Come one, come all to the "The Just for Noobs Learning Challenge" The main point of the Challenge is to have more experienced members of Polycount teach a small group of less experienced members and help them in an objective based gourp of small mini challenges. What will be in the challenge? In the challenge the noobs…
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 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…
Welcome to the voting thread for our next bi-monthly environment art challenge for September and October 2021! The challenge is a way for real-time 3D artists to test their skills and create a piece of work based on concepts provided. It's open to those of all skill levels and we do our best to provide meaningful feedback…
Hey everyone! Wishing you all a happy new year and a warm welcome to the 88th edition of the Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of January and February! This challenge is a way for real-time 3D artists to test their skills and create a piece of work based on concepts provided. It's open to those of all…
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…
Happy New Year everyone! It's been so wonderful seeing all the excellent work coming out of this challenge spread across all the different concepts. It's been great to see the progress shots and how everyone approaches each challenge in their own way. With the new year upon us the time has arrived for a new challenge to…
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…