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[Anonymous No.681907]

Slightly more effort edition

Last thread: >>679557

THIS IS NOT THE THREAD TO ASK FOR HELP. If you need any assistance in your work, visit: >>>/3/questions/

List of free resources (textures, assets, etc.): https://pastebin.com/vU7P8Vmi
If you’d like to add more links, post them here: >>637415

[Anonymous No.681910]

>>681907
also going to repost this:

https://youtu.be/a3yLYy0Tr_Y
All done with this now, good chance i'll change some small details but I'm done.
Thanks for the help and support on this project!

[Anonymous No.681913]

Made it in the WIP image for the first time, nice.

Btw I'm trying to figure out what is happening with the reflection of my ship since it didn't exist in my post. It looks like you even painted some additional details to it or am I wrong? Either way nice.

[Anonymous No.681914]

>>681913
I guess it just looks like that at first because of the offset and reflections.

[Anonymous No.681915]

>>681913
I just copied it, flipped it, distorted it, then reduce the opacity. works well at a distance.

[Anonymous No.681916]

I finished another antagonist character to pit against my heroine; a Minotaur with a huge veiny dong, but I'm not posting that here.

[Anonymous No.681918]

>>681916
>but I'm not posting that here
You should, tho.

[Anonymous No.681919]

>>681916
do it coward

[Anonymous No.681922]

popnets are fun

[Anonymous No.681956]

Working my way thru the textures now, got the round edge shader to mostly bake correctly with some parts i had to clean but im happy, way better than without any normals. Ill experiment some with hand drawn engravings on the armor maybe. Im kinda teetering between wanting more stylized and still wanting that sweet lighting effect on the armor that exposes the shapes very well. C&C more than appreciated.

[Anonymous No.681966]

>>681956
pbr shading is cool n all, but i think it would look way better if it was painted

[Anonymous No.681967]

>>681966
Yeah, thats what with i have a PTSD from, i once hand painted every texture and backdrop to a video game and it was a nightmare even though the visuals were awesome

[Anonymous No.681971]

>>681967
were your uv's bad or something, or were just inexperienced in painting?

[Anonymous No.681972]

>>681971
no, i was inexperienced and was the lead artist for the project, my first game i was part of, so i hand painted each asset separately, along with all the walls and grounds n shit, using nothing tileable, you can check it out, its called thief of thieves season one. Also did all the lighting and post effects on it.

[Anonymous No.681973]

>>681972
oh and its not that anyone told me better either, it was a very new studio back then, i really have 0 regrets, since there really isnt anything like it

[Anonymous No.681974]

>>681972
>>681973
post your aliums reference folder pls
including any nda'd stuff

[Anonymous No.681975]

>>681974
aliums?

[Anonymous No.681978]

>>681975
aliums

[Anonymous No.681980]

>>681978
ahhhh, i would share my concept stuff i did for it, but i still gotta wait for greenlight to release it all, maybe i should ask tomorrow

[Anonymous No.681981]

>>681980
did you guys get any assets from creative assembly or any direct reference materials from the ip holder? like original sketches n shit.

also, your skelly is very nice.

[Anonymous No.681982]

>>681981
All the assets were made in house, a lot of i designed myself, the only thing we got from fox was the model for the xenomorph but that one we had to retopo for mobile anyways and tweak to fit to the animations

[Anonymous No.681984]

>>681982
>was the model for the xenomorph
please post this. i promise we won't tell anyone.


in all seriousness though, very jelly that you got to work on an alien property.

[Anonymous No.681985]

>>681984
haha, id get sued if i did

But yeah, it was a dream come true to a hard core alien fan, not something i wouldve expected to be my second video game in the making

[Anonymous No.681986]

>>681985
i'm sure they'd understand after you showed them all the daz porn this board would make with it

[Anonymous No.681987]

>>681982
>was the model for the xenomorph
godblessed and based as fuck

[Anonymous No.681988]

>>681986
id expect they already have some of their own haha, isnt that the true giger way anyways?

[Anonymous No.681992]

>>681967
>>681972
You don't necessarily have to handpaint textures for stylized characters, you can get some great results by baking grayscale maps.
For example: make grayscales of ambient occlusion, world space normal up, edge map, cavity maps, direct lighting, ambient lighting etc. and combine them all in photoshop for a master grayscale, and then colorize it with a color ramp in photoshop and use some filters to stylize it even further. Afterwards you only have to clean up a little and maybe add details and shit but like 95% of the "handpainting" job can be done that way, saves you shitload of time.

[Anonymous No.681993]

>>681972

Looks interesting. Very consistent artwork, great accomplishment.

[Anonymous No.682005]

>>681992
Thank you, gotta look more into this, the technical aspect of it escapes me but im sure ill make it work.
>>681993
Thanku

[Anonymous No.682015]

>>681907
>mfw my progress is not in OP
OP you had one job. ONE...JOBBBB!
(btw still no progress to show on Owen Wilson)

[Anonymous No.682026]

>>682015
>>mfw my progress is not in OP
Are you sure? Look closely.

[Anonymous No.682035]

>>682026
100% rekt

[Anonymous No.682041]

>>682026
>>682035
hooooolllly fuuuuck

[Anonymous No.682042]

>>682026
>>682035
YOU BASTAAAAARDS! Made me kek. I do feel like I rekt my ribs after a hearty laugh.

[Anonymous No.682052]

>>682015
I do feel a little bad about not putting it in a more visible spot but it was worth it for your reaction.

[Anonymous No.682053]

>>682052
>>682026
oh I thought the joke was that he hasn't made any progress but its actually there

[Anonymous No.682065]

>>682026
This is like an updated better version of where the fuck is waldo. Has been a while since i legit lost my sides on /3/.

[Anonymous No.682085]

>>682052
Naah, I love it. In fact, please do it in future.
>>682065
Yeah. When he said look again I immediately knew it will be somewhere dirty.

[Anonymous No.682086]

Working on fur modifiers. The fur on the abdomen looks a bit scraggly and the toes and legs are a little too fluffy. Still need to do his face.

Maybe needs more length variation?

[Anonymous No.682088]

>>682026

[Anonymous No.682095]

>>682086
Fur looks pretty good. The hairless ears and face look decidedly more cartoon than the body, though.

