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Tekken: Blood Vengence trailer Namco Pictures released a trailer for their new CG movie, Tekken: Blood Vengence. Growing up Tekken was one of my favourite videogames. I first played Tekken 1 in an arcade where I would spend my p…	6 Last	The Mad Artist May 2011
Blur re-releases Python Plug-in for Max/XSI Warning! Incoming tech heavy talk! Blur studios have been known for their awesome work and for releasing some awesome scripts I'll let r_fletch_r explain it: "After a long downtime, Blur have re up…	1 Last	Elyaradine May 2011
Zbrush 4R2 Pixologic is starting to show off some features of its next release, R2 of Zbrush4 So far they are talking about Zee- Best Preview Render EVAR!11 I'm sure if you watch Zee-forums they will have mo…	6 Last	TychoVII May 2011
BRAWL Submission Threads now open! We've just opened up the BRAWL submission threads, artists!If you're a character artist entering in a FIGHTER you will want to submit your entry here. If you're an environment artist entering in a …	0 Last	adam May 2011
Brawl: The End is Near The deadline for the Brawl competition is fast approaching with the May 6th deadline being literally days away. Get your stocks of caffeine in order and be ready for an intense push to the finish l…	11 Last	Purplepaint May 2011
Lucas Arts inks deal with Epic It's official: LucasArts signed a long term, studio-wide deal that sees the developer licensing Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology According to a press release that is floating around Lucas Arts ju…	15 Last	Mark Dygert May 2011
Fake or Foto? It's Thursday, you've been working hard all week, take a break. It's time for another round of "Fake or Foto" Autodesk's little reality check. http://area.autodesk.com/fakeorfoto How well …	35 Last	VidGameDude May 2011
Guild Wars 2: Environment Art Over at ArenaNet, they've been kind enough to publish a case study on what their environment art team have been doing on Guild Wars 2. The article goes into how they've approached the art for the s…	4 Last	Daven May 2011
Hard Surface Vehicle Texturing from 3dmotive 3dmotive have hooked up with our fellow Polycounter, Alec Moody, to create this awesome tutorial. The tutorial goes over the texturing of a tank and, from the looks of things, goes into heaps of gr…	5 Last	Shogun3d May 2011
Trackmania 2 Updates Trackmania 2: the prettiest racing game to date? Did I just say that? Wait... who am I? Firstly, allow myself to introduce myself. My name's Hamish and I'm joining the guys here at Polycount to hel…	18 Last	OgrO May 2011
CryEngine 3 for free? It's likely you've already heard the rumours about Crytek intending to release the CryEngine 3 SDK for public use. If you haven't, get excited - the engine is an artists dream. At this stage, peopl…	16 Last	BrendtheCow Apr 2011
Rango Production Feature Over at theArea they've done a feature/Q&A with Kevin Martel, Lead Animator for Rango at ILM http://area.autodesk.com/rango "...And a lot of the performances, they st…	1 Last	Jeremy Tabor Apr 2011
Max 2012 Edu version available Autodesk has released the educational version of 3D Studio Max 2012.They have it up in the students area of their website. You will have to register to get access to the actual download link though.…	7 Last	snoops3d Apr 2011
Play! 2011 International Art Competition Play!, the online artist portfolio site, has announced that they are now taking entries for their annual contest. They have categories that cover pretty much all facets of modern entertainment, but…	9 Last	Veneficus Apr 2011
GoZ Updated There is a new version of GoZ. It now supports Modo 501, PhotoShop CS4+, and fixes a few issues people had in various other apps. http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=125810 "As part of ou…	6 Last	Dylan Brady Apr 2011
Songs for your murder simulators Epic has released the soundtrack for Bulletstorm for free! You can find the official release announcement here and/or the direct download link to the goods. The files are 320kbs mp3's in a tidy zip.…	11 Last	VictorSantos Apr 2011
