It comes with great pleasure to announce the winners of the Enlighten lighting contest. We received approximately 20 submissions in this contest and although we feel that every scene submitted could be classified as a "winner", we had to narrow them down to our favourites via the judging criteria. These 5 entries really…
This is a new portfolio piece I've been working on for some weeks now. I have one week to finish it up, so I thought I'd come seek the wise council of you scholarly Polycounters. Feel free to stab, jab, punch, and burn! Update: Older: Things I plan to do before final: Red = Done -Redo UDK Landscape for hills in the…
Hello everyone! I found a piece of concept art on Artstation a while ago by Jonás López Moreno which inspired me to bring it into 3d. I spent a lot of time trying to create believable natural materials in UE4. I used Megascans and SpeedTree mostly for the foliage. I would love some C&C on this piece! Any tips on how to…
So, I guess I should post this finally. running into a brick wall texturing it, but I also am having issues with my bake. my bake just looks like shit. the bake was done in xnormal. but I don't think i've messed with settings much in it, so if anyone has some good settings I could check out, post em please. This is a…
Front 3-quarter View Side View Top View Bottom View Back View Front View On this particular version of the model, I had to remove the ears for the uv mapping, his eyes are of course not included nor are the inner teeth and tongue, and I didn't take the time on his feet yet for this model to make the uvs looks good. None of…
After almost a full year of waiting, countless threads, running jokes, a lot of groaning and everything else in between, the winners of Unearthly Challenge 2009 have finally been announced! Congratulations to all of the Polycount members that entered and completed their entries and an even bigger congratulations to…
'Tis the season of handing out winners. I briefly interrupt our own internal celebrations with some from Mixamo. They have been having some fun with the undead and have announced the results of their Zombie contest. They are working on another contest as well soon, so make sure you keep them in your weekly web rotations.…
Valve has released the Overall Winner for the Dota 2 Polycount Contest. Congratulations goes out to all 11 winners, as well as all that participants who completed their entries. Thank you for helping Polycount put together yet another massively successful contest. * Danidem and Hunter’s "Rider of the Storm" set for…
The Greentooth Awards: Winners! The votes have been counted and we’re absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of the 2018 Greentooth awards. The Greentooth awards seek to honor the best of the best from four categories: individuals, tools, studios, & games, all chosen by the Polycount community. Trophies Each winner…
It is finally time to announce the top 3 winners for The Beast contest! These 3 entries really stood out for the jury and the vote count was actually very tight between all 3 of them. Congratulations to the winners, thank you for everyone's hard work and we hope to see you all again for the next contest! 1st: The Beast of…