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Dota 2 Polycount Contest - Overall Winner Valve has released the Overall Winner for the Dota 2 Polycount Contest. Congratulations goes out to all 11 winners, as well as all that participants who completed their entries. Thank you for helpi…	29 Last	dirigible Dec 2012
Dota 2 Polycount Contest Winners - Day 3 Right on schedule record scratch Valve has released the Day 3 Winners for the Dota 2 Polycount Contest -- this time announcing four winners instead of three. We now know 10 of the 11 contest winn…	26 Last	Kalknaro Dec 2012
Dota 2 Polycount Contest Winners - Day 2 Valve has released the names of the next 3 winners of the Dota 2 Polycount Contest. That now makes 6 of the 11 winners known, with the final grand winner being announced on Friday. Check back tomor…	25 Last	Anuxinamoon Dec 2012
Dota 2 Polycount Contest Winners - Day 1 Valve has announced the first 3 winners of the Dota 2 Polycount Contest. Head on over to their blog post for full details, or visit the threads for the 3 winners in our forum. The first 3 winners a…	37 Last	TheQiwiMan Dec 2012
Dota 2 Polycount Contest: revenue sharing With the deadline for the Dota 2 Polycount Contest coming up (December 3rd!) Valve asked that we remind everyone has to finalize the revenue sharing option on their submission. "Each user involved i…	0 Last	adam Nov 2012
Dota 2 'Polycount Contest' extension Valve has contacted us and asked if we could extend the contest for an addition two weeks because, "we're really impressed and excited by the work coming out of the contest." We said, "Pfft.. yeah, …	10 Last	LuCh! Nov 2012
Dota 2 Polycount Contest We are extremely happy to finally announce to you the Dota 2 Polycount Contest. Just as we did when we first launched the update to Polycount we are pleased to be working with Valve yet aga…	22 Last	zenarion Oct 2012
Official Polycount Facebook Page Another way to stay up to date with Polycount news. We've recently created an official Polycount facebook page that will be used as another way to keep you all informed of all the great stuff going…	7 Last	Stinger88 Sep 2012
+20,000 Polycount members All of us here at Polycount were amazed with the positive community response to the launching of the new site and the amount of press it has received throughout many reputable sources on the Interne…	26 Last	MeintevdS Sep 2012
Shacknews Spotlights Polycount Shacknews took some time to spotlight Polycount and to chat with Adam "Polycount has been home to a large number of video game artists, both professional and amateur, since 1998. Like Shacknews, …	1 Last	VictorSantos Aug 2012
Darksiders II Contest Mace Winner The second winner for the Darksiders II Contest has been announced. Congratulations to Max Davenport for winning first place for his mace entry. His entry received almost double the votes o…	10 Last	Daven Apr 2012
Friday Recap Another week down and some amazing art as usual. Also don't forget to vote for the Darksiders II Contest Axe Entries. Now... ART! Pimping & Previews art by ShootandRun art by PAnick art …	17 Last	deutschbag Apr 2012
Darksiders II Contest Axe Winner The winner for the Darksiders II Contest Axe category has just been announced! Congratulations to Hristo Rusanov for his amazing Axe entry. Big props to Michael Vicente and Joel Tansley fo…	18 Last	TaylorMouse Apr 2012
Darksiders II Mace Vote is up The top 3 Macee entries have now been uploaded to the Darksiders Facebook Page and are ready for your vote. The next round of voting has begun on the Darksiders Facebook Page. Head over and…	10 Last	Isaiah Sherman Apr 2012
Darksiders II Contest Axe Vote is up The top 3 Axe entries have now been uploaded to the Darksiders Facebook Page and are ready for your vote. A little over an hour ago the voting page for the Darksiders II Contest Axe Entries…	11 Last	AimBiZ Apr 2012
Happy Birthday! Today is the traditional day of fools and yet somehow it's also our birthday. Our fourteenth birthday. We opened the door on April 1st, 1998. Congratulations to all both current and past polycounter…	28 Last	Cocophony Apr 2012
