Best of February 2020

March 12, 2020 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

Another monthly roundup! Here’s our favourite Poliigon community renders posted to ArtStation:

Render of the Month

This month’s award goes to Vic Nguyen, for this beautiful rendering of an American Street at night.

Congratulations Vic! As render of the month, you’ve just won 12-months of Poliigon Production :)

How to Feature Here Next Month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till next month to see if you were featured :)

And if you’re chosen as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production!

Top Renders from Dec-January 2020

February 13, 2020 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

Time again for the monthly artwork roundup! Everything here was found on ArtStation, tagging Poliigon.

Since December was a best of 2019 mega-post, this includes everything from December and January. Anyway, here it is!

Render of the Month:

This set of images by Helmy Ardiansyah wins our choice as best render of the month, and as such gets a free 12-months of Production. Congrats Helmy!

How to Feature Here Next Month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till the end of the month to see if you were featured.

If you’re selected as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production on us!

New Fabric

February 07, 2020 by Andrew Price in Releases

Fabric is pretty essential. Everything from interiors to characters require it, yet if you have a specific type in mind it’s often surprisingly hard to find.

This is because textures are static. Meaning if you find the perfect fabric but in the wrong color or pattern type you can’t change it.

So just like how we solved it for wood and brick, we created the ultimate fabric generator!

Unlike static textures which don’t change, this generator has artist friendly controls to change virtually any aspect of it. Thus allowing you to generate thousands of unique fabric types from one file. Download it here.

We designed it to be simple to use, but also flexible. So here’s a video walking you through all the settings:

And as always, if time is of the essence, we also have 30 static assets ready to download from the site now:

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Best Community Artworks from 2019

December 20, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

In 2019 Poliigon users created some gob smacking artworks. Some archviz, some characters, some just good ole storytelling.

To commemorate their effort, here’s the full cream of the crop on one page for your enjoyment:

Check out every monthly artwork highlight here.

From everyone at Poliigon, thanks for being with us this year. See you in 2020!

Top Renders from November 2019

December 09, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

What a month! This list is longer than usual, as there were so many good renders to choose from!

As usual it’s here’s our favourite’s of the month, followed by the winning “Render of the month”:

Render of the Month

Whoa! This must have taken a lot of patience to build. All I can see is the hours and hours of modelling and texturing that went into making each prop. The end result is fantastic.

Congratulations Wojtek! As the selected Render of the month, you’ve won yourself a year of Poliigon Production :)

How to Feature Here Next Month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till the end of the month to see if you were featured.

If you’re selected as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production on us!

New Wood Generators

November 28, 2019 by Andrew Price in Releases

Watch the video below to see what makes this our most advanced texture generator ever:

Archviz artists frequently need to alter textures to match the needs of clients, but a static texture can only be bent so far.

Procedural textures on the other hand can become virtually anything you want them to.

Most people would agree that proceduralism is the way. But the problem with off the shelf tools like Substance Designer is that it’s a highly specialized skill to learn, and can take days to make one material.

That’s why we’ve been hard at work to build artist friendly procedural generators with simple controls for changing anything.

Last month we announced our first ever generators (Brick) and this month we’re proudly launching wood flooring generators.

They’re a standard Substance file (.sbsar) that work in all the free substance plugins and the standalone free Substance Player software.

It’s available as a whole floor generator, which creates a tileable square texture set:

And as a single plank generator for use in plugins like FloorGenerator (3dsmax) and Archipack (Blender):

Plus as a bonus, there’s an engineered wood generator for creating those trendy manufactured wood like OSB, MDF, Hardwood, Plywood, Corkboard and Chipboard.

Download the Generators:

There’s plenty more generators on the way. Join Poliigon to get access to all of them.

Top Renders from October 2019

November 21, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

It’s time again for the monthly roundup of our favourite creations from the Poliigon community. Here goes!

Render of the Month

Congratulations Duy Phan! For this gorgeous exterior, you’ve won yourself a year of Poliigon Production.

How to feature here next month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till the end of the month to see if you were featured.

If you’re selected as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production on us!

Top Renders from September 2019

October 11, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

As usual, here’s the monthly roundup of our favourite renders on ArtStation tagging Poliigon:

Render of the Month

Congratulations Thuan! As the selected render of the month, you’ve won a free 12-months of Poliigon Production!

How to feature here next month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till the end of the month to see if you were featured.

If you’re selected as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production on us!

Top Renders from August 2019

September 18, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

Time to showcase more stunning renders from our users! Here’s the cream of the crop from August 2019:

Render of the Month

Love that blue hour lighting! For this beautiful render, Pawel has won himself 12 months of Poliigon Production!

How to feature here next month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till the end of the month to see if you were featured.

If you’re selected as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production on us!

Introducing Procedural Brick Generators

August 23, 2019 by Andrew Price in Releases

Procedural. You’ve probably heard the term before. But what is it, and why should you care?

In this video we explain why we think Procedural textures are the future of texturing for artists:

Download the new generators:

Modern Brick

Old Industrial

Cinder Blocks

Clay Blocks

A combined total of nearly 1,000 man hours to create, and allow you to generate over 1,500 unique brick.