[Anonymous No.682144]

>>681992
Is there a more detailed walkthrough guide for this, for the life of me i cant figure out how to get AO or cavity maps to export out of substance painter.

[Anonymous No.682159]

Screw you guys! I'm gong homo.

[Anonymous No.682168]

>>682159
you have 2.5 months to deliver two likeness sculpts. why are you wasting time polypainting and sculpting useless hair. stop having fun and get back to work.

[Anonymous No.682177]

>>681907
*AHEM*

Fuck retopologizing

[Anonymous No.682181]

Sculpting Saeven Archeko, an OC by Averti on twitter.

I'm definitely gonna have to redo the front of the vest, cuz that shits looking like garbo

[Anonymous No.682182]

>>682181
Here's the rest of the body in its current state

[Anonymous No.682236]

>>682177
based

[Anonymous No.682276]

Following a tutorial to learn stylized texturing workflow
Just got the basemesh done

[Anonymous No.682288]

>>682159
how much would you charge for a head?

[Anonymous No.682311]

>>682182

Cenobite brought to you by Gucci.

[Anonymous No.682317]

>>682144
Don't know if you still have this problem but:
Go to shelf > project > right click map > export resource
Although I'm using an older version

[Anonymous No.682327]

>>682288
For a fully detailed head, with polyhair, textures (albeido, normal, specular), detailed eyes, eyebrows and eyelashes, probably about 40-50$. Just the head with eyes 10-15$. And I am talking more detailed textures than above. That is just a wip.

[Anonymous No.682331]

>>682327
Those rates are too low.

[Anonymous No.682364]

>>682327
If it’s a head detailed down to the pore you should probably be charging between $200-$300 honestly

[Anonymous No.682365]

>>682327
For the quality of your work
Your price is too low
Increase them by at least 50%

[Anonymous No.682366]

>>682327
you should approximate your hours spent and give yourself a rate per hour, like with any other job, and then add the time it took for you to learn the skills on top of that with a percentage or what you feel comfy with, id easily take around 400 dollars per head, depending on the customer even more. Always negotiate up, if they really want your work theyll meet half way atleast.

A new approach to the textures, starting with a simple and very toned down PBR and painting effects like dirt, rust, highlights on top and using some clever filter stuff i found from a tutorial, i think this is a compromise im happy with. A shot from sketchfab since i had to see how the textures and tangent space work with it.

[Anonymous No.682388]

>>682366
armor and sword look good, the bones dont read like bone though, looks like plastic, might be the roughness

[Anonymous No.682391]

>>682366
looks good, a bit too styrofoamish to me

[Anonymous No.682395]

>>682388
>>682391
Thanks, its a wip shot, been mostly working on the armor and cape, thought i post a wip before i finalize this, just to get opinions on the new approach, ill work thru the layers one by one

[Anonymous No.682396]

>>682395
are you gonna take the maps through photoshop and change the lighting on them? also curious if u used texture sets instead of using one uv map

[Anonymous No.682397]

>>682396
wait im dumb, its pbr, but still for the second question on texture sets

[Anonymous No.682399]

>>682397
>>682396
Propably gonna tweak some channels in photoshop yeah, its all one texture set out of convenience, i overlayed a bunch of the UV islands together to save space, like most of the armor parts and bones, leather straps and so on

[Anonymous No.682412]

>>682399
> i overlayed a bunch of the UV islands together to save space,
yeah i like to do that too, especially if the character is symmetrical and doesnt need a lot of detail, i overlap the uvs, id mirro, legs, hands torso ect. the only times i dont mirror is if i know theres unique details like the face has spec hits so i cant mirror the uvs otherwise it will show up on both sides when i only need it on one.

[Anonymous No.682417]

i combined flat shaded logo with smooth shaded shadows.
kind of looks metallic.

[Anonymous No.682458]

>>681913
same, two separate models very excited notice me senpai >~>

[Anonymous No.682461]

>>681907

[Anonymous No.682547]

superformulas are fun, especially if you've implemented them wrong

[Anonymous No.682551]

>>682547
what does this have anything to do with 3d

[Anonymous No.682552]

>>682551
because it's a three dimensional shape

[Anonymous No.682570]

Demon Skull WIP

[Anonymous No.682572]

>>682552
Hate to ask, but, is that pirated?

[Anonymous No.682573]

>>682572
absolutely. maybe. why?

[Anonymous No.682574]

>>682572
>what is cgpeers>>682573

[Anonymous No.682575]

>>682366
Modeled a base for the guy, and tweaked the pose to more asymmetrical

[Anonymous No.682577]

>>682573
>why?
SideFX is one of the few companies whose software I'd say is uncool to pirate, given their free version is almost feature-equivalent to the commercial ones.

[Anonymous No.682578]

>>682575
Isn't the sheath too small for the sword, or am I seeing it wrong?

[Anonymous No.682579]

>>682578
Its the aproppriate length but maybe not wide enough at the mouth no, ill see if i can fix it, but it might look a bit ridiculous, maybe having the blade taper out less?

[Anonymous No.682581]

>>682577
i'd run the apprentice version but then how would i get my pirated copy of arnold to work with it? mantra is slow af.

i don't feel too bad though. i'm strictly hobbyist. no social media, no promotion. most i do is post things here.

[Anonymous No.682587]

>>682579
>maybe having the blade taper out less
The blade looks good to me with that size, it's stocky like the guy, but I'd probably adjust both it and the sheath, focusing most of the change on the latter though.

[Anonymous No.682590]

>>682581
Fair enough. I do think they should open the non-commercial to external renderers. Hopefully at some point they'll do it.

[Anonymous No.682600]

>>682590
eh, it's an understandable restriction t b h.
we'll probably see overhauls of mantra before they lift that.

i do wonder why mantra is so slow though, granted the benches on youtube are from a year or two ago. it's a decent renderer otherwise, but those benchmarks are on small scenes. i can't even imagine how slow it gets on bigger scenes.

[Anonymous No.682663]

How long does it usually take you guys to make a model from start to finish? For me it's usually about four days of intensive work, two of them being constructing the mesh, with a bit of rigging, one day of texture mapping and texture painting, and a last day of finishing the textures and setting it up for a test run in unity to make sure everything works. Then I fix any errors and load it up in whatever actual animating/rendering program I'm gonna use..

[Anonymous No.682666]

>>682663

2 months cuz I'm one indecisive fucker.

