2d fag here

[Anonymous No.778281]

after watching some yansculpts i finally learn how to sculpt.
is it possible to make money from this newly acquired skill?
please do red pill me. no filter needed.
blackpill if needed.

[Anonymous No.778282]

>>778281
is this your first sculpt?
you might want to do more before you start trying to make money off it, so you can get a consistent workflow and all that

[Anonymous No.778284]

>>778282
no this is after some many many failed sculpts.
around 60+ head sculpt before i finally achieve a decent one.

[Anonymous No.778301]

>>778281
shouldn't be too hard to get into texturing if you've got a background in 2D, get some experience in creating appealing renders for your sculpts and you can sell your dignity to furfags.

[Anonymous No.778307]

kinda disgusting how 95% come here asking how to make money with 3D. this some of the most whored out artforms and maybe the one with the most desperation behind it.

[Anonymous No.778309]

>>778281
maybe in a couple of months you could try to sell something to print on cult3d or whatever, that need more work

[Anonymous No.778313]

>>778307
Communism is dead and people need to make money to put food on the table. More news at 11!

[Anonymous No.778315]

>>778307
well the bills aren't going to pay themselves

[Anonymous No.778324]

>>778281
Make a twitter, pander broadly to weebs and furries. Make a patreon and a business paypal to get paid monthly as well as commissions. Mass appeal is good, but finding a niche is also profitable since there are some rich fetishists out there.

Source: 30k followers and paying my way through college while selling my soul.

[Anonymous No.778327]

>>778281
>blackpill if needed.
Daz is the only worthwhile software in the world of 3d

[Anonymous No.778342]

>>778324
I'm a college student too, how many hrs a week do you spend on commission work/managing your social accounts and whatnot? And if you're comfortable saying, how much are you making? Without factoring in scholarships and housing my tuition is about 3.4k a semester.

[Anonymous No.778367]

>>778324
Link or GTFO.

[Anonymous No.778425]

>>778324
Show me some quality furry prn in 3d

[Anonymous No.778426]

>>778324
>>778342
may i know your twitter?
how do you guys get your first client?

[Anonymous No.778468]

>>778426
my gf started selling 2D pictures over 4chan, says people here are the most desperate.. not sure what board tho

[Anonymous No.778629]

fucking retopo maaaaan....

[Anonymous No.778654]

>>778307
>95%
Well that's a straight up lie. Literally 1 out of 10 threads are made asking about monetization and Im pretty sure most of them still didn't start selling out.
The real question is, why do you care? Are you a pajeet, do you feel inadequate? If you're doing it as a hobby, how does that bother you?

[Anonymous No.778655]

>>778468
>selling 2D pictures over 4chan, says people here are the most desperate
no shit lmao, this is virgin capitol

[Anonymous No.779273]

she's starting to get cure bros

[Anonymous No.779278]

is having a boner on your own work a good thing?

[Anonymous No.779307]

the old 3dguy ain't even dead yet we don't need a new one

[Anonymous No.779328]

>>779278
>>779273
>male chin, male cheekbones, male haircut
>"s-she's starting to get cute!"

[Anonymous No.779381]

Whatcha gonna do now? Congratulations you've made a flying head.

[Anonymous No.779386]

>>779381
attach it to somebody elses model like a true 3d chad

[Anonymous No.779387]

>>779278
>is having a boner on your own work a good thing?
I say yes, it is, as long as it doesn't distract you.

[Anonymous No.779660]

>>778324
/thread

I'm doing the same thing with the same crowd, only (probably) with more coomers. I'm producing soul-searing filth, but fortunately I'm not religious.

[Anonymous No.779781]

>>779278
Ask Pygmalion.

[Anonymous No.780042]

>>778307
>No!!! You can't just profit from the fruit of your labor! You can just supplement your heckin' incomerino with your 3D skills! NO!!! Stop whoring out your skills!
Sculptors in ancient times, way before zbrush and mudbox, were often bankrolled by wealthy patrons. Guess 3D has been cucked from the start.

[Anonymous No.780072]

>>778629
Looks fine to me.

