🧵 /wip/ - Works in Progress
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:26:42 UTC No. 936854
/wip/ - Works in Progress - Tick Tock Edition
Post your work-in-progress projects, recently finished projects, or things you'd like critiqued here.
Previous thread: >>932540
List of free resources: https://pastebin.com/cZLVnNtB (embed)
/3/ Discord for those interested: https://discord.gg/ujt5vtr4DE
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:25:59 UTC No. 936880
>>936854
>not an image of a Hobbit house.
No wonder this thread was ignored.
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:43:17 UTC No. 936883
>>936854
Remember everyone, shift+click Wip threads without the proper OP image to hide them forever.
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Feb 2023 04:30:44 UTC No. 936904
>>936883
and go here instead: >>936902
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Feb 2023 05:57:19 UTC No. 936908
>>936883
Why can’t the thread have a different image for once?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:32:09 UTC No. 936909
>>936883
Are you so deluded to think that you control this board?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:48:35 UTC No. 936916
>>936914
How did you make the rocks?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:56:04 UTC No. 936917
>>936916
Used an add-on to procedurally generate them then adjusted as needed. https://blendermarket.com/products/
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:16:55 UTC No. 936939
>>936854
>Discord
Advertising social media app is a sin on 4chan.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:24:45 UTC No. 937037
>>936908
Because you just can't, okay?!
Anonymous at Sun, 5 Mar 2023 23:15:05 UTC No. 939117
>>939115
And yet here you are bumping that thread you fuck. Sage.
Anonymous at Mon, 6 Mar 2023 02:05:33 UTC No. 939124
>>939115
This thread is older than the current active WIP thread, you shit-eating ape.
🗑️ the chair nerd at Mon, 6 Mar 2023 02:49:54 UTC No. 939127
>>939115
I hope your mom aborts you even if you are 21.
Anonymous at Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:51:14 UTC No. 940553
>>938685
>>938687
hey bud, for your first hand, maybe make your own, cause y'know, it's right there for you to reference.
Anonymous at Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:59:55 UTC No. 940640
I started trying to teach myself 3D modelling few weeks ago, and I've been struggling, it's possible I'm just not using guides and tutorials as effectively as I could be. Right now I'm trying to make the head of an anthropomorphic animal character and I think I'm having trouble with both topology and actually executing and creating the design. I'm using multiple references but it's still difficult, could someone give me some advice or point me in the right direction?
Anonymous at Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:00:24 UTC No. 940665
Bumping the real WIP thread
Anonymous at Thu, 23 Mar 2023 02:24:53 UTC No. 940763
>>940556
Looking good so far. Made any additional progress recently?
ZONE-EVIL at Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:37:32 UTC No. 943757
>>940640
you should better sculpt the head using a ball. I recommend you to pirate Autodesk Mudbox or Zbrush for a beginner, since those are software better suited for creating organic meshes, although Mudbox is much more simple and user-friendly than Zbrush.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:44:08 UTC No. 944152
>yet another new /wip/ thread has been created instead of just using this one
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:31:56 UTC No. 944237
>>944195
Penis
Anonymous at Sat, 27 May 2023 19:53:32 UTC No. 946886
bump
Anonymous at Mon, 29 May 2023 18:59:36 UTC No. 947111
>>936925
COOM
Anonymous at Mon, 29 May 2023 19:11:17 UTC No. 947113
>>936925
Do you have an artstation or other art account?
Anonymous at Fri, 9 Jun 2023 21:47:06 UTC No. 947919
Migrate (complete with new discord):>>947917
Anonymous at Fri, 9 Jun 2023 21:48:16 UTC No. 947921
>>936854
>/3/ Discord for those interested: https://discord.gg/ujt5vtr4DE
outdated discord.
Anonymous at Sat, 10 Jun 2023 03:22:07 UTC No. 947946
Anonymous at Mon, 12 Jun 2023 03:22:53 UTC No. 948107
>>947948
>Though if you mean you want the base sculpt, I could maybe post that at some point.