As well as the 4 generators, we’ve also added 52 ready to use brick materials to our brick section:

Combined with the generators above, these allow you to achieve almost any brick look for archviz.

For inspiration, see what our art team created using the new brick:

Get the new bricks

Top Renders from July 2019

August 07, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

As is tradition, here’s our monthly roundup of the top artworks of the Poliigon community in July 2019:

Render of the Month

Congratulations Troy! For this stunning exterior you’ve won 12 months of Production Poliigon!

How to feature here next month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till the end of the month to see if you were featured.

If you’re selected as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production on us!

Top Renders from June 2019

July 24, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

It’s time for the monthly community showcase! Here’s what we liked from June 2019…

Render of the month

Congratulations Helmy! This cozy interior has won you a free 12 months of Production Poliigon!

How to feature here next month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till the end of the month to see if you were featured.

If you’re selected as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production on us :)

New Chairs on Poliigon

July 05, 2019 by Andrew Price in Releases

If there’s one model that almost every interior needs, it’s chairs.

So we created a collection of 41 curated chairs to raise the bar of any room.

All models are exquisitely detailed, front-to-back, with custom textures to push them over the edge.

You can change the colors in your software of choice, to create a contrasting design.

Or use them as-is for a chair that’s guaranteed to look good out of the gate.

In total there are 42 chairs, all ready to download in 14 native software and rendering formats.

View the new chairs on Poliigon

Top Renders from May 2019

June 13, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

Here’s the monthly roundup of top renders for the month of May 2019:

Render of the month

Absolutely breathtaking! Completely captures the mood of a rainy cold environment.

For this render, Mikey has won himself a free 12-months of Poliigon Production.

How to feature here next month

Make something awesome that uses Poliigon assets (textures, models, hdrs or brushes)
Post it to ArtStation and tag Poliigon in the “Software Used” section
Wait till the end of the month to see if you were featured.

If you’re selected as render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production on us :)

New Rugs on Poliigon

May 10, 2019 by Andrew Price in Releases

A big part of your job as a 3D artist is solving problems.

“How can we make the trees look good?”
”How can we get the rendertimes down?”

At Poliigon we see our job as helping you solve some of those problems.

This month we’re solving rugs.

Every hard floor interior needs one, but they’re surprisingly hard to find online. And good ones even more so.

After a lot of internal R&D we create a set of rugs that are based on today’s interior design trends, look great but don’t cost you in render times.

In essence, a render optimized, great looking rug:

Download on Poliigon

Here’s what our internal art department achieved with them:

View the full collection

We hope you like them!

Got a suggestion for a future release? Let us know in the comments below.

Top Renders from April 2019

May 09, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

Another month, another recap! Here’s our favourite renders found on ArtStation last month, tagged with Poliigon:

Render of the Month

Usually we pick just one image, but this entire set of images by Daniel Diaz Del Castillo is astounding. Once again Daniel sets the bar high.

How to feature here next month

Post your work to ArtStation
Tag “Poliigon” in the software used section, or mention us in the description
Check the recap post next month to see if you were featured
Render of the month receives a full 12-months of Production Plan

Top Renders from March 2019

April 17, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

Time for another community recap! Here are the top renders made with Poliigon assets last month…

The Render of the Month

Beautiful environment! Love the texturing and lighting. For his hard work, Pavel has won himself 12-months of Poliigon Production.

Big thanks to everyone who featured here! Some really stunning images this month :)

How to feature here next month

Create something awesome that uses Poliigon assets
Post it to Artstation and tag Poliigon under Software used
Wait to the end of the month to see if you made the list

The render of the month wins an annual Poliigon Production plan!

New Carpet on Poliigon

March 22, 2019 by Andrew Price in Releases

A good carpet is hard to find.

That's not the usual expression, but it's true when it comes to visualizing interior design. You've got your wood, you've got your stone, and now you've got a brand new set of Carpets.

The trouble with most carpet textures online is that they’re photographed. Which is fine for some materials, but not fabric. Photographing fabric isn’t ideal for two reasons…

Problem #1: Tileability

When you photograph fabric, you need to make each line of thread meet the other end. And at the microscopic scale of fabric, this is often impossible, leading to obvious signs of tiling.

Problem #2: Blurriness

The size of each thread is so small that traditional cameras simply can’t capture it with clarity. And we tried every conceivable method!

The Poliigon Solution

To solve both of these problems, we created this new carpet collection digitally. This ensures they’re fully seamless and hyper sharp.

That means you can focus on making art, knowing that the carpet will make the rest of your scene beautiful.

There are 64 new carpet materials, all based off 2019 interior design trends.

Browse the new carpet

Top Renders from February 2019

March 11, 2019 by Andrew Price in Monthly Roundup

It’s time for the monthly roundup! Here’s our favourite artworks found on Artstation mentioning Poliigon.

The Winner

Love it! Such a strong composition and color scheme. Although Poliigon wasn’t the only resource used, it played a part and therefore is eligible. For his hard work, Oskar has one himself a free 12-months of Poliigon Production!

How to feature here next month

Make something call using Poliigon assets
Post it to Artstation and tag Poliigon as the software used, or just write “Poliigon” somewhere in the description.
We’ll feature our favourite renders on the blog and award the best a year of Poliigon Production!