnails are missing.And looking in the content, half of the images are too. Have reloaded several times, and the same ones are just blank. Has …
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kanga

what do you thnk of dust channel (you tube)

been watching these for a while now, some pretty cool stuff, but a lot of short stories with miserable endings.overall though quite fun  - this was cool, but depressinghttps://www.youtube.com/wa…
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kanga

3DS Max Roadmap

There are some really cool features in the pipe.I hope the Texture baking means we get mikk support. :disappointed: https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-3ds-max-blog/3ds-max-public/
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marks

First vs Recent

Hi Polycount!I dug up a very old version of the same character I'm working on now, and compared the two. It was quite invigorating to see the drastic improvement from 4 years ago, and I was wondering…
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apollo580

Kill The Damn *^$^$£" CRAZY FROG

I can't take much more of those irrotating ring tones and was quite pleased when stuff like this started to pop up: - [url="http://www.studentfreestuff.com/shoot_crazy_frog.html"]http://www.student…
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thomasp

Alternatives to Polycount?

Does anyone know any good sites for receiving critique on developing your game art skills that aren't polycount?Every time I try to post there I either get ignored, or just receive baseless rude comm…
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Eric Chadwick

Character Upgrade systems in games?

I'm looking into Character Systems in games, but I feel my slight lack of current-gen gaming knowledge is doing me a disservice!  The 3 types of character system I've been looking at are: "WoW S…
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FAT_CAP

Planning for next GDC (A few necessary questions)

So I have never been to GDC before but I need to attend next year and network the best I can. I'm going to start planning and reserving now so it's nice and easy. What are some tips you would have fo…
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EarthQuake

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Anyone playing this and are their any artists that worked on it around here? I am really impressed at the graphical fidelity, especially from a small studio that seems to be using their own engine as…
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Popol

petition / windows restart

This might be pointless, though, I started a petition to stop windows 10 from automatic restarting. https://www.change.org/p/microsoft-stop-windows-10-from-automatic-restarting/dashboard?source_locat…
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KurtR

Funny "Moved" Messages

Just noticed these funny moved messages. Are they random or does the mod moving a topic come up with them on the spot?Fuck I hope this is posted in the right section  =)
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Mark Dygert

We've been found out - Greentooth in the Wild

Good job guys.  We're not a secret anymore.  Pack it up, we're done!https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/18/18683651/polycount-logo-overwatch-spider-man-easter-egg
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Eric Chadwick

Let's see some of your art from when you first started!

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SnowInChina

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