[Anonymous No.682673]

>>682663
2 days for basically everything, id finish the model in a day

[Anonymous No.682674]

>>682552
hardly, looks like garbage shit you can do with after effects

[Anonymous No.682676]

>>682600
>i can't even imagine how slow it gets on bigger scenes.
From what I read, it scales very well, with the difference from other engines diminishing as the scene grows larger.

[Anonymous No.682682]

Finally decided to actually sit down and try to learn this shit instead of procrastinating. Still mostly bumbling around but this is starting to come together I hope.

[Anonymous No.682683]

And open.

[Anonymous No.682714]

>>682673
Damn, that's pretty fast. I can usually only do that when it's something really simple and low-poly.

[Anonymous No.682722]

>>682674
you seem weirdly upset about this, my man.
anything you wanna get off your chest?

[Anonymous No.682724]

>>682683
>>682682
...creative.

[Anonymous No.682732]

>>682682
>>682683
So original, haven't seen THAT before for sure

[Anonymous No.682738]

I'm trying to make a model of an oc, that's completed for once. Right was my last attempt from 4-5 years ago.

[Anonymous No.682769]

>>682738
Its always a pain, anon, but here a few tips:
- Details like armpit interiors, eyelids, crotch sides, finger bulges and intersections are NOT minor if you´re going to semi-realistic or realistic looks path (like DAZ models).
- Have a scale dummy to load between apps and choose a fixed size for all characters. Doesn´t matter if your pipeline starts with Zbrush or 3DCoat and ends in Unity or Maya: too big or too small end up giving problems (i still have a bunch of old MAX characters i´ll have to redo all the rigging simply because they´re giganticly offscale).
-For the love of science, backup the files in MORE than one storage device, and try and make the directory as obvious as possible (Z:/3D/3dactors, etc). I´m still finding models and assets from years ago, while several others were gone missing - it doesn´t matter if the HD is external or not, just make sure you have at least 3 copies, storage space be damned.

[Anonymous No.682777]

I think im finished with it, dont wanna fiddle around with textures any longer and am satisfied, shot taken from SketchFab, would link it but this place hates the links

[Anonymous No.682782]

>>682777
that's pretty cool mate! well done

[Anonymous No.682798]

>>682777
Cute low poly, trips.
If you can rig it and export to Unity, you can make the big bucks.

[Anonymous No.682804]

>>682798
sorry for asking random question here, but do you maybe know some simple rig and export 3d models guide so it would be good for unity /ue store?

[Anonymous No.682807]

>>682732
I mean that was kinda the point.

[Anonymous No.682820]

>>682570
do something original faggot

[Anonymous No.682822]

>>682820
There is nothing left.

[Anonymous No.682825]

>>682822
for you

[Anonymous No.682826]

>>682804
if you use max i can make an infograph on how to rig it

[Anonymous No.682829]

>>682825
>everything I do is 100% wholly original with no references to anything but my own mind
So if you post your own work no one here would be able to make any connections or possible references to other works?

[Anonymous No.682840]

>>682777
Really nice result mate, well done.

[Anonymous No.682841]

>>682826
I know 3ds for modelling, for rigging I only touched CAT so far,
Id greatly appreciate if you could put together some info on how to rig and prepare model to put into shop

[Anonymous No.682857]

>>682841
its really easy to do, the hardest part is just the skinning since its a bit weird to set up

[Anonymous No.682888]

Little bit of progress, just need to finish the head sculpt and muscle detail.Then retopology, and all the little greebles.

[Anonymous No.682899]

>>682822
yeah but you dont need to copy the tutorial 1 to 1, change it up a bit..

[Anonymous No.682929]

Anyone see the resemblance for this face?

[Anonymous No.682931]

>>682929
A thinner/younger version of Jesus?

[Anonymous No.682935]

>>682931
ahh not sure how known he but its mutahar from someordinarygamers

[Anonymous No.682936]

>>682929
like >>682931 said the resemblance is sort of uncanny

[Anonymous No.682940]

>>682936
>>682929
based and guided by the hand of God

[Anonymous No.682946]

>>682936
hey thanks for the jesus render, nice to see what i did wrong

[Anonymous No.682948]

>>682936

Sweetie I hate to break it to you but Jesus was white.

[Anonymous No.682951]

>>682936
disgusting

[Anonymous No.682956]

>>682935
>someordinarygamers
Literally WHO

[Anonymous No.682964]

>>682948
>Sweetie I hate to break it to you but Jesus was white.
I'm prepared to accept that, if you accept that being white includes having "dark brown to black hair, olive skin, and brown eyes," and an average male height of "about 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m)". You know, like your typical Mediterranean sand dweller.

[Anonymous No.682967]

>>682936
Are you ready to accept potato man as your personal savior?

[Anonymous No.682981]

>>682948
>Galilean Jew
>white
holy keks

[Anonymous No.682982]

>>682570
>>682899
>>682820
I feel like copying tutorials as close as i can is a good way to compare myself to the instructor and see where my weaknesses are, i'm not going to use this as a portfolio piece or anything of the sort.
Just trying to learn a new workflow and techniques to apply to future projects.

[Anonymous No.682990]

>>681907
I'll still do a turntable and some wireframe shots for Artstation, but I'm done with this one as it's starting to annoy me for more than one reason

[Anonymous No.682996]

>>682982
what was the tutorial?

[Anonymous No.682997]

>>682990
ah, too bad, there lot of small thing to fix that would make it much better

[Anonymous No.683006]

>>682997
If they're small enough not to take more than an hour to correct, maybe I'll do it. So spill it, bro, critique is always welcome

[Anonymous No.683010]

>>682990

I like the hair.

>>682996

https://gumroad.com/l/Texturing_Tutorial_FannyVergne

[Anonymous No.683012]

>>683006
tried my best, hope some of it helps

[Anonymous No.683016]

>>683012
Thanks man, some of it is valid and can be done. Will see what I can do

[Anonymous No.683037]

concepting some kind of modular hallway even though i'm not used to concepting sci fi stuff from my mind (I have a mood board to get the details/art style right)

Any guidance?

[Anonymous No.683040]

>>682990

you need a better lighting setup bro. throw a rim light and a fill light or two in there

[Anonymous No.683044]

A kitchen I spent 6 hours on this Saturday, I'm liking where its going, but I need to do something about the windows and walls

[Anonymous No.683045]

>>683044
what did you render this with?

