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26! TWENTY SIX! 26! Birthdays for us!
Today is the 26th anniversary of Polycount.
Thank you all for being here, now and over the years. You are the reason we are still here. Thank you. Thank you.
26 years of being on the internet!!
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@TeamFortress
has been updated with a bunch of bug fixes and some QoL adjustments.
This is encouraging, especially some of these fixes for some older known issue. Thank you. Please more of this.
#TF2
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This is the best thing since the cat simulator
#WyvernSimulator
Motion controller improvement, free camera rotation, slope detection and foot placement. Let's go!🐉🔥
#UE4
#gamedev
#screenshotsaturday
#animation
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Everyone: You can't paint normals.
Nick: Hold my beer...
I've painted over this image of Franklin Douglass using a sphere palette made from a normals sphere. I brought it into Photoshop as a normal map in a 3D layer to try out different lighting and reflections.
#3d
#photoshop
#3dart
#illustration
#art
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25 years and one day. The march continues.
Today we celebrate our 25th anniversary. It is an incredible milestone.
This year, as a treat for us all, please tell us the games you have been involved with. We would love to see the wealth of projects our community has been involved with over the 2.5 decades
Thank you for 25
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"ALL POLYS ARE GROUPS OF VERTS. ALL TRIANGLES ARE JUST A COLLECTION OF VERTS. QUADS ARENT EVEN A THING IN THE ENGINE. UV'S ARE JUST ANOTHER COLLECTION OF VERTS. ITS ALL JUST VERTS."
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There is some incredible scans in here
Kyushu University released more than 1500 3D models of animals and plants using a photogrammetry technique, taking digital photos from multiple angles
[database: ]
[full paper: ]
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Fully animated cats on the Epic store. They even can swim!
もう9月セール終わっちゃったけどﾈｺﾁｬﾝのアセット半額だったので衝動買いしてしまったよ
モデルとアニメーションのﾈｺﾁｬﾝ再現度が特に高いと思う
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Seen.
pov: ur a 3d artist modelling a rope knot
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you either die as a character/environmental artist or you live long enough to see yourself turn into a tech artist
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Working for your "dream company" will end in tears more often than not.
Developers over 40. What advice would you give to developers just starting their career?
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This is a few years old, but still damn impressive.
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Today we celebrate our 25th anniversary. It is an incredible milestone.
This year, as a treat for us all, please tell us the games you have been involved with. We would love to see the wealth of projects our community has been involved with over the 2.5 decades
Thank you for 25
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pewpewpewpewpewpew pew pew
Run&Gun
#Animation
.Collab with
@slipgatecentral
Used scripts:
- basic OverRig scripts
- advanced Animation Layer tool
- walk animation tutorial
#warhammer40k
#warhammer
#squatmarine
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For those that care/curious:
@Polycount
will not be engaging in any NFT's of any sort for the foreseeable future.
We simply don't offer any service or product beyond the occasional bits of swag. It's just not what we do. The environmental impact is also worrisome.
Stay green.
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We'll leave this here for you to consider for the next time you Boolean some objects together.
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Sometimes you make a choice as a tech artist about the fidelity of your ragdolls and you get dragged for all time.
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Legit love these cube texture studies of this style.
Material studies are so important when you are trying to learn how to do hand painted textures you get to learn about their properties. this one was a lot of fun to make.
#handpainted
#stylizedart
#materialstudies
#3Dartist
#conceptart
#gameart
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Some of you have some sculpting to do
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This is a great idea for an include in your portfolio. Shows you have the receipts for the beauty images also included.
This is an efficient way to show recruiters that you can do the job they are looking to fill.
Maybe include the wires on the object too.
I'm trying to do some breakdown shots of this and as disgusting as this is I can't figure out a way to make this more presentable. I've always found vehicle artists are too secrative about their mesh maps. Hopefully this strikes a balance between beauty and feasability.
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Hey you!
You are making something awesome. Don't stop! Finish it!
[robot hugs]
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Imposters are becoming a serious new tool now that hardware has caught to the math. Amplify has a video showing off their efforts on this front.
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Another company that doesn't understand what matters to the people that use their products.
Did Maxon just pull a Wacom? Why are companies so determined to undermine their own products with AI. They literally own C4D, Zbrush, and Redshift.
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When you need a sphere with UV's that don't pinch at the top and bottom...
Perfect sphere use bevel ,rather than subdivide then spherical modifier.
its not new just a reminder.
