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3dmotive + nDo2 = brain food Check out this CryEngine + nDo2 texturing tutorial from 3dmotive. Also, click through for info on nDo2 promotion code information. The folks over at 3dmotive and nDo2 have teamed up for a feature …	7 Last	purehilarity Sep 2012
FlowMap Painter Hand paint your own custom flow maps Long time Polycounter LoTekK has recently developed and shared an early build of a standalone program for creating custom flow maps. Read more about it and off…	5 Last	AbominableSoul Sep 2012
SOE Player Studio Sony Online Entertainment has announced a new user-generated content program. Player Studio is a new program from SOE that allows players the chance to create items to be sold in the marketplace of…	7 Last	maroon3d Sep 2012
IGDA-Seattle Talk: GREENLIGHT Tom Bui from Valve is going to be giving a talk about Greenlight: Valve's Community Managed Steam Indie Portal Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 7:00pm until 9:00pm Bungie Studio Auditorium , 550 106…	3 Last	Polynaut Sep 2012
Eat 3D - Animation Masterclass Another top notch tutorial from Eat 3D. Eat 3D has just released a brand new tutorial DVD, this time covering animation inside of Maya. "In this DVD, Instructor Joe Mandia gives a deep foundation t…	4 Last	JFinn_UK Sep 2012
Darksiders 2 Environment Art Some incredible environment sculpts from Vigil's latest title. Vigil environment artist Ben Lewis (RoadKill2222) started a thread to share some of the environment work done by him and the rest of t…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Sep 2012
Polyviewer For Android A new mobile model viewer now on the market. Polyviewer, a mobile model viewer created by long time Polycounter, Keg, has just been released on the Android marketplace. Go to the official website f…	8 Last	websta Sep 2012
3dmotive offering digital downloads 3dmotives entire library now available for digital download.I just wanted to quick share the word that the folks over at 3dmotive are now offering their entire library of tutorials for download. &…	7 Last	Rockley Bonner Sep 2012
Eat 3D - Unreal Kismet 2 A new full length tutorial as well as some freebies from Eat 3D. Eat 3D has released the second tutorial in their Unreal Kismet series on creating a top down shooter in UDK. Rusty Sempsrott covers …	1 Last	metalliandy Aug 2012
Project Giana A great looking project gives insight on one of it's more unique features. Independant game developer Black Forest Games recently started a campaign on Kickstarter for their newest undertaking, Pro…	8 Last	cellador82 Aug 2012
Butterfly Effect: A Unity 4 tech demo trailer The good folks behind the Unity engine have released a bit of eyecandy for your enjoyment. They have a trailer that was presumably made inside their latest offering; the Unity 4 engine. It details a…	11 Last	littleclaude Aug 2012
3ptools Lite Released 3Point Studios has released their new modeling plugin for 3ds Max. 3Point Studios, developers of the very popular 3Point Shader, have released a new modeling tool for 3ds Max, completely free of ch…	11 Last	Zepic Aug 2012
Shacknews Spotlights Polycount Shacknews took some time to spotlight Polycount and to chat with Adam "Polycount has been home to a large number of video game artists, both professional and amateur, since 1998. Like Shacknews, …	1 Last	VictorSantos Aug 2012
Darksiders 2 Art Dump A great art dump from the Darksiders 2 team. James Brian Jones, better known as long time Polycounter BoBo_the_seal, has posted some work created by himself and rest of the Vigil art team for Darks…	10 Last	Skyerzz Aug 2012
Kickstarter: The Other Brothers A couple of your fellow polycounters have been working their magical hand wavings on the game; "The Other Brothers", a family friendly platformer. They are now to the point they are ready to do a li…	10 Last	Chimp Aug 2012
Unigine Renderer Features 2012 The folks over at Unigine have released their 2012 renderer update packed full of industry standards.If you're looking for an alternative to some of the more main stream engines out there you shoul…	7 Last	choco Aug 2012
