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3D Art Showcase & Critiques Share your 3D video game artwork, ask/give critique, and share techniques.	43.6K	564.6K	Tyrannosaurus Rex WIP JamesBear • 4:56AM in 3D Art Showcase & Critiques
2D Art Showcase & Critiques Share your 2D game artwork, share techniques, and ask/give critiques.	1.5K	20.4K	Polycount's Sketch Thread! Lyno • Jul 15 2018 in 2D Art Showcase & Critiques
Animation Showcase & Critiques Share your animation projects for discussion, education, and feedback.	1K	6.7K	NEST 05 - CGI Animated Short (Fantasy/Sci-Fi) DA3D • Jul 15 2018 in Animation Showcase & Critiques
Digital Sketchbooks Each artist can post any artwork they choose, personal projects, art progressions, etc	3.6K	49.6K	Sketchbook: Daniel Strickland d_strickland • 3:41AM in Digital Sketchbooks
Featured Artwork Artwork featured in the Polycount header, created by talented artists of the Polycount Community.	268	12.5K	Aloy - Horizon Zero Dawn - Hand Painted jmoore9001 • Jul 14 2018 in Featured Artwork

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Technical Talk Ask technical questions about 2D/3D software & techniques & hardware, share shaders, scripts, and new software.	32.8K	247.1K	How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking) Sergey85 • 4:35AM in Technical Talk
Allegorithmic Substance PBR texturing and material authoring tools	1.4K	10.2K	Substance Designer - Master Thread Supp1k_AAA • Jul 15 2018 in Allegorithmic Substance
Marmoset Realtime rendering and art tools	571	4K	Transparency/glass in Marmoset viewer guitarguy00 • Jul 15 2018 in Marmoset
Quixel SUITE - Megascans Scan based PBR texturing. In Photoshop.	1.8K	13.1K	Answered: 3DO Painting brushes are not showing Synaesthesia • 2:36AM in Quixel SUITE - Megascans
Unity 2D and 3D game development platform.	648	3.2K	Textures packing and lightmap for asset store? Eric Chadwick • Jul 14 2018 in Unity
Unreal Engine Suite of integrated tools for game developers.	3.4K	20K	Tree lighting and Normals problems in UE4 melviso • Jul 15 2018 in Unreal Engine

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General Discussion News, announcements, game discussions, etc. New members see the Information sticky.	23.9K	555.7K	Your favourite artbooks David-J • Jul 15 2018 in General Discussion
Career & Education Getting into game development, education for game artists, working in a studio vs. freelancing, life/work balance, managing your career.	950	9.1K	How you picked one? Environment or Character Art Brian "Panda" Choi • 2:17AM in Career & Education
Polyfraggers Gather with your fellow polycounters for online gaming!	77	535	Anyone playing Tekken 7? proto93 • Jun 28 2018 in Polyfraggers
The Q-Branch Quote game! This is the place to have a little trivia fun. Please abide by the rules of the game.	1.5K	9.4K	You've always been the caretaker R3D • Apr 4 2018 in The Q-Branch Quote game!

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The Polycount Newsfeed	59	627	Polycount Recap \| June 2018 GravityBwlast • Jul 10 2018 in The Polycount Newsfeed
Archives Long-running threads & sections we want to keep around for easy access.	1.3K	150.8K	Team Fortress 2 - Workshop Thread zxcvbnm72 • Jun 29 2018 in Team Fortress 2

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Shapeways Dota 2 3D Printing Contest Bring a Dota themed object to life in Shapeways 3d printing contest!	71	228	Announcing the Shapeways Dota 2 3D Printing Contest! kestosterone • Jul 3 2018 in Shapeways Dota 2 3D Printing Contest
3Daily 2017 Make one 3D object per day for the year of 2017	76	957	Welcome to 3Daily for 2017 3dmetrius • Jun 14 2018 in 3Daily 2017
Riot Creative Contest 2017	1.6K	12.5K	[RIOT CREATIVE CONTEST 2017] Character Art - Pastel Goth Ahri leoartz • Jul 12 2018 in Character Art
Handplane Contest Contest Forum for the 3d baking tool; Handplane	75	365	Joopson - Stanley No. 9 1/4 (and maybe more) yanpes • Jun 15 2018 in Handplane Contest
XMD Contest	91	599	Character Inna • Feb 14 2018 in XMD Contest
Contests & Challenges Archives All non-active Contest & Challenge threads will be moved to this forum.	12K	171.9K	Six Month Contest - Locomotive Challenge LoganTMT • Jul 9 2018 in Contests & Challenges Archives

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Counter-Strike: GO	441	991	Sticker - Tpropaganda (Glossy/Holo) bjelicvuk • Jun 17 2018 in Counter-Strike: GO
Dota 2	1.6K	54.8K	Rob Concepts! cabilo • Jun 16 2018 in Dota 2
Unity Store For artists who are creating content for the Unity Store. https://store.unity3d.com/	175	1.4K	[WIP] Editable 2d SKILL ICONS ShawnnL • Jul 1 2018 in Unity Store
Unreal Marketplace For artists who are creating content for the Unreal Marketplace . https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace	85	152	[RELEASED] Dynamic Ledge Climb System Abbeysaurus • Jun 22 2018 in Unreal Marketplace

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Artists Looking For Work Individual artists looking for compensated work, whether full-time, part-time, or freelance.	4.5K	6.4K	1 ON 1 MENTORING Taka007 • Jul 14 2018 in Artists Looking For Work
Outsource Studios Looking For Work Groups of artists looking for work can post examples of their artwork here, for potential employers to view & evaluate.	59	388	Thunder Cloud Studio - 3D Animation and 3D Game Art Production ThunderClouds • 4:24AM in Outsource Studios Looking For Work
Freelance Job Postings Companies or individuals looking to hire game artists for compensated freelance work.	1.6K	1.8K	3D Coder for unity required Jadav • Jul 15 2018 in Freelance Job Postings
Full time/Part time work Established companies looking to hire staff for a full/part time employment with benefits.	4.4K	3.8K	Company job boards and websites littleclaude • Jul 10 2018 in Full time/Part time work
Royalties or Post-Launch Compensation Work Project compensation is based on future royalties or post-launch payment.	1.1K	821	[Rev-share] Guardforce game: Hand Painted/Stylized Texture Artist (Unity) EvolveGames • Jul 12 2018 in Royalties or Post-Launch Compensation Work
Collaboration & Unpaid Work Mod teams looking for artists, unpaid requests, or free models/textures/contributions.	3.2K	5.4K	[Unpaid] Black Phoenix is looking for 3D Artists for a standalone game set in Half-Life universe Jacol • Jul 15 2018 in Collaboration & Unpaid Work

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