Polycount up on kotaku

Needles · May 2011

Seems they took notice of all the amazing art happening in the BRAWL contest..

Hazardous · May 2011

Holy crap!

gsokol · May 2011

And theres already dumb commenters "not approving" things.

I should know better than to peek in the comments there..Armchair developers always get a rise out of me.

Congrats, regardless. Pretty awesome art, and its cool to see it on kotaku!

Shogun3d · May 2011

Yeah, and guys... Ignore the typical "comment because i'm an attention whore, who feels the need to say something cynical on Kotaku". I see a lot of bashing simply because a ton of people on Kotaku seem to not understand what the term "re-design" is. Really, the results and every submission i've seen have truly been a testament to the talent you see here on Polycount. Absolutely great job everyone!

PS: Just remember Kotaku value's their cosplayers more than talented developers.

leilei · May 2011

Capcom-Unity noticed as well for the sheer amount of Capcom stuff involved as well.

PatrickL · May 2011

Damnit, there goes Polycount's underground cred.

Funky Bunnies · May 2011

haha awesome

congrats, all!

leilei · May 2011

PatrickL wrote: »

Damnit, there goes Polycount's underground cred.

You mean like the TF2 Polycount bag had nothing to do with it... oh.

whats_true · May 2011

one way or another, i knew this would hit Kotaku. Really cool stuff indeed

adam · May 2011

Haha fucking hell those Kotaku comments had me lol'ing pretty good. Some gems:

"Splotch some red on her and take off a limb, and I couldn't tell her from a resident evil victim. Also, Haggar piledriving a shark has never looked so blatantly homosexual. And that Akuma. Yeesh. I didn't realize Azuma was a horrific undead mutant discarded from a Gorrillaz album cover and smashed with an ugly-bat about 6 thousand times. Also, Mario ate Donkey Kong, I guess. Or at least two of them.

Yeah, these suck."

"Yuck. Someone please needs to explain the uncanny valley to these people.

Most of these are worse than a Zemekis mo-cap film."

"It's called critiquing. It's part of the process."

And finally...

"Too much hating. These fantastic submissions (and more found at polycount) deserve praise, not picky complaints from people that know nothing about game art."

I fucking love the comments. I really do. Now when you go back to your desks and get paid to make this SHITTY art for a living you can laugh your ass off at the irony of the comments. If only they knew you're the ones making the art to their beloved games.

Hazardous · May 2011

Sounds like mmo feedback forums haha!!! Awesome I love it!

http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2011/05/09/polycounts_fighter_contest_contains_amazing_concepts

Capcom Unity's front page as well

Greentooth is pwning the world atm!

Bbox85 · May 2011

Man... typical... everyone always gonna forget about environments... pfft!! Haha, i'm kidding. That's awesome!

glynnsmith · May 2011

Fuck all that shite. You've been tweeted by Shawn Elliot:

http://twitter.com/#!/ShawnElliott/statuses/67754432091258880

HitmonInfinity · May 2011

adam wrote: »

And finally...

"Too much hating. These fantastic submissions (and more found at polycount) deserve praise, not picky complaints from people that know nothing about game art."

I wrote that one lol. I had to stick up for my polycount buddies!

Cojax · May 2011

Ace-Angel · May 2011

Honestly, Kotaku has nothing going for it nowadays, so I don't see why you guys care about their commentators and journalists in anyway or form.

I mean honestly guys, you all did great work, last thing you should care about is the opinion about a bunch of ignorant buffoons on a site that is looser then the PSN Network on a jet engine on it's period.

ZacD · May 2011

Ace-Angel wrote: »

Honestly, Kotaku has nothing going for it nowadays, so I don't see why you guys care about their commentators and journalists in anyway or form.

I mean honestly guys, you all did great work, last thing you should care about is the opinion about a bunch of ignorant buffoons on a site that is looser then the PSN Network on a jet engine on it's period.

Free resume filler, "featured on kotaku".

Ace-Angel · May 2011

ZacD wrote: »

Free resume filler, "featured on kotaku".

Haha, I guess the 8 year old who reviews Tron wasn't available again on that day?

MattQ86 · May 2011

leilei wrote: »

You mean like the TF2 Polycount bag had nothing to do with it... oh.

I liked Polycount before it was cool. I have it on vinyl.

Purplepaint · May 2011

MattQ86 wrote: »

I liked Polycount before it was cool. I have it on vinyl.

:) had too.

seforin · May 2011

Event hubs had a section come up on sunday for jordans bath house....

http://www.eventhubs.com/?page=3

seriously I wish more sites covered the env's that went on there was some awesome work that went into them.

peppi · May 2011

Awesome work guys

Slum · May 2011

gsokol wrote: »

And theres already dumb commenters "not approving" things.

Try as we might, we can't please *all* the neckbeards.

seforin · May 2011

Slum wrote: »

Try as we might, we can't please *all* the neckbeards.

and e-thugs

thatanimator · May 2011

MattQ86 wrote: »

I liked Polycount before it was cool. I have it on vinyl.

words cannot describe how awesome this quote is, so I'll just use my common sense..

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!

also, need polycount slipmats!!

also, awesome brawls!

Allan-p · May 2011

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JFletcher · May 2011

Oooooh Mario is up there, neat!

Grats on the mention guys. I just wish the kotaku comments weren't so unbelievably shit.

