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Experienced Digital Sculptor for Miniatures and Collectibles, Board Games, 3D Printing
Hello! I'm Nick Dimchev, a character/creature designer and digital sculptor currently looking for remote contract or freelance opportunities. My experience includes designing and sculpting toys, action figures, collectibles, miniatures and terrain for 3d printing and mass production. Currently focused on the board gaming… -
Plasticity Learning Exercises
Hello! I started learning Plasticity recently and wanted to share some of my thoughts about the software. Maybe this will be interesting for people like me, who have a poly-modeling background and consider giving CAD a go. First of all I was pleasantly surprised how "artist" friendly Plasticity is. The interface is very… -
Does anyone use Sampler AI or any other image to height AI?
Each update I waste some time to see if Substance Sampler AI does anything useful finally and always just shrug and go away. Image to material usually does something just marginally better than old crazy bump . Ads halos around height details and looks same awful at sharp light angles. Surprisingly it sometimes works… -
the VG REMIX
Sketchfab & Polycount are teaming up for a brand new, lowpoly contest: the VG REMIX! The VG REMIX will be a 3-week long contest where artists will create lowpoly dioramas of a scenario or setting from one their favourite videogames. These depictions do not need to be in the same style as found in the game they come from -… -
Difference between "$" and "$selection"
I tried Google but it's hard to google "$" - So i wasn't successful. :) I#M using 3Ds Max 2011 64Bit I always thought $ and $selection give you the same result: the current selection. BUT If you have e.g. a box linked to another box, select the blue one and execute the code below, you'll get different results: Code with $… -
Making good mipmaps?
Anyone know of a tutorial, for example of recommended settings in the nvidia dds photoshop plugin, especially for textures using an alpha channel. Or maybe someone can give me some pro tips here ;) I'm mostly doing environmental textures, plants, trees. I've so far always used the default (triangle) mipmap filter. I guess… -
Re: I need to help
As okidoki mentioned above, we have a wiki with tons of curated resources. We even have example character meshes! http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/BaseMesh And tons of example wireframes to examine and learn from http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/BodyTopology http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Limb_Topology -
Pwnisher, Anyone doing the "DRÆM SEQUENCE", starts Sat 31st Jan, 5pm 2026
Hey all! Is anyone planning to take part in Pwnisher’s new DRÆM SEQUENCE challenge? It kicks off Saturday 31st Jan at 5pm (2026). I’m probably being a bit delusional, but I think I’ll give it a go even though I have zero time. And I will try my best to get my students to take part. :) Here is the challenge page… -
Re: Toolbag 4 - Ray Traced Shadow Artefacts
@Sidney Eliot Generally speaking, these shadow issues are fundamental to all renderers, not specific to Toolbag. There are some tricks that can be done in raster rendering engines to soften shadow faceting somewhat, but as you note in the last part of your post it's a problem there too. The software can only render shadows… -
Looking for feedback on school application!
I'm applying to The Game Assembly this spring, aiming for the game art education. Looking for feedback/critiques on my application. For example, which is the weakest piece? Have a look!
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