[Anonymous No.780198]

>>778313
If putting food on the table is your goal you probably shouldn't have gone to art school.

[Anonymous No.780441]

so heres the update,
along the way ive learned 3d coat,
texture painting in blender is sh*t.
i have so many things to learn but i'm happy with the progress.
hope i can make a living out of this so i can stop being a 2d fag....
you may brutally roast me now please /3/

[Anonymous No.780515]

>>780441
To be honest, anon, you could probably get an entry level position with ease doing this level of work. With some experience you could find yourself in a senior position within 5 years. You seem to have a better eye than most people who are just starting out (and certainly much better than my first several years of models). I'm a senior at a large studio now, where the gaps in my skills are less of a weakness and less apparent, and I make over 6 figures (with overtime factored in). If there are studios in your city, get a few more sculpts under your belt -- the more diverse the better (sci fi, nature, anything you can think of really) and apply. If there aren't, you could still apply, but you're less likely to be accepted unless you commit to covering the costs of a big move yourself.

Whether or not you want to work in any of the industries open to you with this skillset is another issue. Advertising, Film, Games and Porn all have their positives and negatives -- and larger and smaller companies (or freelancing) will have completely different problems, too. If you like doing the work go for it, but if you don't it'll end up the same as working any other job within; 4 years it will be just another grind and you'll be completely burnt out by the 10 year mark. If you can see that happening to you but still want to do it, just go work whatever job pays more so you can take more time off when you hate it.

[Anonymous No.780582]

>>778281
Dude zBrush is literally the sickest program I've ever used. It runs insanely smooth.

I just got zpilled a few weeks ago and I'm set on buying a license. I'm also more of a 2d fag

[Anonymous No.780770]

>>780515
More info on pros and cons of the industries?
Wanting to animate/vfx for games but if porn lets me move over the world i could choose that.

[Anonymous No.781027]

>>780515
im already old(32) i dont see my self working on a studio and im from a third world sh1t country.

the option i can see is make a patreon
i dont know which niche i can go into,
but porn might be the way for me,
i want to keep anonymous, i dont want attention or popularity,
maybe i can go 2ways. one for the normie stuff and one for porn.
idk now yet im gonna keep experimenting and see whats works and whats not.

ive spent too long on the job that i dont like just so i can have food on the table,
with my more than 10years of experience on 2d and other diffrent field like animation, im confident that i can get good here on 3d.
im not saying im good in 2d, i actually think i didnt improve that much.

if you can give me advise to speed up my learning i would appreciate it.
also which software would you recommend.
for now i use blender and 3d coat.

>>780582
i can see it comming that one day i will use zbrush.
but i just want to finish some more sculpt on blender before i switch to zbrush.
you know its very diffcult to learn so many software just look at
navigation of each softwares, it confuses my brain and fingers haha.


and heres my work. im terrible at pbr. theres a lot more learning to do.

[Anonymous No.781272]

>>781027
>im already old(32)
I lost braincells when i read that bit.

[Anonymous No.781791]

should i switch to zbrush as early as possible?

heres another sculpt...
my work seems very basic but im quite happy with my improvement

[Anonymous No.781805]

>>781791
>should i switch to zbrush as early as possible?
Blender is fine but it can't handle big meshes well and that isn't a problem in Zbrush, Zbrush has also better and easier curve tools, texturing is shit in both move to substance painter mixer could be fine too, if you want to do animation blender is fine now but maya is the best option, you could try Cascadeur too, retopo.... are you using retopoMT in blender? that's fine, physics you'll need Houdini I suppose.

[Anonymous No.781807]

>>781791
>>781027
>>778281
Why all Blender sculpts look entirely the fucking same?

[Anonymous No.781808]

>>781791
I started sculpting in blender and zbrush is miles better, switching made a lot of things easier BUT you have to learn the software, just understand that the UI is made to be controlled with a tablet so get a tutorial that explains how to customize it

[Anonymous No.781809]

>>781807
Have you considered it's you who cannot spot the differences?

