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Ado

Hi, here is a 3D Fanart of my favorite JPop Artist: Ado!I hope you like it and I'd appreciate any feedback!
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borbus

Cozy Doughnut Shop

 Revived a neglected portfolio piece that earned a “WOW 😍” from my biggest supporter, my wife! 🎨 Through various projects and mentorship roles, I’ve mastered hardware, software, art direction, a…
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zetheros

Trimsheet 45 degree angle issue (AO seams?)

Hi!I've been trying to use trimsheet to texture some of the parts of this mesh. Precisely, I've try to use Olsen Morten techniques to create trimsheet with a 45 degree angle but no matter how I tweak…
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Fabi_G

3D ANIMATION SHOWREEL

Hello everyoneI share my showreel with game animations hoping for some feedback!!!Feel free to express your thoughts!!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4aRkBAfiI
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ediiie

How would you model this?

Hey, beginner here, i was wondering what would be the most appropriate approach to this arm? i work in zbrush and in maya, i have a full human body and i want to do this style on one arm, ive thought…
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iam717

Question From a New Lecturer: What Makes a 3D Course Excellent?

I am structuring a new approach to the 3D side of a BTEC Level 3 Games course. I would love to hear from the community: hobbyists, students, those in industry, other lecturers and so forth, as to wha…
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Alex_J

Character Design for Critique

Hello guys,I am new this community. Looking for some feedback for my design. Please feel free to critique my game character design - https://www.behance.net/gallery/180357369/Afgisblade-Mythical…
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ediiie

Joao Sapiro thread of ramblings

Hello ! since i hate medium and all the new content share platforms, and i love polycount, ill leave my "writing" on issues that feel important to me regarding the industry here ! Check below for the…
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ModBlue

Relevance of Scott Eatons Anatomy for Artists course for getting hired into the game industry.

When it comes to anatomy, what is the best way to approach learning it to come across as competant to a studio?I am exploring this question more from a hiring perspective where the art reviewers judg…
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NikhilR

Application Color Changer?

Random question not really pertaining to 3D specifically but felt this might be the best place to ask.This application i am using has the most eye bleeding colors ever, i want to change it's theme/sc…
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iam717

3D Character Artist/Props/Riggs/Animator

Hi! My name is Guido. I'm a professional 3D Artist. I have been working in the gaming industry for about 3 years. I have participated in many projects. I am ready to make models for you, deliver the …
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Guido_LP

3DS Max: Importing and using custom SVG / PNG icons for a new toolbar.

Hi all, I am trying to add and assign a custom button (SVG or PNG file set) to apply to a new custom toolbar. I've looked over these links: https://www.reddit.com/r/3dsm…
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Klunk

Is it normal for in studio employed 3d artist to work on.....

.....sculpting /modeling/retopo/texturing of :organic characters,props,blendshapes,clothes,hard surface  weaponsrockshousesI have started a journey in a studio which is a groupation of thq nordi…
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chien

(Zbrush) Monster - UV, Polygroups

Hi Polycount forum,I have a problem and couldn't solve it. I lost so much time. I first applied zremesher to my model. Then I wanted to prepare UV for Maya but whenever i try to do UVmaster = Un…
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mountains

Shrinkwrapping lowpoly to highpoly with linked vertex positions, is this a thing?

I'm making game models for a hobby project. Some of these models is hard-surface armor. I'm making some of these armors different proportions to fit different sizes. The problem is, even with blender…
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pxgeek

Duplicate and slide edge tool (As seen in Modo) in Maya?

Hello guys! I created my Polycount profile today and just wanted to start by asking a question in regards to duplicating edges along polygon faces in Maya. In Modo, the slide edge tool also has a d…
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carolinasalgueiro

Variable halo distance in distance node?

Have anyone managed to do something like that? With halo distance  variable by noise input?It's perhaps could be possible with loop node or slope blur approach with more steps  but I wo…
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gnoop

[WIP] Laser rifle

Hi there so was following a tutorial trying out the boxcutter and hard ops.  Here is the texture I made for it. Like toto hear any feedback on the texture and if anyone has any thought on how i …
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Wolfer

[WIP] Vintage Blowtorch

Hi!I'm trying to get some pieces for my portofolio where I'll show my texturing skills and I started with this blowtorch.This is still a work in progress,if anyone has any suggestion on how can I imp…
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andreygheorghe

[WIP] MINCOLINO - Final Year UE5 Cinematic

"Mincolino" is a game Cinematic about a wooden mink brought to life by alchemy and magic- Core Team -Charmaine Lim - Animation Lead Diego Mota - Director, Concept Art, Human …
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littleclaude

Building optimisation

Hi everyone! Got this large building from CAD software, it needs to be game ready. I'm going to reduce the polycount, clean it up, etc, but the question is - does it need to be separated to modulars …
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Eric Chadwick

Export multiple animations from Maya to Sketchfab

Hi!Some of the pieces we encounter in sketchfab have a drop-down menu with multiple animations we can choose from. How do we configure the exportation to harness all animations inside one FBX file fr…
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Eric Chadwick

How to edit the move gizmo in Maya?

I need help to get rid of the extrude function on the move gizmo in Maya. Every time I move an object, I accidentally click on “extrude” and end of extruding faces when I don’t mean too! It’s been …
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Alex_J

The Addams Family Project (WIP)

Hello fellow polycount users! I’ve been following polycount for few years but never really posted till today. I am a final year games art student and Teesside University and for my final year proje…
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iam717

Released: Material Blending Shaders for Marmoset Toolbag 3

Hey Everyone! I am happy to announce my blended material shader for Marmoset Toolbag 3 has been released! You can find the link to the shaders on Gumroad here. The downloadable zip contains shad…
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iam717

Unreal shorts featuring the world famous Evel Knievel toy :)

Check out this dude making Unreal shorts featuring the Evel Knievel toy :) - https://www.jamielancaster.co.uk/shorts-evel-knievelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN46kF_zFKI
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littleclaude

How to get bigger UV space?