Creepy painting I love me some Minecraft and as such I'm always a sucker for these sorts of interpretations of the pixels. This one, the wonderful Creeper from the game, is by Dmitry Burmak, is extra fun because it…	4 Last	Talbot Apr 2011
UDK April Beta Epic has just released the UDK's April Beta. Check out some of the new goodies after the jump! Epic has released the April beta for the Unreal Development Kit - Epic's free-to-use editor and content…	7 Last	yiannisk Apr 2011
The Collectors A short that asks an interesting question, what would collectibles collect? Related links: rotofugi.com	4 Last	Alberto Rdrgz Apr 2011
Autodesk 2012 trials Autodesk has released the trials for their 2012 crop of products; ie Max and Maya are the ones you probably care about most. They offer the free 30 day trails as you may or may not have seen before.…	11 Last	asic Apr 2011
To those of you who ignore Technical Talk, SHAME! Lots of action in Technical Talk these days. What have you been missing? We've put together some of the latest for you, after the jump! We've been abuzz with lots of shop talk lately, tons of cool …	2 Last	ajv3d Apr 2011
Grim Dawn Polycount artist Parnell has posted a pre-alpha video of the indie action-RPG game Grim Dawn. Over in his Polycount Forum thread, Parnell drops a Youtube video of the game he's been working on for …	12 Last	TychoVII Apr 2011
Portal 2 Comic The Portal 2 comic has been posted online today for your enjoyment and pondering. It's sort of a filler piece that "explains" what has happened between Portal 1 and 2. Remember all those crazy writi…	4 Last	Bal Apr 2011
Curved Arches In the forums we've been having an interesting discussion about making curved arches Curved arches they're everywhere right? They're awesome, tricky and can add all kinds of detail to boring surf…	5 Last	ajv3d Apr 2011
A little level... Have 6min? Buckle up for a fly through of epic proportions. Seriously the proportions are... well check it out, it takes 6min to get from one end to the other and the views along the way while unte…	26 Last	Razorb Apr 2011
Unreal Engine 3: Under The Hood sltrOlsson shot us a link to a under the hood "feature showcase" video that you should check out Careful you've got some drool right there...	10 Last	MaVCArt Apr 2011
RTT Assist Render To Texture Assist is a handy script for 3dsmax written by Kostadin "miauu" and Martin "CodeFather" Punchev. Rexus thought this belonged on the news page and I totally agree. Just look at th…	3 Last	Quack! Apr 2011
ZBrush 4 video tutorials Jason Welsh is offering a series of ZBrush 4 video tutorials available for free on YouTube or for purchase on DVD. He released these last fall, but I'm quite sure they haven't spoiled. He also has …	7 Last	tristamus Apr 2011
Voting extended the Art of Videogames Exhibit You now have until April 17th 2011 to vote for what games you think should be in the Art of Videogames Exhibit at the Smithsonian.On March 16th, 2012 the Smithsonian will open their 'Art of Videoga…	5 Last	JavaFern Apr 2011
Contact Us! or... Submit News! or... ...Help! A couple of weeks ago we updated our top menu. The most important update to the menu? Our 'Contact Us' form. We're not sure if you've noticed or not (you've noticed, my PM's lately have b…	4 Last	jeremiah_bigley Apr 2011
Wacom Webinars Wacom is hosting a series of "webinars" that are focused on their using products with a variety of softwares; Photoshop, Painter, etc. They are going to produce of them through April which each focu…	8 Last	mdeforge Apr 2011
Epic: No love for Android Epic says "No for now" to Android. Stating the varied performance on all the phones out there as the main culprit. Mathew O sent us an interesting tid-bit, Gameindustry.biz is reporting that Epic…	12 Last	Mr_Drayton Apr 2011
Hawken Gameplay And since we're on about indie games today, check out Adhesive Games' newest video showcasing some gameplay from Hawken. For a team of 9 people to do something like is quite the achievement. Colour…	24 Last	AfterbanG Apr 2011