[Anonymous No.781815]

>>781807
Same reason Blender Animation Studio tries to make Pixar characters: copying a style is far easier for simpletons. Blender is absolutely capable of realistic characters but less people try and make them.

[Anonymous No.781932]

>>778284
>60+ attempts
Nice. I'm on my 5th attempt, still looks like shit

[Anonymous No.781936]

>>781932
dont give up bro, if sculpting is what you love, go grind everyday

[Anonymous No.782395]

Has anyone bought yansculpts courses?
I can find alot of good stuff for his regular videos but I can't find any vids on his actual courses.

[Anonymous No.782407]

>>782395
naw man that shit is gay

[Anonymous No.782412]

>>782407
Fair enough cheers bruv

[Anonymous No.782637]

>>781815
ill try realistic next time

[Anonymous No.782646]

>>781027
>>780770
Sorry I only check /3/ like once a month, but this thread is still up I'll try to answer questions. 32 is not too old to become successful in vfx -- many people in this industry were in the exact position you were 10 years ago, and due to the massive spike in popularity of essentially affirmative action in the US and Canada, you may not realise how much of a chance you actually have.
For software blender is fine if you aren't making money. Once you make some bank there are cheap software alternatives depending on what you want to do.
Zbrush is probably still the best sculpter. Most other modeling is still done in 3dsmax, maya, modo -- all of which have cheaper 'indie' versions available. Houdini for procedural stuff (environments or applying noise or patterns to other models you have created elsewhere). 3D coat is fine, there's Mari in that space and another indie type of software. You can basically find 'good enough' alternatives to professional software quite easily, cutting the costs of starting out down by a large margin by sacrificing some niche functions. It's similar to using Krita or Affinity Photo instead of photoshop.

As for industries I can only speak to games and film. I know people in advertising and I have seen how successful porn artists market themselves so I can maybe offer some insights there though.
1/?

[Anonymous No.782647]

>>780770
>>781027

Film is the probably the highest paying non-freelance industry at the moment (for artists), but that is rapidly changing as underpaid artists who don't know their value (and juniors who are ridiculously talented) depreciate what may be overvalued positions. Experience is still worth a lot so senior positions are still making bank, though. As far as work goes, as a junior you will be left behind if you don't work overtime. There are no bloggers or journos with a political chip on their shoulder running expose articles on the conditions you are working in. If you're at a large company with high salaries and no competition, you will be exploted, and it will be horrible. Once you've got some experience you can pick and choose the conditions you work in but you may not realise when the tables turn there. I see a lot of mid level people with no idea what they are worth accepting awful rates and only realising some years later they are being taken advantage of.
Games -- just don't do it unless you're at an indie studio that loves you, or a big company you're in love with. It manages to combine the worst parts of film, with elitist programmers sneering at you behind your back, and almost no chance of advancement outside of swapping jobs. Everyone in games outside of management is underpaid, overtime is expected, and you could be making more money doing almost anything else. Programmers are highest paid outside of management but even they could quadruple their salaries doing programming for a more boring company.

Advertising -- from what I can tell, it's great. You'll be overworked and fed a diet consisting entirely of coffee and cocaine, but you'll make bank, be surrounded by attractive people and be a part of an operation explicitly designed to swindle as much money from both bloated corporations, and consumers, as possible. I hate almost everyone that is a part of this industry, but it might be sour grapes so take that with a grain of salt.

2/?

[Anonymous No.782648]

>>780770
>>781027
Porn -- probably the hardest path, but you can set your own terms. Do your research before starting. You will take the role of a superpredator -- you must know what your prey likes to consume, find the highest value market, and then cater almost exclusively to them. If you produce the highest quality content in that area (it could be as absurd as say, futa anthro-shark NTR animations) then you will be able to charge hundreds of dollars just for access to small amounts of your content. It will be pirated, stolen, distributed among friends and communities... but even considering that, I have seen patreons for the most talentless hacks producing almost nothing of value running over 2k a month easily. It's all a matter of being the biggest fish in a small but easily exploted pond. I would not recommend doing this if you have a shred of dignity or any guilt about exploiting what are essentially mentally vulnerable manchildren devoid of sexual contact. If you have a shred of programming or scripting experience you can produce porn games and easily double your money that way.

