Comrades, we have been tasked with assisting our valiant soldiers to camouflage their vehicles! Now is the time to get a FREE copy of Company of Heroes 2 and use it to create some amazing vehicle skins for the highest rated World War II RTS Franchise of all time. This is a 3D texturing contest for the Steam Workshop of…
Hi :) So I went in to the latest challenge we had here at Polycount thinking I would actually finish it. My fiance was away for a few days, I didn't have to work over the weekend, no one was visiting us from out of town, it was perfect.... Long story short, I got caught up in playing videogames and taking some "me time"…
I wanted to share a recent experience that proves that hiring doesn't always come down to ones portfolio or profile and transparency in a company's standing and hiring process could be improved. Its a challenging time in the industry so even if there's interest it may not necessarily mean that the company is actually…
So ok... Some of you guys have read some of this on facebook but I wanted to share this with the community JUST IN CASE some of you decide to go the same route I went. I was offered a position as a contract 3d artist with Microsoft on the Kinect team working through Aquent as a contractor. I was sent all the appropriate…
Team Name Eclipse Interactive Project Name Soul Arena Brief Description Truly 3d Fighting Game with two teams of 3 fighting. Base Engine has been in casual development for 3 years. Our main goal would be to compete in the Intel Game Demo contest. Target Aim Freeware Compensation Freeware. This is a project for artists who…
Polycount and Skybound have teamed up to bring you a contest that will meld the characters of Dota 2 with world of Invincible. <More to come. Specifically mention that this is not an official Valve contest and that entry to the market place for the winners is not guaranteed> THE BRIEF * This is a 3D modeling & texturing…
Welcome to making of "Town square" map in UDK Introduction: Hi , here i wanna share with you lots of experiences during making this scene named "Town Square" . this is the scene I've done as visual target to start a new project and in this case i should define a process to make an environment fast , instancable and organic…
Well, I've suspected something like that - they're a bit confusing from the beginning, and i probably need to make some more informal introduction into these tools. Let me then introduce myself first: my name is Alexander "Joss" Khalyavin, i'm Maya tech artist/developer with ~16 years of Maya experience. Autodesk Maya…
1.) The War. I am amazed at the lackof education in the arts of war in the U.S. today, in spite of the fact that we have the history Channel and some still living WW2 Vets. We Declared War on the Japanese and the Axis the day after Pearl Harbor. Where were our first landings? nearly a year later on Vichy French Soil in…
Optimization There are 3 areas of optimization I want to talk about. 1. Material pins: There are now two pins that deal with decal opacity: Opacity & MultiOpacity. How do they interact with each other? I decided to make it like this: If MultiOpacity is connected, the opacity will be read from this attribute, otherwise the…