July 2012 UDK Beta Epic Games has released the newest version of UDK. The July 2012 release of Epic Games' UDK Beta has some substantial updates including Perforce integration and an optimized normal map workflow. Re…	3 Last	reverendK Aug 2012
Shadow Art Kumi Yamashita dabbles in the dark arts Kumi Yamashita is nothing short of amazing. What really fascinates me is that she works with something so abstract that when looked at by itself without th…	4 Last	Cocophony Jul 2012
Source Filmmaker Valve has announced the closed beta for "Source Filmmaker" http://sourcefilmmaker.com/	9 Last	Niedrug Jul 2012
Source Filmmaker Beta: OPEN In a closed beta for a couple of weeks, the Source Filmmaker is now an open beta.Not too long ago Valve teased a close beta for their Source Filmmaker tool, which allows users a creative way of cre…	1 Last	Denny Jul 2012
Wacom Announces New Cintiqs Wacom has announced two brand new Cintiq models. New models include the 22HD and the 24HD Touch. Read more about it here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/wacom-cintiq-22hd/ We're discussing it h…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Jul 2012
Dota2 Art Bibles Valve has uploaded a character and texturing guide for the Dota2 community on the Steam Workshop page for Dota2. These are essentially now your "art bibles" for modding Dota2. Pallets, silhouettes, …	21 Last	reinanc Jul 2012
PEN MaxScript for Beginners PEN (Paul Neale) is doing another Master Class, this time about Max Script for beginners. I have taken two of Paul's classes and they have been great, very helpful. They are packed full of useful t…	3 Last	OtrickP Jul 2012
NKS5 for Photoshop Natural media toolkit for Adobe Photoshop. A new must-have plugin for all you digital painters out there.	8 Last	nao_freak Jun 2012
TF2 Gun tutorial The Team Fortress 2 blog has got a great gun tutorial for you from Jalcober. He covers the arcane art of getting a weapon into TF2.This really is a great concise document on the process. He isn't j…	1 Last	Noors Jun 2012
The Steam Workshop grows worldly Civilization V, the world conquering RTS, is about to launch in a few days on Steam. However, today, the game's integration to the Steam Workshop was turned on. New maps, units, scenarios are alread…	1 Last	Mutated Jun 2012
Graphics Vs. Aesthetics On Penny Arcade’s TV, Extra Credits has a must watch video on the topic of graphics versus aesthetics. As amateurs and professionals alike, I’m going to ask all of you to watch this video and pass i…	16 Last	purehilarity Jun 2012
Cliffy B discusses UE4 Clifford Bleszinski, the design director at Epic Games has given a short interview to Game Informer on the topic of upcoming Unreal Engine 4 and what it can do. It is not the most in-depth discussio…	0 Last	r13 Jun 2012
Kelly "Ameranth" Wells walks from Maine to California A long time GuildWars player Kelly "Ameranth" Wells walked (with her dog) from Maine to California and ended up as a character in GuildWars2 " I want an adventure, and I want others to realize tha…	6 Last	imijatov Jun 2012
The Nuts and Bolts Andy Davies, an artist and admin at Eat3D, has a free pack of screw and bolt alphas to last you until the technology changes. He had started with a basic 50 that you may have seen already. But he's …	8 Last	metalliandy May 2012
Art Dump: Joy Ride Turbo Malcolm Andrieshyn, the Art Director for Joy Ride Turbo has graciously dropped a heaping handful of images from his team's work on the newly released game in the boards. The game a kart racing game …	0 Last	r13 May 2012
Scheduled Maintenance [Updated] At 9:00 PM Central, the site is going down for 30 to 60 minutes for some server maintenance. No worries, we'll be back. The Polycount Minecraft server will doing it's own reboot on Jun 2nd. But the…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2012
Rebuilding FX for BF: Close Quarters The official Battlefield blog has an entry by Nadab Göksu, a senior VFX Artist at Dice, on the processes they went through on making the fx work for their latest game. He talks about their need to m…	1 Last	bgivenb May 2012
Helpful Maxscripts Part 1, Taking a look at MAXScript. Most of these are super useful to environment artists but I'm sure character guys can use some of these too This is the first part of a series of posts where we …	16 Last	tremulant May 2012
