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Friday Re-Cap Marine sent us the links to some of the great art that's been posted this week, thanks buddy! This is some awesome stuff, check it out Polycount Minotaur0 posted his sleek and sexy Sci-Fi buildi…	9 Last	JVaughan Feb 2011
Four Great Interviews Here are 4 great interviews with some people you probably already know and a few you probably should read up on. Andy Davies, Jeroen Maton, Alex Sandri and Olivier Thill & Benjamin Al…	2 Last	paulsvoboda Feb 2011
Moving picture inspiration Here now are a few videos you may find inspiring to whatever it is you're cooking up these days. You can find inspiration everywhere for projects you're doing at work or at home. Here now are 3 vi…	11 Last	kylehorne3d Feb 2011
UDK Material Series: Part 1! 3dmotive.com continues to pump out the goods Tyler Wanlass (you know him as gamedev around these parts) let us know that 3dmotive.com released the first in a series of UDK material videos by Ryan …	9 Last	Habboi Jan 2011
Get your robes ready Hey kids, it's been a while. But I come back fully charged and ready to rock! I have a few goodies for you today. New gamez0rs It seems these days that the indie dev scene is growing and th…	3 Last	Habboi Jan 2011
Zbrush4 New Features DVD by eat3D What all did they pack in Zbrush4? How do you use that stuff? No problem, Michael Pavlovich can take you through the new features in Zbrush4 like he did 3.5 DVD Description:In this DVD, Michael …	2 Last	Purplepaint Jan 2011
Monday Morning Weekend Mini-cap Here is some awesomeness that can't wait until the Friday re-cap. Polycount FirstKeeper pimped off the Demon Chaser model which was based on a concept from slipgatecentral, you can't really go wr…	1 Last	Jungsik Jan 2011
January 2011 UDK Beta released The latest UDK update is out today. It's mostly a bug fix update but there are a few new features as well that might help a couple folks out there with a few specific issues. Either way, its still a…	5 Last	yiannisk Jan 2011
ZSwitcher Maya Nav in ZBrush Those awesome people over at Digital Raster bring Maya's Alt Centeric Nav to Zbrush. http://draster.com/ZSwitcher/ "ZSwitcher is a plug-in that allows you to use the same mouse and keyboard hotke…	9 Last	claydough Jan 2011
Eat3D: Portrait Rendering in Maya Eat3D has a new instruction DVD out. Based on this posts title, we'll give you one guess as to what its about. Eat 3d has published a new instructional DVD featuring an in-depth look at rendering …	3 Last	Chris Bruin Jan 2011
Betharyes Stronghold It's a super slow News week for us here which we think Firebert caught on to. He let us know that looprix's (Lee Souder) posted some Gears of War Inspired art "Betharyes Stronghold" over at NextGenH…	5 Last	Treacharous Jan 2011
Creating the cover for new Croft Working with 3D renditions for the concept process; Crystal Dynamics has released a making-of video for the new look of Lara Croft, seen on a Game Informer magazine. Check out this making-of video…	17 Last	dkreset Jan 2011
"We had to use red barrels" BulletStorm designer "Arcade" discusses a classic cliche conundrum, do you take the green pill or the red?Over on the people-can-fly blog they talk about how they tried to go green but in the end o…	18 Last	leechdemon Jan 2011
Paul Marino Talks Cinematic Scenes Lead Cinematic Designer Paul Marino paints a clear picture of how a scene is designed and directed in Star Wars The Old Republic Story telling is a big part of what Bioware does and a lot of people…	5 Last	nreynolds Jan 2011
Blender 2.55 and 2.56 released In a burst of year end productivity, Blender 2.55 was released to the general public with 400+ bug fixes last night. Two hours later, Blender 2.56 was released with at least one new bug fix. I'm no…	4 Last	AsaNYC Jan 2011
Colorblind Colorblind is a iPhone/iPad game, that might just be useful for some digital artists that could use training on thier color picking. The game requires you to look at a color swatch and then match it…	2 Last	mparis Jan 2011