Xoliul · May 2011

adam wrote: »

Haha fucking hell those Kotaku comments had me lol'ing pretty good. Some gems:

"Splotch some red on her and take off a limb, and I couldn't tell her from a resident evil victim. Also, Haggar piledriving a shark has never looked so blatantly homosexual. And that Akuma. Yeesh. I didn't realize Azuma was a horrific undead mutant discarded from a Gorrillaz album cover and smashed with an ugly-bat about 6 thousand times. Also, Mario ate Donkey Kong, I guess. Or at least two of them.

Yeah, these suck."

"Yuck. Someone please needs to explain the uncanny valley to these people.

Most of these are worse than a Zemekis mo-cap film."

"It's called critiquing. It's part of the process."

And finally...

"Too much hating. These fantastic submissions (and more found at polycount) deserve praise, not picky complaints from people that know nothing about game art."

I fucking love the comments. I really do. Now when you go back to your desks and get paid to make this SHITTY art for a living you can laugh your ass off at the irony of the comments. If only they knew you're the ones making the art to their beloved games.

Haha absolutely agree, they make such fools out of themselves

edit: too bad there's no enviro love there though

[HP] · May 2011

lmao @ gamers discussing cammy's skirt

Kwramm · May 2011

not sure if you should laugh or cry when you consider that we usually refer to those commenters as "our customers" here at work hehe

rolfness · May 2011

looool funny..

leslievdb · May 2011

haha cool that it's getting some attention
i also love how people with jerking off as an only tallent hate on everything

also a big shame that they neglect the awesome stages

Adam Curtis · May 2011

Cool!

plyrs · May 2011

Its funny, all of those submissions are game-ready quality. If they came in a box or got patched into street fighter they would accept them, but since its "fanboy art" everyone starts hating on it. Still, if it were my stuff showing up on Kotaku, I would be a happy guy. Congrats to all of you!

The Flying Monk · May 2011

You guys must be reading the wrong Kotaku. The comments on the Australian page are much nicer.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/05/brawl-art-contest-spawns-beautifully-reimagined-fighters/

I wish I were better at 3D modeling

I hope these chaps work in Visual Effects for a living, because that would be a lot of outright talent going to total waste otherwise.
Hakumen is especially well-realized.

Nice.

those are just off the hook awesome

crazyfool · May 2011

comments seem to be getting better now

congrats guys, beautiful art

Maph · May 2011

Congrats on all those featured! What a bunch of jerk-offs on Kotaku though...

divi · May 2011

good lord, the internet is retarded.
polycount is like a haven in a sea of retardedness...

there is so much awesome in this comp!

adam · May 2011

Anyone on Reddit? http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/h83p7/amazing_fighting_game_fighter_stage_recreations/

Mark Dygert · May 2011

Kotaku has been overrun with idiots for years, it got really bad when they redesigned.
Not showing stages? Yet another fuck up that will keep me from gracing their pages...

Kotaku: BOOBZ!!!1 POST POST POST!@!1 Man boobs... oh well post post post.

[HP] · May 2011

Mark Dygert wrote: »

Kotaku has been overrun with idiots for years, it got really bad when they redesigned.
Not showing stages? Yet another fuck up that will keep me from gracing their pages...

Kotaku: BOOBZ!!!1 POST POST POST!@!1 Man boobs... oh well post post post.

As long as their asian.

3DLee · May 2011

adam wrote: »

Anyone on Reddit? http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/h83p7/amazing_fighting_game_fighter_stage_recreations/

Upvoted and commented for you.. everyone upvote!

oobersli · May 2011

grats for getting more views! kotaku comments usually show how retarded and ignorant hardcore gamers/fanboys are. :poly142:

Mark Dygert · May 2011

While its kind of funny the way he did it, the guy who posted the article "Michael McWhertor" is a bit of a dick. This was the first time in months that I posted on Kotaku and bam it gets my star revoked heh.

Lighten up dude...

He just pissed on everyone who worked their asses off in the stage competition, not cool.

crazyfingers · May 2011

F*ck Kotaku, this brawl link was the last time i went there in months, possibly the last time.

Upvoted on reddit, shame it wont be making front page. (someone may want to resubmit with a more clarified headline "Remade our favorite game characters, what do you think reddit!?" and a thumbnail, also make sure you have about 10 people ready to upvote the hell out of it when it's posted)

whats_true · May 2011

Um...its kotaku?

What were you expecting?

leslievdb · May 2011

mayor /care what some idiots on kotaku think , getting appreciated on pc and probably every other cgart community is what counts and you know that's the case

Apostolon · May 2011

adam wrote: »

And that Akuma. Yeesh. I didn't realize Azuma was a horrific undead mutant discarded from a Gorrillaz album cover and smashed with an ugly-bat about 6 thousand times.

How'd this guy know exactly what I was aiming for?

Wahlgren · May 2011

That akuma was actually one of my favorites stylewise. So yeah, don't listen to 'im. Other than that I feel hugely unpopular as an environment artist. Like a geek chess club goth kid.

I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME/BRAWL! :poly142:

Xoliul · May 2011

Wahlgren wrote: »

That akuma was actually one of my favorites stylewise. So yeah, don't listen to 'im. Other than that I feel hugely unpopular as an environment artist. Like a geek chess club goth kid.

I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME/BRAWL! :poly142:

*hug*

Apostolon · May 2011

Thanks Wahlgren! I've read quite a few negative comments, but I've also read just as many positive ones about all of the art in the competition. I haven't worked in the industry yet (Can't wait to move to Seattle), but just to be in the same competition with a lot of the artists I've respected since early college was a blast.

Also, I wish I could do half of the stuff you environment artist do.

Polycount up on kotaku

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