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Sticky Show your hand painted stuff, pls!

Share your hand painted environment, characters, props, textures, whatever! The thread focus is handpainted stylized textures, not aiming to be photorealism. 1 embed maximum (1 im…
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zhuk0v1811

Clayform Sculpting App

2x playback speedHey all. Started this over xmas break as an experiment and just kept poking at it.. The original question was how far I could get on top of open-source libraries -- there's a good …
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sacboi

Sticky How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)

Alright, so i see time and time again that people tend have trouble doing certain things with hard-shapes and sub-d modeling. So i thought i would try something out here. I'm going to open this up to…
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maaboo

Sticky What Are You Working On? (3D) 2026

Share one embed of what you're working on, and give us a link to your own Topic to see more!Keep it under 1mb please. If you post big images, or multiples, we might delete/replace. Why? See…
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Lucas_Duguin

Sticky LOW-POLY ART

This is the sweet spot for your low-poly models. Post 'em if you've got 'em! Low-poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low-poly art sty…
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freyhaz1

The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | May - June (102)

Welcome everyone to the 102nd Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of May and June!This challenge is a way for real-time 3D artists to test their skills and create a piece of work ba…
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poto_oil

Sticky The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (103)

Welcome everyone to the 103rd Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of July and August!This challenge is a way for real-time 3D artists to test their skills and create a piece of work b…
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Pep_mepla

Leather Detail Brush Kit (for ZBrush & ZBrush)

🎨 Introducing 44 Leather Detail Brushes for Blender & ZBrush + Displacement Maps!✨ Bring your Leathers to life with realistic hand-painted brushes including Base Texture (tileable), Damage, and…
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Alixyz

{WIP} 1970s GM New Look bus model.

Hello. I've been working on this model of a classic GM New Look bus also known as the "Fishbowl", I intend to keep it roughly around 100k polygons for the finished model while maintaining as accurate…
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TypicalMale

Cityscape - Lighting practice

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deepak365days

Reference Pack - Liebherr R9800 (150+ images)

Hi everyone!I'm working on a reference pack for the Liebherr R9800 mining excavator. It includes 150+ images organized in folders: exterior, engine, cabin, undercarriage.The idea is to save hours of …
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MiningSpecs

Scout Hover Bike — Sci-Fi Checkpoint Bay

Hi everyone,  :) I’m starting a new project: a sci-fi Scout Hover Bike set within a small urban perimeter checkpoint bay. The scene will have an overcast, damp, slightly neglected atmosphere, bu…
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Vastra

2d Concept Portfolio Feedback

I got let go a year ago and have been trying to find a new role since. I've had a couple interviews but nothing has materialized enough to support myself and I've been living off savings.I'm not sure…
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JakeZetter

Thoughts on buying work software through Steam?

What do you guys make of it? Is it totally fine to you, or is it annoying starting up Steam to fire up X software? I have a few on there, I use Designer there and it's generally okay for me. I don't …
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JakeZetter

Where have all the promising projects gone?!

I'm confused here, and I need to hear the perspective of people that have been steadily watching things change around here over the past decade.I had dropped this hobby (3D modeling) a little over 10…
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JakeZetter

[ W I P ] _ Datsun fairlady (subD)

Hello everyone! I begin log my process of modeling for this buty car  ;) 
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Djyver

Concept Artist Open for work

Name: Jake ZetterLocation: Montreal (open to relocation)I've been a concept artist since 2020 and am open to new roles. I worked at gearbox for 5 years on Tina's Wonderlands and Borderlands 4My Portf…
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JakeZetter

Project RBU // CONCEPT - Bot Action Shot

Project RBU > ReBot Unit (working title)Returning to a personal game prototype I'm developing and decided to give it a proper visual guide piece.Critique welcome and highly appreciated!
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domfiglhuber

