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>>964650
For future reference, OP.

>>964654
YES! Finally! Thank you anon you a real one

Modeled and UV'd mah hand cannon, will texture it soon

>>964658
No problemo, anon. Figured I'd keep it handy.

how the FUCK do people sculpt fur

>>964708
I don't sculpt, so my advice is probably worth fuck all, but if I did, I'd probably make a pointy tongue looking displacement brush (it'd look like a clump of fur coming to a point), then just spam that around the sculpt to give it flow. Either that, or just don't sculpt it at all, and let the texture do the work.

>>964650
A little jet. What do you think?

Marge backside, thanks for the feedback on hand/foot size

>>964760
make feet bigger

>>964721
How the FUCK do you make a fur texture?

>>964787
Same way you paint fur?
Get your texture, and a brush that follows pen direction and paint them in the correct direction/flow. Ideally you'd use a brush that has some fibers to it, so that it creates a bunch of lines at once. I find it easier if you can paint on the model.
Barring all that, you can also just use hair cards. Pic related. I guess you could also use something like it for a brush as long as it's stamped and not continuously dragged out.

>>964781
>>964760
Feet size is ok Anon

>>964803
i know it's fine I'm just a cooner

>>964684
I love the creativity that goes into these, collage-anon-sama, like the way the models are arranged isn't random at all in fact there's a deliberate approach about it, there's a common theme, a reason behind the clustering together of most of these models. Good shit

>>964855

>>964841
Fair enough

>>964848
>there's a deliberate approach about it, there's a common theme, a reason behind the clustering together of most of these models
Yeah, I tried to keep to a general "theme" for different areas for each of the collages. Well, as much as a theme/narrative as you can really give a bunch of random images that have nothing to do with each other.
It's been awhile, but I think for the OG one (the one in that gif), some more "purposeful" placements, were the succubus lewdly posing and the squid girl looking up at her from below, the characters in the car doing a drive by, the goblin hoarding a bunch of wares in his cave, the trio of busts on the weird flesh-pedestals being a bit of a nod to the singing heads off the Haunted Mansion ride, the stuff in the background with the tanks and stuff being a battle between the left and right side, and the cockroach holding as many weapons as I could manage to give him.

They were fun to do, and I'm glad the board liked them, but I ended up spending a lot more time on them than I really should have been and I never really got any actual work done.

>>964855
>>964856
That's some baller shit nigga, loving the design of the armor + mechs.
I only have 2 complaints about the armor:
1) the shoes seem a bit too basic, some extra detailing there wouldn't hurt imho but that's just personal preference;
2) on his right shoulder the american flag isn't supposed to be oriented that way: on US uniforms, the american flag is oriented in such a way that the part with the stars points forward, never backwards (see pic rel for more info).
Other than that, I repeat, great work, especially the helmet plane paint goes hard

>>964882
>They were fun to do, and I'm glad the board liked them, but I ended up spending a lot more time on them than I really should have been and I never really got any actual work done.
I understand and I greatly appreciated the collages while they lasted, thank you for your service anon

>>964899
Thanks anon I appreciate the feedback

>>964915
Anytime

>>964661
Texturing work continues, I'd call it 60% complete.

I first envisioned this to be carried by regular dildos but I like the M1911 so much I'll let it be a unique weapon, a pistol that lived through the American Century, from the mud of the french trenches to the frost of the Ardennes, from the jungles of Nam to the sands of the Middle East, and that saw it through to the bitter nuclear end. Even in the apocalypse, the Yankee Fist refuses to die.
I should save this snippet as the item's in-game description

>>964650
i tried

>>964900
No problemo! Maybe I'll come out of "retirement" one of these days and do one or two collages again. We'll see how things go.

>>964917
Ah fuck, look at this, I completed the textures, set up all the texture maps for my Material, the Height map is the only one I have left to plug in before my gun is fully complete aaaaaand... I get this shit.