#تطوير_الألعاب
#3d
#gamedev
#polycount
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The thread is full wonderful pictures of bark that will challenge your thoughts on what bark could be.
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Happy Birthday Polycount!!
It's been 22 years since we opened the doors, 22. Twenty two!
Thank you for being a part of our family over the years. We love you all past and present.
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A significant portion of the game industry has graduated from the School of Polycount.
The industry cares what you can do, not how you learned to do it.
Dear students.
I discussed with the student I mentor and NO, you don't need to come from a well known "videogame" school to work as gamedev.
We look at your folio, NOT your diploma.
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Oh no.... in space, Z is down
The Space Station did a sudden, unexpected, one-and-a-half backflip. Not good, but mistakes happen, no damage, and it's why spaceships need to be tough.
@roscosmos
@NASA
Details:
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We're thrilled to announce the Riot Creative Contest (2017)
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Zbrush and Maya... looking at you.
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Movie posters are now using normals.
Making Of my Official artwork done for
@Lionsgate
&
@JohnWickMovie
Full project here:
#JohnWick3
#MakingOf
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Substance Painter 2023 dropped onto Steam if you like your tools with perpetual licenses:
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"Tech artist: The ice shader can be controlled to simulate a light dusting to a 200 year storm."
Video showing a row of houses along Lake Erie completely covered in ice following the winter storm that swept through much of Ontario last week
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An article on storing animations in a texture file as an optimization technique: Texture Animation.
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You really should name those layers in Photoshop.
don't @ me.
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ummm wow.
So much for supporting your community.
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Keep this close to your thoughts as you make your own games or projects. It'll help keep you sane.
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A great post on normal maps and the different flavors and techniques of said maps.
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Riot Creative Contest 2017 Illustration Winners:
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Marvelous Designer cheat sheet
I've been seeing a few people exploring Marvelous Designer for environment art recently, including some of my own students. This is a really nice reference guide for the preset materials from Jade at Wardog Studios!
#gameart
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A free Spiderverse model/rig if up for grabs. Looks like it's built in Maya and as always: your Miles may vary
🕷️Jirawat & Yanin Srisarntiwong have created a fan-made free-to-use
#SpiderVerse
Miles Morales animation rig!! 🕷️
Download:
If you use it, please credit the creators & send feedback at:
Model: yanincare
@gmail
.com
Rig: watinjapan
@gmail
.com
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All FX artists are liars. Beautiful sexy liars.
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Riot Creative Contest 2017 Environment Art Winners:
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Every statement is true
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If you have less than zero knowledge about shaders, this might be worth your consideration. Started 6 months ago and is up to chapter 24: Parallaxing.
Public post: Shaders for People Who Don't Know Anything At All, Part 0 of ? the beginning of a tutorial series on making shaders for Unity for people who really seriously have no idea how to make shaders for Unity
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Comrade Becca's mini tut's are the best mini tuts that ever tutted a mini. Ever!
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The new Greentooth trophy has variable thickness inside walls. This weights it so that it rotates to keep the face looking up. It also takes almost 2 minutes for it to finally settle.
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Blender shortcut keys cheat sheet
Thanks for the feedback everyone. Here's the final shortcuts I put down for animation and rigging. Get the full 7 pages:
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This is a great post on a shader you've probably seen in a few different games and wonder how it worked. Joyce does great work with this concise tutorials.
Here's how I made my fake liquid shader using solid color backfaces and movement from script.
#gamedev
#unitytips
#indiedev
Shader code and C# script with comments in first reply!
More tips and tricks >>
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We found this bendable scroll of knowledge, with examples from before the Plague. It may interest the riggers in your life.
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When interviewing for a new position, make sure you ask who is funding the project.
Embracer says it's looking out for shareholders after cutting almost 1,400 jobs
"Our overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation"
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LOD04 on proud display as LOD01
I’m a big fan of how this Ariana Grande Fortnite skin renders on the Nintendo Switch
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We realize this might lose us some followers, but some things you just have to do what's right: Polycount is a Pro Z-is-Up community. 🇿️⬆️
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"It'll be fine, Gavin. No one will notice."
There's something seriously wrong with the Boat People in Spider-Man on PS4... 😳
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Just for the sake of clarity, we still are not supporting NFT's.
If we re-tweet something that has an NFT tag call us out for being a dumbass and we'll fix it. We generally will not signal boost if we know. Mistakes happen tho. Sorries.
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Realized what we could do with the all over print options we have for the store:
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The curtains are really nice
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Epic has released a Linux version of the Unreal Engine 5 Editor. Time to throw off the shackles of corporate sponsored operating systems and develop on the same box that you use as a server!