If you try to make normal porn you will most likely be outcompeted by the extremely low barrier to entry, and 2d artists who can produce vastly superior work more quickly.

[Anonymous No.782650]

>>780770
Ok finished that wall of text. If you want to know more about any specific specialisations and the skills you'll need, I can come back after work and dig into that... but for now that's about all I have to say.

[Anonymous No.782663]

Can't wait for the porn version of this model. Keep going OP.

[Anonymous No.782687]

>>782395
>buying the courses of someone whose work looks like a chink version of low budget Frozen

[Anonymous No.784001]

>>782648
Fucking this, jesus christ the amount of GARBAGE 3d porn out there that gets the artist/animator 10 times the attention of actually competent 2d artists and animators is unbelievable

[Anonymous No.784006]

>>778281
leave now if making money is your goal the money will come to you when you dont realize it. you should be having fun

[Anonymous No.784058]

>>780441
Might you have a manner to contact you, or social media to shill out your portfolio?

Like to see more of your work.

[Anonymous No.784070]

31 and reading all this makes me want to pick up and learn blender and maybe zbrush. But not going to take it all serious career wise, maybe just for fun.

[Anonymous No.784517]

>>784006
i gave up on making big money,
all i ask is a small money for food and bills,
so i can quit my 2d job and dedicate my self full time learning 3d.
>>784058
i dont have portfolio yet, but thats my goal next year.
im super beginner, my progress in 3d is pretty slow. but im hitting a passable quality that im trying to achieve.
>>782648
ill try to make an instagram acct. maybe i can land a small commission there while i learn.

im interested in the animation path,
since ive spend my early 20s working a small animation studio, why not use all the skills ive learned there.

ill try to keep this treads alive as much as i can. i dont know if /3/ has a discord.

[Anonymous No.784520]

my drawing tablet got broke,
im back on my bamboo tablet.
it seems sculpting in screenless tablet is faster,
i kinda prefer this.
seems a small win after i lost my drawing tablet

[Anonymous No.785512]

>>778307
Do you have any idea how many failed actresses are working dead end office jobs in Palm Springs after years of low rent LA apartments, anon? Or how many musicians couch surf or mooch off of a gf?

[Anonymous No.785514]

>>782648
>futa anthro-shark NTR animations
vr idol crowd is big and thirsty now, cash in asap.

[Anonymous No.785519]

>>784070
do it, I picked up sculpting at 25 to make big bellied dragons and stuff. It's a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.786178]

took the zpill,
i'm never coming back to blender for sculpting....

[Anonymous No.786185]

>>781807
>after watching some yansculpts i finally learn how to sculpt.
the gift that keeps giving

[Anonymous No.786190]

>>780515
>you could probably get an entry level position with ease doing this work
Why lie to him?

[Anonymous No.786229]

>>781791
no
after learning zbrush now i have to learn blender for retopo and other shit

[Anonymous No.786454]

>>786178
What's so good about it?

[Anonymous No.786647]

why are you using 3d coat for texturing?. Still doing this with zbrush after sculpt?

[Anonymous No.787410]

2dfag anon again here....
why tf poly paint is so confusing in zbrush
it took me a while to figure things out...

[Anonymous No.787414]

Gonna jump in and ask: I 3D modeled a certain fashion product exclusively for a small population of the world. I got the attention of the biggest company in this niche, but they said they couldn't hire me due to covid related issues. I have this idea to just make the products fully into the real world for a customer I just got measurements from and try to build up a business from there. Should I make tons of concept designs and try to sell them to existing companies to make physically? Should I advertise these for myself and make them physically?

[Anonymous No.787416]

>>779278
You seem to have some talent. Keep at it. Sell to the VRchat nerds for commissions.

[2dfag anon No.787906]

daily grind...

[Anonymous No.787907]

>>787414
Not in that industry, but I'd suggest licensing designs for production in limited numbers.

