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Sticky What are you working on? 2019! Let 2019 begin! Past WAYWO threads: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2004-2007Why these rules? See WAYWO UsageM…	842 Last	smegger Apr 24 2019
[WIP][UE4] Sanctuary Tomb Hello everyone!After getting portfolio feedback from multiple sources, the general consensus was that I have too many stand-alone props (they are 100% correct) and not enough environments so I decide…	8 Last	JMBraley 1:47AM
Textools Mirror UV function equivalent Max 2018? So it seems as though TexTools officially does not function anymore with me swapping over to 2018 (mostly due to some super nasty bugs in 2017 I was sick of trying to work around) and now i'm in a qu…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick 1:41AM
Designer Height map issue Hello guys, I've a issue, when I put some blur in my height map I get this crazy stripes. Why is happening that? How can I fix?Thanks!	0 Last	IgorSilva 1:27AM
Subdivision/Mesh Buckling After Maya Mesh Transfer Attributes Projection I'm getting buckling/unwelding around the collar on my retopo'd mesh upon projecting it onto my original mesh using Maya's Transfer Attributes, and I don't know why.I retopo'd my flat panels from Mar…	1 Last	Deqa 1:18AM
Commode Hello,I finally finished my latest portfolio piece. In this one, I really wanted to focus on metal and wood material. Also, my goal was to make a good looking gun. Here is a small WIP thread:&nb…	3 Last	Skionos 1:14AM
Sketchbook: Bartek.M Hello,My name is Bartek, currently, I'm working as a graphic designer and content creator. My main job is creating social media content for Facebook and Instagram. And I really like my job, but games…	16 Last	Skionos 1:01AM
Narcissism Priest Female Version (Realtime Model Portfolio Piece) Latest Progress: I am over these coming months in my spare time work on a beautiful concept by Hayun Lee, but as a girl instead of a guy. My goal for the project is for the character to be at a …	23 Last	bkost 12:56AM
Sketchbook: DCA_tabletop games Hey everyone!I'm a digital modeller and sculptor who is currently working their way through all the DnD characters/monsters (with some of my own personal work thrown in too)They're designed to be 3D …	7 Last	dca_tabletop 12:50AM
3D Chun_Li Character Hey Guys,Over the Past Few weeks, I've been working on creating a Realistic Chun-Li game ready Character. I managed to get to a point with the her, however after getting some useful feedback from a m…	51 Last	Denzil_forde 12:31AM
Awesome youtube channel for art fundamentals Check this guy's channel out. This is some of the best instruction I've heard anywhere covering art fundamentals. Check out his "10 minutes to better painting" series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…	4 Last	sacboi 12:24AM
Why do companies keep refreshing advertisements for positions that aren't available for employment I've noticed this trend in several advertisements for game dev jobs on glassdoor, indeed, linkedin, neuvoo where a game dev job advertised keeps refreshing in availability and ends up on the t…	3 Last	RyanB 12:20AM
FN Five-SeveN Pistol Check out the rest of the final renders!https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xGw6mHey guys! Here's some progress for this pistol I'm working on (favorite pistol in counter-strike, heh).Still contemplat…	30 Last	Kanni3d 12:16AM
Styx - Zbrush/Maya/Max tool https://vimeo.com/162433702Hi!I created this Zbrush/Maya/Max script package which makes it faster importing-exporting files between the programs, the creating blendshapes, editing geometries, etc.&nb…	46 Last	pOgOstyle 12:13AM
Getting into sculpting - critique appreciated Hi guys!New guy here, I got into sculpting about a month ago when I sculpted that purple-ish monstrosity here. I was messing around in Blender and decided to just sculpt something. I liked the ov…	5 Last	WhiskeyGhost Apr 24 2019
CGMA Mod Environment WIP Thread Most recent WIP shot:-------I'm currently enrolled in the Modular Environment CGMA course and wanted to created a thread to share my work in progress. I don't have enough experience creating these ty…	29 Last	Port-Seven Apr 24 2019
