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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

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

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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] 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

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

Sticky Blender Mega Thread

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfdboHvshg[/ame] As usual I'm impressed with what the blender foundation has come up with.. not bad for a free program.
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Michael Knubben

3D Character artist looking for work

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DayanaMalinska

Datasmith for games

Does anyone here used datasmith files for games? What about optimisation and workflow? I have a huge model exported to datasmith (pretty similar to Hillside Sample), and I'm figuring out what is the …
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danielgrey8256

Smoothing groups don't work in 3dsmax on meshes imported from zbrush??

Hi, I have this issue with smoothing out my mesh in 3dsmax after exporting from Zbrush. I retopo my mesh in Zbrush, import it into max and magically smoothing groups stop working. The only way to smo…
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iam717

Space Western

Yoooo I'm unemployed! If you got a job for me, hit me up!!BUTI've had some ideas for a fun Looney Tunes inspired Space Western which would be an arena shooter. This is what I got so far...Been starti…
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Ashervisalis

Hasbro's $1 billion bet on internal game development

Hasbro's $1 billion bet on internal game developmentHead of digital product development Dan Ayoub talks about the toy maker's plans to get back in the game.https://www.gamesindustry.biz/hasbros-1-bil…
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littleclaude

I saw a good presentation on planning modular asset sets - you should also see it

I don't normally watch tutorials because I obviously already know everything but this autoplayed and I thought it was very good.Greybeards (should) know all this but if you're smol and haven't had th…
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littleclaude

MOD AR-15 Assault rifle

MOD AR-15 Assault rifleHi everyone, this time I want to share with you the process of creating MOD AR-15.I started modeling my assault rifle in Fusion 360, I like this program very much and I like CA…
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AngrySokol

Sticky Information About Polycount & New Member Introductions

Information You Should Know About the Polycount Forum Here are some things you should know about the Polycount Forum.   New Members Welcome to Polycount! Please reply to this t…
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gioxo

Specializing or not ?

Question is ...Professionally speaking  is it better to specialize in a narrow field such as texture art or character modeling only or keep it more broad like for an assets designer?And about te…
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chien

Blender 3.6/4.0 Alpha with SDF nodes. Did some one have it?

Sup folks.Unfortunately it looks like newest Alpha builds (which previously was contain SDF nodes such as "Mesh To SDF Volume") are no longer exist on official site. At try a several of them and even…
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okidoki

Character Artist / 3D Modeler / Texture Artist (Open to Work)

Hi,I am Carlos, I am available and looking for remote or on-site work in Europe.I am a Character Artist / 3D Modeler with over three years of experience modeling and texturing characters, creatures a…
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carlostg90

Holosun 510C Sight in Blender

3D model of the Holosun Red Dot sight.I used Blender for modeling high and low poly versions of the sight then baked it in Marmoset Toolbag, finally I used Substance 3d Painter to texture the model.P…
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ferasa

Jeep Willys MB - Insides & Outsides [WIP]

hello everyone,Jeep willys MB.... decided to make this one as detailed as my skill allows me to which I hope will become a bit better once I am done with this model and I really hope some of you will…
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Jalalzai

Is there a quick way to make a color palette texture?

Like this for example:The only way I can see to make something like this is manually by making a lot of boxes and filling each one. There has to be a quicker way, right?  There are some palette …
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Alex_J

[WIP] Scylla Von blast [Nudity,XXX,NSFW]

[{"insert":"Hi everyone new & old,\nBeen a while since i posted any thread for wips, hopefully my enthusiasm will see this to the end.\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork…
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iam717

3d Character Artist - Available

Hiya!  I am currently looking for work, full-time or freelance.I have 12 years of experience as a character artist.  I can assist with benchmark models, hi poly/texturing and some conceptin…
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wizo

HALF HORSE 🐴 HALF ALLIGATOR 🐊 BOWIE KNIFE

Hello polycount!Want to share my latest personal piece, tried to push textures to more photorealism, so feedback is appreciated.
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iam717

Whats your favorite retopology tool?

I really like using an add on for Blender called the PolyQuilt tool which works very similarly to Maya's Quad Draw which I also like, but it has even more functionality since you can work in other mo…
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iam717

[WIP] Kirin Jindosh Lab - Dishonored 2 fan art

Hi there!I am starting a new project - Kirin Jindosh Lab from Dishonored 2 in Unreal Engine. Yes, Dishonored again :)My plan is - create the main laboratory room, the second floor…
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AngrySokol

[WIP] Barry Wheeler - Alan Wake fan art

[{"insert":"I played for the first time Alan Wake last year and liked it very much. I decided to create fan art of my favorite character from this game - Barry Wheeler, the best friend of the main ch…
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AngrySokol

Landscape and roads

Hi everyoneI'm making a pretty big scene of a city in UE5, using realworld terrain data. So the question is what is the best approach to make roads and pavements? There is a lot of them, and the land…
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poopipe

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