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Humus - cubemaps and other goodies! I stumbled onto this site from a link posted by LoTekK on facebook which has a bunch of cool tools, textures, articles and all kinds of crazy shenanigans graphics wise. More after the jump. …	3 Last	Mik2121 Nov 2010
AC: Brotherhood Characters Nicolas Collings posted his characters from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood on ZBrushCentral. Pics and thread after the jump! A Ubisoft-flavored artist, Nicolas is showing off his efforts in t…	4 Last	DeanoRoe Nov 2010
Clarisse is coming soon Are you in the mood for a new tool for crafting objects in 3 dimensions? If so, you might take a look at Clarisse. Hit the jump for more infos. What is Clarisse? Well here's what they had to say abo…	10 Last	Klumpmeister Nov 2010
So you want to be a game designer The Escapist Magazine has a great little animation titled "So you want to be a game designer". I found that it speaks many truths and encourage all you budding game devs out there to give it a look.…	5 Last	VidGameDude Nov 2010
Rage HD on iPhone If you thought the UDK Citadel tech demo was impressive, then get a load of what id Software have in store for you! More after the jump. Carmack demonstrated an impressive demo of Rage on th…	6 Last	mystichobo Nov 2010
A view from the Brink CGSociety has a great 2 page article discussing Splash Damage's latest effort, Brink. They talk a lot about their art and design choices they made when working on the game as told through concept ar…	6 Last	jeremiah_bigley Nov 2010
I wrote this article on a Mac :( It's a slow news day today, but we still have some cool things to share with you. Painting workflow over at CGSociety CG Science for Artists Part 2 HIFANA Music Video More after the jump. …	6 Last	Alberto Rdrgz Nov 2010
Low Poly Challenge #4: TRON hawken, The Pimp, The McDaddy, The Mother of Greentooth, kicked off a new Low Poly Challenge last week and it deserves a little front page love. So all you low poly kids who hate them darn normal ma…	3 Last	Joshua Stubbles Nov 2010
Back to work goodies Hopefully you all had a great and productive weekend, but it's back to work and back to being a grown up. But to make that seem less sucky we have some goodies for you. Over 100 free hi-res female…	13 Last	Dim Nov 2010
L.A. Noire - Debut Trailer Rockstar Games team up with Australia's own Team Bondi to create this beautifully animated master piece of a game titled L.A. Noire. Props to go to my mate Jacob for hooking me up with this. More af…	7 Last	Naked-Robot Nov 2010
A Giant Monday Refresher It's Monday, the work week is beginning, and everyone could use some eyeball massaging. Read on, fearless Polycounter! Parallel Parking The roadkill make me laugh out loud, but I'm showing this of…	9 Last	Vinterdragen Nov 2010
Ads - Now with 100% more relevance We were inadvertently blocking the all knowing Google from scraping our pages, hence the public service ads many have noticed since we implemented the system - thanks to Vito for pointing this out. …	26 Last	ArtVtalk Nov 2010
Lego Digital Designer 4.0 Lego, the Danish brick makers, have released version 4.0 of their Lego Digital Designer tool for free. This is tool that lets you design Lego objects using their official catalog of parts. They have…	7 Last	breakneck Nov 2010
News from the other guys! Things have been happening on the internets. I know, right?! Look! Read about things of interest and view pictures of stuff after the jump. Jeroen Maton Talks Environments With NGHS Who or …	11 Last	MaVCArt Nov 2010
New Blending options Blender 2.54 or maybe 2.55 has been released to the public for their general use and fondling. There has been a ton of new features as always, but your own use and mileage is going to vary. Hit the…	3 Last	metalliandy Nov 2010
Kill your co-workers Just kidding. Don't kill your co-worker. Actually, don't kill anyone please. Kill Your Co-workers Violence, creative 3D, and bright colours. What more could you ask for? Flying Lotus has the answe…	9 Last	Deformeds Nov 2010
Vancouver + Craig Mullins = ANOMALY! My fellow Vancouverites, if you're not attending Anomaly on October 30th your weekend is probably going to be 7-out-of-10 instead of 11-out-of-10. Why? Craig Mullins, that's why! Anomaly - Vancouver…	8 Last	100Chihuahuas Nov 2010
