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Darksiders II Mace Vote is up The top 3 Macee entries have now been uploaded to the Darksiders Facebook Page and are ready for your vote. The next round of voting has begun on the Darksiders Facebook Page. Head over and…	10 Last	Isaiah Sherman Apr 2012
Darksiders II Contest Axe Vote is up The top 3 Axe entries have now been uploaded to the Darksiders Facebook Page and are ready for your vote. A little over an hour ago the voting page for the Darksiders II Contest Axe Entries…	11 Last	AimBiZ Apr 2012
Happy Birthday! Today is the traditional day of fools and yet somehow it's also our birthday. Our fourteenth birthday. We opened the door on April 1st, 1998. Congratulations to all both current and past polycounter…	28 Last	Cocophony Apr 2012
The Darksiders 2 Top 15 Semi-Finals The Darksiders 2 Contest Top 15 contestants have been chosen! Here's the list of the finalists in alphabetical order, each one links to their entry page as well so you can see each of their weapons.…	32 Last	justinms66 Apr 2012
Majestic-12 at PAX Exis shares some new news about Majestic-12... Majestic-12 at PAX (New screenshots) Big news for Exis! After months of development, adding a new lighting engine, and overall gameplay improvements…	7 Last	robert.B Apr 2012
3DS Max 2013 Announced Not skipping a beat, Autodesk has announced their latest version of 3D Studio Max - 2013. Take a look after the jump for new features and updates to 3D Studio Max.Autodesk has done the imaginable a…	10 Last	Mr.Cash Apr 2012
Level-Design.org Interviews Thiago Klafke An interesting interview with a talented environment artist. Mateusz from Level-Design.org recently interviewed fellow polycounter and Blizzard environment artist Thiago Klafke. Check out the full …	6 Last	Orchidface Apr 2012
UDK March Update UDK March update with some familiar art thrown in, congrats Tor Frick Epic Games Releases March 2012 Unreal Development Kit Beta Epic Games, Inc. has released the March 2012 Unreal Development Kit…	8 Last	Davision3D Mar 2012
Photoshop CS6 Beta The beta for the next installment of Photoshop is out and open to the public. Adobe is giving users a chance to get an early look at all of Photoshop's newest features in the CS6 beta. Go here to d…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Mar 2012
RUIN Oddball Animation released a short film, along with some breakdown shots Nothing quite like a bike ride through the ruins of a future city as you're being chased by security. Trailer: Full…	4 Last	Umar6419 Mar 2012
Josh Taylor, Video Gaming Photography Josh Taylor has turned his amateur photography skills on the virtual worlds we all love and the results are great If you're like me and spend more time admiring the games and the art that goes into…	13 Last	robert.B Mar 2012
Big Cube Map Pack A big pack of free cube maps, courtesy of kodde Polycounter member kodde has graciously put together a pack of 89 cube maps, and he's released them to the community, completely free of charge. Read…	2 Last	mdeforge Mar 2012
Slice - Seamless Texture Generator A new tool for creating seamless textures. Slice is a new program that allows you to create seamless textures in real time. The creator, Ognian Ivanov is also allowing you a chance to download this…	13 Last	OGI Mar 2012
Eat 3D - ZBrush 4 R2 & R3 - An Overview Eat 3D has released a new tutorial covering ZBrush's newest features. Only a week after releasing their ZBrush 4 Character Production tutorial, Eat 3D has put out yet another DVD. Michael Pavlovich…	1 Last	jordan.kocon Mar 2012
ZBrush 4R3 Released Pixologic Released ZBrush4 R3 ZBrush 4R3 not only implements various enhancements and polish to existing features, it also introduces major new features to dramatically expand your artis…	2 Last	claydough Mar 2012
Eat 3D - ZBrush 4 - Character Production Eat 3D recently released a new tutorial on character production in Zbrush. With Michael Pavlovich as your instructor, this tutorial will take you through the entire process of sculpting and renderi…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Mar 2012
UDK – February 2012 Update Epic release the February update to UDK Epic Games Releases February 2012 Unreal Development Kit Beta February 29, 2012 - Epic Games, Inc. has released the February 2012 Unreal Development Kit Bet…	3 Last	cybser Mar 2012
