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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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shinobik

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 t…
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takingnotes

[WIP] RED V-Raptor camera, Plasticity practice

It's my first WIP post here, but not my first model in Plasticity. I bought it about two years ago and have used it occasionally for small tasks. However, the gaps between my uses were too long, so e…
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GIZ

Sticky Tech Artist - What are you working on: FOREVER Edition!

Moderator note:if you want a higher chance for being front-paged, make a topic and include the link in your reply. I've seen a lot of cool threads around here recently, from LitSpheres to Snow ble…
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Klunk

Weird light artifacts after baking and exporting

Hi! i'm having issues with the normal map (i think). It's giving me these weird light artifacts when i import the textures into another softwareMy workflow is: UVs in blender, then bake and texture i…
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Fabi_G

Insomniac Spiderman Retopo (Help)

My question is very confusing, so I will do my best to word it. This is the Spider-Man model from Insomniac Games Marvel Spider-Man 2. The only model that is from Spider-Man 1 is the photo taken in M…
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Neox

AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.

[{"insert":"wow, OK...I haven't posted in a long while, but with all the recent AI drama going on, I felt I needed to voice some concerns, and bring up some perhaps controversial thoughts and opinion…
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sacboi

[MAYA 2018] Get Back UV Editor Tools Menu

Does anyone know how to get back the UV Editor Tools Menu for the UV editor that used to be full of very useful tools for organizing and unwrapping UV's. A bunch of the tools have now moved into…
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supremedalek925

Specular /highlight spot suppression texture channel?

I wonder  if and how much people use such thing  to kill plastic look  PBR often makes in something like 2d "grass bed" material  or dirt.   What's called  specular…
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ZacD

Looking for help with a personal project that has exceeded my skill level.

I've been working on a personal project for awhile now but now I have reached a point where I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm a big Metal Gear fan and there's a Metal Gear Risk board game that I wan…
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TheFreshest

AI and future of 3d artists

hi there folks. newbie here. just getting into 3d since I'm extremely passionate about not starving to death. Tried graphic design and web dev but AI threw a wrench in that. Did a lot of research bef…
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gnoop

Grooming

Hello, I share my grooming practices.Creating 3D cards in Maya, XGen, and applying them in ZBrush
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AllenPoe

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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Melomad

Sketchbook: Melomad

Hello, I'm Arzel from France! I've been lurking the forum and decided to get my stuff out there.Right now, I'm building my portfolio and I'm trying to get good enough at what I do to lend me a job. I…
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Melomad

[Feedback] Barrel Prop – Texture Critique Needed

I am very new to this. You can say it's my first time texturing something. I am looking for some critique on this, like what's working and what's not. Any kind of feedback will be appreciated. Thanks
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okidoki

Substance VS Arnold Render Image Color Issue

So I finished the textures for this simple box but it's basically a whole different color when I put the textures on back in Maya. Why is this happening?Substance^Arnold in Maya^I used the substance …
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Eric Chadwick

Sticky What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025

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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="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116211"]What made you feel crap today?[/URL] I s…
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iam717

BRAWL2 [Character] R&M, iam717

Trying to decide between these two, both?: (mocked this up)https://the-ultimate-evil.fandom.com/wiki/Rick_Prime+https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Morty With the idea of the "switch player ty…
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iam717

Blender, Normal Mapping Artifacts, SuperPNG

Hello everyone, I've been struggling since yesterday with a problem related to normal maps, and visual artifacts. To keep things short: I applied some normal maps to my geometry, funky stuf…
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okidoki

Sketchbook: Zaki Saati

Hello everyone, this is my first post in this community. In this series of posts, I am hoping to document a personal project entitled "Gallerie Nocturne". The idea was floating in my mind for…
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ashstorm91

Sticky The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (98)

Welcome one and all to the 98th edition of the Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of September and October!This challenge is a way for real-time 3D artists to test their skills and…
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Vastra

BRAWL2 [Character] The Freelancer, Alexander

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Dorado

[Hobby/Volunteer/Unpaid] Looking for: 2D Top‑Down Artist/Animator

Cosmic Void: Crew of the LullabyHello space-friend and pixel wrangler! 👋We’re a small but passionate group building an emotionally rich cooperative 2D top-down space adventure, Cosmic Void, where 4-6…
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Pramer

Highschool Character (WIP)

Making a new character, goal of this project is to better understand marvelous designer, and overall try and level up the standard of my cloth.
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kanga

worst day ever

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sacboi

PBR safe base color node in Designer?

