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Sticky Show your hand painted stuff, pls!

Share your hand painted environment, characters, props, textures, whatever! The thread focus is handpainted stylized textures, not aiming to be photorealism. 1 embed maximum (1 im…
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Grama

UV Straightening and its perks on LOD generation

This is a topic that has been reoccuring lately and i thought putting the info in its own thread is a good idea.I will be showcasing a method i have been using for way over a decade now, in 3dsmax. W…
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Neox

Sticky LOW-POLY ART

This is the sweet spot for your low-poly models. Post 'em if you've got 'em! Low-poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low-poly art sty…
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FXG

Sketchbook: Rima

Or: Rima's pile of godawful studies.I'm quite out of practice with them; I've been fixating on anatomy in detail, worrying about the bones and individual muscles and such, but it's not good to do tha…
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sacboi

Sticky The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | May - June (90)

Hey everyone! Welcome to the 90th edition of the Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of May and June!This challenge is a way for real-time 3D artists to test their skills and create a…
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Its0urFate

Maxscript - how to refresh UI?

I have a maxscript bound to a hotkey that lets me toggle the visibility of my currently selected modifier in the stack...but it won't update the eyeball icon unless I interact with the command panel …
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Klunk

Why am I seeing so many Technical Artist jobs that want python / animation pipeline scripting?

Over the past two years or so, I've seen an increasing proportion of Technical Artist roles that include something in the skills requirements about Python/Tooling. Can anyone give me some practical e…
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Eric Chadwick

Building optimisation

Hi everyone! Got this large building from CAD software, it needs to be game ready. I'm going to reduce the polycount, clean it up, etc, but the question is - does it need to be separated to modulars …
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Eric Chadwick

Export multiple animations from Maya to Sketchfab

Hi!Some of the pieces we encounter in sketchfab have a drop-down menu with multiple animations we can choose from. How do we configure the exportation to harness all animations inside one FBX file fr…
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Eric Chadwick

Maya 2025

There are some interesting modeling improvements in the latest maya. As you can imagine they arnt perfect. If someone finds an issue with a mesh and smart extrude please post it here.https://help.aut…
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mpuLse

Shrinkwrapping lowpoly to highpoly with linked vertex positions, is this a thing?

I'm making game models for a hobby project. Some of these models is hard-surface armor. I'm making some of these armors different proportions to fit different sizes. The problem is, even with blender…
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pior

3d action game development

[{"insert":"I'm still not finished with my current game project, but I took a break from it for nearly two months to prototype some ideas for next project. The main problem I want to get around is th…
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Alex_J

Walk Animation Critique

Hi! I'm learning animation and I was working on this walk with the blender Rain character. I'm still learning and I got the Animator's Survival Kit Book and used the walk cycle page to help make this…
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marcstigall

My car thread - low to mid poly cars

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Ruz

How to edit the move gizmo in Maya?

I need help to get rid of the extrude function on the move gizmo in Maya. Every time I move an object, I accidentally click on “extrude” and end of extruding faces when I don’t mean too! It’s been …
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Alex_J

Hard Surface Blog: Sci-Fi Processing Station

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mpuLse

Sticky How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)

Alright, so i see time and time again that people tend have trouble doing certain things with hard-shapes and sub-d modeling. So i thought i would try something out here. I'm going to open this up to…
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Raphael_Bouch

The Addams Family Project (WIP)

Hello fellow polycount users! I’ve been following polycount for few years but never really posted till today. I am a final year games art student and Teesside University and for my final year proje…
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iam717

AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.

[{"insert":"wow, OK...I haven't posted in a long while, but with all the recent AI drama going on, I felt I needed to voice some concerns, and bring up some perhaps controversial thoughts and opinion…
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zetheros

Released: Material Blending Shaders for Marmoset Toolbag 3

Hey Everyone! I am happy to announce my blended material shader for Marmoset Toolbag 3 has been released! You can find the link to the shaders on Gumroad here. The downloadable zip contains shad…
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iam717

Unreal shorts featuring the world famous Evel Knievel toy :)

Check out this dude making Unreal shorts featuring the Evel Knievel toy :) - https://www.jamielancaster.co.uk/shorts-evel-knievelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN46kF_zFKI
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littleclaude

[WIP] Midnight Mass Church - fan art from Midnight Mass series

Hello!I have participated in the CGMA Course Unreal 5 Modular Environments by Nate Stephens. I choose the theme Midnight Mass Church - fan art from the Midnight Mass series.The co…
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AngrySokol

How to get bigger UV space?

Hello, sorry if I didn't make myself clear. I was looking at the UV maps for some character models from Uncharted 4 and noticed the artists seem to emphasize greater UV space in the face regions of t…
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Neox

Sticky What Are You Working On? (3D) 2024

Share one embed of what you're working on, and give us a link to your own Topic to see more!Keep it under 1mb please. If you post big images, or multiples, we're going to delete/replace. Wh…
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samifira

Magic Beanstalk Environment (UE5)

Just finished this piece in UE5.4Based on a watercolor by Mateusz Urbanowicz II for his book Tokyo at Night. After I replicated the original image I decided I wanted to take it a bit further and…
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samifira

Sketchbook: BlueBlankey

Thought this would be a good place to document model progress, if a literal snail in a marathon counts as "progress".I don't really have plans for working in the industry, but I do have some animatio…
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BlueBlankey

