Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 04:15:58 UTC No. 847891

>>847882
love these collage editions, keep it up

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 04:18:14 UTC No. 847893

>>847882
love how you get creative with this picture every thread, keep it up

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 04:20:38 UTC No. 847894

thanks for adding my model to the collage, makes me want to model more

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 05:47:53 UTC No. 847924

>>847893
I get good material to work with. I'm having fun making the little hoard for the goblin in the cave.
>keep it up
Same to you!

>>847894
>makes me want to model more
That was my hopeful goal with it. Give something for anons to have fun with and hopefully keep them making things. I know they're not making things to go specifically in the OP, but I think it does feel nice to get some recognition for something someone put time into. Maybe they'd want to keep doing more.
You keep modelling, I'll keep adding.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 07:04:19 UTC No. 847937

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 08:18:36 UTC No. 847948

>>847937
RETURN
TO
TRADITION

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:17:01 UTC No. 848028

>>847924
>I think it does feel nice to get some recognition for something someone put time into. Maybe they'd want to keep doing more

It did for me. The only thing that puts me off now is that every time I open Blender, work on something for a bit, and then close Blender my computer starts running like complete shit. I think I need a fresh install of Windows.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:19:36 UTC No. 848030

>>847924
you didn't include mine so it made me want to model less

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:22:53 UTC No. 848033

>>848030

Same. Not posting anymore. Only thing left are the schizos.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:46:54 UTC No. 848037

>>848030
cry me a river, faggot

nb: not OP

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 17:28:52 UTC No. 848050

>>848033

learn how to hide and ignore obvious schizo posts or sit and cope like >>848037 suggests

you retards actually get baited and reply to threads made by people like that shit colored colombian baboon

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 17:35:48 UTC No. 848052

>>848037
>>848050
>they say in defense of a thread started with an image containing at least two bottom of the barrel garbage models with huge horse cocks slapped onto them

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 18:01:30 UTC No. 848056

>>848052
as if your work is any better

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 18:07:36 UTC No. 848060

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 18:28:38 UTC No. 848066

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 19:37:17 UTC No. 848080

>>847882
>horsecock amogus in the toiletcopter

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 19:42:30 UTC No. 848081

>>848066
S-Starfleet?

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 19:53:53 UTC No. 848084

>>848081
Hello. A-Anon? Good to see you again.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 20:26:59 UTC No. 848088

>>848084
Oh, God...

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 20:33:15 UTC No. 848089

>>848088
checked

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 20:50:16 UTC No. 848092

>>848030
>>848033
If it wasn't included it was probably one that was too difficult to grab out, an environment, unfinished to a point where it wouldn't really fit, or it looked like it was still being worked on and I didn't want to put something in that might be finished in the next thread.
I realize there's unfinished pieces in the OP to begin with, but they either seemed like the people were done working on them and left them like that, modeled well enough to stand alright on their own, or I could use them in one of the existing "scenes" in the OP (like the guy in the jet toilet).


If you really want your stuff in the next image, just point out the post from the previous thread and I'll put it in. I'm not trying to exclude anybody on purpose, and I'd rather not have shit flinging start because someone wasn't in it. That's not really the point.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 20:55:53 UTC No. 848094

slowly getting there chads.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 22:25:12 UTC No. 848111

>>848092
jk

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 22:28:03 UTC No. 848114

why do I always lose inspiration so quick

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 22:34:20 UTC No. 848115

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 22:53:15 UTC No. 848117

>>848115
I could have swore this was posted a year or two ago, but the glasses and wine glass were too small. Was that you?
Also
>tfw gay

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 23:19:52 UTC No. 848119

Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels... his was the most...

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 23:33:53 UTC No. 848121

Something I've been drumming up.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Sep 2021 23:55:54 UTC No. 848122

>>848114
Because you're not a creative person.

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 00:00:34 UTC No. 848124

>>848121
way too deep in the uncanny valley

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 00:17:04 UTC No. 848127

>>848124
How do I fix this without seppuku?

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 02:15:05 UTC No. 848137

>>848117
i have no idea what you're talking about

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 02:48:31 UTC No. 848139

>>848137
I believe you...it just seems incredibly suspicious that it was that exact model and everything, right down to the retro computer, glasses, and wine glass. Unless it's part of a tutorial or a certain reference image or something. I've just never known two people manage to come up with identical ideas.
I'm not knocking it or anything btw, I like it.

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 02:58:05 UTC No. 848142

>>848111
No worries. Just figured it needed to be said anyway in case someone really did feel like that.

>>848119
Come on now, thread's just gettin started. Don't blow it out the airlock yet.

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 03:16:43 UTC No. 848143

>>848127
make the limbs more animalistic, not human like

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 03:35:23 UTC No. 848146

>>848143
Well, I went for the more human route on purpose, trying to create something a bit more 'relatable' on the anthromorphic scale.

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 03:50:09 UTC No. 848147

>>847882
is not using majoirty of my uv map a bad thing?

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 04:03:26 UTC No. 848148

>>848146
you'll find that the majority of people find uncanny characters less relatable than anthropomorphized animals

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 04:04:26 UTC No. 848149

>>848147
you should be worried about consistent texel density
you can just crop the image to the nearset po2 size

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 04:08:31 UTC No. 848150

>>848142
Exported superhuman Starfleet out of DAZ, been on that IK-less rig for so long. The plug-in rig generators in Blender could not solve for this mesh so I have been using the fbx rig that exported with it. Now, there is a Mixamo plug in for Blender. Uploaded mesh to Mixamo, downloaded new rigged character, used Mixamo to Blender plug in to generate nice IK rig. Tonight, we will run Hanna the same way. Hopefully we can come out with a nice shot. So let's see where we go from here. I Starfleet promise to post. Really the only question is: jazz or chill mix?

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 04:21:44 UTC No. 848151

>>848149
tried to get a consistent texel density across the different models but what should i do when the islands are bigger than the uv map?
>nearset po2 size
what's that?

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 04:43:40 UTC No. 848155

>>847882
long range trash rod

also thanks for including my models on the screenshot \o/

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 04:59:32 UTC No. 848159

>>848151

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 04:59:35 UTC No. 848160

>>848155
Oops, here

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 05:06:40 UTC No. 848161

>>848160
another angle

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 05:14:41 UTC No. 848162

>>848151
>what's that?
nearest power of 2
so if your resized dimensions are 1034x2040 you resize it to 1024x2048

>islands are bigger than the uv map?
just... scale them down?

average islands scale can help with getting their relative sizes correct and "pack uvs" can get you a good enough result
i reccomend UVPackMaster plugin if you want good auto packing

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 05:35:59 UTC No. 848163

>>848159
>>848162
thanks anons

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 05:57:33 UTC No. 848165

>>848159
should I straighten this as well?

