A Guards designation was awarded to units who distinguished themselves in combat. These battle-hardened veterans were the elite of the Soviet forces and more than a match for anything that the Nazis could muster. The first Guards title was awarded to two rifle divisions (107th and 120th) for destroying the German salient…
The folks at Allegorithmic are ready to start announcing the Top 10 winners of the THRONE ROOM contest they held here at Polycount. It was a massive, massive contest that saw 500 threads get made and 111 entries submitted. For an environment art contest that is huge! Congratulations to all those who participated and…
This is the 100th published post on the new Polycount front page! HUZZAH! But it's business as usual for us and other 3D game art communities, so let's see what's happening. * Some of the latest work over at cgchannel * Art at Game Artisans * 3D Total announce their Movie Mashup winners cgchannel Over at cgchannel, there…
Heya Polycounters! I'm hoping to attend the upcoming Zbrush workshop in LA 8th-10th, but cant afford a hotel or to drive back & forth...My sister lives 45 mins away in West Covina, but thats a bit far for my tastes. Any LA based polycounters want to put me up for 3 days? The summit is free to attend and located at the…
Good
news everyone! I just
want to briefly announce, that the 10th
-Anniversary-Edition of my MONKEYS of DOOM is out. -
And it's gratis! (A hard decision;-) The
game is based on idtech3, so those who had fun with QUAKE III ARENA &
co. should check it out! MONKEYS
of DOOM is as brutal and gory... But: in funny…
Just relaying this. I believe I will check it out. I live in San Diego......... _______ Join Gnomon School of Visual Effects for 3December: The Making of 2012 with special guests from Autodesk, Digital Domain and ScanlineVFX. This evenings presentations will include Autodesk Senior Applications Specialist, Marcel de Jong,…
Hey everyone! The jury has deliberated and here are the runner-ups for The Beast Contest! The jury had a very hard time picking their favorites from such a huge amount of entries and the votes and sensibilities were very diverse. As a reminder, all runner-ups won a lifetime Substance Live Indie license, that includes all…
Hey everyone, I'm back with another episode of Tuesday Talks. In this episode, I'm taking the original Dragon Fly Cycle animation I created and using it as a base to build a new glide animation. I'm also showing you my workflow when animating interactions between 2 characters. The example I walk you through is a test…