UDK October 2010 released Epic released their October UDK Beta so head on in for all the juicy details. This one is a doozy! Epic's October UDK Beta is out and there is a plethora of updates. Check out the release note for f…	9 Last	Xoliul Oct 2010
Updates to Polycount, no recap today Today is a crazy day here at the office, and with Emil lost in Australia on some crazy adventure and MoP still finding his footing in his new place there's no time to whip up a recap this week. Ther…	3 Last	ZacD Oct 2010
Switching your Zed A friend of mine has just released his latest tool for Zbrush, Zswitcher. The gist of if it is that it clones Maya's navigation UI into Zbrush. You can download and try it out right now. There's obv…	5 Last	Xndr Oct 2010
Beat-em-up: VOTE NOW!!! The challenge is over and the finished entries have been submitted for the Polycount 'Beat-Em-Up' Challenge. Head on in to the voting thread to cast your vote who you think won our Beat-Em-Up envi…	12 Last	cupsster Oct 2010
Polycount Pack winners average $45,000 payout, first 2 weeks Gamasutra spoke with the folks at Valve and some of the contest winners about their first payout from the first 2 weeks of the Polycount Pack items - being up for sale. Today, Valve said that comm…	31 Last	VidGameDude Oct 2010
Beat-Em-Up Challenge RE-OPENED! Looks like I done did something spaz while trying to help out a few of the entries that just missed the deadline and nuked the whole submissions thread! EEP! More after the jump. With the ti…	6 Last	Nate Broach Oct 2010
Beat-Em-Up Challenge - Closed! The Beat-Em-Up Challenge has ended and submissions for final entries has closed. More after the jump. We'll re-open the thread on Monday 25th October, 2010 so you can vote on your favourite entry. …	3 Last	adam Oct 2010
Beat-em-up Challenge - Call for entries! If you've entered our Beat-Em-Up Challenge, please start submitting your entry if its complete. More info after the jump. If you've entered in to our Beat-Em-Up Challenge please submit your entry to…	3 Last	Bal Oct 2010
24HR warning! And.. some blogging? Head's up! 24 hours remain on the Sidescroller beat-em-up challenge! With 24 hours left on the challenge I thought I'd send a reminder out that its about to finish. Do yourself a favour and check …	4 Last	Purplepaint Oct 2010
First 4 illustrations from Valve's DOTA 2. Check out the first 4 illustrations from the DOTA 2 announcement. Earlier today GameInformer announced Valve's latest project, DOTA 2, which saw them team up with one of DOTA's original creators, …	25 Last	Jungsik Oct 2010
Flicks to make you grin. Coffee? Check. Tablet pen? Check. Something to smile about? Check! Here's 2 videos I know you'll enjoy. La Royaume Coachelleta by Sam O'Hare [vimeo clip_id="15596222" height="" wid…	8 Last	Steve Schulze Oct 2010
CGHUB's Warrior Challenge + free Mudbox trial On Friday last week CGHUB launched their latest challenge titled 'Warriors', which is a sculpting challenge with a great bonus to all entrants. More info after the jump. The contest…	3 Last	Purplepaint Oct 2010
Medicine for the sick. Colds spread throughout the office faster than news of industry layoffs, it seems. Browsing for awesome art always makes me feel better. Fun with rotoscoping! I really enjoy these portfolios of th…	9 Last	Mr.Spark Oct 2010
Monday... ish. It's a holiday here in Canada today, but as luck would have it I'm fighting a nasty cold. So, what better way to spend the day than crafting and mining? I spent this weekend carving and eating turke…	8 Last	mkandersson Oct 2010
nDo Normal Map Creation Toolkit Who here likes free apps that do insanely rad things? If you said no, then you're a liar! For everyone else, prepared to get your mind grapes blown by this awesome, fandangled, normal mapping tool f…	8 Last	Aran Anderson Oct 2010
Your favourites, different A selection of images of some of your favourite characters, illustrated in different styles or perspectives. I found these online and wanted to pass them along. I love seeing known characters port…	12 Last	tsuki119 Oct 2010
