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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	mdeforge 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
Friday Forum Re-Cap There has been a tremendous amount of great work posted all through Polycount this week, so this re-cap is dedicated solely to the art of Polycount.The author and links to the threads/posts are belo…	9 Last	tsuki119 Oct 2010
Monday. Monday! MONDAY! It's.. Monday, if the title didn't give it away, and inside will be a bunch of jibberish to meander over while you futz about getting some pants on. The 2010 Seattle Polycount Meet-up Last F…	3 Last	Klumpmeister Oct 2010
Friday Community Re-cap So you've survived another grueling week of long hours, crunch sessions, living off ramen noodles and/or slurping champagne off the bellies of exotic women. However you've spent your week, you've de…	1 Last	JonathanF Oct 2010
Friday Community Re-cap Hey kids, another week down and hopefully it was a good week at that. We had a few birthdays at Polycount this week (I'm sure we have a bunch every week too), a lot of great discussions and most imp…	11 Last	Mrskullface Sep 2010
Friday Community Re-cap Ladies. Gentlemen. It's Friday. My knight in shining armor, Marine, sent me some very awesome community updates by way of carrier pigeon. Very resourceful, he is. Polycount GoSsS and his broken sh…	6 Last	MoP Sep 2010
Beat Em Up! Challenge Update It's been a few weeks since we kicked off the Beat Em Up Challenge and what a productive few weeks it's been. There have been some seriously nice and interesting entries so far and if you don't get …	0 Last	Emil Mujanovic Sep 2010
Friday Community Re-cap So it's Friday and you're sitting there, thinking to yourself, 'Gee I'd really love to listen to some ROCK. Rock found in a video game. Oh, and looking at some sexy art would be great! YEAH!' Well, …	4 Last	jimmypopali Sep 2010
New Showcase Banner! We figured it was high time the site got a new banner to add to the rotation of awesome artwork up there. Since the balance seems somewhat tipped towards environment work at the moment, FirstKeeper …	7 Last	DarkStar Sep 2010
Friday Community Re-Cap Another week has flown by, and because there's so much going on, we thought you might like this little digest of all the nuggets of goodness that have been popping up lately. Marine has diligently d…	2 Last	ZacD Sep 2010
Building Helm's Deep Greetings, wanderer! Pull up a chair, because today we've been talking to Vincent "ParoXum" Mayeur about his fantastic Helm's Deep environment, which he spent around 6 weeks constructing in 3ds max …	12 Last	onher_247 Sep 2010
Unearthly Challenge Winners After almost a full year of waiting, countless threads, running jokes, a lot of groaning and everything else in between, the winners of Unearthly Challenge 2009 have finally been announced! Congratu…	15 Last	zortech Aug 2010
Friday Community Re-Cap Round up, round up, ladies and gents. It's Friday and it's time to re-cap with what's been happening around Polycount and other communities this week. A bunch of cool art from our very own talent po…	6 Last	kodde Aug 2010
News... from a sheep. Baaa! That's how I feel right now. If you're like me then the only cure for the Monday is to have your eyeballs caressed. Enjoy! This morning I lined up to get the new iPhone 4 at my local Apple sto…	6 Last	ZacD Aug 2010
Friday Forum Re-cap There's been a lot shared in the Polycount Forum this week and last. Both art & discussions have been on the up in the last week so lets get to it. Condoning "for profit" schools with vi…	4 Last	Klumpmeister Aug 2010
The Co-worker There's been a lot of discussion lately in the Polycount Forum about an article written by Christopher Gregorio on How to hire an artist. Our very own Jon Jones wrote a rebuttal on his blog that's …	13 Last	d1ver Aug 2010
Nice, an easy Monday. I'm still knocking the jet lag out of my head so I will make this short & sweet. With each knock on my noggin comes something tasty for you to wake up to the new week with. Ganon vs. Link Devi…	4 Last	ralusek Aug 2010
Time Machine! The Polycount Low Poly Challange #3 - Time Machine! has come to an end, but what a spectacular end it was! It was a pleasure to watch Polycount's talented artists design and create these fun charact…	7 Last	cman2k Aug 2010
HOLY SHIRT! We have new Merch. Hi kids! We have something new and special for you today. You may have seen it on my facebook profile picture or may have seen it in Adam's post a few weeks back. But now it's become a reality and …	27 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jul 2010
Friday forum re-cap So much has happened this week! A few of our members have teamed up to start an Unofficial Community Collaboration. We announced the winners of the Team Fortress 2: The Polycount Pack Contest. And w…	3 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Jul 2010
Who you gonna call? MEEDDIICC! Even two weeks after the Team Fortress 2 Contest has ended, it seems like people haven't had enough of making TF2 themed art! Today we highlight: oobersli's Ghostbusters TF2 theme Olive "-Gopher"…	3 Last	matbrady Jul 2010
3Point Release Quality Shader So, in case you hadn't heard, those nice people over at 3Point Studios have released a shader that will make your normal-maps look amazing in 3ds Max! Since the middle of June, it's been available i…	8 Last	god3ila Jul 2010
The challenge continues... For all you contest and challenge nuts, we have a small update on some of the challenges happening around game-art community. Polycount's Time Machine! Challenge update Game Artisans Neverending …	3 Last	:Duh Jul 2010
Friday's Forum Recap Hazardous Materials Lucas "doc_rob" Hardi has made this! His thread is here! Not content with putting it in the WAYWO Thread, he also made a separate thread for it, and was even thoughtful enough to…	4 Last	JDinges Jul 2010
TF2: Polycount Pack, Week 5 Check-in 5 weeks have now passed for the Team Fortress 2: Polycount Pack contest and that can only mean one thing: THE CONTEST HAS ENDED. If you read all of the Rules & Submission Guidelines, then you k…	37 Last	Joe Inky Jul 2010
Chatter boxes! We all know just how sexy the art can be around here. The WAYWO thread alone will call your eyeballs up, take them to dinner then back to its place for the night. Only to duck out before they've wok…	1 Last	c0ldhands Jul 2010