Hop on the good foot to do the bad thing Oof - 2011! Let's get things started off with a bang with some goods found right here at Polycount. Pixar knows what's up I saw this video over the holidays - (thank you Rick Stirling!) - and lo…	4 Last	Treacharous Jan 2011
A look Back... Looking at the video game crash of the 1980's, what can we learn from it? David Crane (co founder of Activision and father of Pitfall) looks back and remembers his Optimism. Gamasutra sat down wit…	1 Last	Treacharous Jan 2011
Official item testing tool for TF2 The fine milliners of Valve have been extra busy this winter finishing up the holiday events and now they have presented us with an in game testing tool for community item makers. There is lots of i…	2 Last	XenoKratios Jan 2011
The Duke trailer As a holiday treat, I have link to a live action, fan made, Duke Nukem movie trailer, The Duke - The Fate of Humanity, for you to peruse after the jump. This isn't a student effort with some paint…	5 Last	Purplepaint Jan 2011
Ahh, the Holidays I hope you all have been having a tolerable, if not a great, holiday season. Personally, it has been a bit better than expected which cheers me some. My latest professional project is almost the g…	7 Last	[HP] Jan 2011
CNN Article: How to Break In Scott Stienberg (one of the few people on TV who doesn't talk out his ass when talking about games), posted an interesting article for those looking to get into the industry. "(CNN) -- Breakin…	8 Last	Treacharous Dec 2010
Planning, sculpting and presentation Inside we'll take a quick peek at a few things happening at three other 3D community sites: NextgenHardSurface, Game-Artist and ZBrushCentral. Next Gen Hard Surface There's a great planning threa…	6 Last	Hatred Dec 2010
Desk statue, 3D print From Pior Oberson's mind to your desk, comes his 3d print stylized female statue. In case you're missing his thread while browsing other great threads in the Polycount Forum, we wanted to bring at…	3 Last	Tw17ch Dec 2010
Source Engine and Dog Fights, together at last. So it's mid week, wishing it was Friday already. But to make things a little easier we have some lip smacking goodness for you. Polycount newcomer drops a one-stop-shop 3DS Max exporter for the So…	6 Last	shawnolson Dec 2010
New LA Noire trailer "The Technology Behind Performance" Rockstar released some more behind the scenes footage of their animation system. Check out the video after the jump I don't know if they've improved the quality past what I've seen previously but …	16 Last	Mark Dygert Dec 2010
This is the best machinima I've seen. Ever? Ever. You're going to have to prove me wrong on this one. If you've got links to better ones, post them in the comments below - but not before giving this one a chance. My kind of take!	29 Last	DeanoRoe Dec 2010
UDK Modular Building Workflow 3dmotive.com has a $15m 50 minute video by Tyler Wanlass about modular creation inside of the Unreal Developer Kit. "In this tutorial we'll be talking about creating modular assets that are on the…	27 Last	ZacD Dec 2010
Google maps for your body Google continues to invent new tools that no one has a use for. The latest, The Google Body Browser, might find some use with animators or artists to a limited degree. But it does let you flip throu…	2 Last	r13 Dec 2010
Fluid FX on the iPhone If you are one of those snooty bleeding edge tech nerds that happens to also have a iPhone, you may or may not be interested in Fluid FX from Autodesk, which is currently free for the holidays. The…	0 Last	r13 Dec 2010
New release: modo 501 Luxology has pushed modo 501 out the door in time for the holidays. I'm imagining that many loved ones of 3d artists are cursing their luck as they had already purchased a Cintiq or something else o…	0 Last	r13 Dec 2010
Great things for your eyeballs and ears It's Tuesday - and you know what that means! Wait.. I don't even know what that means. Our Monday post was interrupted by the Dominance War V news so here, in great form, is Monday's post on a Tue…	3 Last	Nasser Dec 2010