Since you say you 3D modeled the garment, bear in mind, just a 3D model (or the seamless patterns used for it, if you used Marvelous Designer for example) is not enough to produce the item. It can work as a concept or demo, though.

[Anonymous No.788007]

>>778307
I'm going to do the same, it's because 2D coom art completely ruined the market and now so many faggots expect 3 hour rendered drawings for ~50 USD that it has done nothing but make doing anything in 2D cancer. 3D means actual time spent and most people understand that, so a higher price makes more sense for the workload spent making and even rigging the model.

Plus, right now, 3D commissions is like a untapped goldmine. If I got onto the 2D scene 15 years earlier things would be different for me but now that it's too late for 2D, it's time to move on to 3D before that becomes cancer too.

[Anonymous No.788008]

>>778281
Also got a 2D background. How long have you practiced sculpting. I'm really bad at it and it's making me miserable. Guess I just got to keep at it until I see improvement.
I don't know what Dyntopo settings I should use. I can't even place the eyes correctly, let alone draw the lids over them.
Are you following Yan's Gumroad tutorials? Are they worth the price?

[2dfag anon No.788086]

time to sleep...

[Anonymous No.788442]

>>781027
mouth too low, face too round. too manly

[2dfag anon No.788480]

>female study...
i need to invest on
ryzen cpu next yr.
time to fully commit on this!

[Anonymous No.788877]

>>787410
>>787906
>>788086
>>788480
You are starting to retread ground, anon. As your manager, I would like to see a hyperreal style sculpt from you next time. Get out of your comfort zone or you will stop improving.

[Anonymous No.788885]

>>788877
im working on it boss

[Anonymous No.788889]

>>788877
ill get good one day i promise...

[Anonymous No.788890]

>>788889
Not bad. Attack it again and try to add more detail. Pic is just something I found on google, but it's a good example of the type of detail a sculptor should be looking at add. Also, working on your lighting a bit will help your presentation too. That rim light in particular is way overbright. Maybe 3 or 4 stops. The key light seems to be coming from camera side and looks flat as fuck.

https://www.cinecom.net/lighting-tutorials/3-point-lighting-basics/

[Anonymous No.788893]

im targeting
day 3 to day 5 in that pic,
my pc cant handle too much poly,
i need to do by best. below 400k poly,
i have very minimal knowledge about lighting
ill study on that subject too.

[Anonymous No.788898]

>>788893
In your case, doing animation and modeling, lighting is the icing on the cake. Focus on your fundamentals first. If you can get it to day 5 levels of detail, that'd be a spectacular improvement over your past sculpts. Ignore the hair and clothing in day 7, that's superfluous for now.

To be honest, if you are hoping to do animation rather than modeling, I would ignore sculpts all together, get yourself a pre-rigged character, and do some animation challenges... but it looks like you are enjoying sculpting, so don't stop if you are doing what you enjoy.

[Anonymous No.788901]

>>788898
im not aiming for animations,
im dreaming to be a 3d character artist.
i have so many things to learn...
ive found a ubisoft here im my country,
making it on that studio would be the initial goal.
i need to build a portfolio next yr.
i learned 3d a bit late, 1yr on blender.
and more or less a month on zbrush.
the good thing is im motivated learing this stuff. than working on 2d job.

[Anonymous No.788904]

>>788898
thanks for your feedback btw...
hope you made it too

[Anonymous No.788905]

>>788901
3D character artist is one of the most sought after positions, and in an industry which is filled with stupidly talented (and just plain stupid) kids, who want to work for videogames and be the next Nomura. You've chosen a hard path, anon. Good luck.
>>788904
No worries.
I'm this anon >>780515, so you could argue I 'made it' a long time ago. I wanted to work in games as a kid, but I wound up getting involved in film vfx. I've become slightly jaded, but I still love my job, at least -- which is more than I can say for some industry vets.

[Anonymous No.788943]

>>778307
Oh how many times I've been asked to do stuff for free.
I try to convince these people to install Blender, watch a tutorial and try it themselves. The rare few who become clients afterward tend to pay better.