/3/ - 3DCG

>tfw really want to get into the Blender NLA
>seems to be an unholy clusterfuck
I'm so tempted to dive into this because I love non linea animation workflows but it would suck if I try to learn all that shit only for it to get deprecated with 3.0 or something. it really smells, especially with some Blender internals saying multiple times that the NLA is a headache and in way worse condition than the video editor.

okay, I've tested the whole sculpt+remesh workflow. it's total bullshit for me.
you're basically forced to start out really low poly and then incrementally up the resolution for the _whole_ sculpt the more details you want to put in. when you start doing things like eyelids you've reached a resolution that at minimum has 1 million poly FOR THE HEAD ALONE.
with dynamic subdivision I can for example rough out everything first but also already add things like defining head features and eyes (which is at least to me really important in my creative flow). I often get inspired by medium high density features I put in when I get an idea, especially in the head area.

if I want to have the same freedom with the remesh/more or less fixes resolution mesh, I'm facing a ~20m poly bodysculpt which is an absolute pain in the butt to handle, especially when you decide to steamroll some area you've fucked up and it's tedious because the smoothbrush (even maxed out) barely works on large really high density areas. meanwhile smoothing works really quickly from low to semi high density.
another possibility would be to keep bodyparts separated and merging them later but that just feels disgusting.

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I'm self taught. Over the past years I got better and better, but I have been on the same plateau for the past 8-12 months and am no longer growing as an artist. Sin is that I'm considering quitting because I'm not sure if 3D is worth the frustration to me. The problem is that 3D is one of the few hobbies I've ever had that's had any real meaning or made me feel fulfilled. But that fulfillment that came with becoming more skilled has been replaced with the frustration of becoming stagnant and I don't know how to fix it.

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