One Meeellion Posts Polycount hit another major milestone today as we surpassed the 1,000,000th post. A huge thanks from all of us here at Polycount to all our dedicated members, new and old, for making this happen an…	22 Last	Stradigos Feb 2012
Toronto IGDA Talk by Adam Bromell As some of you may know, Adam Bromell recently did a talk at the IGDA Toronto meeting about what it is to be a Video Game Artist, titled "More Than Pushing Polys". On October 20th, 2011, Pr…	35 Last	MadnessImport Feb 2012
Post Highlight Duncan Fraser took some time to write up a great post about his workflow you should check it out "My sole aim as an artist is to continually improve myself and inspire others (if possible)" Mission…	7 Last	Vitrux Oct 2011
ReCap This week we have everything from hard surface, to organic characters, to pixel art! Thanks for making this recap possible Marine! Mrskullface's has been working on his Nazi Smasher. Skeptical …	13 Last	cupsster Jul 2011
ReCap This week we have some amazing art and hidden in there are some videos and some amazing WIP shots so check out the threads too Thanks to Marine for doing the digging these wouldn't be possible with…	8 Last	JacqueChoi Jul 2011
ReCap We might as well start this week off with a ReCap of last weeks astounding art. Thanks to Marine for sifting through the monumental amount of awesome art you guys have posted. Thanks to SkudzAlmigh…	15 Last	Sharvo Jul 2011
ReCap ReCap is back after a long break, and even if the Brawl slowed us down a bit it didn't stop you guys from cranking out some amazing art.It's not Friday true, but this is long overdue. This ReCap sp…	17 Last	tda Jun 2011
Voting! Voting for both Fighters and Stages begins Friday, May 13th 2011! Voting for Fighters and Stages for the Brawl Contest will begin on Friday, May 13th 2011 and will end on Tuesday, May 17th at 9AM P…	6 Last	Froyok May 2011
BRAWL Fighter artists, please read. If you entered the BRAWL Tournament Contest with a FIGHTER, you need to resubmit your entry in this thread here. Long story short: When I was editing the thread to include some missed submissions th…	2 Last	TorQue[MoD] May 2011
BRAWL Submission Threads now open! We've just opened up the BRAWL submission threads, artists!If you're a character artist entering in a FIGHTER you will want to submit your entry here. If you're an environment artist entering in a …	0 Last	adam May 2011
Brawl: The End is Near The deadline for the Brawl competition is fast approaching with the May 6th deadline being literally days away. Get your stocks of caffeine in order and be ready for an intense push to the finish l…	11 Last	Purplepaint May 2011
Friday Community Re-Cap As usual there have been some amazing art works this week and it's been a while since I last did a proper Re-Cap update. So this one is going to be an especially big one. So get your ref folder lube…	19 Last	A-Train Apr 2011
Contact Us! or... Submit News! or... ...Help! A couple of weeks ago we updated our top menu. The most important update to the menu? Our 'Contact Us' form. We're not sure if you've noticed or not (you've noticed, my PM's lately have b…	4 Last	jeremiah_bigley Apr 2011
Polycount + Piracy Just a small note to let everyone know we've updated our Rules post in the Forum to reflect our stance on Piracy discussions here at Polycount. Piracy is one of those elephants in the room we face d…	27 Last	East Mar 2011
Are you ready to BRAWL? For those of you who have been hiding under a rock, a few days ago Polycount officially withdrew from the Dominance War contest. Despite the bad news, the Polycount community was given some good ne…	53 Last	Sirdelita Mar 2011
Friday Re-Cap It's that time again, folks. Friday! We have a bunch of cool things for you this week, brought to you by the ever diligent Marine, the letter P and the number 15. Enjoy. Polycount - WAYWO Th…	3 Last	kodde Mar 2011
Recap Marine did some hunting and I really like what he found. Awesome work all around guys! Warby's Asian Restaurant looks amazing. Those are some good looking rocks, Myles. Jaco's figure study…	3 Last	Purplepaint Feb 2011
