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EVE Online Design Your Own Starship Contest I have yet another contest to distract you from your little farm in Facebook. This one is something you're probably spend a few hours doodling int he margins of your math book; Design a Starship for…	9 Last	zable Sep 2010
I've got worms! Hey kids, it's that time again! Today we've got a few things for you game and art related. Worms Reloaded on Steam The Force Unleashed 2 - New screenshots Studio Joho animation Worms Re…	6 Last	adam Aug 2010
[UPDATED] Environment art challenge, poll We're gearing up to start a brand new environment art challenge here at Polycount. Over in the General Discussion forum is a poll where you can choose from one of three choices for the next environm…	7 Last	AS!A Aug 2010
News... from a sheep. Baaa! That's how I feel right now. If you're like me then the only cure for the Monday is to have your eyeballs caressed. Enjoy! This morning I lined up to get the new iPhone 4 at my local Apple sto…	6 Last	ZacD Aug 2010
V-Ray RT at SIGGRAPH High-end rendering just got a speed boost! Chaos Group have updated their V-Ray RT renderer for 3ds Max and Maya to include GPU acceleration, drastically reducing the render times for scenes with ra…	6 Last	Xoliul Aug 2010
QuakeCon 2010 QuakeCon 2010, the annual Texas gaming festival which brings together thousands of fraggers for "4 days of peace, love and rockets", brings today! Read on for more info, including live stream broad…	7 Last	Lee3dee Aug 2010
From Singapore with love I'm up late at my new studio in Singapore so I can share some of the goings on around the 3D community (Yes... This IS my blog!). We have 2D and 3D art, tutorials, contests and BOOBIES! So kick back…	7 Last	ngs616 Aug 2010
Nice, an easy Monday. I'm still knocking the jet lag out of my head so I will make this short & sweet. With each knock on my noggin comes something tasty for you to wake up to the new week with. Ganon vs. Link Devi…	4 Last	ralusek Aug 2010
3D-Coat Retopopalooza In case you've missed the thread, 3D-Coat has yet another rapid-development feature up its sleeve, auto-quadrangulation re-topology (say that three times fast!) Some cool pics and vids inside... Th…	1 Last	DMRadford Aug 2010
Sculptris Creator Joins Pixologic Many of you may be familiar with the free dynamic sculpting application, Sculptris. The author of Sculptris, Tomas Pettersson, has joined the ranks of the Pixologic development team! Read more after…	11 Last	JohnnySix Aug 2010
Autodesk @ Siggraph 2010 Autodesk, the purveyors of all polypushing tools on this side of the hemisphere, has posted up a page to accompany their Siggraph 2010 efforts. There's a bunch of news of course as well as a live we…	3 Last	yiannisk Aug 2010
Tank! TAAAAANK! Remember the Team Fortress 2 Heavy action figures that Gaming Heads have been creating for Valve? Well, they just added the Tank from Left 4 Dead 2 to their range, and it looks deliciously mean. Bur…	1 Last	Fang Jul 2010
... and a pkok in a pear tree Kick start your day with some fantastic art from some fantastic artists. ZBrushCentral - hku75 creates a stunning sculpt based on Steve McCurry's photograph CGHUB - Crazy and imaginative art by p…	0 Last	Emil Mujanovic Jul 2010
100th Post! This is the 100th published post on the new Polycount front page! HUZZAH! But it's business as usual for us and other 3D game art communities, so let's see what's happening. Some of the latest wor…	3 Last	MisterCG Jul 2010
Marmoset Toolbag Contest 8monkey Labs and Cgtuts+ are hosting a contest to give away three full licenses of Marmoset Toolbag, plus they're soliciting your suggestions for new features. Jump right in there and show us the Pol…	1 Last	c0ldhands Jul 2010
Autodesk Acquires Illuminate Labs Autodesk continues it's check writing habit with it's latest one for the purchase of Illuminate Labs. Not sure who they are? They provide a lighting solution for video games as a middle ware solutio…	7 Last	cman2k Jul 2010
Blender 2.53 is released Blender has a new Beta out, bringing it up to version 2.53. I was going to try to give you a breakdown on the important bits, but as you can see here, they have changes across the board in the tool;…	6 Last	empeck Jul 2010