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 06:00:25 UTC No. 848166

>>848165
there is always undo

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 06:03:42 UTC No. 848167

>>848166
yeah my bad, i should start experimenting by myself

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 10:11:34 UTC No. 848183

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 12:20:24 UTC No. 848194

>>848127
The guy who replied to you wasn't me, but if you want actual advice, he was pretty close.

soften-up the facial features. shrink the ears a bit, maybe make them floppier. looks more like a bat as-is. nose could be smaller.

most importantly - usually, even in very serious works, anthropomorphized characters are given a softer "cartoonish" appearance if you expect an audience to sympathize with it. when I say "cartoonish", i mean that the features are softened/smoothed (dewrinkled), the teeth become larger, smoother and more uniform, the behavior light and amicable, etc.

when you literally transplant a dog head on a human body, well - it's pretty self-explanatory. it looks like a victim of some unholy, schizo surgical procedure from the 12th century.

when you model, imagine what it will look like fully dressed - where the fur (texture or otherwise) will go, color composition, etc. this is the foundation. build up from there

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 12:26:21 UTC No. 848196

>>848194
>12th century.
they did that in the 19'th

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:10:24 UTC No. 848203

>>848146

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:16:34 UTC No. 848205

>>848066
>>848084
Post in the right thread, motherfucker: >>846099

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:39:54 UTC No. 848208

>>847882

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:45:49 UTC No. 848210

>>848205
I will go low, but I won't go that low.

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:11:04 UTC No. 848215

>>848210
you're delusional if you think you're above that

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:15:07 UTC No. 848216

>>848215
Why would I want to put a woman's head on a pair of balloons?

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:37:24 UTC No. 848218

>>848148
>>848194
But anon, I kinda wanted it to be edgy.
I was inspired by this image you see, I wanted something that looked dangerous. By relatable I meant "oh yeah he's got human features," not "oh yeah that thing looks friendly."
You are right on the nose though, and I'll soften it up a bit, but I sure as hell am not making it appealing. I need it to be raw.
Thanks for the advice though.

>>848203
Well you know what they say about blacks...

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:46:54 UTC No. 848220

>>848196
I was being hyperbolic, with the implication being that it would be ever worse.

Imagine requiring this to be explained to to, you autistic fucking retard.

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:48:51 UTC No. 848221

>>848220
>imagine getting triggered on 4chan

Anonymous at Thu, 2 Sep 2021 19:24:39 UTC No. 848241

>>848150
>all that effort so he doesn’t have to learn how to rig

Ngmi

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 00:33:31 UTC No. 848252

The current horrid accumulation of my uncanny work.

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 03:50:43 UTC No. 848273

Working on a scene based off of Ichigo's inner world in Bleach.
I always though those scenes were pretty cool in the anime.
Still pretty early on, and most of the buildings don't have tops yet, but it's coming along.

Depending on things, I'll probably try to get Old Man Zangetsu in there. We'll see.

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 03:53:08 UTC No. 848274

>>848241
>I Starfleet promise to post.
please don't. or, at least, don't do it here. this is not the thread for Daz content.

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 04:11:08 UTC No. 848277

>>848252
not a fur fag but i like it

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 04:12:10 UTC No. 848279

>>848273
are you using modular assets to make the buildings?

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 04:17:35 UTC No. 848280

>>848279
Nah. Just been building out one floor with XY mirroring, and then just using an array to make them tall.
So I'm really only modelling 1/4th of a floor that I can turn into a skyscraper. Which for a simple building, I can knock one out in 5-6 mins.

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 09:12:35 UTC No. 848333

>>848277
Arigato anon.
I'm no furfag either, I just like anthromorphs.

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 12:29:41 UTC No. 848349

>>848252
>>848333
The criticizer here - it actually does look pretty good.

I think it was the original pose that made it look awful, but with the facial emotions/attitude and scenarios you've used it's unironically a 9/10 for a base model.

I can imagine him being cool in a game, like the wolf in Darkwood.

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 13:51:45 UTC No. 848361

>>847882
Yay, my dudes got in the collage!

I'm pretty much done with the rig and basic animations but I just can't find the courage to start making a proper character controller.

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 14:16:45 UTC No. 848368

>>848114
just go ahead and texture it

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 15:50:33 UTC No. 848374

How do I merge the head and torso to continue sculpting ? tried to use a boolean modifier then join but when I sculpt they're not exactly joined and one mesh pushes the other for some reason.

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:09:34 UTC No. 848378

>>848374
Join objects and use remesh

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 20:01:02 UTC No. 848406

>>848374
average british citizen

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 22:45:34 UTC No. 848429

Sorry for the crappy resolution, but this is my first attempt at a Low poly Model (N64/PS1)

Anonymous at Fri, 3 Sep 2021 22:52:17 UTC No. 848431

>>848333
Wouldn't he chop his dick off by swinging that.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 00:41:14 UTC No. 848453

>>848252
" consider the following "

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 05:33:21 UTC No. 848484

still a noob
working on a bowling alley animation

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 05:34:34 UTC No. 848485

>>848161
This looks amazing, GMI

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 06:25:51 UTC No. 848488

>>848484
with cycles

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 07:49:14 UTC No. 848500

posted this in /blg/ but thought i would post it here as well. can someone help me understand the difference between shaders and textures? can't i get the manga-ish style with just textures?

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 08:11:03 UTC No. 848504

>>848500
Japanese artists managed to do it with just unshaded textures 20+ years ago, so can you.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 08:19:50 UTC No. 848505

>>848504
they did? can i get some references?

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 09:38:00 UTC No. 848507

Worked. It. Out.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 09:39:05 UTC No. 848508

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 10:47:59 UTC No. 848510

>>848500
obviously you can do it with just textures but you're going to have to do it for every object and it's a static thing so if you plan to aninate it then it's likely that it's going to look bad from a certain angle
ask these questions in sqt

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 11:24:48 UTC No. 848512

>>848510
>it's a static thing so if you plan to aninate it then it's likely that it's going to look bad from a certain angle
didn't consider that, but i am mostly looking to make environments in 3d then animate characters in 2d.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 11:34:15 UTC No. 848514

>>848500
Some people (blender users mostly for some reason) tend to mistakenly use shader to describe basic materials. While not necessarily wrong, the term shader should be reserved for more complex all encompassing functions, such as those that apply to an entire scene to change it's appearance. An example being a cel shader.
Presumably you mean materials to which the answer is simple. A texture is a single map and a material/shader describes a complete set of instructions for how something will end up looking.
In other words, a shader consists of several functions and potentially several maps (textures).
A texture is just a flat image.

Hopefully that makes sense to you.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 11:53:10 UTC No. 848516

>>848514
Listen to this anon.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 15:57:32 UTC No. 848559

>>848508
the hair looks bad, is it because of denoising?

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 16:01:59 UTC No. 848560

>>848514
>the term shader should be reserved for more complex all encompassing functions
?

Here you have a perfectly valid shader:

shader constant (
color Cin = color(0.49, 0.31, 0.10),
output color Cout = color(1, 1, 1)
) {
// nigger
Cout = Cin;
}

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 16:10:33 UTC No. 848565

>>848560
Yes, I said should be. Not is.
It is my personal preference to separate the terms in this manner as it's quite evident that not doing so causes endless confusion for people.
No one would come here asking what a shader is if you didn't have a bunch of different applications using their own terms synonymously with it.
As for your example I believe that goes under "a complete set of instructions for how something will end up looking".

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 16:23:41 UTC No. 848569

>>848514
this is what I am aiming for, so the crosshatching present in the frame is the texture for the floor as well as the reddish color and the cel shaded shader is for the characters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJX2e8YhJ90

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 16:33:28 UTC No. 848571

>>848559
Lights and denoising. Copy.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:03:18 UTC No. 848577

>>848560
What’s the point of having input if you do nothing with the values?