[WIP] 7UP Gun

I have managed to land an internship and immediately started working, which has led to me wanting to learn a new software, Plasticity. My job role is to be a Hard Surface Artist so using CAD is my ne…
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alexus_sanchez

Ornatrix grooming → bake pipeline for stylized characters

Wrote up the Ornatrix groom-to-bake pipeline I use for stylized characters, focused on two things that bite later if you skip them: keeping the groom mask-driven and editable (density / gravity / len…
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ruxlag

Senior 3D Artist / Art Director (Mobile, VR, CAD, Startup, Indie, AAA)

Hi, my name is Fahad, 3D Art guy based in Manchester, UK. Looking for roles within games or art adjacent industry. Think of me as a specialist generalist, meaning my focus is in Environment Art, Hard…
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HAWK12HT

The Art of Pablo Garcia 2026

Hello! I started this year working with a Stylized Demon chest; this is the key. Also, I plan to do retopology and integrate into the game engine. I hope you like it, and happy New Year
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ShinPaburoVIII

[MAYA]Modeling/Texturing QuickTips

Just wanted to share with you guys some quick tips video that covers some modeling techniques along with some procedural workflow. Will be regularly updated. Thankshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-…
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onionhead_o

R160 NYC Subway Exterior & Undercarriage | Work in Progress

Personal hard-surface modeling study of the NYC R160 subway train. Currently focusing on the exterior and undercarriage, modeled from real-world references. Interior and texturing are still in progre…
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muskanraaj_2007

[WIP] Dragon Creator

Posting this here to mostly just keep track of my own thoughts as I try to work through this. I want to make a little character creator for a dragon in Unreal Engine where users can flick through dif…
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HarlequinWerewolf

Sketchbook: Dominik Figlhuber

Where everything starts and nothing* ends.---Welcome to my digital sketchbook!Since I passionately specialize in 2D concept art and illustration, such works will likely take center stage.But my inter…
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domfiglhuber

Free Music / SFX Resource for Your Games - Over 1900 Tracks

Hi everyone, I've created over 1900 tracks of music and sound fx that you can freely use in your games. It's all original...all my own work. All I ask is to be attributed as indicated on my ho…
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Eric Matyas

How to reduce normal map baking artifacts caused by low/high poly mismatch?

I’m using a Blender + Substance Painter pipeline (baking and texturing) with a low-to-high workflow: first a low-poly model, then geometry refinement, bevels, and subdivision. Since I’ve only just st…
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HAWK12HT

Breakdown of the AAA pipeline for game-ready realistic hero props

Hello! Some time ago I finished a project and thought I’d make a breakdown of the whole process from start to finish. This is not a detailed tutorial for every step but rather an overview over the pr…
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kosh3d

Sketchbook: Zetheros

Hi there!After getting a bit of industry experience, I thought I'd like to make the transition & expand my skillset from an artist to that of a more well-rounded game developer; to both fill gaps…
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zetheros

How are you actually handling AI-generated mesh cleanup before engine handoff?

Been integrating Meshy and Tripo outputs into UE5 pipelines for a while now and the generation step is no longer the problem — topology and textures come out reasonably usable for props and backgroun…
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HAWK12HT

GuildUp — team-finder + devlog community, looking for early folks

Hey Guys! I just launched something I've been building solo and figured i would post this here!It's a home for game devs to find teammates and share devlogs. Part team-finder, part community is …
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RioIsAwesome

[TOOL / ADDON] VmBaker - GPU-accelerated texture baker (Maya, Blender & beyond)

Hello everyone,I want to share a new tool I've been developing for some time now called VmBaker.It is a texture baking tool mainly targeted at game developers for making low-poly models - but it's re…
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vaclavmazany

BRAWL2 [Character] Electric Monk, kanga

The ultimate holy appliance in:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"Can't keep up to date with all those new Gods? Don't understand the changes in your creed? Just can't seem to find the time to p…
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kanga