Physics Porn Take your pants off and watch this video from Lagoa Technologies Inc. where they demonstrate their physics simulations. HHHNNNGGGG.. Lagoa Physics Have a look at Lagoa's new "multiphysics" demo vi…	14 Last	Ark Jul 2010
Advanced Mesh Paint DVD for UDK 3dmotive has dropped us a line that they have a new UDK tutorial DVD to add to their vault of professional training videos. Ryan James Smith is the one you'll be listening to as he explains and show…	3 Last	BrendtheCow Jul 2010
35mm and some music! We've a short-list of cool things for you today! Head on in if you're looking to kill a few minutes. 35mm Pascal Monaco & friends created a video showcasing popular movies throughout history, …	4 Last	Fang Jul 2010
UDK: July Update Epic's release their July UDK beta. Click on through to find out what it entails. The UDK presser for July has been sitting in my mailbox waiting for the perfect time to surprise you with Epic's re…	0 Last	r13 Jul 2010
Who you gonna call? MEEDDIICC! Even two weeks after the Team Fortress 2 Contest has ended, it seems like people haven't had enough of making TF2 themed art! Today we highlight: oobersli's Ghostbusters TF2 theme Olive "-Gopher"…	3 Last	matbrady Jul 2010
Aaah... Monday Still rubbing the sleep out of your eyes? Waiting anxiously to find out who's in the first ever Polycount Pack? Then hop on in and kill some time. Here's a few things we saw over the weekend that w…	6 Last	neolith Jul 2010
The challenge continues... For all you contest and challenge nuts, we have a small update on some of the challenges happening around game-art community. Polycount's Time Machine! Challenge update Game Artisans Neverending …	3 Last	:Duh Jul 2010
Feed Your Visual Libido It's those little discoveries that keeps going; As artists we tend to find inspiration in the most interesting ways. Jump on in for 3 videos that are sure to tickle your creative nerve. Shape & …	3 Last	Alberto Rdrgz Jul 2010
UDK June Beta In case you haven't seen it, lots of upgrades in June's UDK Beta: Skel. mesh UVs Improved bloom New HUD tool Custom normals Click through to see the entire list of updates... Oooh, multiple …	4 Last	gamedev Jul 2010
TexTools 4: Update Time! Our very own renderhjs has plunked down another inspiring update to TexTools, his grand opus set of UV and texturing tools for 3ds Max. More after the jump! Hendrik-Jan 'renderhjs' Schoenmaker has…	5 Last	Mcejn Jul 2010
Insane Resolution Rage, Gunslingers & Wet Concepts We've scoured the whole internets to bring you this set of tasty eye candy today. Imagine that! Huge Rage images Stunning Gunslinger Wet concept art Get the full story after the jump! …	5 Last	SteveyConlan Jul 2010
Neverending Art We take a look around at some other communities to see what they've been up to while we've been finishing up on the Team Fortress 2 Polycount Pack Contest. There has been some stunning work over at …	3 Last	[HP] Jul 2010
Friday's Forum Recap Hazardous Materials Lucas "doc_rob" Hardi has made this! His thread is here! Not content with putting it in the WAYWO Thread, he also made a separate thread for it, and was even thoughtful enough to…	4 Last	JDinges Jul 2010
Artsy Round-Up In case you folks are so obsessed by Polycount that you never look anywhere else, we've brought some cool stuff from other CG communities direct to you! ZBrush monster goodness A happy bather! M…	1 Last	Cody Jul 2010
Chatter boxes! We all know just how sexy the art can be around here. The WAYWO thread alone will call your eyeballs up, take them to dinner then back to its place for the night. Only to duck out before they've wok…	1 Last	c0ldhands Jul 2010
Something for everyone. Today I have something for all areas of game art.A tutorial on modular sets by Philip Klevestav for the Environment Artists, an update on the LPC #3 for the Character guys and finally we visit cgcha…	3 Last	build. Jun 2010
Medieval Cellar, Sci-Fi SMG, WAYWO goodness Dear forum skimmers, check out what you're missing. Fantastic UDK environment work Super-clean high-poly weapons Piles of awesome WAYWO stuff Find out more, with pretty pictures and everything,…	4 Last	c0ldhands Jun 2010