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Luckily it doesnt rotate, so you dont have to worry about the uv seams
Calling all 3-D artists and visual storytellers:
@NASAGoddard
released a Moon visualization kit, created with data assembled by our
@LRO_NASA
camera and laser altimeter instrument teams.
📲 🌔 How to download and try it out:
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Can we offer you a sandwich in these trying times?
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Dear
@TeamFortress
,
Hope this finds you well, but we fear the worst. It's been far too long since we've heard from you. We used to be so close. We miss you every day. If you can use our help, please talk to us. We want you to be well & in our lives again if possible
#savetf2
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Bookmark this. Even if you think, oh I won't ever use that. You will.
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Python is arguably one of the better languages to learn as a game artist and here it's free from MIT.
Maya and Substance both get a little more friendly with a little python under your belt.
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python.
From MIT. For free.
For those who are looking for a more structured approach to learn Computer Science and Python, you get:
• Video Lectures
• Interactive Assessments
• Assignments
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Heyas, your project is coming along great. It's gonna be fine. Keep at it.
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Warframe is getting a lot of love in the press lately and we thought it might be appropriate to remind Polycounters that the game also regularly adds cosmetic items from their Steam Workshop
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This is a good intro on some of the power that Houdini brings to the gamedev table.
Wondering how
#Houdini
can be used for Games in more advanced ways ?
Watch this talk :
Covering : VFX, Environments, Background...
@amartinezch
@polycount
#gameart
@realtimevfx
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Almost 5 gigs of free textures for all your gamedev needs.
Thank you for the excellent and varied content,
@JeannotLandry
!
4.7 GB of CC0 Textures for Everyone! via
@blendernation
#b3d
#blender3d
#blender
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Just when you thought you could ignore that VR "fad"...
If you were watching
@Oculus
Connect 5, you may have seen our R& D project:
#SubstancePainter
in
#VR
. Tell us what you think of the idea!
#OC5
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Chocolate Dog.
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Autodesk as made Sketchbook free on all platforms and has pledged to continue supporting and developing new features for it.
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Blender continues to impress with new tools that artists can actually use
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Guessing these are all rock type
I just... I.... just.... I... dunno
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Good Morning! We have a hot bowl of eye candy with shader gravy for you: The March 2018 Recap has been gathered and prepared for by
@seanvangorder
for your consumption. Remember you need up to 10 servings of eye candy/day... Especially if you are UV-ing.
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This was today for some of you, it will be tomorrow for others. Don't stress out. Game dev is hard. There is problems. Always. How you deal with the problem is how you will be remembered.
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A quad remesher for Maya
[再]【MEL】端から順番に正しく四角形化
三角形ポリゴンを意図した四角形にするとき、消したいエッジを一個一個選択するのって意外と大変だったりしませんか？
こちらフェースループを選択することで、まとめて意図した四角形にできるツールです。
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Good morning! Time to get up and go to work! 🎶
There are many polys to be created and then lovingly destroyed to find the strongest ones. Decorate the survivors with a crown of pixels and shaders. Then bind them to a skeleton with math and scripts. Don't forget to save.
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"So the good news is we can use the same master shader for everything..."
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All in one Substance
Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Rather annoyingly can't comment on an article about ourselves on
@Polygon
but to be clear:
the logo (greentooth) is creative commons licensed but we also have signed waivers for larger game studios
In short, we entirely encourage the easter egg
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We got 3 parts of the temple kit to the level designers. Hopefully they can make the most of them
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We are always fans of the classics
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FX people: FluidNinja is free this week in the Unreal Marketplace
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Blender smoke and fire
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Here's Arnie acting as his own model for the art in Banner Saga
This Throwback Thursday take a peek at the labor-intensive process of making animation in Banner Saga:
#gamedev
#indiedev
#throwbackthursday
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They are a 10, but their UV's are all outside of 0 - 1
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A HUGE Art Dump from Dishonored 2!
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Riot Creative Contest 2017 VFX Winners:
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Ah yes, the classic "wiggle the car and it becomes the size of the road" bug.
also in gta 3 if you wiggle your car it gets bigger for some reason
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A few of you might be familiar with the term sRGB and might have had to click a button next it to make the tech artists happy.
Want to know what it is and why we use it? Tom Forsyth has a blog post for you:
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A new license of Maya has appeared: 250 USD a year for indie types
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A good morning ghost deer for your Tuesday
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