[Anonymous No.683052]

>>683044
poor lighting and materials makes everything really flat
scale of textures in the scene is inconsistent
HDRI reflecting in the window is really low res
materials aren't built properly (especially the chrome)
that hot dog can give nightmares

[Anonymous No.683053]

>>683044
>almostfinalrender
you're so far from done...

[Anonymous No.683063]

Finished up a render yesterday.

[Anonymous No.683075]

>>683063
looks like paperman but done in PBR

[Anonymous No.683079]

>>683075
is this a new retarded meme? there's a whole thread about this nonsense...

[Anonymous No.683080]

>>683075
k/3/k

[Anonymous No.683082]

can anyone give me critiques and pointers?

[Anonymous No.683083]

>>683082
define the shapes more so it looks less like a smooth blob

[Anonymous No.683084]

>>683083
what tools should i use for that?
use flaten more? use smoothing less?

[Anonymous No.683086]

>>683084
dont use smoothing at all at this stage

also subdivide only when you reach everything you could at that polycount

when you subdivide and smooth in the beginings you get this blobs

[Anonymous No.683087]

>>683045
Cycles.

>>683052
Sounds about right, still a beginner really

>>683053
I just name my renders random stuff to remember them, the next five renders from now on could be named "almostALMOSTfinalrender" and so on

[Anonymous No.683088]

>>683086
thanks, il use it for the next one
tried to define it more as it was, but i cant imagine how i could make it as defined as ive seen others make

[Anonymous No.683090]

>>683040
I have them, the issues imo stem from the emisive materials+G.I., especially the titty light which basically is like a flashlight under her chin and fucks everything up, including the nice Rembrandt lighting I have set up for the face and the way her facial expression looks.

[Anonymous No.683093]

>>683090
please post her back please turn the model around anon I need to see these asscheeks please

[Anonymous No.683098]

>>683037
https://youtu.be/AkYnoaSB5xw?t=731
you have a lot of same sized tubes running parallel, should probably add a little more variance. also the connectors on the grates are a bit too high imo they look easy to trip on.

[Anonymous No.683101]

>>683090
oh no, not these cringe anime gamer girls again
enough already

[Anonymous No.683117]

>>683063
looks cool and also i'm not expert on homes but should you have a fireplace RIGHT beside the door? I could be very wrong and this could be common but this doesn't seem right to me

[Anonymous No.683119]

>>682990
>>683090

Add a bit of black and white noise to get rid of that color banding. It looks like ass

[Anonymous No.683121]

For no particular reason I felt modeling a sword today. I've never made one before.

Yeah, I know about the baking artifacts along the edge. Feel free to let me know what you think.

[Anonymous No.683122]

[Anonymous No.683148]

Made an ingame ad for my game.

[Anonymous No.683149]

>>683121
ok but thats not what baking is, baking shit is just taking lighting information from the render onto the model like ambient occlusion.

[Anonymous No.683150]

>>683149
just to be clear its not just limited to ambient occlusion. you can take all the channels from the renderer onto a model, that is how you save render time.

[Anonymous No.683154]

>>681967
I like the cartoony mixed with realistic texture style you got there

[Anonymous No.683155]

>>683093
You'd be disappointed anon, they're covered and nothing special
>>683119
Which part are you referring to?

[Anonymous No.683161]

>>683148
absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous No.683166]

>>683161

:(

[Anonymous No.683175]

>>683086
i used your advice the model looks lot better now, thanks. i used smoothing on the eyelid a bit and it made it bad, any setting or tools i should use ?

[Anonymous No.683176]

>>683175
https://trinity3d.com/zbrush-35-comprehensive-introduction.html
https://trinity3d.com/zbrush-35-character-production.html

pretty much everyting I know about sculpting I learn from those 2, they're old now, but basic principles are about the same,

also there is newer eat3d course for zbrush 4 from the same instructor, about making dwarf cowboy, I havent seen it, but should be good,

the author also have youtube channel, with so many videos and regular updates for zbrush version

for smoothing try to lower value, you have to keep pressing shift and then adjust it, for normal small features it shouldnt be bigger that 2-5 value, also you can start smoothing and let go of shift while keep left mouse/pen this changes the smoothing algorithm and dont destroy details that much, actually there is separate smoothing brush that do the same and you can pick it, but i dont remember its name as i alsways just let go of shit i I want to use thta.

[Anonymous No.683180]

>>683175

A bit of advice you are getting too into the details without the structure. Get the loomis books and study head planes first.

>>683148

How is this neon sign being powered in a woods.

[Anonymous No.683183]

>>683155
If you add a very very fine noise mostly on the background it will get rid of the color banding.
You should be able to set up your renderer to mask out your character when doing this, or just bring the image into photoshop. Essentially it works like pic related creating a dithering effect that blends your gradient. If its too noisy at the point where you feel it blends the best add a very very light Gaussian blur. Also make sure you're working with 16 bit color depth on your exported images.

[Anonymous No.683184]

>>683183
it's probably worth mentioning that he might not even be seeing the banding. i'm looking at the image on a 99% srgb display and there's no visible banding.

[Anonymous No.683185]

>>683175
56% finished

[Anonymous No.683188]

>>683184
Ah prime example of why people need to preview their work on multiple monitors.

If you look at his image on your phone can you see the banding? It looks way worse on my phone.

[Anonymous No.683189]

>>683188
yeah, it's pretty bad on my phone and my shitty display. i can just about see it on decent display in my attempt at a CC'ed version.

[Anonymous No.683191]

>>683149
I said "baking" because that's what the button in SP is labeled. Sorry for the confusion.

[Anonymous No.683193]

>>683189
A trick that might work is setting the material of your background to have noise mixed in with your diffuse to try and fix the banding at the start. so it renders dithers and you don't actually have to do any masking or editing in post.

[Anonymous No.683194]

>>683193
i'm not the lad who made the model. i just wanted to try CC'ing it for my own curiosity. i've probably jacked that face brightness up a little much now that i look at it. lad really needs to turn his emissive materials down.

[Anonymous No.683196]

>>683194
oh my bad, but you're right about that his materials are too emissive and theres probably a much better way to get the glow he wants without creating so much color banding.

The different light sources are kind of creating irregular color banding as well which makes it somewhat of a bitch to fix with just noise. I trust the guy will fix his shit with all this information we've given.