What's with all the pixelation? How do I fix this? Some forum posts I looked up said to change interpolation from Linear to Cubic but that didn't do shit for me. Some may suggest to turn down the strength, but even at the lowest level I still see the pixels, and going even lower just disables the map altogether

>>965006
Have you tried *not* using a straight up photoshop file as the texture input? There might be something fucky going on if you have layers and shit in the PSD. Maybe there's some weird interpretation of the file that Blender has to handle to read the file properly. Like if somehow you were able to use a PDF or some shit as a texture. Something is obviously going to get fucky in that transition/interpretation, even if the program allows it and "supports" it.
Export it to a normal format and see if it still does it.

>>964784
printer paper man and cheesepuff dude

>>965006
I could be wrong but isn't this where texel density comes in?

>>965007
Yep I used a regular PNG and it still had the blocks, but with some extra research I figured out what the problem was: my original image had a 8 bit integer bitmap depth or whatever it's called, whereas for height maps to work properly it appears you require either a 16 bit float or 32 bit float bitmap depth, I went for the latter and it solved the issue (it still has pixels but that's only because my image isn't very high res to begin with, that's acceptable).
Finally! My 1911 is finished, my first fully modeled AND textured gun (I modeled a bunch of other boomsticks before but never textured them as well, this is a first).

Modeling and texturing guns is a very time consuming process, this will prove challenging for game development. Now I see why many game devs opt for fictional gun designs, so that they can take ample liberties with real life guns rather than having to follow their looks to a T, more liberties = faster output. An important lesson, just don't take it to Bethesda levels where they cram a whole bunch of random shit tgoether with no rhyme or reason lol

>>965017
Don't stop here, it looks not really good but it can be fixed.
First, why use a heightmap when you can use a normal map?
Heightmaps are for displacement, a gun like this doesn't need displacement if modeled correctly.
Secondly, The bump is WAY TOO MUCH. Come on now, this looks like metal done in the middle ages with an anvil and a hammer.
No actually, it doesn't even look like metal. WTF did you do? Is your metalness map grey or something - it needs to be white, this is metal.
Did you even look at references?
You wear and tear looks completely random and arbitrary, the wood looks like leather and all those little things come together and make the whole gun look like crap and very amateurish.
Find reference photos of old and used colts and actually fucking look at them.
Don't wing it, be diligent and observe how it actually looks like then replicate details you see precisely.

>>965031
>Is your metalness map grey or something - it needs to be white, this is metal.
Speaking of, what uses would there even be for a grey metalness map? If say rubber is 0 metalness and steel is 100 metalness what would even be 50?

>>965017
me again
>>965031
If that is truly your first fully textured model than you did good. I don't want to put you down or demotivate you.
My point still stands, don't stop now, you can push this much, much further.
Don't be the guy that is satisfied with mediocrity.
I know you can do it better because its not that hard - its just time x effort.
I think the reference I posted is a pretty good example, try to replicate the discoloration of the metal, the shifts toward brown and areas that are brighter/darker.
Your current details are too big, be more subtle with detailing and it will look better.
If you continue to push far outside of your current limits, you will learn more and learn faster, and you'll feel deeply satisfied afterwards.

>>965032
The only way this makes sense if you have a thin film of a transparent nonmetal substance covering the metal.
There are also some half-metallic compounds, some type of alloys where it would make sense.

>>965017
Yes anon, using 8 bits for a grayscale map will introduce stepping, since you can literally only store 256 different shades of grey in 8 bit.
16bits up that to 65536 if unsigned, half of that if signed.
16bit would've been enough, 32bit floats are far overkill. Not that it matters much in the end, but unless you hate having free space you shouldn't store all your future greyscale maps in full float 32 bit.
How tf was no one here able to answer that for you earlier, jfc

>>965035
>16bit would've been enough, 32bit floats are far overkill. Not that it matters much in the end, but unless you hate having free space you shouldn't store all your future greyscale maps in full float 32 bit
Thanks for the advice anon-kun, I'll go for 16 bit next time and see how it goes

How do you rotate a model that's made up of multiple parts that all have different origin points? It's one thing I've never got around to finding out and I usually just reposition the camera because it's easier, but I know that's not really practical for a lot of reasons.
Do you have to parent them all to one part or something like that?