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:03:18 UTC No. 848578

>>848569
They're cel shading everything in that clip.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:10:53 UTC No. 848580

>>848578
guess i will try setting up a cel shader, hopefully it wont look ass like pic related

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:15:45 UTC No. 848582

>>848580
Shouldn't be too difficult with some researching online. Plenty of people have worked on different styles of cel shading for all kinds of applications over the years and most of it is available online.
I think one of the issues with your picture is the texture just doesn't look very good. It's a basic spray paint brush it looks like. Imagine trying to draw that.
The reason the video you linked looks convincing enough is that the texture have been done with actual drawing techniques in mind. Try using something that looks like pencil shading. In other words, lines.

The environment and lighting also isn't terribly dynamic because you've just started. It'll look better as you add more detail.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:30:28 UTC No. 848585

>>848582
yup going to collect some more references and I also noticed the texel density for the window and walls are off. thanks for the help anon

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:38:12 UTC No. 848588

Hey, trying to get the torso right, 1st time doing this but kinda lost, I am looking at references but would appreciate if anyone has any pointers

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:47:35 UTC No. 848590

>>848588
It's like you completely forgot that the ribcage exists. Keep the egg shape in mind for the ribcage and then layer muscle on top of that. I usually think in terms of bone -> muscle -> fat -> skin. Don't be afraid to set up reference images in the orthographic views to get a sense of proportions because your sculpt is so unbelievably thick like someone pulled them by the nipples forward and then hung them so their body extended. This is like if the human centipede had no bones and turned into an actual, fleshy centipede.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:52:29 UTC No. 848591

>>848585
Don't mention it and good luck.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 18:13:16 UTC No. 848596

>>848588
Get the book anatomy for sculptors online somewhere.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 18:53:24 UTC No. 848605

>>848577
it's a constant shader, you can give some mesh a uniform color with that, regardless of lighting

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 20:11:27 UTC No. 848620

>>848605
Yeah, but what if I just write Cout=color(0.49, 0.31, 0.10)
and skip all the previous value setting?

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 20:42:27 UTC No. 848625

>>848429
Flame on.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 20:45:50 UTC No. 848626

>>848620
you need to define the input if you want to control the value from the shader network, otherwise it's hard-coded. in other words, that's just a default

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 20:47:44 UTC No. 848628

>>848508
The overall shape of that model is bad. I would suggest some post processing and enhancement here

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 22:21:25 UTC No. 848640

Is it just me, or is Blender extremely shitty at sculpting? I used up my Zbrush free trial and reverting back to Blender is extremely depressing. At least Maya makes up for it by having a very nice retopology tool

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 22:32:36 UTC No. 848641

>>848640
Blender is not a dedicated sculpting application. There's gotta be shortcomings.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 23:26:05 UTC No. 848653

>>848628
You sick fuck.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 23:39:55 UTC No. 848657

>>848641
It's mostly just performance now. Blender will shit itself way before you hit the big boy numbers. A few useful brushes are missing too.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 Sep 2021 23:53:00 UTC No. 848659

>>848653
his corrections seem fair to me, especially around the knee and shoulder

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 01:45:32 UTC No. 848670

>>848659
That is real good advice from comparing 2 layers in Krita. Thanks, Anon, nice tip, that means a lot. We will not destroy your planet now.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 01:51:20 UTC No. 848671

>>848488
caleb?

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 01:51:33 UTC No. 848672

>>848640
just pirate zbrush

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 02:15:48 UTC No. 848674

I am once more asking for advice. If anyone remembers I think I got the nose into a much better state.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 02:25:11 UTC No. 848675

>>848625
Now with Vertex Colors

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 02:54:25 UTC No. 848678

>>848674
compare it against your reference and make a judgement - sometimes it help me to look at my sitting position, distractions around me, even rotating view upside down.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 02:59:36 UTC No. 848679

>>848628
Processing

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 06:42:56 UTC No. 848694

>>848628
Working with the silhouette in sculpt mode the model was tightened as to a better shape. Thank you for helping to complete it with the good advice.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 10:21:58 UTC No. 848714

>>848678
ah, it's mostly just a blind model beyond anothr mesh I used to place the features accurately.
I think I will do body and clothes to detox myself of the usual mistake blindless I develop.
>>848694
The moonface makes it difficult to tell both gender and age. If that was what you were going for well done because I don't find it uncanny.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 11:12:49 UTC No. 848723

why do i suck

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 11:31:15 UTC No. 848726

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSNNciWPBY
>when actual seasoned artists and industry chads tackle a project
>FOSS weeb coomers need not apply

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 12:08:21 UTC No. 848729

>>848714
>I think I will do body and clothes
lets continue - meet back here tonight - I got 2 models to pose

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 12:10:59 UTC No. 848730

>>848488
Not too bad, my first working animation

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 13:26:17 UTC No. 848740

>>848723
its not that bad.
Don't beat yourself over the head. Aim high, but pat yourself on the shoulder if you are better today than you where yesterday, even if you are not reaching that high level you aim for.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If you're not satisfied with a project, either push yourself and do not stop until you are or if you feel you lack experience, increase the amount of projects you finish and see them as exercises. The more you do, the better you get - just observe and see that you don't stagnate, you want to slowly build up your comfort zone.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 13:53:19 UTC No. 848742

fuck man, I wish i could understand lighting and making good textures. i thought i could finish a toon scene this weekend but it just looks ugly

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 14:27:14 UTC No. 848745

>>848730
why not just screen record and handbrake it into WebM?

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 14:39:45 UTC No. 848747

>>848742
-populate your scene with more props, and use saturated colors as your environment light's colors
-also let some light go through that window (i suggest area lamps),
-the shadows on your chair or whatever that is looks unrealistic, as it doesn't come from the window itself, and gives away the "closed room" effect you're going for
-last but not least, add a plane outside the window, and give it a texture of the night sky (ofc turn off its specular and roughness)

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 18:53:49 UTC No. 848785

>>848726
Never noticed the arms on that thing.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 19:30:59 UTC No. 848790

>>848723
Quite good, actually

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 19:32:08 UTC No. 848791

Anyone got a good study on hand anatomy?

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 19:40:06 UTC No. 848792

>>848694
to be fair, there's not a lot of improvement there, compared to what the other anon suggested. it's still wrong, but in different ways (thigh/ham, shoulder). instead of working just on the silhouette, sculpt the full correct shapes. lighting can easily reveal improper forms.

to save time in the long run, you should consider attaching better pose-space deformations to your rig.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 20:07:26 UTC No. 848796

Practiced doing a face since I'm pretty bad at them, what should I do differently next time?

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 20:13:42 UTC No. 848799

>>848747
>the shadows on your chair or whatever that is looks
fuck that dosen't look like a desk?

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 20:17:59 UTC No. 848802

>>848799
It does, the other guy must have some kind of brain damage for going to chair before desk.