Friday Recap, so selfish Holy week of awesome, Batman! We're getting a little selfish with this recap today. Terrible, I know. Here now are the goods from this past week at Polycount. Polycount Jaco has a thing for sexy al…	13 Last	ebagg Feb 2011
Friday Forum Re-Cap Well if you've been away from Polycount for what feels like forever (like I have), then this is a great week to come back to the place we like to call home. Some tremendously rad, froth in your jock…	13 Last	ivanushka Feb 2011
Mega Re-Cap We've been sitting on some of these gorgeous pieces of art work since December so some of them may not come as a surprise to you. However, since the only website you ever visit is Polycount (ahem) y…	14 Last	doublemint Jan 2011
Hop on the good foot to do the bad thing Oof - 2011! Let's get things started off with a bang with some goods found right here at Polycount. Pixar knows what's up I saw this video over the holidays - (thank you Rick Stirling!) - and lo…	4 Last	Treacharous Jan 2011
Dom. War V Mini-competition voting begins! Voting has begun for the Dominance War V's mini-competition. People who have entered the contest were tasked with creating 'Dominance War like' characters, as though they were created for an MMO of …	22 Last	Stradigos Dec 2010
2010, the holidays, and Polycount Happy holidays everyone! I just wanted to make a quick post and inform you that the Polycount Team will be taking some time off to visit family and friends over the coming holiday break. It's safe t…	27 Last	3DRyan Dec 2010
Dom. War founder resigns, future plans revealed Fredrik Hultqvist, Dominance War & Unearthly Challenge organizer and founder, announced today that he is resigning from his positions. Who is he leaving those events to to be organized? Find out…	11 Last	[Deleted User] Dec 2010
Rage Against The Weekend It's Friday. We have a selection of pictures for you to gaze at. You love it! Jump right in here! What a week! Lots of creative and interesting posts made in our forums this week. The caution…	4 Last	VidGameDude Dec 2010
Friday Community Re-Cap A lot of pretty pictures for you today. We kick things off at home with some amazing art by our Polycount members. Then we explore a dope thread over at ZBrushCentral filled with all kind of style a…	6 Last	ScoobyDoofus Dec 2010
Monitor-to-retina art missile. I was split between that or, 'Dropping an A-bomb' (where the A stands for art). I've been gone for around 3 weeks and that was the best I could come up with. Archviz in Unreal - possible! Polycount…	4 Last	Habboi Nov 2010
Friday Community Re-Cap Some great art going around this week and thanks to Marine for hooking me up with a few gems. Stay tuned next week for the Pre-Dom War V Art Update. Enjoy, Polycount art by murph &nb…	3 Last	ZacD Nov 2010
Low Poly Challenge #4: TRON hawken, The Pimp, The McDaddy, The Mother of Greentooth, kicked off a new Low Poly Challenge last week and it deserves a little front page love. So all you low poly kids who hate them darn normal ma…	3 Last	Joshua Stubbles Nov 2010
Friday Community Re-Cap Another week down, another bunch of awesome art from around the 3D Community. As usual, we kick things off at home here at Polycount, then head over to 3D Total and then end up at the ever popular Z…	3 Last	jeremiah_bigley Nov 2010
Dominance War V Begins! It's that time of year, folks. The battle of the year is upon is yet again and Polycount is calling all troops to fight the battle for the Pre-Dominance War V Challenge. This year, particip…	14 Last	jmiles Nov 2010
Monday Make-Up With Adam's accident and me moving back to Australia from Singapore, news with pretty pictures has become quite scarce as of late. But it's Monday and this is a make-up post to make up for the lack …	7 Last	dkreset Nov 2010
ParoXum Beats 'Em Up! So, the votes have been cast on our Beat-Em-Up environment art / level design challenge! Over 250 people voted, and while the competition was tough (fantastic work from all who entered), Vincent "Pa…	19 Last	ArtVtalk Nov 2010
Updates to Polycount, no recap today Today is a crazy day here at the office, and with Emil lost in Australia on some crazy adventure and MoP still finding his footing in his new place there's no time to whip up a recap this week. Ther…	3 Last	ZacD Oct 2010