Anonymous at Sat, 24 Jul 2021 22:31:07 UTC No. 840818

Your biggest mistake was using a shit laptop in the first place. Freezes, stalls, crashes or lagging - not worth it with all the time that's likely wasted. Your number one priority right now is to go find a shitty wage slave job and make enough to buy a better computer and then continue your practice/effort. I find it disheartening to read your plight due to a lot of people following the same trajectory of limitation by factors largely outside their control, I'm assuming you're poor? I can't give you any meaningful advice except of two choices: Make lowpoly stylized models in an effort to capitalize on your crap PC, while attempting a higher aesthetic and quality than what is currently on the market. Or two, pause the serious effort towards 3D in your life and to state it again, find a wageslave job to make ends meet until you can buy the brand spanking new powerhouse of a computer so you will never, ever, have to put up with that dumb shit again.

Anonymous at Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:04:39 UTC No. 840820

There is no way you haven't gotten a single penny from this in4 years unless you are really fucking shit or are too retarded to look for jobs.

Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jul 2021 01:15:14 UTC No. 840837

>>840816
Why does that gif make me laugh.

Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jul 2021 04:45:47 UTC No. 840862

I wasted 3 years of my work life on CG. It's a difficult field to be successful in. Lots of designers, not a lot of jobs. You need a personal reference with a good company when starting.

Or you could give it up now and change your career path. I've been in the medical field for 3 years and I'm much happier. 4 days off a week, decent pay, lots of headroom for a career.

Depends on how bad you want it. I don't miss it one but. It's a beautiful world, don't limit yourself to grinding out assets.

Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jul 2021 04:59:39 UTC No. 840864

I made a dollar after two months I made an account.

Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jul 2021 05:20:37 UTC No. 840867

>>840816
I have heard that CS + art has a shit ton of jobs for stuff like graphics engines and a lot of stuff like that, look into that at the very least

you should probably just abuse amazon refund policies for now lad, that or welfare

Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:08:23 UTC No. 840883

Just make porn games

Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:25:27 UTC No. 840884

>>840816
>he hasn't realized he can become a millionaire selling 3D porn games

Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:40:58 UTC No. 840911

>>840816
I can relate.
I started back when i was 21 and got into drawing before I transitioned into 3d, I'm almost 29 now and have yet to make a penny with it, I dropped out of school because of it, and now both my brothers have high profile jobs, while I live in a third world country, have the same pc I started with, which is now outdated and difficult to get anything done with while i work for a shitty call center and get yelled at by texans all day leaving me drained of all energy to continue my endeavor at the end of the day.

it's been now 25 days since i last stopped trying and feel like just giving up, i have a lot of regretful feelings right now, I spend my free time playing video games and watching movies, trying to ignore the itch to come back and finish what i started, thinking about all that time i put into it, maybe i should have become a programmer, I'm a smart guy, or at least i used to think so.

I guess at the end of the day it doesn't even matter, i was born in this hell along with everybody else (this is hell, whether they realize it or not) and I'll be subjected to suffering for the rest of my time here.

I will probably get back to it, and I will probably make it, but from where I'm standing I'm always gonna be cynical about it. so just keep at it man, life is shitty I know, but if you have the will, you can fucking move mountains, i know that believe me, so just keep at it.

Remember this is an ever evolving industry, there is always room for innovation, mediocrity is abundant.

Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:31:20 UTC No. 840930

>>840816
gonna be brutally honest with you, yes you threw 4 years of your life away on nothing
you're starving because you threw all your eggs into one basket and its all yolk and eggshells now
cant blame you plenty of youngsters do the same shit over and over
find a job, secure your financial income, cut on unnecessary expenses, afford proper hardware, go in for another dive - this time with plan b in case it goes to shit again

Anonymous at Mon, 26 Jul 2021 03:24:02 UTC No. 841008

You can't make good work with shit tools, save up your money and get a decent tower, buying a GPU right now is gonna suck but if you wait a few months for the prices to drop you should be able to get a serviceable workstation for around 1-1.5k.
Meanwhile keep sustaining yourself however you did for the past 4 years, I guess.

Anonymous at Mon, 26 Jul 2021 05:18:24 UTC No. 841014

I don't get how people on this board can actually afford to fail for literal years without losing the roof over their heads or food to eat.