Yes please
Anonymous at Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:12:21 UTC No. 948120
>>936854
...since a while i working on different geo node generators in blender for all kinds of shapes, meshes, etc, pic related is the current i working on.
this particular one generates rough non human spaceship like objects that can be used to refined in a later stage.
i based the semi/guided random process on this videos and be somewhat ok with the results ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_X
...the objects in pic are single shapes, the next step will be to combine a few and merge hem into something that makes sense, auto generated greeble that take place at the extrusions etc ...
...suggestions and critique is welcome.
Anonymous at Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:14:58 UTC No. 948126
>>948120
keep working on it
Anonymous at Sun, 18 Jun 2023 06:29:27 UTC No. 948714
>>948414
Looking good. Keep going at it.
Anonymous at Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:36:00 UTC No. 949136
Bump
Anonymous at Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:51:04 UTC No. 949137
>>949136
fuck you retard, use the real wip thread
Anonymous at Fri, 23 Jun 2023 11:07:26 UTC No. 949146
>>949137
This is the real WIP thread. Check the creation date.
Anonymous at Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:40:47 UTC No. 949148
>>949137
Idiot
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jul 2023 16:29:35 UTC No. 950255
Bump
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jul 2023 20:38:22 UTC No. 950385
>>950378
would love to see her in vr
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jul 2023 20:45:41 UTC No. 950387
>>950385
I'll probably turn her into a vrchat avatar later, but it will be a pain in the ass because she has like 200k tris because I modeled slots and tunnels for wires to go through becaue Im 3d printing this later.
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jul 2023 21:48:08 UTC No. 950397
>>944195
>>944280
now upgrade to 3.6 and use Simulation Nodes to make it jiggle
Anonymous at Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:49:04 UTC No. 951103
>>950387
Are you going to hotglue it?
Anonymous at Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:07:56 UTC No. 951113
>>936914
Are you the Halls of Torment dev?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jul 2023 04:12:53 UTC No. 951972
Bump
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:51:06 UTC No. 953120
>>936939
No
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:53:34 UTC No. 953121
>>948414
Very good
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:07:20 UTC No. 953173
anons, i am nearing completion of my gun model and as an autist who has used smart uv and cube projection for the most part with the occasional basic seam use for unwrapping cylinders and cubes i have no clue how to even begin unwrapping this, also would like some help on how to texture the diamond pattern grips in substance painter. also what should be the poly count for a gun ? everything is subdivded at 2 and i can bake it the high poly to 1x subdivided mesh so the tris cut in half.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:29:26 UTC No. 953176
>>953173
>how to texture the diamond pattern grips in substance painter.
use an alpha
>also what should be the poly count for a gun ?
low
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:18:16 UTC No. 953181
>>953176
>use an alpha
transparent image of a seamless diamond shape pattern? make it in photoshop ?
>>953176
>low
what is a low for a hero piece?
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:20:25 UTC No. 953363
Almost done with my Hatsune Niku
What should I improve? I'm still working on weight painting since there's still some bits around the arms that don't work as intended, I also need to add a shape key for arms up position
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:24:16 UTC No. 953366
>>953363
god she is trashy
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:53:41 UTC No. 953371
>>953363
Cut down on those proportions.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:02:11 UTC No. 953373
>>953371
ishyddt
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:28:41 UTC No. 953388
>>953384
best model on /3/ rn imo
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:36:17 UTC No. 953389
>>953388
thx
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:16:33 UTC No. 953413
>>953370
In real life, cloth folds and creases for a reason.
When cloth is tight over the skin, it won't fold. In areas where the cloth is loose, it may fold.
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 11:45:26 UTC No. 953459
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:56:41 UTC No. 953464
>>953384
Looks cool, interesting stylization. 8/10
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 12:40:30 UTC No. 953611
>>953464
thx
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:18:41 UTC No. 953643
>>953611
No problem bro!
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:34:27 UTC No. 953768
This is my first time poly modelling a face. Can I get an honest critique on the topology here? I tried to define the main loops but something feels off here. I don't know if the five-star pole under the eye should be there or not. Thanks.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:57:19 UTC No. 953771
>>953768
Can I ask you why are you trying to re-invent the topology of a semi-realistic human face?