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 21:04:14 UTC No. 848806

>>848747
- use a toon shader (a really basic one is just doing Diffuse BSDF -> Shader to RGB -> color ramp with high contrast -> multiply object color over that)
- dont use freestyle for cel-shading, use inverse hull (solidify with negative thickness, flipped normals, set its material to something appropriate)

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 21:15:41 UTC No. 848807

>>848675
Faces complete

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 23:28:36 UTC No. 848825

>>848807
final product (for now)

Anonymous at Sun, 5 Sep 2021 23:52:03 UTC No. 848833

>>848796
Top of the head is too big. Ears go up too far. You shaped the skull to make the frown rather than using muscles.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 00:16:10 UTC No. 848836

>>848825
>>848807
pretty cool anon.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 01:47:33 UTC No. 848845

old repost, any design suggestions for my Protag.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 02:43:48 UTC No. 848859

>>848825
Looks cute anon.
I've got just the place for him in the next OP.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 03:02:29 UTC No. 848863

>>848845
could probably use more distinctive texturing, he blends in a lot with the environment
also, fix your normals

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 03:06:19 UTC No. 848864

>>848863

its in unity, are the designs of these characters eye catching or just bland

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 03:21:33 UTC No. 848866

Hi Anons

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 03:22:38 UTC No. 848867

>>848796
Yes, clothes, you said clothes

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 03:24:12 UTC No. 848868

>>848864
not him but I like it, maybe give some outlines around the rings and see how it looks?

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 03:54:07 UTC No. 848871

>>848747
>-also let some light go through that window (i suggest area lamps),
the light keeps glitching out

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 04:07:49 UTC No. 848873

>>848864
>its in unity
I dont know why you have to specify the engine
>are the designs of these characters eye catching
its definitely going in the right direction, having characters based off of chess pieces, but you should definitely stop using a generic marble texture for them
bake some AO, make a real texture, and please -- fix the normals

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 04:13:05 UTC No. 848876

>>848873

what kind of texture for these guys would you reccomend, all the characters in the game are going to be porcelain and marble construct type magic people.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 05:40:29 UTC No. 848885

at my station, old lady is getting settled in.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 06:06:41 UTC No. 848892

How to make better hair? Any good examples or advice on texture/normal maps for hair? As I won't use particle systems for this model. Thanks.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 06:53:27 UTC No. 848899

pen glove

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 07:23:06 UTC No. 848904

wa ha I have complete control of the board!

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 08:51:38 UTC No. 848914

>>848892
holy shit that face lmao

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 10:26:33 UTC No. 848919

>>848892
>hideaki anno's evangelihole

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 14:09:27 UTC No. 848943

>>848876
The game looks pretty fun but i feel like you're stopping at mediocracy. pirate substance painter, Add some dirt and grime to things. Get reference pictures and add details to your environment. It looks so basic. So many cub shapes

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 14:15:21 UTC No. 848946

>>848943
>add dirt and grim to things
>magically it will no longer be mediocre

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 14:33:30 UTC No. 848953

>>848946
Isn't substance painter magical?

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 14:39:39 UTC No. 848955

>>848946
i never said it would fix everything, it's a suggestion. I definitely think it would make it 15% better though.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 14:47:08 UTC No. 848962

>>848885
what am i looking at here?

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 16:26:16 UTC No. 848979

>>848943

I am shooting for that early 2000's vibe as best I can, I'm no artist but I do have an aesthetic in mind

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 19:26:32 UTC No. 849018

does my sculpt look okey? I´m always unsure how much detail i should add if I´m just using the sculpt as retopo reference

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 19:35:31 UTC No. 849020

>>849018
looks okay to me

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 21:09:36 UTC No. 849032

>>848979
Watch this for inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL0RH3x7Zzo

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 21:21:50 UTC No. 849033

>>848962
A schizo post.
Just ignore it.

Anonymous at Mon, 6 Sep 2021 21:32:14 UTC No. 849036

This is presenting challenges. Hard for my level of skill. How to achieve a natural render? Have not even tackled that yet. First, we have to get a natural pose with two characters. Started by roughing in two poses with reference as background. I see the Mixamo rig losing influence on the hand - checked weights and they look okay. I'm going to go ahead with it because I can still pose with the rig but I want to get it close with the rig and sculpt the detail. There is a lot of work to do here. That is where this WIP is at. This is where I'm at >>848885

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 00:05:01 UTC No. 849053

looking for any constructive criticism on this character's face poses and shape. I think it's pretty appealing so far but yeah

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 00:44:29 UTC No. 849058

>>849033
you called it, lmao: >>849036

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 00:45:50 UTC No. 849059

Making gigantic spaghetti mess of a SD graph should be illegal. I'm trying to understand what the hell were they thinking, but it just goes in every direction. I need to create my own materials for a paid project, but this is just too much for me right now. Feel like crying, this shit is insane. I think I'll just have to do it manually in Painter. Goddamnit, if I'm an environment artist, that doesn't mean I should be an expert material artist as well. 3D salaries are horribly low when you consider how much knowledge you need to possess to achieve anything.

If I took the left path in life instead of the right one, now I could have been chilling and writing some dumb frontend code in Angular, being handholded by 10 different libraries and 70 github pages opened ready to be copy pasted, making buttons change colors and displaying user names in tables, all for big bucks. Not making whole animated scenes 100% from scratch just to survive.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 00:46:58 UTC No. 849060

>>849059
This is bait.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 01:11:32 UTC No. 849062

>>849060
nah, that's the reality for most

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 02:15:39 UTC No. 849076

>>849053
looks decent, nice shapes, a bit more rounded geometry would be nice though
And how's the body? And how's the rig?

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 03:22:21 UTC No. 849086

>>849059
>thinking he would have a job right now as a junior software developer
Maybe if you were a pajeet and did the needful to your pajeet boss by paying him 10% of your salary a year

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 03:35:50 UTC No. 849090

>>848500
Textures control the color of a mesh, Shaders control how the mesh interact with light. Metal objects interact with light differently than nonmetal objects and so on. Getting the material right is something that comes with research.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 03:40:37 UTC No. 849091

>>849090
a normal map is a texture too and has nothing to do with color.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 03:41:34 UTC No. 849093

I was just t-testing my rig, I swear!

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 04:22:34 UTC No. 849100

>>849091
Normal and bump maps control where light and shadow is. Light doesn't interact with everything in the same way

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 04:25:28 UTC No. 849101

>>849100
yes?

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 04:36:28 UTC No. 849102

>>849093
looks cool, needs less subsurf scattering on the skin

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 05:57:22 UTC No. 849106

Texturing my waifu. Where do most people learn about hand-painted techniques?

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 05:58:24 UTC No. 849107

>>848892
Ok well, I guess I need to put more care into making faces. No wonder this board is dead.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 06:58:25 UTC No. 849112

>>849058
suck fest

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 07:02:52 UTC No. 849114

>>849107
>>848119

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 07:23:12 UTC No. 849115

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 09:45:02 UTC No. 849130

Hardest part first then, the hands. Got them close with a rig. The meshes are roughed in as good as they're going to get with the two rigs. Got to sculpt the hands together next round. The hands I believe is the most important aspect of this, they convey something but I'm not sure. We know we need the hands nailed in the right pose so we can work into the forms from them. Think we can pull this off? Of course we can. The forms appear right in the space and Blender has sculpt mode, I got a pen. Aside from the technical details after the hands... you know the story, it's been written a hundred times. Anyone could finish it. But the hair. That has to fall correctly as well. So the challenges here are the hands and the hair.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:38:13 UTC No. 849142

Rendered and composed a new desktop background for my own personal use. Got the model from smutbase. Background done in gimp with some images of the web.
Maybe i should have moved that main spotlight around for another couple of renders but I thought this one looked pretty decent.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 12:10:37 UTC No. 849145

>>848892
What software are you using buddy?

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:24:29 UTC No. 849169

>>849130
how can his arm look like that -- like a noodle? is your rig broken? IMO you should fix that before continuing with the scene.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:40:27 UTC No. 849172

>>849106
i wan to know about this too.
Do people do hand painted textures in substance painter?