Dom. War founder resigns, future plans revealed Fredrik Hultqvist, Dominance War & Unearthly Challenge organizer and founder, announced today that he is resigning from his positions. Who is he leaving those events to to be organized? Find out…	10 Last	kodde Dec 2010
Rage Against The Weekend It's Friday. We have a selection of pictures for you to gaze at. You love it! Jump right in here! What a week! Lots of creative and interesting posts made in our forums this week. The caution…	4 Last	VidGameDude Dec 2010
Eye candy: Meet Buck I have a bit of eye candy for you today in the form of a sweet nugget of a student film by the title: "Meet Buck" It's a classic tale of a young man meeting his girlfriend's overprotective father f…	17 Last	cman2k Dec 2010
Hotfix for 3dsmax Autodesk Released a hot fix for 3dsmax, fixes normal maps in the viewport. Or does it? I haven't tested it out yet so let me know if it launches missiles at Russia or something crazy. It includes …	8 Last	cman2k Dec 2010
Low down dirty... mother... !@#$ Q:Who steals consoles from kids with cancer? A: This douche bag. News of this guys douchebaggery was posted over at Kotaku He broke into Carolinas Medical Center, that helps take care of kids with…	11 Last	Jungsik Dec 2010
Brink Wallpapery Goodness It is time to go cover your desktop with Brink goodness! Those awesome people put together phone res and even dual screen wallpapers. Check out the rest at: http://www.brinkthegame.com/media/wall…	8 Last	Nasser Dec 2010
Walking Dead, plates Stargate Studios posted some before and after plates from The Walking Dead over at FXGuide.com Considering The Walking Dead is a pretty popular topic on the big green space station, you might get a…	8 Last	ajv3d Dec 2010
From polys to pastries Many artists join the games industry from a plethora of different professions, but rare is the artist that goes from the industry into a reality television show on competitive cake construction. Bri…	2 Last	kyle.rau Dec 2010
Syd Mead: A Future Imagined Syd Mead, the designer behind countless visions of the future including, Blade Runner, the first Tron and Aliens, has been caught on video in a very attractive sweater with nice lighting discussing …	6 Last	Zack Fowler Dec 2010
The Payloads of Gibraltar I don't typically do this sort of thing, but I'm gonna take advantage of a slow Saturday and announce that I have a final alpha version of the Team Fortress 2 map, plr_Gibraltar, I've been whittling…	4 Last	ZacD Dec 2010
GDC Updates A quickie reminder and perhaps first notice for some of you, that the annual GDC in San Francisco is coming up fairly soon in the first week of next March. They have been sending out updates on the …	3 Last	Oniram Dec 2010
Designing pop culture There is an awesome article/interview with Neville Page up on io9. He discusses what his thoughts were as he was designing characters for the latest Tron movie, the upcoming Green Lantern movie and …	2 Last	scrawld Dec 2010
TF2 Beta TF2 Beta, again Valve is going to expand its testing base to everyone that owns TF2. http://www.teamfortress.com "The beta is available to anyone that owns a copy of TF2. To install, launch Stea…	0 Last	Mark Dygert Dec 2010
Terragen 2.2 Planetside Software, that's the company not the game, has released their latest terraforming software, Terragen 2.2. It's a world builder that lets you create vast realistic landscapes filled with p…	3 Last	Habboi Dec 2010
Monitor-to-retina art missile. I was split between that or, 'Dropping an A-bomb' (where the A stands for art). I've been gone for around 3 weeks and that was the best I could come up with. Archviz in Unreal - possible! Polycount…	4 Last	Habboi Nov 2010
Unreal 3 Updates, overview Unreal 3 engine can do some pretty things. Who knew? Coming to an update near you, we're sure, are some fun updates to the Unreal engine. A number of the updates showcased in this video (released by…	18 Last	VidGameDude Nov 2010
Blade Master on ZBrushCentral Sim Ki Yong posted an awesome lowpoly character and sculpt over on ZBrushCentral! Pics and thread after the jump! Hailing from Korea, Sim Ki Yong has posted up some pretty tasty character a…	5 Last	Torch Nov 2010
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