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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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Nekw

( PAID ) 3d action animation video wanted

HelloI am looking for a 3d freelancer who can create a 3d animation video. This is fanmade 3d action animation video. I have the 3d models prepared with textures I need a 3d freelancer who can create…
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Jadav

Marvel Rivals Character shader - Nuke + Arnold (maya)

I want to create a render similar to the one used in Marvel Rivals for my character. What do I need to do this in Nuke/Maya? Please share any relevant information.
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AIM_alexandr

[WIP] Stalker 2 Fan Art - Unreal 5 Realistic Environment & Story Telling

Hello!I’m excited to share the very early stage of my new Unreal Engine 5 environment art project.This first phase focuses on blocking out the space and exploring the core ideas behind the scene. I’v…
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PeterGatchev

Most Efficient Way to Render Ready Game Models

Hey,Game-Ready models are very low poly. Which makes them very hard to look good for portfolio renders. I generally spend extra time to re-bevel and subdivide the low poly version to make it look bet…
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pior

would a cheap prime lens improve photogrammetry on 24mp cam?

I have sony a6000 24 mpix APC-s camera with default  kit zoom lens pz14-50.  Photogrammetry have always been so-so an softy with this camera.      Chat GPT tells me it's a so…
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pior

Horizon Forbidden West "Average Skin-Tone" Extraction & LUT Workflow

I recently came across a presentation slide regarding Guerrilla Games' character texturing pipeline (specifically the improvements made for Horizon Forbidden West).I would be interested in finding ou…
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poopipe

Tachikoma (GITS SAC Season 1 Design)

Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Season 1. Started in 3ds Max, then finished in blender, Bake in Marmoset Toolbag, and textured in Painter. Below are simple screen grabs in…
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Lamont

Pizza Napoletana | Substance designer fully procedural material

Hi there!Fully procedural Pizza Napoletana material made in Substance Designer.A short break from environment production work, focused on procedural material creation.Some more on ArtStation - P…
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ArthurZenkovich

Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?

Seriously guys?WTF?
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sketchem

Do you think polycount a dying platform?

I don't visit as often as I used to, where did everyone go? Why is no one posting? Is there a platform that is thriving you'd recommend?
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gnoop

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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hardessnoah

Job Opening: 3D Animation Artist with Motion Graphics Skills

Job SummaryCompany: 7CGI LimitedJob type: Full-time, on-siteLocation: Dhaka, BangladeshExperience: Minimum 1 to 2 yearsSalary: NegotiableProbation: 3 monthsPreference: Male candidates preferredI…
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mahamood7CGI

Job Opening: Architectural Visualizer With Architecture Degree

Job SummaryPosition: Architectural VisualizerCompany: 7CGI LimitedJob Type: Full-time (On-site)Job Location: Dhaka, BangladeshExperience: 1 to 2 yearsSalary: NegotiableP…
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mahamood7CGI

7CGI Hiring: 3D Animation Artist with Motion Graphics Skills

About 7CGI Limited7CGI Limited produces high-end 3D Visualization and 3D Rendering for clients in North America and Western Europe. We work on real client deliverables, follow clear briefs, and focus…
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mahamood7CGI

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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FrankPolygon

Animation & Rigging

Hi everyone,Sharing some of my recent 3D animation work focused on game-ready animations.These are gameplay-oriented animations rather than cinematic work.I’m currently focusing on animation for game…
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Eric Chadwick

Hello everyone!

Hi everyone,I’m a freelance designer working on UI/UX, branding, and character art, with a strong interest in game-related visuals.I’m here to learn, share my work, and collaborate with indie game de…
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Sandra_Thompson

Shuttle Altair

Started my new project designing a new age space shuttle and so far I have a blockout. I plan on doing modular pieces for the cargo bay and kinda designing the whole shuttle using other designs. Even…
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AtomicArmy

Some workflow/nanite questions coming from UE4

Coming to UE5 from UE4 and have a few questions regarding modular sets and nanite. If I have an exterior building wall set that is going to be brick, is it better to use a height map to displace…
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jordank95

RadCity: UE5 mid-poly assets

Hello friends. After a short break I'm working on a new solo project, one I want to wrap up by end of year.A top-down, post-apocalyptic exploration game, a little bit of Fallout 1 + Stalker, without …
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sketchem

Fibershop - Any alternatives?

Hello, I am trying to streamline hair-cards in Blender and really want to use Fibershop to generate the textures. However when I go to the CGPal website, the website comes up as unsafe. Is it un…
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okidoki

Stylized sword exercise

I had a free week between semesters, and because I have wanted to explore more stylized stuff, I bought a tutorial on how to create a stylized sword prop by Sabrina Echouafni on Flipped Nor…
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robertvovk

What Blender Tasks Are Still Wasting Your Time? Looking for Real Automation Targets

I build Blender tools with a focus on automation and production speed, primarily for game art workflows. Before deciding what to build next, I want to hear directly from people who use Blender serio…
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okidoki

Baking issues, before and after baking normal map

Hi all,I'm having some issues with baking, the first image shows how the mesh looks in marmoset without any baking done yet and the last image is after baking the normal map.I tried increasing the si…
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Arby

would you downscale 40-60 mpix shots when do photogrammetry??