Creating Broken Concrete RoosterMAP put together a video tutorial together that goes over creating broken concrete. Its well worth checking out So some of you guys already know this but for those that don't it can be an in…	16 Last	Addieo Apr 2011
MeshMixer Ryan Schmidt has a "could be handy" app that mixes meshes together. Who hasn't wanted to combine a library of parts into a single mesh at one point or another? Some sculpting apps s…	8 Last	AlanSMitchell Mar 2011
PAX East, "Pitch Your Game Idea" At PAX east they had a panel of "experts" listen to game ideas. Stupid ideas flow freely as well as the laughs. One of those experts is a buddy of mine who was thoughtful enough to link me to the r…	14 Last	JacqueChoi Mar 2011
3D porn, Cryengine 3 CryEngine 3 is looking to be a developers wet dream when it comes to tools and iteration times. Click on through for their tech preview video. As some of you may have already seen, there's a tech t…	19 Last	throttlekitty Mar 2011
Epic's definition of Next-Gen The term "next-gen" has a tendency to be thrown around quite a bit and in a way it has lost a lot of its meaning in recent times. Until now. Epic Games have been pushing the envelope with t…	34 Last	ajv3d Mar 2011
Lightwave 10 released Right at the end of 2010 New Tek did something crazy. They released new technology. Lightwave 10 is out! We're 3 days late on this one - but I think you'll forgive us. On December 30th, New Tek p…	5 Last	Insectscorch Mar 2011
UDK, March Beta released Epic has released the March Beta for the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) today. It contains the technical updates seen in the Samaritan demo from GDC. Click on through for details on this massive UDK …	15 Last	tannerellison Mar 2011
Dominance War V - Delayed again No, I haven't double posted and I guarantee that you're not experienced deja-vu, this is a second delay to the Dominance War main challenge. As is customary with the Dominance War main cha…	32 Last	MEK Mar 2011
3dsmax 2012, Thoughts and Impressions Autodesk announced 3dsmax 2012, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at what's new. There seem to be a lot of new features here is a look at the ones we think will impact you …	18 Last	OBlastradiusO Mar 2011
Dominance War Delay Sound the war drums, rally the troops, the enemy is approaching. Dominance War is almost upon us. Unfortunately, the start has been pushed back a few days and the main contest will now com…	5 Last	Cordell Felix Feb 2011
The Pilot Paradigm Peter Kojesta wrote a great article on Gamasutra about how to launch a new IP more effectively, and cheaper There has been a lot of talk going around about how the industry needs to reinvent itse…	2 Last	Nilix Feb 2011
UDK royalty rate changes Mr. Rein of Unreal Games has posted some new changes to the UDK royalty rates that are refreshingly more favorable to the small developer. Essentially before you were required to pay royalties on an…	4 Last	eld Feb 2011
The mother of all demo-reels. There is no amount of schooling you could take or energy you could spend to match this individuals demo reel. Just stop now. Dono's Demoreel is an exhibition in ability. That feeling you have right…	59 Last	SunSetter Feb 2011
The Animation Workshop - 3D Animation Short Films I caught some really neat animations over the weekend so I hope they help you kick start your Monday. More after the jump. I caught a few posts on facebook over the weekend by a few Polycou…	11 Last	Hatred Feb 2011
CAT Videos Character Animation Toolkit Videos by , Mike "FritzTHECAT" O'Rourke (read: not lolcats) Mike O'Rourke has posted the first few videos in his Intro to CAT series. Even if you're not into ri…	4 Last	Norefall Feb 2011
The Rydan Workshop Open House You may have seen this floating about in General Discussion, but a reminder that The Rydan Workshop are having an Open House on February 13th. More after the jump. The Rydan Workshop provide…	4 Last	3DLam Feb 2011
Poly-Plugs Community member scotthomer has posted some custom Greentooth jewelry that he's made for decorating those lobes in style.They are vary stylish and the perfect accessory for any occasion. Check them …	13 Last	DarthBartus Feb 2011