Sevans Art Thread Hi Everyone,Starting a thread where I'll be posting my finished work. Thanks for looking!	20 Last	Sevans Apr 24 2019
Alex's Texture Scans I decided to try my hand at capturing textures with a cross polarizing light setup and this was the result of todays test.I generated albedo, normal and specular/roughness maps.The relevant equi…	43 Last	m4dcow Apr 24 2019
Gun Game ready model (FN Scar17) Hello, guys, this is my last project done during my course on CGMA, my goal was to make a first-person gun.This is my first hard surface project and I learned a lot during this course.Hope guys you l…	2 Last	Zi0 Apr 24 2019
SP 300 Pistol concept. The pistol I designed for the hum3d render challenge.Critiques are welcome.https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zA0Rkd	1 Last	Zi0 Apr 24 2019
[WIP] Air Freight Environment Hey guys,Been a while since I've posted (and even that was on my lost account) but I'm trying to get back into production for games. I've mostly worked as a props artist with a few characters here an…	1 Last	RowanGryder Apr 24 2019
[WIP] UE4 - Project: Star Bounty Welcome to our Project: Star Bounty Please feel free to post critique, advice, links as we would love to hear what you have to say. Team Members who are: PM me if you would like to help Envi…	91 Last	littleclaude Apr 24 2019
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="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116211"]What made you feel crap today?[/URL] I s…	948 Last	littleclaude Apr 24 2019
Sketchbook: Alex Javor I began 3d art September 2017.	108 Last	Alex Javor Apr 24 2019
Sketchbook: Jacob Stolz Hey guys, I'm a 3D Environment Artist looking to get fresh eyes on my work in order to grow and improve. As such, I'm going to try to do a daily 30 minute Environment Speed Sculpt and post it (along …	19 Last	JfourArt Apr 24 2019
Sticky Monthly Environment Art Challenge - March & April 2019 (59) Welcome, all! Time to kick off the next Monthly Environment & Prop Challenge for 2019!Thanks to all those who voted for this Challenge - it's always more fun when the community chimes in! :)…	33 Last	Gustavo_Elliott Apr 24 2019
[WIP] [Environment] Mad bomber's basement Hello everyone, and welcome to my thread!I finally decided to start a thread to register my progress on this project. I've been modeling some assets here and there for a while, and decided to put the…	88 Last	Macebo Apr 24 2019
[UE4] 1980's Comic Book Shop Hello Everyone!It has been a while since I made a thread on here. But I decided to be more active in 2019! So for my first Environment in 2019 I decided to do a smaller scene, a Comic Book Shop…	28 Last	ILYHugh Apr 24 2019
[WIP] Likeness Studies Now that I`ve started the 3rd study in this series of studies, I figured it was time to create a separated thread for it instead of using my sketchbook one. I`ll also be coming back to the older ones…	1 Last	LuizHD Apr 24 2019
Stylized Brick Wall material Hello Polycount my last substance designer study, first time trying some stylized C&C are welcome More images: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Qzg6AZ	1 Last	Ashervisalis Apr 24 2019
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…	2.9K Last	PraxisPixels Apr 24 2019
Sticky Substance - Show your stuff! This thread is here for you guys to showcase your Substance work, post away! [img]http://i.imgur.com/dbXU1ox.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/RayaXiU.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/cBYkF2Q.jpg…	409 Last	HammerB Apr 24 2019
Sticky Substance Designer - Master Thread For those that do not know what Substance Designer is, it is a node based texturing package designed for next gen work flows. It's completely non destructive and non linear. It includes a real time t…	2.6K Last	HammerB Apr 24 2019
Sketchbook: Michał Hunik yo, this bmw	0 Last	Michal_Hunik Apr 24 2019