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:55:07 UTC No. 849175

So I was sculpting some leg and it came across as very lumpy. This would be very, very bad topology causing it, right?
I used dynamesh way too long and it got pretty wild, it's also why my lowest subdiv here is a bit high resolution despite remeshing and projecting it about three times.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:56:18 UTC No. 849176

>>849172
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7cmH--tFhYduIshTKzQUJQ
Yes, you can make hand painted stuff in substance. It even has a dota 2 preset shader. People say 3d coat is better, but I've never used it so can't compare.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 17:15:49 UTC No. 849180

I've done a thing a few times and I'm not sure if I should be banned from the industry for this lol:

>having trouble achieving enough detail in albedo?
>just lightly overlay a photo texture on top of everything

Is this bad, bros? Right now I'm working on some wood material in SD and getting all those color variations is an absolute pain so I tried to overlay a photo, and it just werks. It still gets my own height, roughness variation, but it just mixes parts of my shitty albedo with the good one. Feels like I'm breaking some law by doing it though.

I actually heard that method was used a lot by pros in the past during Photoshop texturing times.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 18:58:30 UTC No. 849201

>>849180
only thing that matters is the end result. no rules only tools.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:03:39 UTC No. 849203

>>849180
>Feels like I'm breaking some law by doing it though.
If you're not licensed to that use, well, you're breaking copyright law on behalf of your employer, lmao.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:07:23 UTC No. 849204

>>849175
You're not supposed to have good topo on a high poly sculpt, you absolute moron. Add 2-3 subdivision levels to this and you won't see any 'lumps'

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:11:11 UTC No. 849205

>>849204
at 3 million points it just gets harder to manage.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:13:09 UTC No. 849206

>>849205
which is why you only subdivide when you can no longer push anything out of your current level or when you need smoother surface.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:15:16 UTC No. 849208

>>849206
Look, I got this 700 euro zbrush course and that guy was all about the clean topology.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:16:28 UTC No. 849209

>>849208
then retopologize by hand, you lazy fuck

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:34:21 UTC No. 849212

>>849203
I use free textures for that, so it should be clear. But yeah I guess the end result is the only thing that matters. BUT - I actually managed to get pretty close with pure SD now, might not even need to overlay anything. But then again, why NOT, if it still gives a bit more variation?

I've seen that people are experimenting with scans more and more now, there is no reason to chase that "100% made in SD" if you can achieve easier, better and faster results with combinations of sculpting, scans, proceduralism and handpainting. I'm thinking of putting these SD textures through SP as well and do some handpainting with stencils. I enjoy handpainting a lot and can achieve some specific details with it much faster.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:36:30 UTC No. 849213

>>849212
Then I don't see anything wrong with it. The opposite, actually. If it helps you get better results, and be more efficient with your time, the wrong thing should be not to do it.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:56:30 UTC No. 849221

>>849208
what course?

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 20:27:22 UTC No. 849230

>>849106
>>849172
>>849176
The nice thing about 3dcoat is that you can also throw your textures, in layers, into photoshop and any changes you make in photoshop gets updated on the fly. I'm also interested in hand-painted textures since imo there's just nothing that looks better. So the work-flow above is what I'm planning on doing.
I don't know much about substance painter but I've heard it many times on here before and whenever you see professionals do hand-painted it always 3d-coat.
Now 3-d coat, although I imagine it probably is the best for this specific task, is still kinda sucky. I mean it's not bad but I'm already a bit familiar with photoshop and as far as painting is concerned it's the best. That's why I'm planning on doing the preliminary work in 3d-coat and then the fine tuning in photoshop.
You can even paint directly on 3d models in photoshop, unfortunately that setup is pure cancer, it's very uncomfortable navigating 3d objects in photoshop.
Hope this helps.

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 20:45:48 UTC No. 849237

>>849221
https://www.3dconceptartist.com/The-Ultimate-ZBrush-Guide-course

Anonymous at Tue, 7 Sep 2021 21:48:28 UTC No. 849247

After a month's hiatus, I again modelled a new character. This is now the 13th character I've made. I still haven't bothered to learn texturing, though. I probably should, since I think this one could look half decent with proper textures.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 00:33:32 UTC No. 849272

>>849247
>I think this one could look half decent with proper textures.
yea looks decent, but the face does look a bit goofy, dunno if thats intentional
texture it and give it some toon shaders

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 00:37:58 UTC No. 849273

Anon commissioned me to make a vrchat model. I've been having struggle with the hair for days now.
I wanted this to be a decent model at least. But im getting shy because of how long its taking now.
And we havent even discussed how much the model would be because im autistic.
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 00:40:50 UTC No. 849274

>>849273
>doing work for someone with no certain terms or payment
lol

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 00:42:27 UTC No. 849275

>>849274
yeah im retarded. We should've talked about it first.
im gonna ask for 150-200$ range. It looks like its much more expensive if its manually modelled instead of using vroid.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 02:13:31 UTC No. 849282

can I ask for help with something maya-related here? or is there a better thread for help/questions? I'm just having trouble deleting an edge

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 02:18:06 UTC No. 849283

>>849282
Someone here can probably help you I'd imagine, but you'll get better, and probably quicker, results in /sqt/.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 02:20:31 UTC No. 849284

>>849283
Thank you!

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 02:32:29 UTC No. 849286

>>849275
the sooner you discuss payment, the sooner you'll come off your inevitable disappointment.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 03:41:54 UTC No. 849294

>>849145
Blender. I learned a lot from this project! Off to the next one.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 04:55:27 UTC No. 849306

>>849294

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 05:00:33 UTC No. 849307

>>849306 Cannot stop me. Get back to work you unproductive retard

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 05:55:20 UTC No. 849313

>>849306
spot on lmao

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 06:00:02 UTC No. 849314

>>849294
do you watch anime or you're just another normalfag who watches normalfag shit like evanghelion?
Your model looks like a granny. No offense. Its very far from the anime style too and it looks like westernshit.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 06:15:40 UTC No. 849317

>>849314
Not at all interest in anime, it's all around shit taste, I just thought it was a cute character. But I'm proud of my work nonetheless!

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 07:44:35 UTC No. 849323

>>849294
Looks like retard Christian Bale

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 09:34:31 UTC No. 849328

>>849273
>because im autistic
>>849275
>yeah im retarded

don't treat yourself like this

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:19:20 UTC No. 849345

>>849273
Call yourself a retard before agreeing to make a vrchat model for an uncertain price.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:50:30 UTC No. 849350

>>849345
>>849328
was way too shy to ask about it.
I was used to lowpoly and he wanted like less than 70k tris. Im just gonna talk about it once im done with the model. Im taking a lot of time since im doing this while im wageslaving. Its been like 1-2 weeks already

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:53:41 UTC No. 849356

>>849294
That's this spirit buddy! Keep practicing and you'll be making some art gains in no time.
Here's a super nice video for blender hair by Dunny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2EY4Lr5TXw
Just bear mind the first minute or so he talks about hair in zbrush and then jumps to blender - but basically this is a blender tut (in case you can't read the description or fail to do so).