Art of the Video Game It's Friday! If you're having a lack-luster day or just really looking forward to Beer O'Clock. Then let's kick the day off with some inspirational art and some praise for your TF2 entries. If this …	1 Last	Stromberg90 Jun 2010
Contest Fever! It seems like contest fever all around the 3D community. We check out some of the cool art that's coming from the Boss Battle Contest over at CGSculpt.org and GameArtisans.org interviews Vadim "slip…	0 Last	Emil Mujanovic Jun 2010
UDK Mass physics It's Friday so you're probably sitting there asking yourself, 'I wonder what 25,000 stacked barrels in UDK looks like when they come crumbling down.' Well wonder no more! After the jump. Elude87 hit…	7 Last	Xendance Jun 2010
Near-optimal animation, Brutal Legend's UI, and Deltron Zero We've a bevy of things for you to check out in this afternoon's post. From animation tech that's a couple of years old and STILL awesome, to Brutal Legend's UI design then ending it off with some mu…	8 Last	gsokol Jun 2010
A crate and a beast... Ah Monday, how I love thee. Assuming you're done checking out some of the fantastic TF2 entries from earlier this morning head in here for some goodies from 'the other guys'! Game-Artist.net, ZBrush…	4 Last	Michael Knubben Jun 2010
Howdy... this is not my blog Howdy Folks! Would you look at this place? It's all fancy and full of images and stuff. Plus!!! We're actually sitting comfortably in the .com finally. That's something that brings a tear to…	5 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jun 2010
Polycountin' E3 Media A couple of E3 trailers have been released that I know some polycounters have contributed to. If you got some more of the same; trailers, screenies, various medias.. drop us a note and I'd love to g…	0 Last	r13 Jun 2010
Prince of Persia sculpts ZBrushCentral's Speve-O dropped a huge artbomb on their forum today. Check it out, after the jump. Steve Shmuely graces ZBC's forum with a ton of sculpts he created for Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: …	3 Last	Fang Jun 2010
Faraut, some perspective, and new music Todays fine frenzy of interesting-stuff-we-know-you'll-dig comes straight out of depths of Youtube & Vimeo. From a master sculptor, to some crazy perspective, to new music today this mornings po…	6 Last	rebel Jun 2010
NEW Polycount Features, a poll We're brainstorming future updates to the website and would like to hear from you! Please head on over to the Polycount Forum and join us in an open discussion about future features to the website.…	0 Last	adam Jun 2010
CGSculpt.org's Boss Battle contest The final people over at CGSculpt.org are running a brand new contest for all you 3D sculpting junkies. Check it out after the jump! Over at CGSculpt.org today you'll find a brand new 3D s…	2 Last	adam Jun 2010
New Crazybump Beta Ryan Clark, the ninja that he is, graces the Technical Talk forum to let everyone know there's been an update to Crazybump. For more info, check it out after the jump! 1.2 Beta 4 was released for C…	5 Last	Purplepaint Jun 2010
3D modeling with your iPhone With the ever increasing power and improvement with technology, smart phones are able to push more pixels and more polies with each generation. What does this mean to us as 3D Artists? Well it means…	8 Last	psychoticprankster Jun 2010
Get your mind blown by James Paick We've got a bunch of cool things to share with you today. Some inspirational 2D environment art by James Paick Jean-Baptiste Di Marco brings us back to CGA graphics Topical Mario game-art spoof …	3 Last	Zack Fowler Jun 2010
Raven's new Dev Diary, the Quantumas Engine Now this is some news we know you'll dig! Raven just launched their developer diary earlier this month then we head on over to Youtube to check out the Quantumas Engine. Check it out after the jump!…	5 Last	ScoobyDoofus Jun 2010
TERA - Next Gen MMO 'Oh, not another MMO' you say? Well I will simply answer with, you haven't seen one with this level of visual quality. MMO's seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days and most don't really seem to deliv…	9 Last	doeseph Jun 2010