Creating Custom Brushes With ctrlpaint.com Ever wanted to know how to create your own custom brushes? ctrl+Paint has a new video that will teach you the ins and outs of creating custom brushes in Photoshop. If you've never heard of ctrl+Pa…	68 Last	Daven Mar 2012
Toronto IGDA Talk by Adam Bromell As some of you may know, Adam Bromell recently did a talk at the IGDA Toronto meeting about what it is to be a Video Game Artist, titled "More Than Pushing Polys". On October 20th, 2011, Pr…	33 Last	MadnessImport Feb 2012
Diamant Modeling Tools for Maya Rich Diamant has released some sweet looking tools for Maya called Diamant Modeling Tools "Diamant Modeling Tool is a fully integrated Automatic UV mapper and Editor for Maya as well as a suite of…	13 Last	nefes Feb 2012
ADK is Offering Free API/SDK Training The Autodesk Developer Network is offering free API/SDK training for Max Maya Motion Builder and other Autodesk products "The big news today is that the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) is offeri…	3 Last	haiddasalami Feb 2012
Diablo Art Contest Coming Soon... The Portrait of a Champion Contest is Coming Soon "If you are up to the challenge, then we invite you to join the Diablo III Portrait of a Champion Art Contest. We ask that you use your skills to i…	3 Last	mikezoo Feb 2012
Unreal Engine 4 To Be Revealed In 2012 The next major iteration of the Unreal Engine scheduled to be revealed this year. Epic Games vice president Mark Rein announced that Unreal Engine 4 technology will be revealed sometime in 2012. Re…	2 Last	S_ource Feb 2012
Creation Kit and Hi res Texture Pack on Steam The Creation Kit for Skyrim has been released and is available in the Steam Workshop In addition to the Creation Kit tools there is a simple and easy way for mod authors to upload their creations…	4 Last	walreu Feb 2012
UDK Sub Surface Scattering Demo Virtuosic is once again making the most of UDK. Ryan Smith (Virtuosic) has just posted a new demo he has put together demonstrating a technique for creating cheap sub surface scattering. The techni…	3 Last	UnrealAnimation3D Feb 2012
GoW Epic Art Dump(s) ' Epic wants to make sure you haven't missed all of the great art dumps. Really good stuff, go check it out If you voraciously consume Epic art dumps you might have already seen some of this, but …	2 Last	VictorSantos Feb 2012
MaxScript: Projection Painter Marius "obliviboy" Silaghi released another MaxScript called Projection Painter "Projection Painter is a script for 3DS Max which allows you to send a view of your model in your favorite paintin…	12 Last	RPTGB Feb 2012
Mudbox Live 43 hours of Mudbox training, free of charge. Mudbox expert Wayne Robson has released some of his older training DVDs to the public, and it won't cost you a penny. Check out the material here: http:…	10 Last	Artist_in_a_box Feb 2012
January 2012 UDK Beta Epic has released the UDK Beta for January 2012. And as always, this newest version is filled with improvements. Some of the more notable additions include the Simplygon Mesh Proxy Tool, the abilit…	5 Last	MainManiac Feb 2012
Exis Interactive offers outsource and games financing!!! Exis Interactive offers outsource and games financing Towson, MD — January 12, 2012 —Exis, in conjunction with their financial partners, is now offering the games industry financing for outsource a…	3 Last	claydough Feb 2012
ZBrush 4R2b released - The cure for baldness. Pixologic launched ZBrush 4R2b yesterday and it has a shopping list of cool new features and a cure for baldness. If you haven't been following much of the sneak peak videos from Pixologic …	6 Last	Spatz Jan 2012
Eat 3D - Free Videos Two more free tutorials from Eat 3D. In case you missed it, our friends over at Eat 3D have put together two more short tutorials, free of charge. In the first video, Tor Frick (aka Snefer on Polyc…	10 Last	Callesw Jan 2012
Gradient Mapping - An Overview Looking for a cheap way to add variation to your textures? Resident polycounter and tech wiz Ryan Smith (virtuosic) has recently posted a new article giving a brief look into what gradient mapping …	13 Last	dirigible Jan 2012