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:54:07 UTC No. 849372

>>849036
make it Mike Stoklasa and Jay from RLM. your render will be 100% improved

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 16:11:32 UTC No. 849373

Finally able to capture the sun - just look at these shadows
Now i can make full 360° equirectangular high-range pro-skub unclipped nadir corrected hdri panoramas in 24k

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 16:16:42 UTC No. 849374

i hope one day to be as skilled as the master schizo posters

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 16:28:33 UTC No. 849375

Blob dragon thingy

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 18:25:25 UTC No. 849385

hello anons, today im just doing my first ever 3d commission and i dont think it looks nice. why?

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 18:29:11 UTC No. 849387

>>848114
The windows activation message on the bottom right, lol.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 19:31:26 UTC No. 849392

>>848892
best ITT
hair looks fine, just maybe open the gap between the tufts in the bangs a bit further upward

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 19:41:58 UTC No. 849394

>>849392
This is bait.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 20:22:30 UTC No. 849401

>>849375
may I poke it please?

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 20:32:04 UTC No. 849402

>>849328

Why is it the talented always bring themselves down? Also where do schizos like asuka faggot draw there confidence from despite showing lack of improvement?

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:16:18 UTC No. 849406

>>849402
Talented people are also aware of every mistake they make, even if the customer doesn’t notice. People like the Asukafag aren’t as critical of their work, so they continue to be unaware.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:18:02 UTC No. 849407

>>849406
I am guilty of not knowing my own mistakes. It's very hard to notice unless you give it time to cool off.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:18:54 UTC No. 849408

>>849350
you're alright man, relax. there's no written contract so not much is expected of you.

if you get it done, name a price - and if you don't like the payout, at least you learned how to make hair this time around and know what to charge next time.

keep going, you're doing fine

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Sep 2021 23:57:32 UTC No. 849448

What kind of tutorial should I do in order to use an imported (appended then localised) model of Judy Alverez to create lewd images with? I am very much struggling. The thing I used to hide the IK/FK displays for her body have disappeared, then while I was trying to fix that my game got stuck in Pose mode and now it won't come out of it again.

I clearly need some kind of tutorial, I did one where we made a donut but that knowledge didn't apply to this very much. Same with one where we made a treasure chest. I also did one where we made a basic rig, but that didn't help much either. I also did one where I learned to use the sculpting tools, and it was fun, but it also didn't help much with this.

So after all those tutorials I still need to know more, what is a good one I can do?

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 01:59:44 UTC No. 849470

Testing to see if this loop works on 4chan. I spent a large part of the day learning how to recreate something close to the render style of a gif I have in my inspiration folder. I'm pretty satisfied with my result, but I'm sure there are ways to do it better.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 02:12:29 UTC No. 849471

>>849470
Nice work anon, are you going for a late 80s/early 90s animation look?

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 02:15:01 UTC No. 849472

>>849471
Pretty much. This gif is my inspiration, but I did a lot of experimentation, so I'm not really aiming for a 1:1 copy. I think it's also been torn up by being made into a gif or saved improperly. Maybe it was intentional for style though.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 02:25:08 UTC No. 849473

>>849472
Yeah, that dithering in your ref is caused by the gif format's limited color pallette. It's kind of neat, a shader could emulate it.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 03:26:35 UTC No. 849478

>>849373
Damn, nice. Proud of you.
I've been wanting to get into making my own HDRIs, especially since I live near the beach. It'd be great to grab nice wide cloudscapes without a grassy plain or trees to cut out.

>>849385
For what it's worth, I think it looks pretty nice. It's got a certain charm about it. I do wish it had some brighter lighting with some crisp shadows to show it off though.
Why do you think it looks bad? Do you really think that, or are you just fishing for compliments like a teenage girl calling herself ugly?

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 03:38:53 UTC No. 849479

>>849478
honestly i don't consider myself a very good artist, second, the commissioners looked at my portifolio, filed a request (a sort of stylized tractor) and offered me quite a bit of money for it.
the thing is i never got a commission before and i got a bit scared when i saw what they were offering, but as i showed them the final result and they liked it, but pointed out the tracks were a bit too sharp.

i'm just a bit shocked how this happened all of a sudden and i had no history of commission work before. anyways, i'm actually more happy with the fact that i worked for some people for the first time in my 3d "adventure" than the payment i got.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 03:40:52 UTC No. 849480

>>849402
Honestly, it comes from being apologetic and timid about my work for years and not finding any resolve. Embracing confidence is a lot less risky than you think and others are more likely to support your endeavors too, despite what 4chins would have you believe.
>Not showing any improvement
That doesn't even make sense because there's nothing to compare that snapshot of my work to (another reason you are miserable, you make up nonsense) I'm a novice and in fact I've improved a ton since I began this project. Probably, if I were to share what I learned more than a few of you lurking around would also learn something. Also, just because I didn't anticipate anons would jealously guard their favorite cartoons doesn't mean I'm not self critical or open to criticism kek bye now

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 05:05:23 UTC No. 849486

>>849480
Anon was referring to our in-house schizoid , not you,,You overthink. I suggest letting the little things pass you by

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 05:13:02 UTC No. 849490

>>848979
80s futureism?

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 07:11:09 UTC No. 849517

>>849385
this part looks like shit
but the rest of the model is pretty neat

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 08:51:48 UTC No. 849543

I'm sort of stuck with this character, I didn't like my last one after looking at it for an hour so I went out and actually got a bunch of references and made this one over the last couple days that I like a lot more. It's far from optimized but I'm still going to rig it for exporting to Unity, and we'll see if I can update all the camera stuff to work with the arms appropriately.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 10:20:02 UTC No. 849559

lesbian waifu progress

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 11:23:44 UTC No. 849568

Holy shit, I'm fucking trash.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 11:53:23 UTC No. 849573

>>849559
amazin

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 15:02:11 UTC No. 849599

>>849568
just give up you'are too far behind

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 15:17:15 UTC No. 849603

>>849568
>>849599

I disagree. Keep it up anon, one day you'll make it! Make sure to look at the resources link in the thread, lots of useful stuff there

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 15:33:41 UTC No. 849605

>>849603
Thanks. The topology references are priceless. Any others that you recommend?

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 19:15:10 UTC No. 849636

I bit more than i could chew and i will probable put this in the freezer for a time because i don't know how to continue.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 21:15:24 UTC No. 849649

Some more playing with shading, freestyle, compositing, and render settings.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 21:31:47 UTC No. 849653

>>849568
Nah, I could see this being alright if you let some nice, handpainted textures do the heavy lifting.

>>849636
>future
>Looks like a Yakuza screenshot
That car has seen some better days too. Looks like he ran into one too many walls.

The buildings look pretty good. It's always a pain in the ass modelling them with that kind of density.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 21:54:26 UTC No. 849656

>>849649
Smaller.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 22:26:27 UTC No. 849661

How do I get the sharp filtering on object borders

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 22:32:10 UTC No. 849662

>>849661
I mean so that I have hard pixels like >>849656

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Sep 2021 23:57:43 UTC No. 849671

>>849662
Can you be more specific? I'm not quite sure which part you are asking for an explanation on.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:53:50 UTC No. 849678

>>849671
so that the AA produces a hard edged alpha channel and the render is suitable for use in sprite graphics

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:59:03 UTC No. 849679

>>849678
I didn't actually manage to do that. There's some semi-transparent pixels all along the outline, but it's over a black background. To turn off the AA to reach what I currently have, you set Filter Size in the Film area to 0.01. I was trying to get a hard edge effect so I could have it over a transparent background, but I couldn't quite figure it out. Maybe later I will.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 04:55:33 UTC No. 849697

Been spending the last month or so putting together a bunch of characters for this one dude's clothing brand. They're all his designs, so what's there is what I had to go off of.
To be honest, I didn't have much to work with, since they were all pretty damn abstract (apparently they're all based on real life bugs).