[Anonymous No.683207]

>>683184
That's exactly why I asked where it is. On my 2 monitors plus the tablet I can't really see it

[Anonymous No.683219]

>>682777
Working on blocking in a stylized mermaid model for Mermay, not caring much about the actual geometry but on how the shading works, since its not going to be animated or anything

[Anonymous No.683221]

>>683148

some of the other designs for my billboards

[Anonymous No.683222]

>>683176
Thanks this is very helpful

[Anonymous No.683224]

>>683207
It's *very* subtle, but it's there. I'm looking at it on a monitor calibrated to BT.1886, so the blacks pull up slightly. But anyway, without dithering there'll be banding, and it'll be worse on less capable monitors.

[Anonymous No.683229]

This ammo-belt gives me more problems than i thought. But I'll get there.

[Anonymous No.683231]

>>683185
how many percent now?

[Anonymous No.683232]

>>683229
how does it look like wihout subdivison?

[Anonymous No.683233]

>>683231
56%

you didn't fix any of the problems with your sculpt, instead you wasted time polypainting and adding a hair subtool that's going to get thrown out.

[Anonymous No.683241]

>>683232
what do you mean, the ammo-belt?

[Anonymous No.683242]

>>683233
is this better?

[Anonymous No.683244]

>>683241
the big turret, when i look at detailed machine models like that im kinda beat on how its done.

[Anonymous No.683247]

>>683219
working on adding some fishes now

[Anonymous No.683248]

>>683244
its not subdivided anon.

[Anonymous No.683249]

>>683242

Who is it supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.683250]

>>683242
do exercise like this: find pictures of famous people
do sculpts of them using only planar shapes like in this picture, your goal is to not smooth anything, and use as little planes as possible, only enough to make someone recognizable, you can over exaggerate features, actually its better if you do, because it will be easier to recognize the people you're sculpting with limited shape planes
post results everyday here

[Anonymous No.683251]

>>683249
its improvised,is it unoptimal to practice with improv?

[Anonymous No.683252]

>>681907
Working to create a low poly model of Ada Wong in her RE2 Remake appearance

[Anonymous No.683261]

>>683250
tom hanks and dany devito

[Anonymous No.683277]

>>683261
great, try to keep up with it, you can try showing them to friends or family and ask if they could recognize without telling them who its supposed to be, try to do at least 1 every day as a warmup before doing other 3d stuff and you'll progress nicely

[Anonymous No.683301]

>>682182
Updated the vest.

[Anonymous No.683305]

>>683301

anon that looks very cool

[Anonymous No.683338]

>>683261
the man who catfished his own daughter

[Anonymous No.683341]

>>682086
want to hug him - no homo

[Anonymous No.683343]

>>683184
That's because he's probably one of those normies who have their display blasting at 100% brightness and 100% contrast while having learned a new word he wants to brag about online with half knowledge.

[Anonymous No.683347]

>>683338
you're doing better already.

>>683301
Thank you, though the character isn't my own, the artist in my first post makes really cool looking dudes and witches, and I want to translate more of his designs to 3D.

[Anonymous No.683348]

>>683343
I looked at it on my phone like a normal human being probably would on artstation if the app still existed. Compared to every other image with a gradient background that's the only one with noticeable color banding in this thread.

Why are you so angry? It's a valid critique

[Anonymous No.683351]

one last superformula image just to annoy that one guy

[Anonymous No.683354]

>>681676
I also prefer the overly attached gf looking one. Mix them both mayhaps? Your cuter one looks good but she looks a bit generic. Ngl I really like them both but the older has some qualities worth transferring to the new one. (Sorry, I'm quite late)

[Anonymous No.683369]

>>683351
Is it just me, or does it create a subtle "wobbling" illusion?

[Anonymous No.683370]

>>683348
Did you look at it in Clover? I did (the PNG here >>683090), and saw the banding, but then I downloaded and opened the image in another app, and it looked fine (banding present, but barely visible).

The banding is unavoidable in that sort of transition from pure black to slightly less black, but perhaps Clover is fucking it up more.

[Anonymous No.683373]

>>683261

[Anonymous No.683384]

>>683370
Holy shit you're right. Fucking floens fix your shit.

Sorry for wasting the guys time. I don't know how it never occurred to me that clover was the problem. Its really weird though because it was just that image in particular that was doing it in the app. Theres a few other images in this thread with gradients like that and they looked better. Maybe its due to how it handles scaling images or something.

[Anonymous No.683404]

GUYS I just finished my degree and landed a job. Thank god I won't have to waste any more time in exams and shit, and I will have some time for 3d modelling again!

Can't fucking wait to spend some time making sci-fi modular environments again, YAY!

[Anonymous No.683410]

>>683404
>landed a job
>I will have some time for 3d modelling again!
Anon....

[Anonymous No.683458]

>>683351
very trippy i like it

[Anonymous No.683462]

tell me I'm shit

[Anonymous No.683463]

>>683351
again not 3D, take your shit somewhere els.

[Anonymous No.683472]

>>683462
Wtf is it

[Anonymous No.683474]

>>683472
It's a digimon I think.

[Anonymous No.683476]

I've only been doing 3D modeling for 6 months. This is my fifth try at a model, and I think I've finally got it.

This is a bit stylized. I wanted the waist to be extremely small like it is.

I'm at the rigging stage now and having a hard time. I'd like to mirror bones and the weight paints, but I'm not sure how to do that. How do you guys usually overcome this problem?

Critique or comments welcome! I'm using Blender.

[Anonymous No.683477]

>>683476
Ah! I almost forgot to mention. The 'Typology" section has been modified, and the modification can be viewed in the Render Preview and 3D View (all angles). I adjusted the neck so that is is not as droopy, because that was certainly a problem.

[Anonymous No.683478]

>>683476
Your legs are super far apart man. How did you not see that? I know you want some wide hips, but damn, you could run a truck through that thigh-gap.
Eyeballs are crosseyed in the preview, and there's a seam all the way down the middle like she's made out of molded plastic. Eyebrows look like floating turds.
Ass is fucking out there like the pelvis is moved back a crazy amount. The front of the pelvis is matched up with the front of the neck in yours. Even if it's stylized it's gotta look like you at least know how a human skellington looks.

