Baking Displacement & Normal Maps to AO in Maya

Great tutorial on how to bake your Ambient Occlusion maps to texture using a base model, normal map, displacement map, or all combined. Far better than the old 2 model transfer maps method!

Video tutorial Here courtesy of Lester Banks (tons of great tuts and info!).

Unreal Engine 4 preview on WIRED

First glimpse of UDK / Unreal Engine 4 capabilities and interesting read with some nice info from Sweeney himself here.

Official announcement set for E3 in June.

UDK hotkey list

From the polycount forums : Here

photoshop, maya, max, etc hotkey links located in this thread

Unreal fun Minecraft style!

Found this video importing the 'creeper' mesh from minecraft to UDK for some physics fun, compliments of Kootra.

see the video here.

March 2012 UDK release; New work from Tor Frick

A new release to download! and an excellent Interview with environment artist Tor Frick

Frick uses a single 256x512 texture to map his entire scene, and even has the full thing available for download here.

Ctrl+Paint digital painting tutorials

As recently featured on Polycount, Ctrl+Paint has amassed quite a collection of Excellent digital painting tutorials - many of which are available for the great price of $0.

For anyone trying to break into the digital painting industry, or learn more advanced techniques, these videos are invaluable.

Unreal Engine 4

Epic to preview the Unreal Engine 4 at GDC this week. Wonder how long it'll take for a leak !