I wonder how people do photogrammetry with 40-60mpix cameras.  It takes forever to calculate imo  and often not enough VRAM.    So I wonder if downscaling helps?    From…
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gnoop

X- trans vs Bayer for photogrammetry ?

Have anyone noticed any advantage of Fuji X-trans cameras over Bayer ones with similar matrix resolution for capturing tiny mesh details ?    I heard rumors that xtrans performs better…
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gnoop

Just another speed practice

I know its not in rules of anatomy but i still learning and getting feel of sculpting 
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Demonith88

mgtools - blender power tools

Hey.This pack of tools originates from a toolset I wrote for 3ds max nearly 20 years ago which I converted to blender when I switched on version 2.8.They where used in a few productions so far and sh…
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Eric Chadwick

Fuzzy, soapy, MetaHuman hair, poorly displayed

Hi, I have Unreal Engine 5.7.1, MetaHuman's hair doesn't display well, it gets soapy and it's only when viewed from the camera, everything looks great without the camera. In the camera, when the focu…
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Lipa_l1

Love the feedback recently

Not sure why this is, but I've been seeing some really stellar feedback on people's WIPs lately, and I just wanted to say it's great to see. <3
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sacboi

What made you feel crap today?

What little thing has pissed you off/made you sad today? I feel so dirty after creating the "what made you feel good" thread, all those mopey and happy people covered in Disney love :) so I t…
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sacboi

[WIP] - Game Ready Stylized 3D Character

Hey Everyone!I am working on a game ready stylized character for my portfolio, I am almost done with the highpoly of the character (both ZBrush viewport capture and EEVEE test render are shared). The…
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egeguncu

Sticky Upgrading or building a new PC? This is the thread for you!

If you're a 3D artist in need of a new computer, or just want to upgrade an old one, this is the thread for you!Building a PC can get very expensive, and many simply don't know enough about computers…
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Eric Chadwick

[3DSMAX] Something similar to Blender Mesh-machine Offset Cut?

There is a very fast workflow in Blender to simulate smooth intersections of booleans by using offset cut. It does not create nice geometry, but it works visually. Is there any sort of script that ca…
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PolyHertz

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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robertvovk

Cabin in the woods (without the woods)

Almost final processing: https://vimeo.com/1070475624?share=copy(Author - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0nV3my)
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Vastra

Sci-Fi Atrium Environment – WIP (UE5)

Hey everyone! :)  Starting a new environment project and aiming to raise the bar with a structured and methodical workflow. I’m putting extra focus on planning, modularity, and building a stron…
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Vastra

Game Art Pipeline for Custom Game Engine

In this video, I quickly go over my full game art pipeline for character and environment assets:https://youtu.be/brbSq54dGI8
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obsolete

We finally launched CGHub.one

Hello, everyone!We launched our 3d-models aggregator platform (called CGHub.one) in late 2025. The main idea was to take the most famous 3d-marketplaces (like cgtrader/turbosquid/etc.) and combine th…
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sacboi

Sketchbook: Donte' Hawkins

Hello all Polycount friends! Hope all is well. 👋 Re-introductionFor those of you who don't know me, I'm Donte'! I used to create a ton of 3D environment / material work but made a switch o…
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Donte' Hawkins

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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Locus7

Sketchbook: Tim Smith

[{"insert":"Hi. Welcome to my digital sketchbook. I hope I go about this right. I specialise in characters and I'm aiming to focus on real-time for my portfolio. I'll be using this to log my progress…
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DustyShinigami

Material/Environment Artist looking for work

Hello,My name is Adayas Galvão I am material artist and environment artist, currently looking for- Freelance work- Full time remote workExperience:----------------------------------------------------…
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Adayas

Character Practice – Personal Training Project

This character was created as a personal test and training project. The main goal was to practice and improve my skills in character modeling, focusing on anatomy, proportions, clothing details, and…
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Eric Chadwick

Pwnisher, Anyone doing the "DRÆM SEQUENCE", starts Sat 31st Jan, 5pm 2026

Hey all!Is anyone planning to take part in Pwnisher’s new DRÆM SEQUENCE challenge? It kicks off Saturday 31st Jan at 5pm (2026). I’m probably being a bit delusional, but I think I’ll give it a g…
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littleclaude

Sticky Thread of Awesomeness, Hilariousness, Off-topic, Youtube

I thought I would start a thread where whenever you find an awesome link or picture, go ahead and post it here for others to enjoy... I saw this on digg videos... really sweet stop animation hand il…
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Noren

[WIP] Scylla Von blast [Nudity,XXX,NSFW]

[{"insert":"Hi everyone new & old,\nBeen a while since i posted any thread for wips, hopefully my enthusiasm will see this to the end.\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork…
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iam717

Sketchbook: David Cruz

Edit: probably will just spam images and not bump this, as i feel the need to post something, should work fine.Starting a sketch book so i can spam my things, not trying to take away views from anyon…
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iam717

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

Stylized / Hand-Painted 3D Character Artist – Mobile Games (5+ years)

Hi everyone 👋My name is Artem, I’m a 3D Character Artist with 5+ years of experience in mobile game development.My main focus is stylized, hand-painted characters – that’s the work I enjoy the most …
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artyom_armashov

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