It's my first time doing anything like this, but I think they've come out pretty well all things considered. I really tried my best to give each of them some kind of personality. Apparently the end goal is to have all of them together and animate them. So that's the next phase of the operation.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 04:57:20 UTC No. 849698

>>849697
AMOGUS

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 05:00:12 UTC No. 849699

>>849697
AMOG

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 05:03:19 UTC No. 849701

>>849699
Thank you for that very insightful comment.
For what it's worth, I noticed that too, and tried to not make them look like that, at least as much as I could.
Guess I didn't accomplish that, or that meme has addled your brain like a worm through an apple.
Probably both.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:27:05 UTC No. 849724

>>849697
does he actually make any profit off of those lmao

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:30:36 UTC No. 849725

>>849697
Looks like globohomo shit

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:46:26 UTC No. 849731

>>849724
I don't know. It's not my place to ask, nor is it really my concern. He's got the money to pay me for the work, and paid half in advance. So as long as the money's good, I don't care.

>>849725
Cute, you know meaningless topical buzzwords.
They're spheres with faces. There's not many ways to interpret it without them looking like "globohomo shit". That's the common theme for that type of look, big ass rounded shapes and spheres.
If you've got a better way to go about recreating them that stays 1:1 with the designs, I'd love to hear it. Since I've only got my own perspective to look at the problem, and there's plenty of ways to skin a cat.
But you probably don't.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:26:53 UTC No. 849739

>>849697
your client is a hack and if it really took you a month to model those so are you.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:38:12 UTC No. 849741

>>849697
bit more surface detail would have been nice.
you've tried to go for it on the green one, but could push it a bit more.
the hat looks like it's made out paper mache or smth tho.
if you got paid and client's happy you've done your job so who cares what we think.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:07:09 UTC No. 849744

>>849739
It didn't take me a month like I spent the entire time slaving away at them. Each one probably took about a day or two, but I had other projects so it took a month. I think altogether it's somewhere around 10-12 hours for all of them. Though any time would be wrong for someone like you. I could say it took 2 hours for the lot, and that would be too short, or I could say the same thing and it'd be too long to spend on it. Since all you really want to do is be a dick.
I'm not about to badmouth a client just in case one of you faggots with nothing better to do gets extra vindictive and tries to trace shit back, but I wasn't too impressed with the shirt designs either. But that's just what I had to work with.

That's not really the point though.
Really, I think you're just being a huge faggot because you're a worthless no-modeler and anytime someone posts ANYTHING, regardless of quality, you can't help but feel threatened because they're actually working on something while you bitch and gripe on a slow as fuck basketweaving forum, while you wait for someone to post another thread about Blender.
But what do I know, I'm just someone who actually posted something to the wip thread.

>>849741
Yeah I was a bit iffy to go super crazy with the surface detail, since I don't know how well it'll read at a distance. There is some of it on the other models, but I think a lot of it gets smeared away with the denoising. Which was pretty aggressive since they're just previews. I can see about pushing the texture and detail with some of them though.
I think the denoising fucked up the hat too, but it's also probably because of my lazy texture mapping.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:18:50 UTC No. 849745

>>849731
>NOOOOOOOO WHY DOES NOBODY LIKE MY SHITTY MODELS BASED ON SHITTY CHILD SCRIBBLINGS ... BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWW
all fields

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:23:17 UTC No. 849747

Stardate: 47634.44 Setting off on a path to sculpt the hands holding so that we could work into sculpting the whole form. We then hid the girl and noticed the male hand was smaller than in our reference. Sculpting to match the photo was deforming it too much beyond normal. Knowing our only chance was to correctly place the hands, we wondered, and then decided our camera focal length was different from our reference. Then we peered into the metadata of the image itself from Properies to discover the reference had a focal length of 35mm, half of what our camera was set at. Changing and repositioning the camera and the male reveals that the hands in our camera space and the hands in the reference are close in size. Following our intuition we proceed. And although on planet Earth as the citizen Anons await word of our further progress, we travel near the speed of light, and what appears as days are only minutes, traces of thought lost in the trajectory of light.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:23:44 UTC No. 849748

>>849697
You and your client are both untalented hacks, with you diving into the cognitive dissonance of boasting over...this.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:45:22 UTC No. 849753

>>849744
you don't need to have a meltdown on literally the anus of the internet.

while you're right that most people here suck or don't even model at all, that anon is actually correct that these character designs are just terrible (maybe save for exception the last one, still bad) and taking one month to model simplistic designs like this just show that you're not very skilled or you're really busy IRL. I'd say it is the first.

But anyways, you're making bank off this, so who am i to judge? Good for you. Keep improving.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:08:54 UTC No. 849787

hows my bazooka arm looking bros?

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:09:58 UTC No. 849792

>>849787
I think there's way too many gears in the hinge part for no good reason. The entire arm is simple, but there's gears on the outside of the hinge because ??? Either balance the arm out with a bit of gear stuff throughout, or take it down by a lot. Besides, from a distance all those gears are just gonna mesh into a blobby gold shape.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:16:47 UTC No. 849794

>>849792
yeah i agree, gonna take that shit out and make a simple joint.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:29:04 UTC No. 849797

Yo bros, how would you animate a tentacle if you have no experience animating in 3D? Currently my tentacle animation is very janky. Like it can't turn very organically. Any advice?

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:40:52 UTC No. 849803

>>849792
>I think there's way too many gears in the hinge part for no good reason

Not related to the pic and not that anon. I know people say you should avoid including things that serve no purpose. I was watching Alien last night and the underside of the Nostromo is full of what seems like pointless stuff, most sci-fi spaceships and things have this kind of design. What gives? None of it seems like it has any function to it so why is it there?

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:46:15 UTC No. 849807

>>849803
it's called greebling, and it started with star wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:48:33 UTC No. 849808

>>849807
Thanks, I always wondered what the point of it was other than aesthetics.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:54:48 UTC No. 849813

>>849797
Inverse kinematics solve the issue 90% of the time if things don't look organic.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:10:52 UTC No. 849818

>>849787
this looks strange... like i get the aesthetic you're going for but it doesnt look like a gun, it looks more like a room decoration or something... but since its a wip what im expecting. you should add some more gun elements intonit

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:18:37 UTC No. 849821

>>849808
Overwhelming onlookers with visual noise.
At least this is what 90% of modelers do.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:35:01 UTC No. 849824

>>849818
yup ill be adding a barrel to it and yea its not supposed to look like a realistic weapon

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:25:21 UTC No. 849839

>>848094
i saw you on int hehe

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:28:06 UTC No. 849841

>>849824
This is much nicer. I gotta say, I really really like the kintsugi thing you have going on with the edges near the joint— I'm curious as to how it'd look on the entire arm, or in some spots

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:40:15 UTC No. 849846

>>849747
is this hell?

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 20:09:13 UTC No. 849855

>>849846
Do your parents know your on the Internet? (Shhh. WIP zone.)