Real World Quantum Levitation Wipe'out Track The JIST (Japan Institute for Science and Technology) created a real world Wipe'out track based on Quantum Levitation (or did they?) "Here is a short footage on our recent work on quantum levitati…	13 Last	sirenblue Jan 2012
The Art of Bulletstorm Check out this fantastic Bulletstorm art dump over at CGSociety. The super talented folks from Epic Games and People Can Fly (AKA: Epic Games Poland) have released some of their art in a nice littl…	9 Last	Hatred Jan 2012
Autodesk Webcast: Maya Tools There's a few days left to register for the latest Autodesk Webcast this upcoming Wednesday. The topic this time is centered around the Bonus and Layout tools for Maya. These are a group of tools th…	3 Last	Spatz Jan 2012
TreeGen A new script for generating trees in 3ds Max. Fellow Polycounter Ryan Smith (virtuosic) has released the beta version of his new 3ds Max script, TreeGen. And the best part is, it's free! Head over…	4 Last	Darkmaster Jan 2012
Grabviewport 2.5 A free update to the popular 3ds Max script. Polycounter Leslie Van den Broeck (Ravenslayer) has released a new and improved version of his popular Grabviewport script for 3ds Max. This script allo…	2 Last	mediochrea Jan 2012
3dmotive - BIPEDAL RIGGING COURSE, PART 2 3dmotive has released part 2 or their series on bipedal rigging. In part 2 of this series, Justin Harrison returns as your instructor as he walks you through the process of rigging a bipedal charac…	0 Last	Sean VanGorder Jan 2012
Breaking Bad Lab (UDK) You are not a fan of Breaking Bad like Aigik is So I'm poking around P&P and I click on this thread thinking it would be a big box with a default checker pattern applied and I'm hit with some o…	6 Last	TychoVII Jan 2012
Eat 3D - The Dozer - Part 2 Eat 3D has released part 2 of their Dozer tutorial series. In this followup to part 1, Laurens Corijn continues where he left off in the creation of Dozer by moving on to the low poly version. In a…	2 Last	Shogun3d Jan 2012
Mutant League Challenge: Vote! Voting has opened for our Mutant League Challenge. Click through for details! If you've been following the Mutant League Challenge here at Polycount then you're well aware at how creative a lot of t…	2 Last	kodde Jan 2012
December 2011 UDK beta Epic Games released the latest version of UDK for December 2011 a few weeks ago. The December 2011 beta includes a new texture paint system which allows you to paint textures on static meshes inter…	4 Last	allaze-eroler Jan 2012
MARA3D - David Giraud's Male Anatomy A new anatomy reference app for mobile platforms. MARA3D, in collaboration with world-renowned CG artist David Giraud, has put together a new anatomy reference app that will be invaluable to any ch…	15 Last	SergioSantos Jan 2012
Vimeo support added To mark the New Year and more so the feverish requests of the community, we have added Vimeo support to the boards today. It'll work pretty much like the YouTube embedded videos in that you will nee…	13 Last	Fomori Jan 2012
Mutant League deadline change The Mutant League Challenge, which I am sure a few of you are polishing away at as you read this, has had a deadline change. The new deadline is January 7th. Not a huge change, so keep polishing tho…	0 Last	r13 Dec 2011
Moving Day We're all moved! A huge amount of thanks to Vito for hosting us all these years. Tonight at around 10pm CST the site will come down while we move to new servers. For many years, practically time im…	7 Last	cheeseplus Dec 2011
Eat 3D - ZBrush Hard Surface Techniques 2 Eat 3D has released a followup to their popular Zbrush Hard Surface Techniques DVD. With Mike Jensen as your instructor, this DVD will take you through the process of creating a full character armo…	1 Last	metalliandy Dec 2011
Art of Destruction fxguide put up an article discussing various pipelines used in creating CG destruction. Although the article mostly discusses VFX used in film, a lot of the information can be translated to effects…	1 Last	W1r3d Dec 2011
3dmotive - Creating Foliage For UDK 3dmotive has just released one of their most highly requested tutorials yet. Our friends at 3dmotive, with the help of instructor and polycounter Damian Lazarski, have put together a tutorial cover…	8 Last	Eclypse Dec 2011