The challenge is over and the finished entries have been submitted for the Polycount 'Beat-Em-Up' Challenge. Head on in to the voting thread to cast your vote who you think won our Beat-Em-Up environment challenge! The poll closes Friday, October 29th 2010!
The book is still alive guys don't worry its just been getting text edits and some graphic tweaks and some users have been resubmitting newer images for articles. I also have been packing to move to Sweden but I try to work on this at least daily or every other day. I removed the foodfortheeye thread so people would stop…
I’m incredibly happy to finally be able to share what I have been putting together over the past couple months,so with that i'm happy to present the Hard-Surface and 3D Print Pro Suite for maya A series of 4 Python scripts used for both hard-surface and 3D print prep pipelines. The Full Master Suite Includes: • Hard-Print…
I've been trying to push myself as a programmer and have left art on the side for a while (I still love making art though!) In the last year I've discovered that at the end of the day, I'm not content with just making art, I want to make full games that can actually bring enjoyment to others. As a result, I've been trying…
Fair nuf. Yeah actor would work. Its been a while since I had the unreal codebase on mental speed dial. Though the portal beams do damage to you or objects also, which is why I thought of the weapon route first. Plus the weapon projectile classes have plenty of other existing functionality. (impact effects etc) Now in the…
Video games, censorship, ESRB, and banning (and restricting sales to minors) I originally wrote up a big thread of this, and then fire fox crashed, so now I'm going to be a lazy bastard and point out some things that I think are important topics. List of banned games by country…
I've been getting back into texture work and am always interested in reading ANYTHING about HALO art. Even this old stuff! :) I noticed one of the screenshots, https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/polycount/halo4/m80a.jpg REALLY reminded me of DOOM 3 and I checked and sure enough Kenneth Scott was a senior art director on…
Thanks guys for interesting comments . it's of topic but last fall after years of polishing Designer fx maps and creating procedural approaches I suddenly found how actually better my work had been when it all was just manual, taste and intuition driven. Zbrush sculpts and coloring , hand painted textures I did in some…
bounch: it's like the difference between R and NC-17 in the movie system--there are plenty of horribly violent or sexual movies that probably would have made NC-17 easily, if some sort of public sentiment or ratings board turned against it. it's not really about the content, it's about whether or not they want it out…
@Eric Chadwick Isn't this just a sketchbook being blasted on main pimping which was the whole point of segregating these threads cause if everyone did it in pimping it would be a "competition of bumping threads", which was the whole point of creating the sketchbook section there are more threads where i can point this…