Anonymous at Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:58:40 UTC No. 841018

>>840816
Show me one of your model and we'll judge your level of competency

Anonymous at Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:53:44 UTC No. 841033

>>841014
Support from family, just continue living like a kid in your room, except you don’t go to school.

Anonymous at Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:14:36 UTC No. 841476

Git gud OP

Anonymous at Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:26:43 UTC No. 841483

>>840818
>powerhouse of a computer
yeah good luck finding something like that in the current climate of scarce and overpriced GFX cards for a reasonable price.

Anonymous at Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:33:05 UTC No. 841486

>>841476
please say it's not porn commissions

Anonymous at Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:48:24 UTC No. 841494

>>841486
No, it's for some globohomo lowpoly stuff
I do have a bestiality commission coming up tho

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:07:43 UTC No. 841515

>>841494

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:18:06 UTC No. 841516

>>841483
They're coming down, slowly. It will just take some time.

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:06:18 UTC No. 841576

>>840816
Show me what you can make.

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:22:11 UTC No. 841577

>>841576

Anonymous at Tue, 3 Aug 2021 20:11:24 UTC No. 842473

>>840816
If you need work now, post your artstation. I'm in the market for a 3D artist and my budget is $1k.

Anonymous at Wed, 4 Aug 2021 11:05:32 UTC No. 842560

>>841014
Maybe they're 19 yo like me

Anonymous at Wed, 4 Aug 2021 11:07:24 UTC No. 842561

>>841483
You can, you 'just" need to pay 2 or 3 thousand bucks for the top Tier hardware, sure it sucks that it's so expensive compared to before, but it's still not that big of an investment if you are serious.

Anonymous at Thu, 5 Aug 2021 04:14:35 UTC No. 842677

>>840818
terrible advice, you sound like a faggot

Anonymous at Thu, 5 Aug 2021 04:15:35 UTC No. 842679

>>842677
checked

Anonymous at Thu, 5 Aug 2021 04:55:51 UTC No. 842683

>>841476
how do you do it

Anonymous at Thu, 5 Aug 2021 05:30:05 UTC No. 842684

>>842677
Yes I know how much you are butthurt over you getting shit on in previous threads. Keep coping with seethe posts on all my replies, it will make you feel better. :^)

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Aug 2021 16:11:52 UTC No. 842944

>>842473
truly ? I only have a couple of finished projects in my sketchfab, the rest I haven't been able to finish, but I can do complex things like cars or characters medium poly..

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Aug 2021 16:34:37 UTC No. 842947

>>840818
>buy a better pc or do lowpoly
thanks duck-sama for this gigabrain take.

Anonymous at Sun, 8 Aug 2021 12:37:34 UTC No. 843179

Every 3D artist seems to make personal projects just to get a job, then once they get it, they give up on them completely.

Am I the only one who sees a job only as something that can support me making even more personal artwork? I don't give a fuck about the prestige of working in big boy studios, I'd still be more proud of my solo projects than shipped blockbuster hits.

I also kinda doubt you can improve faster in a studio than on your own. Maybe it depends on a workplace, but I for sure have grown more with my solo projects, since when there are deadlines and tasks you don't have much time to experiment and learn new things. I hear that often from other artists actually - they can either quit and invest a few months into themselves to learn a new skillset by doing personal projects, or hold the job and just grind out same things over and over again, not having time to grow. But it's hard to prove it because as I said, once people get a job, they often quit social media so you can't see their new works anymore.

That's some depressing shit to me, but I'm probably a black sheep in this industry and see it the different way. Most artists seem to be just fine with the fact they only do 3D art at the job.

Anonymous at Sun, 8 Aug 2021 12:45:42 UTC No. 843180

>>843179
>Am I the only one who sees a job only as something that can support me making even more personal artwork? I don't give a fuck about the prestige of working in big boy studios, I'd still be more proud of my solo projects than shipped blockbuster hits.

Getting a 45k job a year in a major studio as a runner is a lot better than the 22k job i have now.

Anonymous at Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:46:11 UTC No. 843765

>>840911
Everyone has a rut. mine is similar to yours but we'll make it somehow. I don't believe much in myself, but I believe in you, anon. You've got this.

Anonymous at Sat, 14 Aug 2021 23:35:10 UTC No. 844289

>>840911
Sounds grim. Is your work so shitty or how come you don't find any job?

Anonymous at Thu, 19 Aug 2021 01:40:00 UTC No. 845029

>>845027


Refer to this post.

Being dead serious 'cause you sound desperate