The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (89)

Hey all! Want to welcome you all to the 89th edition of the Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of March and April!This challenge is a way for real-time 3D artists to test their s…
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CarlosGPagan

Sketchbook: Zetheros

Hi there!So after getting a bit of industry experience, I thought I'd like to make the transition & expand my skillset from an artist to that of a more well-rounded game developer; to both fill g…
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zetheros

(Zbrush) UV, Polygroups

Hi Polycount forum,I have a problem and couldn't solve it. I lost so much time. I first applied zremesher to my model. Then I wanted to prepare UV for Maya but whenever i try to do UVmaster = Un…
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pxgeek

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JoeXLegacy

Character Design for Critique

Hello guys,I am new this community. Looking for some feedback for my design. Please feel free to critique my game character design - https://www.behance.net/gallery/180357369/Afgisblade-Mythical…
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cho_binz

LANDNAV simulation game development

A fully functioning military compass for a land nav simulation game. This is the game model, I gonna make a high version in zbrush and boolean out the ticks and numbers along the ruler, then I'l…
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Alex_J

Rigger/ 3D Artist

Hi, I'm Giorgio, I'm a Rigger 3D artist looking for projects to work onEven though my main expertise is as rigger, I am able to follow other processes such as sculpting, polygonmodelling, ret…
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gioxo

[WIP] Vintage Blowtorch

Hi!I'm trying to get some pieces for my portofolio where I'll show my texturing skills and I started with this blowtorch.This is still a work in progress,if anyone has any suggestion on how can I imp…
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andreygheorghe

[WIP] Pounce! - A cute cat party game

✨Jump headfirst into a wild cat chase under the stars!✨≽^•⩊•^≼With your friends, play as either: A speck of light running from the fate of being extinguished OR The playful cats chasin…
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omaii

The process of creating a Rocket Boat of Project 1241 - Part 2

Hi everyone! Today I want to tell you how I created a highly pligonal model in Zbrush on the example of a hull.Для начала я экспортировал свою модель из Fusion 360 в Zbrush. Next, using the Dyna…
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Attknin

Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?

Seriously guys?WTF?
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ModBlue

PROJECT 1241 Missile Boats

ArtStation:https://www.artstation.com/attknin
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Attknin

"Your comment will appear after it is approved" -- What ?

What is this exactly ??  Is this anti-spamming ? Is this to ensure the forums is free of penls joke ?  I usually get this posting in the Monthly Challenges thread. And, so far none of them …
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Attknin

The process of creating a Rocket Boat of Project 1241 - Part 1

Today I want to share with you the process of creating a rocket boat. And I will start, in my opinion, with the most interesting, namely, with how I created its hull. But! First of all I want to list…
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kanga

Quake using Unreal.

I'm building my own version of Quake inside Unreal. The idea is a 3rd person view Quake game.  ve
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BeastMachineGames

Mari Displacement to ZBrush - Seam Issue

[{"insert":"Hey folks, Is there someone who had the same issue and\/ or knows how to fix this? I'm new to Mari and am currently trying to work on a creature with multiple UDIMs. I painted displacemen…
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pxgeek

[3DS Max] How do I straighten out my arm UVs?

Hello, I'm wondering if someone can help me with this issue I'm having. I've uv mapped a pair of arms for a character I'm working on here, and while it looks alright, I'd like to straighten them out …
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pxgeek

Professionals, is Nanite still leaning as the new paradigm in the industry?

I'm still a bit confused by the care-free "polycount doesn't matter" attitude of Nanite. I know it performs amazingly well for static meshes, but I can't wrap my head around the logistics o…
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zetheros

UV Unwrapping In Sub-D Workflow Questions

Hi guys, what should I do in this scenario for UV mapping? Say the model is being made for production, not games. Should I UV unwrap the high poly and texture it directly? I ask because in this case …
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Michael Knubben

3ds max show number of triangles macro

small macro script to display the number of tris in an editable mesh (I know there's shortcut 7 key but it defaults to a load of bolloxs, besides it's easily extended to show a range of values.)
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Klunk

FJTools - ZBrush plugin

Hey fellow Polycounters!FJTools is a Plugin for ZBrush, that will help you to organise your Subtools and speed up your workflow in general. It does so by automating repetitive tasks, or solving t…
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torba

3D Artist - props, hard surface

Hi, I'm a 3D artist looking for projects to work on: props,  weapons, environment objects - design, modeling, texturing. Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/artist/danielsaczanow &nbs…
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Daniel_S

[WIP] - UE5 Cyberpunk Old Quebec

[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Hello Polycount!"},{"insert":"\n\nI'm currently working on a UE5 environment set in Old Quebec, with a Cyberpunk twist.\nThere are still many things in the bloc…
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CedricArsenault

[NEW RELEASED] Player Status Pack 01

🌟 Introducing our latest Unity asset 🌟☸️Player Status Pack 01🎥 Watch the full demo video on YouTube and get a quick sneak peek in our YouTube Shorts.📺 Full Demo Video: https://youtu.be/HmKxnmYGPdo🎥 S…
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SolodreamCreation

MEL - how to make on screen temporary message?

Does anybody know MEL command to do an onscreen message like this:print command only outputs to the command line, but I'd prefer to put something on screen to minimize user mistakes. 
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Alex_J

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