It's "salvageable" if you can fix it. Mostly it's just moving some shit around and cleaning it up. I won't talk about the face since overall it needs work.

[Anonymous No.683479]

>>683478
Can you talk about the face, or perhaps redline it? Can you tell me what aspects about th face you don't like?

[Anonymous No.683480]

>>683476
this is just.... i cant tell if youre serious.... i think im gonna...

[Anonymous No.683481]

>>683480
I'm serious.

[Anonymous No.683482]

>>683463
Where would you suggest it belongs?

[Anonymous No.683484]

>>683476
you haven't finally got it

[Anonymous No.683486]

>>683476
I mean you're still learning so don't beat yourself up too much but I mean at least the hair looks pretty cool

[Anonymous No.683488]

I hate every moment of retopology with a passion, being the main reason why none of my work every makes it out of the sculpt phase.

[Anonymous No.683489]

>>683488
Yeah I hate retopo too.
What I do is have a livestream of someone doing 3D stuff playing on my background, the guy has to be commentating along too. Like the Oney guy making some 3d monkey. There's probably others out there that do the same thing, find one you like or whatever.

[Anonymous No.683490]

>>683486
Thanks anon! I'm gonna keep working on it. Hopefully next time is a little bit better. I appreciate the nice words.

[Anonymous No.683492]

>>683488
thats not how you retopo

[Anonymous No.683495]

>>683474
You mean one o them pikachus?

[Anonymous No.683496]

>>683492
Ok, would you mind elaborating?

[Anonymous No.683498]

tried my best at magicavoxel to make star

[Anonymous No.683501]

>>683496
the whole point of retop is to make the mesh usable. that shit is way too dense for a retop. you are trying to go for all quads in the most retarded way, like how you have these weird ass elongated quads because you thought to yourself, as long as its a quad its a pass xdddd fuck simplicity and even topology lmaoo right??? its just simply atrocious of a wireframe. its uneven and fuck and messy. you need to learn how to model in general, stop sculpting and go learn how to model and LEARN what an evenly spaced wireframe looks like.

[Anonymous No.683502]

>>683498
cringe

[Anonymous No.683503]

>>683498
>voxel art
I know you want it to look good but if you don't get down and actually learn how to make a model with subd and soft selection theres no point in this. Its a colossal waste making voxel art. Its unusable, time consuming, and completely segregated from every skill you need to really get good at 3d.
>only low testosterone artists paint the model black, everybody knows you do white to show off and black to hide crap.

[Anonymous No.683504]

>>683503
>muh subdiv
shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.683506]

>>683410
In summer, we'll do 8:00 to 15:00 non stop, I'll have from 15:00 to 22:30 every day for myself.

[Anonymous No.683508]

>>683504
He's right, though. 95% of the time a model will be subdivided for rendering, so it needs to be a proper subd mesh. And if you don't know how to build subd meshes from scratch, you're going to have a bad time retopoing.

Plus, if you know how to subd model, you can retopo at subdiv 0 and let the subdiv algorithm give you the all quads mesh, with much less effort.

[Anonymous No.683512]

>>683508
stop talking like you know what subdivision modelling is, just stop.

[Anonymous No.683514]

>>683512
maybe you could point out what he said that is wrong and enlighten us with your knowledge

[Anonymous No.683515]

>>683503
OK so i painted it and subdivided is it beter

[Anonymous No.683516]

>>683515
my poor eyes

[Anonymous No.683517]

Trying to do some cute stuff :3

[Anonymous No.683518]

>>683463
noooo, please approve of me senpai

[Anonymous No.683519]

>>683517
those toothpick legs could never hold that weight.
It really makes me uncomfortable.
I'm seeing this and am worried the slightest impact or wrong movement would snap them and that thing would lie screaming on the ground with broken legs.
Other than that it seems okay to me.

[Anonymous No.683520]

>>683518
you are not modelling, you are not working on anything specific, you are not animating, rigging or texturing you are not doing anything related to 3D in any terms. messing with your cute little code means literally nothing here. same goes for shitty visual effects and simulations, brain dead shit anyone can do.

[Anonymous No.683521]

>>683520
lmao, you're so upset by this.

[Anonymous No.683522]

>>683519

top kek
never change /3/

[Anonymous No.683523]

>>683520
He's working in a 3d program to create 3d things though?

He's no different than someone working on anything procudural

[Anonymous No.683524]

>>683517
pic not related?

[Anonymous No.683526]

>>683518
this is little more than public masturbation

[Anonymous No.683528]

>>683526
hey man, don't judge

[Anonymous No.683529]

>>683476

>I'm using Blender

[Anonymous No.683530]

>>683476
Don't let all these industry pros in this thread get you down. Your model isn't as bad as they'll say. They're just crabs

[Anonymous No.683531]

>>683530
huffing paint thinner is bad for you anon

[Anonymous No.683532]

>>683531
>replying to someone on /3/ less than a minute after they post
>just to try and start an argument
>on the wip thread on /3/
Don't be like this guy

[Anonymous No.683534]

>>683476

This creates a very sexist portrayal of women. No women has a spine like that and they are not perfectly 7 heads either.

[Anonymous No.683535]

>>683534
found the sjw.
also >no women
is pretty discriminatory, what about those few who do? Don't they deserve to be represented, too? Or do you have a problem with minorities?

[Anonymous No.683537]

>>683535
show me one (1) woman that looks like that

[Anonymous No.683538]

>>683537
I honestly don't care enough to put time into this.

[Anonymous No.683542]

>>683534
I'm the one who made this model. Proof picture related (I'm working on the rig; unfinished).

I'm literally a woman and think this is the dumbest thing I've ever read. This is going into a porn video (I wasn't originally going to mention this, but fuck it), so it's supposed to have exaggerated features. You're probably just mad because you're fat and can't look like this. Seriously, if you're going to give criticism, at least tell me that my anatomy sucks by redlining it instead of 'omggggg this girl is hotter than me and I'm soo mad!!1". It's pathetic.

Redlines and pointing out anatomy are much more respectable that 'it's sexist'. Why are you even here?

[Anonymous No.683543]

>>683515
That's cool, but if you had a mesh model you could get the same effect, with the plus of being able to rig, pose, and animate it. If you are having fun with this and still don't know how to model, learn to model.

