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3D Art Showcase & Critiques Share your 3D video game artwork, ask/give critique, and share techniques.	53.4K	601.1K	[WIP] Another armored sci-fi solder CognizanCe • 3:36AM in 3D Art Showcase & Critiques
2D Art Showcase & Critiques Share your 2D game artwork, share techniques, and ask/give critiques.	2K	22.3K	CS2 Skin: Choco Loco Magnus N • Jul 17 2024 in 2D Art Showcase & Critiques
Animation Showcase & Critiques Share your animation projects for discussion, education, and feedback.	1.5K	7.5K	Community Rigs and Resources fusedgore • Jul 3 2024 in Animation Showcase & Critiques
Digital Sketchbooks Each artist can post any artwork they choose, personal projects, art progressions, etc	4.1K	59.7K	Sketchbook: Fabi_G Fabi_G • Jul 29 2024 in Digital Sketchbooks
Featured Artwork Artwork featured in the Polycount header, created by talented artists of the Polycount Community.	369	14.3K	Sketchbook: ID-LL idli • Jan 8 2024 in Featured Artwork

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Technical Talk Ask technical questions about 2D/3D software & techniques & hardware, share shaders, scripts, and new software.	38.1K	270.6K	How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking) Jackskullcrack • Jul 29 2024 in Technical Talk
Adobe Substance PBR texturing and material authoring tools	2.5K	14.3K	Painter: Update/refresh all maps haarp • Jul 25 2024 in Adobe Substance
Coding, Scripting, Shaders Coders Unite! Share coding techniques, shader dev, scripting, tool making. Development only please; finished work goes in Technical Talk.	338	4.1K	maya python - read from text file, iterate through lines per keyframe and display to screen poopipe • Jul 25 2024 in Coding, Scripting, Shaders
Marmoset Realtime rendering and art tools	1.4K	6.5K	Halloween scene on Unity Gleb_Parshikov • Jul 27 2024 in Marmoset
Quixel Megascans The world's largest PBR texture library with free material authoring tools.	1.9K	13.4K	White textures after Redshift rendering (Need help) Dmirin • Mar 21 2024 in Quixel Megascans
Unity 2D and 3D game development platform.	836	3.7K	Hello, does anyone know how to make VFX graph decals show over the normal game object Decals? keiner67 • Jul 1 2024 in Unity
Unreal Engine Suite of integrated tools for game developers.	4.2K	22.9K	Documentation: Easy Perspective Lines & Grids for Unreal Engine ElKaWeh • Jul 13 2024 in Unreal Engine

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General Discussion News, announcements, game discussions, etc. New members see the Information sticky.	23.6K	547.6K	Bit of an outage, should be all fixed poopipe • Jul 28 2024 in General Discussion
Career & Education Getting into game development, education for game artists, working in a studio vs. freelancing, life/work balance, managing your career.	2.1K	18K	Taking a job somewhat game adjacent? Will that hurt my career? selectstart • 12:41AM in Career & Education
Polyfraggers Gather with your fellow polycounters for online gaming!	84	543	Diablo Immortal GlenMiller15 • Jul 9 2024 in Polyfraggers
The Q-Branch Quote game! This is the place to have a little trivia fun. Please abide by the rules of the game.	1.5K	9.4K	"Who am I?" wirrexx • Apr 2023 in The Q-Branch Quote game!

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Artists Looking For Work Individual artists looking for compensated work, whether full-time, part-time, or freelance.	6.1K	9.2K	3D Artist Avaiable for freelance on characters and assets. KyleReeceHall • Jul 25 2024 in Artists Looking For Work
Outsource Studios Looking For Work Groups of artists looking for work can post examples of their artwork here, for potential employers to view & evaluate.	225	1.1K	RenderDock. AAA 3d game art studio Renderdock • Jul 25 2024 in Outsource Studios Looking For Work
Freelance Job Postings Companies or individuals looking to hire game artists for compensated freelance work.	3.4K	1.9K	[OPEN][PAID][UNITY] 3D Artist for Underworld Courtroom Interior Treebobber • Jul 23 2024 in Freelance Job Postings
Full time/Part time work Established companies looking to hire staff for a full/part time employment with benefits.	5.1K	3.8K	[Full Time] (Hybrid) Material Artist, Props/Environment Artist - Sperasoft - Warsaw, Poland Justo • Jun 26 2024 in Full time/Part time work
Royalties or Post-Launch Compensation Work Project compensation is based on future royalties or post-launch payment.	1.4K	997	Looking for a digital painter GP_1 • Jul 17 2024 in Royalties or Post-Launch Compensation Work
Collaboration & Unpaid Work Mod teams looking for artists, unpaid requests, or free models/textures/contributions.	3.6K	5.8K	Big trouble little Chinatown. Antebus • Jul 17 2024 in Collaboration & Unpaid Work

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Stickies Long-running threads & sections we want to keep around for easy access.	71	128.8K	Speed Model Thread TIMELESS AND DATELESS FOR UNTIL THE END OF TIME sacboi • Feb 15 2024 in Stickies
Contests & Challenges Archives All non-active Contest & Challenge threads will be moved to this forum.	14.1K	204.9K	[RIOT CREATIVE CONTEST 2017] Character Art - Postman Singed - JunkieKong KTENO • Nov 2023 in Riot Creative Contest 2017 - Character Art
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