>>965140
You can parent them all to one part and that works yeah, you can also switch the pivot point to active element

>>965141
Thanks a lot bro. If I do it the pivot point way is it just a case of selecting all of the parts and then changing pivot point to active element?

>>965142
Once you select the option any objects you rotate will be rotated using the last selected object's origin

>>965143
Ah gotcha. Thanks dude.

Making a decently known one for once. My days of staring at 200px wide black and white photos from the 1920s are over.

>>965189
I don't know how the hell you can do 7 million trains

heres a test render of a wip. feedback pls thank u

crusty lil low poly umbreon im working on

trying to go for 3dmm style

>>965189
That looks pretty rad anon, I did some metro trains but they're low poly, nowhere near as detailed as yours.
I really have a problem figuring out how large train wheels should be, 80cm in diameter i.e. 2.62 ft should be fine, especially if my trains ain't realistic and are just simple fictional low poly designs, unlike yours. You could sell that shit at a premium nigga

>>965232
Oh I'm a retard I forgot pic

Have been learning a lot working on this Sonic model I made. You don't really notice these in this animation I did but
>eyes have parallax effects
>limbs and quills have bendy bones
>mouth slides from side to side (though not as smoothly as in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwcai0-Dh7Y because the angle is too steep on my muzzle)
Made some mistakes with the rig, namely putting rotation on the bones by accident which screwed up the mirroring during posing. I sort of fixed it but there's still issues.
Topology also isn't the best since I wasn't sure how far I'd go with it when I started. And I'm not bothering with UVs or textures.
Might go for lighting next since I have trouble with that still.
But I'm happy with how it turned out so far.

>>965244
From the side, since I was copying from game sprites.

>>965217
finished it!

>>965246
Looks nice, though very granny. Have you tried using a denoiser?

>>965247
oh its the point, the edges wont be as defined, figures are kinda loose and ambiguous. i tried evoking monet. thanks tho!

>>965189
Fucking shit 10/10 I do love me some trains. Great work anon.

>>965189
Calling it here for today. Got most of the undercarriage done, feels pretty good.
>>965238
Neat. I dig the general shape. I bet some stylized PSXish textures would look pretty cool on that.
>>965272
Oh, hey, its you! :D

>>965246
Thumbs up.

>>965246
i love this, do you have the wireframe posted anywhere? i'd really like to see what it looks like.

>>964962
if i get the time i'm gonna try making a 3DMM background styled render of it

>>964784
i love primitives based models. have you heard of the game Ecstatica? It's an early 3d dos game that got around polygon limitations by making an entirely ellipsoid rendering engine. it's got such a funky look to it.

>>964760
good
>>964917
it reminds me of the one in new vegas, which is appropriate given ur description

>>964661
the classic

>>964708
i always do curve hair. it gives very clean results, albiet npr.

>>965274
looks good anon

>>965275
>>965276
thank you guys! heres the breakdown + wires
https://imgur.com/a/JYFa1cg

>>965278
oops wrong photo my bad

>>965275
>>965276
thank you guys! heres the breakdown + wires
https://imgur.com/a/JYFa1cg

>>965280
I think I remember you posting a scene a while back of some boats and things on the water. Honestly at first I thought it was like an old grainy photo and thought you had posted on here by mistake.
It's nice stuff.

>>965282
you mean this? and thanks a lot my heart melts

>>965225
Looks good anon, if I was you I would make the head slightly bigger

>>965284
Yeah that's the one. Looks real cool.

>>965311
whats more touching is that you recognized me from another post. thanks again anon

my wip of the week is a 2d ref so next week i can 3d

>>965274
More progress.

Trying out a more buff character. Anatomy isn't very accurate, but I'm quite proud since it's my first attempt at this muscular style!

>>965246
This is awesome!!

>>965520
Good first attempt. Try to think about the silhouette of body first before sculpting the muscles tho

>>965520
(cont) use a flat black Shader (press v in zbrush) to check the overal shape of what you're sculpting. Try to make another body today!

