We are EXTREMELY happy to announce today our next 10-week-long epic event: the Escape: A Polycount Challenge. This challenge is completely unlike anything we've ever attempted before at Polycount and we cannot wait to see what the Polycount Community creates for their own depictions of an escape. Along with this incredible…
Hi everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster here on this forum. The other day I stumbled upon the #256fes hashtag on the Japanese twittersphere, where artists are prompted to model a character within a budget of 256 faces (or even less?) and a texture map of 256x256px (Since I can't make out the origin of this…
Welcome to the Bi-Monthly Character Art Challenge! Challenge will run until the end of November Previous Challenge Thread How it works * Every new challenge, 3 Character Concepts will be provided * Pick one concept to work on for the duration of the challenge and post your progress here! * Complete a 3D game res model of…
Welcome to the 2D Noob challenge! Apologies for this being one day late! This thread is for those of you who wish to improve your skills in conception / 2D in general. This is a once every 2 weeks (ish) challenge on the first of each month and on the 16th of each month. On the beginning of each new challenge I will post…
Hey! Long time no post. Just wrapped up my first entry in the 12 month character challenge run by @nimlot26 Check it ouuuuut! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nJW61E
What is all this non-sense about not having practiced sculpting and such? This is a challenge more than it is a contest, and the point of a challenge is to be challenged. If you haven't had much practice with sculpting, then here is your chance to do so. It's a short challenge, so you can be nice and loose with it and who…
Finally! We are extremely happy to announce to you our next video game art challenge here at Polycount: the Escape In many ways this challenge will be an experiment for us; Usually we have very tight-knit rules & specifications for our contests and a very specific theme. This time around we wanted to offer you guys a…
So me and my two coworkers decided to jump on the unearthly challange, I understand the reasons why Polycount didn't join in this year, but hope there is no problem for us to post here and maybe get some feedback. We are quite late to join though and there is a chance we won't finish but then hopefully we can finish it up…
Working within spec limits is good. It makes people consider the work they are doing while letting them work without shackles. But I think its time we introduce some shackles to really challenge you guys as creative thinkers. How would you guys feel if we did a contest, for example, where you had to create a scifi hallway.…
Welcome to the 2D Noob challenge! This thread is for those of you who wish to improve your skills in concepting / 2D in general. This is a once every 2 weeks (ish) challenge on the first of each month and on the 16th of each month. On the beginning of each new challenge I will post two entries, the most creative idea and…