Half Life 2 RTX Materials

Here is some of the work I had the chance to work on for Half life 2 RTX. Half life has always been one of my favorite games so when I got the chance to work on its community remaster I instantly jum…
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sacboi

Sketchbook: Eric Chadwick

Working on some shaders in Unity these days. Here's one.  Same shader, just different bitmaps & vertex colors.Result, and the things that go into it. Red vertex color is for the foam, g…
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sacboi

Using maya as a game editor for environment art

I was watching a talk by Stephen McAuley, technical director at Santa Monica Studio discussing their approach to game editors and how they use Maya as their game editor in conjunction with their engi…
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Noth

"The Art of Moving Points" eBook now works on any browser

"The Art of Moving Points" eBook is now on sale for $9.99 and available on Ozone3d.com website. Works on any web browser.This eBook details the addition articulation style and SubD modeling that I u…
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hippydrome

3D Prop Artist looking for a full-time job remotely

Hey, my name is George, based in Russia. I'm a 3d artist and I'm looking for full-time job. I can work remotely. I know all the stages of the complete game-ready pipeline, an…
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Georgy3D

BlenderMCP Pro — AI pipeline tool for Blender (asset validation, batch export, game engine prep)

Posting this here specifically because Polycount's audience cares about pipeline more than novelty, and that's the actual use case I built this for. Context I run Anvil Interactive Solutions — we s…
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anvilinteractive

Heckler and Koch G36 (re-attempt)

So I've re-doing a past project to get better results and further my skills. I plan on creating multiple attachments and some variations. Some references and blockouts below.And what I have right now:
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AtomicArmy

Sketchbook: <Digo>

Hey friends, back to 3D after a long break, it's like in the Godfather movie, every time I try to leave they pull me back in, it's so much fun making creatures, I simply love bringing a little bit of…
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Noth

Sketchbook: Selwyn Phillips

Let's start this sketchbook with some sci-fi doodles. I'm not much of a concept artist but feel free to pick it apart if you wish.
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Noth

3D artist trying to get commissions or a job

I am a 3d artist and I have been trying to get commissions or a job in the field, I have had education through CKTC in this field with expertise in Blender and I have a KO-FI.https://ko-fi.com/likolu…
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likolucario1

Modular Real-Time Library, Unreal Engine (modeling & lighting breakdown)

Just finished a modular real-time library environment in Unreal Engine - a reusable modular kit (blockout + modeling in Maya), Substance Painter texturing, hero-prop dressing, Unreal assembly, and a …
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ruxlag

[PAID] Freelance 3D Creature Artist - Realistic

Hi, i am a solo developer working on a survival game in unreal engine. i'm looking for a creature artist to make multiple creatures. all creatures have fur.I will provide references for creatures.Sch…
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nag

Powerful new tool for critiquing your 3D Models

I'm a 3D character artist by trade, and getting useful feedback on in-progress work has always been harder than it should be. You post a render and it's either "looks sweet" or silence. This forum is…
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Voxol

Marvel Rivals Nightcrawler Fan Art

I HAVE FINISHED MUAHAHAH! This is marvel rivals Nightcrawler fanart created as a colab between myself and Ishaliart. I made the 3D, she made the 2D! I Hope you all enjoy! If you want to check out mor…
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Pav3d

Arm and Wrist Pain - how did you dealt with them?

Recently I decided to get back into 3D after abandoning it for as much as a decade, and today after only 6 hours of Blender, I was swiftly reminded why I had to drop it in the first place - arm pain,…
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iam717

What made you feel good today?

What made you feel good today? Tell us what us what made you feel happy today. Sister thread,[URL="https://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116211"]What made you feel crap today?[/URL] I …
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Neox

What are you listening to?

Artist: Blind Guardian Song: Mordred's Song Genre: Metal/Folk/Acoustic You might like this if: You like any melodic metal or bard melodies. One of my favorite Blind Guardian songs. good working musi…
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iam717

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