Monday. Monday! MONDAY! It's.. Monday, if the title didn't give it away, and inside will be a bunch of jibberish to meander over while you futz about getting some pants on. The 2010 Seattle Polycount Meet-up Last F…	3 Last	Klumpmeister Oct 2010
An art hit, with Lords of Shadow Kojima and crew art at it again with the Castlevania franchise. In this recently released gameplay footage for the title, we get a glimpse at the combination of stellar environment and character art…	20 Last	OBlastradiusO Oct 2010
Everybody dance by cart now! You might remember some animated shorts of the characters from TF2 being animated to the soundtrack of C&C Music Factory from a few months ago. Well, it's been released as one big ol' music vide…	2 Last	HappyFool Sep 2010
UDK Sept. Update The clever folks at Epic have gotten their monthly update to the UDK out the door with a handful of new changes and word that they have been expanding their user forums with new forums to recognize …	1 Last	Klumpmeister Sep 2010
Tuesday Is Wednesday's Friday So it's Tuesday, and there are some things you should see. Things that will get you a head in life. AHAHA. Find out what they are (and what the pun was for), after the jump... Boskmaniac Wel…	0 Last	adam Sep 2010
Minecraft We're artists here, so I KNOW you've already tried out Minecraft. Links to pics of your creations go here... ...right after you watch the most badass unofficial trailer ever.	11 Last	SojaBird Sep 2010
Autodesk goes free for students Autodesk has announced a new pricing and licensing structure on all their products for students and faculty. There are now all free and you can get a license for that free for 3 years. This is for a…	14 Last	Wiktor Sep 2010
Dominance War V site launches, article Fred from GameArtisans.org just pushed out the new Dominance War V website along with a small article on the event. Launching during the Montreal Internation Games Summit - or MIGS - Dominance War …	3 Last	Matroskin Sep 2010
Autodesk wins, you don't own jack In news that almost feels like the opposite of Autodesk offering their software for free for students, Autodesk won appeal that states you do not purchase their software, you license it. Last week, …	7 Last	arrangemonk Sep 2010
Dev Talk: Adam Byrne on Ghost of Sparta Sony is gearing up for the release of the latest chapter of the God of War franchise, God of War: Ghost of Sparta. Click on through to see what these crazies are up to! They have decided that the be…	1 Last	Klumpmeister Sep 2010
Creating normal maps in your browser A small Flash and Air, both Adobe web products, powered normal texture tool is available by the name Smart Normal. It works inside your browser, so make sure you're using a Flash friendly client bef…	6 Last	cman2k Sep 2010
Tokyo Game Show Goodies! Fresh from the Tokyo Game Show and straight to your face. new Devil May Cry trailer new Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood trailer Lastly, a new title from Capcom: Asura's Wrath. Devil May C…	8 Last	Sir Psycho Sexy Sep 2010
The Gameboy ate my TF2 Well, if it were really the case that a Nintendo Gameboy ate my TF2, then we'd have something along the lines of the artwork below. We stumbled onto this over at facepunch.com and immediately had to…	7 Last	ShootandRun Sep 2010
3D Scanning with The Cyclops The Cyclops is more than a myth, its also a fairly straightforward way to get your feet wet with some 3d scanning at some rock bottom prices. The Cyclops is a kit of parts from Makerbot, with the re…	1 Last	DarkStar Sep 2010
Weekend or weak.. end? No matter which flavour your past couple of days came in, this weeks Monday post is 'bound to get you going for the weekend. Grab a coffee, jump on in, and prepare for roughly 20 minutes of moving-p…	5 Last	Alberto Rdrgz Sep 2010
Marmoset Toolbag is climbing to 1.02 The octet of tree monkeys responsible for the Marmoset Toolbag have released a free update today, version 1.02. But don't assume this is a wee update. In fact, so much of the tool set has been updat…	3 Last	Purplepaint Sep 2010
Blogging for inspiration (NSFW) makecg - a relatively newcomer to Polycount - just dropped a little nugget in the Forum that he's started an inspiration blog. Is it worth the effort to bookmark this? Come on in to find out. MAKECG…	3 Last	DrunkShaman Sep 2010