A rough Blockout form some drawing references.
Time for Sculpting, and its going to be all downhill form here. Trying to stay on the cartoony side of the uncanny valley.

>>965533
westoid cartoon coal

>>965520
SOUL
>>965533
soulless

>>965533
terrible

>>965541
S0VL

>>965534
Thank you for the advice!

>>965553
Looks like it was done by someone with good anatomy knowledge.
Maybe lacks appeal in certain respects, but honestly looks like it was done by a pro to me

>>965533
Top tier work

Bros are any of you able to help with this first greentext? >>965537

test render of a gate of a piece im working on, heavily inspired by samarqand. hows the texture and the feel so far bros?

Daily shortstack

>>965601
Thanks for the compliment, still have a lot of studying to do before going pro

>>965635
Got some good anatomy course recs? Or did you just study from books/images

>>965641
The holy trinity of anatomy stuff is:
Rafael Grassetti - ZBrush Anatomy & Design Package
(Uldis Zarins) Anatomy for Sculptors - Understanding the Human Figure
Faraut, Philippe - Figure Sculpting Volume 1 and 2.
(bonus) e-hentai.org/g/2367763/1b25ad2999/

I also have a huge pureref file open all the time with reference / my favorite tutorials for each part of the body

Is her head too big?

>>965690
if you are going for a "realistic" proportions yes, the head should be 1/8 of the body and you have there 1/5 or so

>>965687
Great stuff anon, thank you
Too bad the Faraut Philippe books aren't on libgen and all the physical copies are crazy expensive

>>965691
Started out with that reference but it looked disgusting. Trying to get some kinda action figure look, but I can't tell if it's working or not.

>>965690
I find that the proportions of the neck influence my perception of head sizes a lot more than the actual head size does.
That said, 1/5 is probably too large regardless. The face should be smaller than the hand is, so you can probably get a decent look by shrinking the head until it's 1/6, and then thinning the neck a bit.

>>965694
it is heroic scale basically, yes it works but the mouth, the eyes are too small and the eyes look like this < . > and the chin is too big

>>965690
looks perfect for a cartoon character desu, would shrink the neck by 50% in width tho

>>964650
Marry Christmas everyone.

>>965699
>>965701

Thanks dudes! I guess it looks a bit better now, but I'll have to adjust it a bit more.

>>965711
S0VL vs soulless

>>965711
>>965712
If you like the thicker neck more then add some bulk to the arms and legs.

>>965710

Trying to make a cute guitar. Way harder than I thought it was going to be, but at least I learned some new stuff and it's a lot better than my first attempt. I'll probably post that too because I'm pleased with the progress from then.
The anon who made the guitar in the old thread has my respect.

>>965718
I love this so much!
Keep going 3dguy

>>965718
God is not real, but this is no excuse to take off this frog´s underwear. I promise i´ll never do that.

>>965719
i made this one months ago, its a pain to model all these little parts, it helped that i have one irl

>>965624
it looks cool, the light is pretty blown out, but thats how deserts are

>>965733

>>965733
>>965737
Neat!
I'm finding the strings to be the hardest part. I can't seem to keep them straight and I'm not sure if it's because the tuning pegs are askew or because the neck isn't wide enough or what.
I think I'm just going to put the strings on, move the tuning pegs closer to the edges of the headstock, and redo the nut. I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas.

>>965740
i did it with curves and turned them into a mesh

>>965741
That's what I did too, but despite my efforts everything has still fucked up.
I think my headstock is too narrow and that's made the top of the neck too narrow. I tried to find just how much more narrow the top of the neck was compared to the bottom (on average) because it's hard to judge on photos, but couldn't find out so I just winged it.
The least fuck on/easiest way to fix it will be to do the strings first and then resize the headstock/top of neck and brute force it. Or that's what I'm thinking at least.

>>965726
Awesome! keep going

>>965711
It has it's charms but I would make it more feminine. Thinner upper torso/narrower shoulders. Rounder face/less jaw. And a less bowl kind of hair style.

>>965726
imagine the smell

test render

>>965750
better?

>>965790
she looks like she's finally ready to settle down