[Anonymous No.683544]

>>683542
>I'm literally a woman
sure you are anon, sure you are

[Anonymous No.683545]

>>683518
WHAT A TWIST

[Anonymous No.683546]

>>683530
Thank you anon. I'm trying, but I'll work on it a bit harder. I am going to modify it a bit to make it a little more anatomically accurate. I really do appreciate the feedback. I don't let people discourage me, the entire point of 4chan is to get anonymous criticism. I actually really enjoy that this isn't a massive hugbox because I don't want to be told 'wow, this looks awesome!' if it actually sucks. Even so, it's very heartwarming to see encouragement from time to time because I rarely expect it.

I'll pull out my Loomis book and check the anatomy more. If there's anything you think should be fixed, please let me know. I did post it for criticism, afterall.

[Anonymous No.683547]

>>683544
Do you need a timestamp as proof, anon?

[Anonymous No.683548]

>>683547
What I need is for you to continue posting WIP.

[Anonymous No.683549]

Alright, fair enough. While we're back on topic, is there a way to make my fingers a bit more accurate? I'm working on this rig. I'd like the fingers to have more prominence at the joints. Currently, it's too round.

I followed a tutorial for this rig, but the creator doesn't seem to go into detail about making the joints more pronounced. (Here's the tutorial if it matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR5q3zsKHew))

[Anonymous No.683550]

>>683548
I forgot to tag you.
>>683549

[Anonymous No.683551]

Beginning to explore what I can get out of this simple setup (simple geometry copied with animated cumulative transforms).

[Anonymous No.683552]

>>683551
n1, m80. is this a bunch of copy sops or is it all happening inside a wrangle?

[Anonymous No.683553]

>>683476
Either go tall and skinny or short with big hips. This is unattractive cause her leg is as thick as her ribcage.
>boobs could be a lot bigger
>I like how you did her hair can you do that for her pubic hair too? Like a cute swirl or something, could be nice

[Anonymous No.683554]

>>683553
Shit, this is actually decent advice. The picture actually put this into perspective for me, as hilarious as that is. I'll work it a bit more and actually follow this, thank you so much for the feedback anon. I'll likely be writing down this guideline and following it on future models for a long time.

[Anonymous No.683556]

>>683462
It's fine. UV it and then take it to high poly so you can get a decent normal and then texture the low poly.

[Anonymous No.683568]

"finished" sculpting the rest of his body, now to export to Maya for retopo.

Problem is, I've only ever used blender kek but I'm trying to learn Maya

[Anonymous No.683569]

>>683090
What's with this shitty trend of putting band aids on everything with all these anime fags? Find something else to add visual interest to an already generic af piece.

[Anonymous No.683572]

>>683547
that or gtfo

[Anonymous No.683577]

>>683572
No.

[Anonymous No.683581]

>>683247
A lot more work on it, premilinary posing that still requires working on it a lot, such as the fingers etc, doing a quick texture test to see how it works with the lighting. What you guys think?

[Anonymous No.683582]

>>683568
sweet
Do you have any good sculpting learning resources?

[Anonymous No.683583]

>>683515

[Anonymous No.683587]

>>683476
10/10 hair
6//10 face
3/10 anatomy

keep practicing anon, you can do it

[Anonymous No.683588]

>>683338
star trekk scotty

[Anonymous No.683589]

>>683476
Actually, your modelling skill itself looks fine. You executed it superbly, you must be a great sculptor and builder, but your anatomy is bizarre. Unless that retardedly massive ass is your fetish, which, well, that's not problem I guess. Fix the chin, though.

[Anonymous No.683591]

>>683517
Got a chuckle out of me at least.
I could see him just being a real dick of a character.

[Anonymous No.683592]

>>683530
It is as bad as we say.
Just fix the damn hips and pelvis.

[Anonymous No.683593]

>>683581
Looks pretty neat anon.
Lighting looks really nice. The lowpoly look doesn't look like shit either. You obviously know a thing or two about what you're doing.
Reminds me a bit of OoT's graphics but less blocky.

[Anonymous No.683594]

>>683581
I really like it, reminds me of tomb raider oldschool.

[Anonymous No.683605]

ugh

[Anonymous No.683606]

>>681907
just gotta add some small details and bolts then paint i think.

[Anonymous No.683610]

I think i am done with the ammo-container.

[Anonymous No.683627]

>>683503
Not everyone who makes 3D shit wants to make a rigged anime waifu for porn. Dude just wants to make a voxel statue.

[Anonymous No.683629]

>>683610
mind posting wires, my man?
i think you said somewhere earlier that you're not subdividing? is the workflow mostly highpoly primitives + booleans + high division bevels?

[Anonymous No.683630]

>>682738
I'm wondering, does anyone here use marvelous designer? I tried making her some clothes but it seems you need to have some good tailoring skills to make stuff that looks good.

[Anonymous No.683633]

>>683630
MD is pretty damn good it just has its own learning curve, the blockout stage is super important in MD you should probably learn how to make good slopers first just getting it to cling and hang properly can go a long way for the later stages. there are a lot of useful tuts and timelapses around on youtube and art sites for it but outside of that you can learn a good bit from real tailoring tuts.

[Anonymous No.683636]

>>683633
>you should probably learn how to make good slopers first just getting it to cling and hang properly can go a long way for the later stages

Yes, I'm still trying wrap my head around simulations. Even the most simplistic dress patterns I make get screwed up somehow. So yeah, I probably should try to understand how tailoring works.

[Anonymous No.683637]

Working on a sci-fi soldier. Pretty generic, but I'm actually trying to finish a character for once

[Anonymous No.683655]

>>683605
if it weren't for the filename I would have never been able to tell what that is

[Anonymous No.683665]

>>683587
Thank you anon! I'm going to work on it more throughout the day. I'll post an updated version when it's done. I noticed that the face was off as well, I'm not sure how to fix it but I will look at other models in a similar style to see what they did.

>>683589
Thanks for the comment on my modeling skills, I was feeling a bit down about this model but this cheered me up a lot. I will fix the chin and anatomy. I'll update soon.

[Anonymous No.683670]

I for the life of me can't think of a clean way to get the eyelids for these chest eyes. They don't need to animate, is this one of those occasions that tris or ngons would be fine?

[Anonymous No.683671]

>>683670
...

[Anonymous No.683672]

>>683476
I knew that head reminded me of something.