How to get the same bevel effect of normal map in Designer? Hi, everyone, what I am trying to do is a trim sheet and use the technique that is mentioned in this GDC talk.https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022323/The-Ultimate-Trim-Texturing-TechniquesI am wo…	2 Last	jtdx8866 Apr 24 2019
[UE4] [Finished] Ancient Ruins Hey Polycount community :)I decided to share my progress here and hoping to get some comments and critiques for my environment.When I started the main goal was to make a modular pack of ruins to sell…	31 Last	snoops3d Apr 24 2019
Mentorship Environment Hey y'all! I've been in a mentorship with Ryan Benno and I have a couple sessions left. Here is the environment I've been working on: This is the original concept. Unfortunately I don't know the…	5 Last	SameerAzimi Apr 24 2019
Jonathan Abenhaim Animation Reel (games / tv / vfx) Hey Polycount,From now on, I'll be posting all of my new content from my Youtube channel (watchmeanimate) in this thread to make it easier to follow along. Thank-you to everyone who's been watching m…	55 Last	JonathanAnimates Apr 24 2019
Interstella 5555 Toys WIP - Critique Plz Hey, this is my first post to Polycount! As a personal project I wanted to make the toys from Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 from this scene [url]https://youtu.be/sOS9aOIXPEk?t=3m15s[/url]. So far I …	5 Last	agrix Apr 24 2019
Sketchbook: Patina Alright, want to practice some Retopology and mess around with low poly stuff this year. Curious about how will turn out.This is a hobby done on free time and all fan art are just for fun.Cheers!	131 Last	Patina Apr 24 2019
Sticky Information About Polycount & New Member Introductions Information You Should Know About the Polycount Forum Here are some things you should know about the Polycount Forum. New Members Welcome to Polycount! Please reply to this thre…	29.7K Last	Gigante Apr 24 2019
Sticky Blender Mega Thread [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfdboHvshg[/ame] As usual I'm impressed with what the blender foundation has come up with.. not bad for a free program.	4.5K Last	LuisCherubini Apr 24 2019
Drawing Everyday Hello to the 2D side of Polycount. I was listening to a lot of artist emphasizing the importance of fundamentals, like drawing gesture, anatomy, volume and so on. I'm originally a …	0 Last	Dragonofpeace1985 Apr 24 2019
UE4 masked opacity performance for VR I googled a bit and quickly searched through the polycount but couldn't find a wide answer.How actually the masked opacity is cheap or expensive for performance in UE4.The shader …	0 Last	ACeye Apr 24 2019
Sketchbook: Olivier Magro So i made a model a while ago on blender and then stepped away from making anything but about a week ago i had a change of mind. This is where Im starting so treat me like a punching bag. I have a th…	2 Last	Badhacks Apr 24 2019
3DS Max 2018 Render to Texture headache and hopeful replies. Been a long while since i Posted here.. so will try to keep it to the point but if i wander off subject or post turns south to rant, I appologize in advance :) Been over 3 weeks later …	5 Last	poopipe Apr 24 2019
Scott Eaton, Artist + AI Lecture. Just watched this video and thought it was too cool not to share, as I didn't find any previous threads about it.Not sure how to embed the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN7Ydx9ygPo&fbclid…	3 Last	Laughing_Bun Apr 24 2019
Sketchbook: Pouriya Afshar Hi,It is about 2 months I left MS project in Mechanical engineering to follow my dream as a 3d artist so I decided to start a sketchbook, so critiques are so welcome I am ready to learn new…	45 Last	turokpooria Apr 24 2019
Zbrush Fast Sculpting Brushes I made my own custom brushes that I'm using for some time now to quickly sculpt in Zbrush. Mainly for using the Sculptris Pro feature but also for the default sculpting. I made them now available…	3 Last	Alex Javor Apr 24 2019
Sketchbook: Ben Bolton Hey guys Planning on using this thread to dump speed paintings and sculpts... hopefully every day... critiques are welcome of course. Here's some seed material, things from the last two days: …	224 Last	Amsterdam Hilton Hotel Apr 24 2019