Unreal 4 GDC Demo Reel The good folks at Wired sat down with Tim Sweeney and Cliffy B. to discuss the upcoming Unreal 4 engine.It's not a gritty technology details focused article, it is on Wired after all, but it does ha…	5 Last	Yury May 2012
MudWalker X, Reducto and Weapon X A trio of new tools, MudWalker X, ReDucto and Weapon X have been released for free at the author's website: Psycho Core. The first, MudWalker is a plugin for Mudbox that allows you to send your mesh…	9 Last	Alkogolik May 2012
Darksiders II Final Results Vigil has handed us the final set of winners in the Darksiders II Contest, which includes an extra winner that goes by the name "Vigil's Pick" Without further gratuitous verbal embell…	42 Last	snoops3d May 2012
UDK May 2012 Beta Epic has released the May 2012 UDK Beta. Some of the most notable improvements in this month's release include RealD intergration and the addition of "Advanced Environment Color". For more details,…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder May 2012
3dmotive Community Contest 3dmotive is hosting their first community art contest. Our friends over at 3dmotive are currently hosting their first community art contest with a great theme and some cool prizes. You better hurry…	4 Last	LuCh! May 2012
A new GIMP for you GIMP, the free image editing and authoring tool has got itself a shiny new version number: 2.8.The program has had a huge amount of changes to it in this update. Here's the page of release notes too…	2 Last	malcolm May 2012
New Dynamesh Tutorials by Mike Pavlovich Pixologic has teamed up with Mike Pavlovich to produce a series of tutorials detailing the new Dynamesh features in the latest Zbrush. The first three videos in the series are posted already here as…	3 Last	fearian May 2012
Lead Designer Leaving Naughty Dog to Teach at USC Richard Lemarchand is leaving Naughty Dog to teach at the University of Southern California It isn't all that surprising if you've followed Richard, he has done a lot of work with USC in the past. …	2 Last	Entity May 2012
Darksiders II Contest Mace Winner The second winner for the Darksiders II Contest has been announced. Congratulations to Max Davenport for winning first place for his mace entry. His entry received almost double the votes o…	10 Last	Daven Apr 2012
M3CH Dev Diary Are you a fan of giant mechs and game development? Look no further. The team at Small Impact Games are in process of developing a new title, "M3CH", and are graciously sharing their progress with t…	5 Last	AjdinBarucija Apr 2012
Eat 3D - UnrealScript Masterclass - Part 2 Eat 3D has released the second part in their UnrealScript series. James Tan returns in part 2 of this series to continue where he left off in the creation of Assault in UDK. This DVD goes on to cov…	4 Last	JamesTan Apr 2012
Eat 3D - UnrealScript Masterclass - Part 1 Eat 3D has released the first part of their new series on UnrealScript. With James Tan as your instructor, this tutorial starts by covering the basic structure of UnrealScript, as well as setting u…	5 Last	JamesTan Apr 2012
Darksiders II Contest Axe Winner The winner for the Darksiders II Contest Axe category has just been announced! Congratulations to Hristo Rusanov for his amazing Axe entry. Big props to Michael Vicente and Joel Tansley fo…	18 Last	TaylorMouse Apr 2012
Chroma: A Guildhall game Some students from the Guildhall have released their student project/game, Chroma, to the internets through our own boards as a thanks for Polycount being Polycount. The game is a cubic themed FPS t…	1 Last	LuCh! Apr 2012
Tim Schafer Kickstarter Tips Tim Schafer sat down with IndieDB to talk about Double Fine's success with Kickstarter "We asked for $400,000. $300,000 for the game and $100,000 for the documentary,” Tim continues to note. “We …	1 Last	Xoliul Apr 2012
Eat 3D - UnrealScript Masterclass - Part 3 The next installment of Eat 3D's UnrealScript series is now available. Continuing where he left off with in Part 2, James Tan returns as your instructor in this DVD that covers topics such as how t…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Apr 2012