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 20:25:02 UTC No. 849860

>>849855
>WIP zone
WIP is expected to go forward, not backward

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 21:33:27 UTC No. 849866

>>849753
Fair enough, I just jumped on the defensive since everyone decided to dogpile me at the start for no reason except they don't like how it looks. If they would have at least given some critique instead of saying it like shit and I'm a hack for designs I have no control over, then I probably wouldn't have lost my shit. I posted to get some extra eyes on it, to see where I could improve them. If I had known it was going to cause such a stir, I wouldn't have posted it.

Like I said in the previous post, I had a number of other projects to complete for other clients, not just this one. So the month was taken up by more than just this, this being one of the smaller projects.
This type of project isn't my usual fare, but I accepted it because the dude comes to me for a bunch of other projects. It felt like it could be a learning experience since I mostly do animations and environments, and so characters would be something new. They seemed simplistic enough that I could model and animate them without worrying too much about the uncanny valley, or human motions looking off.
I'd post my actual work, but at this point I don't want to give anons the ammo.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:53:22 UTC No. 849878

>>849656
I managed to make a transparent gif, but I just can't figure out how to do a vp8 webm with transparency.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:58:18 UTC No. 849879

>>849745
PYW or piss off idk.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 23:01:56 UTC No. 849881

>>849879
Eat a dick you pretentious POS

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:29:11 UTC No. 849895

>>849230

Found this guy's channel who uses Bodypaint. Looks like he also made the anime girl for Marvelous Designer. I think his workflow could be used in any painting program.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZeFxU4IHPQKdvritnKdZXA

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 02:47:13 UTC No. 849918

tree

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 03:44:23 UTC No. 849926

>>849878
I believe vp8 doesn't support transparency

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 03:51:57 UTC No. 849929

>>849926
That would explain why I couldn't find a way after all my searching. I also learned that the artifact/glitch in my transparent rat spin was caused by a bug in my out of date version of ffmpeg.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 05:25:54 UTC No. 849937

https://www.tiktok.com/@thesultrybee/video/7005371999287594245?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

Worked really hard on this one!!!!

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 05:43:28 UTC No. 849940

>>849937
stop.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 05:50:58 UTC No. 849942

Not gonna stop It took a really long time and a lot of work im still pretty new to zBrush and Maya

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 05:52:00 UTC No. 849943

>>849937
>>849940
>>849942
Not gonna stop It took a really long time and a lot of work im still pretty new to zBrush and Maya

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:24:13 UTC No. 849944

>>849470
Looks really appealing anon, how did you do it?
i'll definitely be looking forward to your progress on this.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:34:10 UTC No. 849945

>>849944
For the linework, go to Render Properties -> enable Freestyle. Then you can change the Freestyle settings at the bottom of View Layer Properties. (This tripped me up for a bit, being on separate tabs) You can also select + right-click lines in line edit mode and Mark Freestyle. Then if you enable Edge Mark (pic related), Freestyle will draw lines over them. For the shading, you create a material that is just: Diffuse BSDF -> Shader to RGB -> ColorRamp -> Material Output (surface). Then set the colors of the ramp to whatever for your lighting and shadow. (This is all in Blender, to be clear. The blue battlecruiser stuff is mine too, but it's more complicated)

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:38:03 UTC No. 849947

>>849945
A pretty big annoyance is that Freestyle is a post-process kind of thing (hopefully that could change?), so you have to render an image to check your settings and see if you like them.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:55:53 UTC No. 849950

>>849937
I too have a fetish for shiny / glossy things that extends beyond mere latex, but would you mind posting a clay render?
Also, in my opinion, you may as well have gone for the fat japanese heart shaped succubus tail.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 08:54:37 UTC No. 849971

>>849841
here ya go

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 08:57:05 UTC No. 849972

>>849971
could make them as small as the other ones but it would take alot of time. might still try it idk

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 09:10:48 UTC No. 849974

felt inspired by >>847882
it's houdini, using FEM
it's also my first time using houdini and goddamn using this program makes you feel like a wizard

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 09:11:49 UTC No. 849975

>>849974
woops, meant to point to this thread >>839450

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:53:21 UTC No. 850023

>>849294
>>848892
looks pretty soulful but fix her face it looks retarded

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:57:02 UTC No. 850024

how the fuck do you come up with cool ideas for projects to do for practice
all i want is to get good at 3D asap but i cant think of anything to make that i actually can make

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 14:17:44 UTC No. 850041

>>849053
looks pretty fucking good
is this for a game ??

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 15:38:46 UTC No. 850059

>>849971
it needs some shapes for visual interest. it’s hard to tell which end is the shooty one too

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:40:44 UTC No. 850093

Not really sure if I'm getting a good likeness with the textures

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 19:27:07 UTC No. 850107

>>849247
Clothes truly make the waifu.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:09:25 UTC No. 850117

>>847882
Bumping to get rid of the garbage in the front page

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:11:36 UTC No. 850118

>>847882
Time to make a new one OP

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:02:16 UTC No. 850134

>>848825
Now he's on a Kart (for a Character mod of Sonic Robo Blast 2: Kart).

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:02:47 UTC No. 850135

>>850134

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:19:50 UTC No. 850140

>>850093
i like it. are you going for the original look of the gravemind?

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:21:20 UTC No. 850141

>>850118
Yeah I know. I'm working on the OP image.
It'll hopefully be a while before the thread hits page 5. At least a day hopefully.

>>850024
>i cant think of anything to make that i actually can make
Make them anyway, and learn along the way. What's important at this stage is for you to get familiar with the program and process of manipulating meshes. Do what you can, and when you run into a problem, look up how to solve it and continue on. It's a bit better than following a tutorial since you're taking that info and applying it to your own project. Which makes internalizing the steps a bit easier.
If you can't think of anything, just take random objects around the house and model them until you can think of something.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:29:16 UTC No. 850145

>>850141
>and when you run into a problem
i never do this
i just solve it pretty badly and move on
i wouldnt even know how to search for the specific problem that i run into

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 23:05:08 UTC No. 850161

can't believe i'm getting paid 500 smackaroonis to use my subhuman sculpting skills

vr peeps are so fucking free with their money lmao

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Sep 2021 23:44:04 UTC No. 850169

>>850145
>i wouldnt even know how to search for the specific problem that i run into
It helps to have some basic vocabulary in your arsenal. That being said, search what you can, check out the results, and you'll more than likely find the vocabulary you need to actually make a proper search. Odds are there's probably plenty of people with your exact problem, and there's plenty of solutions.
If you don't find anything, just ask in the questions thread here on /3/. There's a handful of nice anons that will either point you in the right direction, or give you a full solution.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:37:56 UTC No. 850235

Super early WIP of a "spider tank" I'm working on, inspired by the Command and Conquer series.
Questions for people who work with hard-surface modeling on curved surfaces:
>How do you manage your edge creases?
>How do you manage getting hardness under subdiv with the correct ammount?

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:41:19 UTC No. 850267

>>850235
I gave up on creases and just used support edge loops. Topology is messier, but end result looks nicer, I think.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Sep 2021 15:48:19 UTC No. 850284

>>849636
do you live in africa or something?
>>849653
yakuza was my 1st thought.
make it night, improve the car, add something futuristic in the background, more samples when rendering. you could add a suspended monorail on the street there.
could use a wider aspect like 21:9

Anonymous at Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:48:28 UTC No. 850395

We're on page 5.
New thread up
>>850394
>>850394
>>850394

Anonymous at Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:10:42 UTC No. 850695

>>849937
What is that pose and why is it showing up all over rule34?