Hello, sorry if I didn't make myself clear. I was looking at the UV maps for some character models from Uncharted 4 and noticed the artists seem to emphasize greater UV space in the face regions of t…
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Neox

Magic Beanstalk Environment (UE5)

Just finished this piece in UE5.4Based on a watercolor by Mateusz Urbanowicz II for his book Tokyo at Night. After I replicated the original image I decided I wanted to take it a bit further and…
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samifira

Sketchbook: BlueBlankey

Thought this would be a good place to document model progress, if a literal snail in a marathon counts as "progress".I don't really have plans for working in the industry, but I do have some animatio…
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BlueBlankey

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JoeXLegacy

LANDNAV simulation game development

A fully functioning military compass for a land nav simulation game. This is the game model, I gonna make a high version in zbrush and boolean out the ticks and numbers along the ruler, then I'l…
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Alex_J

Rigger/ 3D Artist

Hi, I'm Giorgio, I'm a Rigger 3D artist looking for projects to work onEven though my main expertise is as rigger, I am able to follow other processes such as sculpting, polygonmodelling, ret…
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gioxo

The process of creating a Rocket Boat of Project 1241 - Part 2

Hi everyone! Today I want to tell you how I created a highly pligonal model in Zbrush on the example of a hull.Для начала я экспортировал свою модель из Fusion 360 в Zbrush. Next, using the Dyna…
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Attknin

PROJECT 1241 Missile Boats

ArtStation:https://www.artstation.com/attknin
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Attknin

"Your comment will appear after it is approved" -- What ?

What is this exactly ??  Is this anti-spamming ? Is this to ensure the forums is free of penls joke ?  I usually get this posting in the Monthly Challenges thread. And, so far none of them …
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Attknin

The process of creating a Rocket Boat of Project 1241 - Part 1

Today I want to share with you the process of creating a rocket boat. And I will start, in my opinion, with the most interesting, namely, with how I created its hull. But! First of all I want to list…
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kanga

Mari Displacement to ZBrush - Seam Issue

[{"insert":"Hey folks, Is there someone who had the same issue and\/ or knows how to fix this? I'm new to Mari and am currently trying to work on a creature with multiple UDIMs. I painted displacemen…
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pxgeek

[3DS Max] How do I straighten out my arm UVs?

Hello, I'm wondering if someone can help me with this issue I'm having. I've uv mapped a pair of arms for a character I'm working on here, and while it looks alright, I'd like to straighten them out …
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pxgeek

UV Unwrapping In Sub-D Workflow Questions

Hi guys, what should I do in this scenario for UV mapping? Say the model is being made for production, not games. Should I UV unwrap the high poly and texture it directly? I ask because in this case …
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Michael Knubben

3ds max show number of triangles macro

small macro script to display the number of tris in an editable mesh (I know there's shortcut 7 key but it defaults to a load of bolloxs, besides it's easily extended to show a range of values.)
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Klunk

3D Artist - props, hard surface

Hi, I'm a 3D artist looking for projects to work on: props,  weapons, environment objects - design, modeling, texturing. Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/artist/danielsaczanow &nbs…
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Daniel_S

[NEW RELEASED] Player Status Pack 01

🌟 Introducing our latest Unity asset 🌟☸️Player Status Pack 01🎥 Watch the full demo video on YouTube and get a quick sneak peek in our YouTube Shorts.📺 Full Demo Video: https://youtu.be/HmKxnmYGPdo🎥 S…
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SolodreamCreation

3D Character artist looking for work

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DayanaMalinska

Datasmith for games

Does anyone here used datasmith files for games? What about optimisation and workflow? I have a huge model exported to datasmith (pretty similar to Hillside Sample), and I'm figuring out what is the …
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danielgrey8256

Smoothing groups don't work in 3dsmax on meshes imported from zbrush??

Hi, I have this issue with smoothing out my mesh in 3dsmax after exporting from Zbrush. I retopo my mesh in Zbrush, import it into max and magically smoothing groups stop working. The only way to smo…
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iam717

Space Western

Yoooo I'm unemployed! If you got a job for me, hit me up!!BUTI've had some ideas for a fun Looney Tunes inspired Space Western which would be an arena shooter. This is what I got so far...Been starti…
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Ashervisalis

Hasbro's $1 billion bet on internal game development

Hasbro's $1 billion bet on internal game developmentHead of digital product development Dan Ayoub talks about the toy maker's plans to get back in the game.https://www.gamesindustry.biz/hasbros-1-bil…
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littleclaude

I saw a good presentation on planning modular asset sets - you should also see it

I don't normally watch tutorials because I obviously already know everything but this autoplayed and I thought it was very good.Greybeards (should) know all this but if you're smol and haven't had th…
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littleclaude

MOD AR-15 Assault rifle

MOD AR-15 Assault rifleHi everyone, this time I want to share with you the process of creating MOD AR-15.I started modeling my assault rifle in Fusion 360, I like this program very much and I like CA…
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AngrySokol

Specializing or not ?

Question is ...Professionally speaking  is it better to specialize in a narrow field such as texture art or character modeling only or keep it more broad like for an assets designer?And about te…
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chien

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