I found  the node in Designer  that makes safe colors from input .  While how it behaves on whites is perfectly what I expected , its clipping on dark end seems a bit too extreme for m…
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gnoop

I'm tired of 3d modeling and everything that goes with it.

I'm not sure how relevant this shitpost will be, but I just have to speak up. I've been doing 3d for three years now.(im 23yo) Thought it was my dream and the whole activity suits me pretty darn well…
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Ruz

Generative AI to make tire skids decals?

Those sort of dark stripes from blocked wheels  racing cars do in turns.   Could somebody  suggest one and what the hell should be the  promt wording .    Whatever …
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gnoop

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

[Finished Work] Another sci-fi corridor

Just posting some work that I finally completed earlier this year. It sat for many years as a blockout on my hard drive. Due to some down time, I was able to start working on it at the end of last ye…
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Vastra

Serpent Cave Entrance - Hive Inspired [WIP Environment]

Hello everyone 👋 =) , I'm an aspiring environment artist. I’ve been focusing on building out my portfolio with environment concepts and trying to push my Blender & Unreal workflow further with ea…
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Vastra

Sketchbook: Halovkgen

Hihi! Gonna be posting wips and some finals here : D! I'm decently new to 3d, substance + unreal so any help would be appreciated! For this piece, I based it off of Lobotomy Corporation's hubs / comm…
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Halovkgen

The Art of Pablo Garcia 2025

A #commission work Tortured Man Hands made for #mechatronic and ready for #3dprint made with #ZBrush and #Render with #keyshot
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ShinPaburoVIII

Sketchbook: BootScoot

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BootScoot

How do I make human topology?

This discussion was created from comments split from: Is this a good female body topology (for posing/animation)?.
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Grump

Hard Surface Blog: Sci-Fi Processing Station

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mpuLse

Sketchbook: Jake Juip

Here's my sketchbook!
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Sketchbook: Beckett L.S

Just a dude with various pens and a dream.
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Beckett_LS

Sketchbook: Kaitlin B.

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Eric Chadwick

Sketchbook: Kikimora

Daria D's sketchbook 
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Eric Chadwick

Sketchbook: Lucy W.

Hey! My name is Lucy Webb and I am an Animation Senior at The College for Creative Studies, and I have a minor in Game Design. I plan to follow more of a video game career path, so this is great to d…
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Eric Chadwick

Sketchbook: Amari Meyberg

hiiii this is my sketchbook
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Eric Chadwick

Orc Warrior - Warcraft style cinematic - feedback for my first portfolio post

Hello everyone!I've been working on a personal project for my first portfolio post (I was aiming to post it on Artstation). But I am a bit anxious if it's even worthy or what is needed to post i…
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Reydan

[Finished Work] Night Room Scene – Nov-Dec 2024 Environment Art Challenge

Hey everyone! I'm finishing up my project from the November-December 2024 bi-monthly challenge and adding more details computers on the shelves, a keyboard on the desk, a screen on the monitor, and o…
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GroovyDaft0

[Portfolio Review] 8+ Years 3D Artist Seeking Feedback for 3A Studio Roles

Hi Polycount! I’m a 3D artist with over 8 years of experience in 3d design, metaverse, and mobile games. I’m recently aiming for 3A studio roles (e.g., 3D Concept Artist, Environment Artist) and have…
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kakit01124

Zbrush on Linux - Can't log into Maxon App

I am in dire need of help.As you know, Windows 11 update is coming up and I desperately do not want to use it.So I've been testing Linux Mint (ubuntu) for the past weeks and I'm finally at the stage …
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thomasp

[WIP] F-15 Strike Eagle Cockpit & Avionics

Heyyyiee,I'm currently working on a personal 3D modeling project, which is a detailed F-15 Strike Eagle. And I’ve decided to dedicate this thread specifically to the cockpit and avionics se…
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akshattejas

Xenomite-X (The apex predator of WAR)

Hey everyone! I’ve just started blocking out my major project for uni. It’s still super early in the process, but I’d really appreciate any feedback or suggestions on the proportions, structure, or …
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akshattejas

Unreal Engine 5 Tangent Space and Triangulation Problem

My problem is that I've asked questions about triangulation and game modeling on the forum before and learned a lot, but I've actually encountered an error I can't solve. I've configured my model's U…
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nattemre

Lagertha – Diablo/Vikings inspired real-time character

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BestiART

3D Art - Guns for Unreal Project

Hi everybody,I'm new to the polycount forum and currently on the third module of my Master program where I get to choose skills to improve. So in order to prepare for this module I would like to ask …
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iam717

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