[Anonymous No.683674]

>>683629
yes, i used Subd on some objects, mostly the cloth, but the majority is booleans and bevels.

[Anonymous No.683676]

>>683629

[Anonymous No.683680]

r8 my low-poly raphtalia wip

[Anonymous No.683686]

>>683680
why the shading tho? show what it looks like with base colors only

[Anonymous No.683687]

>>683674
>>683676
thx, mang. ngl that hurts to look at a little bit, but whatever gets the job done. have your ever thought about just going to fusion or moi3d for this sort of thing?

[Anonymous No.683690]

>>683670

People normally sculpt this kind of stuff and retopo over it later.

[Anonymous No.683695]

>>683687
wouldn't change much, since the end result would look the same. I actually did some parts with fusion, but i stopped using it since it wasn't faster. I am not going to to do retopo just for an ideal topology...its a static model, there is no deformation, so fuck it. End result is all that counts. At least that's my mindset for this project.
Next project i will probably use retopo and proper quad-topology, maybe using Fusion and ZBrush in the process or i might go the Star Citizen way using weighted normals and decals.

[Anonymous No.683700]

>>683680
Bretty gud but the face needs the eyes to be a bit further apart

[Anonymous No.683712]

>>683605
actually quite like this.

the shading lets it down a bit and i think it just needs detail work to avoid the ambiguity this anon >>683655 is experiencing, but carry on.

it is OC or are your working off a concept?

[Anonymous No.683713]

>>683637
Woh Nice, is it sculpted in blender or importef from zbrush?

[Anonymous No.683714]

>>683713
Blender, but only the backpack, pants and body are sculpted

[Anonymous No.683721]

[Anonymous No.683726]

>>683552
It's basically a Copy Stamp with animated parameters. I use a Wrangle to define the @orient for each stamp point, but that's it.

[Anonymous No.683734]

>>683588
the man who bullied jake paul.

[Anonymous No.683745]

[Anonymous No.683746]

>>683745
wew lad
i can feel him smelling my money through the screen

[Anonymous No.683762]

>>683690
Anon, that's what he's doing.

[Anonymous No.683773]

i made a robot for a shitty game.

[Anonymous No.683774]

>>683773
here it is with some background.

[Anonymous No.683776]

>>683606

how do i texture better lmao

without just adding damage and dirt, i see some models that are pristine but still look so realistic.

[Anonymous No.683789]

>>683776
Roughness and bump. You just need a little noise in the roughness and just a vague semblance of some paint imperfections on the gas tank for example. Maybe add some rubber foam handles to the bars. On the handle itself it could use a much bumpier bump. That turbine housing could use anisotropic features.

[Anonymous No.683793]

>>683762
>>683690
I know the mesh is really bad, I tried to make sure the important loops for deformation were ok, but this process is so fucking tedious it makes me not want to learn proper.

[Anonymous No.683800]

work in progress

[Anonymous No.683815]

>>683793
Wtf is that thing even

[Anonymous No.683816]

>>683815
Goliath chan

[Starfleet No.683850]

>>683800
What you could really use is a creed that uplifts all.

[Anonymous No.683920]

>>683773
It looks like a 6 year old drew it.

[Anonymous No.683956]

Sorry anons, still no Owen but I worked on an older model.

[Anonymous No.683971]

[Anonymous No.683972]

[Anonymous No.683973]

[Anonymous No.683974]

>>683971
you get paid $352 per month to make xenomorph porn. Fuck this gay earth

[Anonymous No.683979]

Last part, after this it's all tweaking. That rounded base piece for the hammer will be a pain.

[Anonymous No.684016]

>>683734
tried to likenes of christina hendricks, critiques?

[Anonymous No.684036]

>>684016
cheeks are more angled down, chin is much narrower brows are lower and thinner, doesn't have neck flab, has smaller nose, also her nose is slightly crooked irl, top lip should be thinner and bottom lip rounder/longer around

[Anonymous No.684037]

>>684036
also, sorry for double posting her neck thinggys are more V shaped and her neck is thinner, as well as her eyes are smaller

[Anonymous No.684039]

I really didn't wanna add dirt and grime to make it more realistic, but i guess it works : / comment? critique?

[Anonymous No.684068]

>>684039
You might be able to make the reflections a lot more realistic by adding this setup to all the materials that aren't metal (ignore the glass, just put the color stuff you already have there instead), so everything except for that unpainted cylindrical thing. This makes reflections more or less intense based on their angle to the viewer, and makes them pure white, only metal has tinted reflections. You might have to adjust the color ramp a bit, different settings work for different materials.

[Anonymous No.684069]

Halo inspired Scifi scene C&C welcome

[Anonymous No.684103]

>>684037
thanks for the help

[Anonymous No.684109]

>>683680
>>683686
What do you mean by shading/base colours? I painted the texture map in photoshop. That's the only mapping I'm using on the model. Can you be more specific?

[Anonymous No.684197]

you know we hit bump right? make a new thread. I've been doing it for last few times but I don't have time right now.

[Anonymous No.684208]

hi I haven't modeled in a month because everytime I try to polymodel a butt it turns out completely fucking lovecraftian.

[Anonymous No.684234]

>>684103
>>683242
ive goten better!

[Anonymous No.684238]

>>683090
did you use marvelous designer?

[Anonymous No.684279]

here is my anime girl in progress

[Anonymous No.684289]

NEW
>>684282
>>684282
>>684282

[Anonymous No.686573]

>>681907
https://youtu.be/kfQa_qd8b7U

Any idea how i can create this flowy effects on the hair in maya?

Timestamp 11:31

[Anonymous No.686576]

>>686573
Old thread, anon

[Anonymous No.686821]

>>683476
Face and hair are quite nice. I don't like the body stylization. Fix that sharp crease down the centre and try to improve the eyebrow shape

[Anonymous No.686915]

>>682159
how much would you charge for head?

[Anonymous No.686963]

>>681907
Dear GOD/GODS and/or anyone else who can HELP ME (e.g. MEMBERS OF SUPER-INTELLIGENT ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS):

The next time I wake up, please change my physical form to that of FINN MCMILLAN of SOUTH NEW BRIGHTON at 8 YEARS OLD and keep it that way FOREVER.

I am so sick of this chubby Asian man body!

Thank you!

- CHAUL JHIN KIM (a.k.a. A DESPERATE SOUL)