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:33:54 UTC No. 953779
>>953768
>google face topology
>first result
Yours looks a bit fucked because the cheekbones aren't flowing well. I think your brow region also needs a pole on the inside. You don't have to follow someone else's topology exactly, but it's a good idea to reference it as a base at least to some extent.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:42:36 UTC No. 953780
>>953768
>>953779
This is the eyebrow pole I'm referring to (from >>953679). It lets you do furrowing and raising shapes a lot more cleanly. And if your face is going to be more realistic than mine was, you shouldn't have to make too many concessions with weird-feeling spots that don't look weird on a decent reference.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:18:38 UTC No. 953784
>>953700
good
>>953679
garbage tier, I'd recommend learning to draw before learning 3d since there's a lot of transferable skills that are necessary in 3d and are hard to pick up while already learning it
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:27:13 UTC No. 953787
>>953784
Ok anon, thanks for the recommendation, would you like to maybe post some of what you're working on for the class to see
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:32:07 UTC No. 953788
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:35:19 UTC No. 953790
>>953788
I think we may have incompatible senses of aesthetics anon
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:42:07 UTC No. 953792
>>953779
>>953780
Thanks a lot anon! I'll give it another shot tomorrow and see where I get along with that.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:39:53 UTC No. 953801
>>953784
>>953788
Hmm... Something doesn't smell right to me. >>953679 does look kinda dorky mostly because of the mouth positioning, and it would be a good idea for them to learn how to draw, but I don't see why you would also need to compare two people's posts together like that considering there's so many other character models in the thread that also have a few issues. Then you clam to be the poster of one of the better models in the thread when someone asks you to pyw. To me it seems like you're a dramatranny trying to pit people against each other. Could you post your Miku again at a different angle to prove it's you? Maybe with a post number in the scene?
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:40:44 UTC No. 953808
>>953801
Hey look man I don't really give a fuck if the guy who doesn't like some face I made for practice can build a rocket ship or do brain surgery or whatever. I just think if you're going to waste a post calling something shit with no constructive feedback you might as well post an update on your own model with it
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:57:41 UTC No. 953813
>>953808
Well ok I suppose. It just seemed to me like >>953784 >>953788 was trying to start drama. I didn't say it looked like shit, I just thought he was being a bit harsh by calling your model "garbage tier" even though It could look better with a few tweaks. I guess I see why no one tries to be nice here.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:56:32 UTC No. 953820
We would not have such rude manners in a proper /wip/ thread with a proper OP. Alas, the windows are broken and people are reduced to being base creatures of instinct.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:26:37 UTC No. 953823
>>953820
Then just post a lot of WIPs until the thread autosages. Clearly, it's never getting deleted.
I'm going to try to figure out how to do texture animations for the eyes on this low poly lizard thing.
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 14:26:16 UTC No. 953885
>>953823
>autorigpro
is it worth the 40$ if I can do pretty decent rigs by myself?
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 14:42:40 UTC No. 953886
>>953885
I like its face controller as a base and it's much easier to place and customize than rigify or manual setups. Its tail controller is nice but usually takes some manual weight tweaking. It's really good at placing fingers. It's apparently pretty easy to export to Unity/UE but I haven't messed with that yet. Those are the main features that I'd say you're paying for. You'll still have to do a lot of edits for more complex models to get good muscle and shoulder deformations.
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:30:44 UTC No. 953889
>>953363
Lookin' good anon, i would like to see more of it
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 17:44:19 UTC No. 953898
>>953363
Why does she look Greek?
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 03:34:55 UTC No. 953945
>>953679
Tried an elf today, not sure if I'll keep working on it. Ears on this one came out weird and I'm probably not good enough at texturing to salvage them that way. I think I'll do some Disney character studies next.
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 12:01:27 UTC No. 953985
>>953969
LGTM
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 13:24:40 UTC No. 953992
>>953985
what does that mean
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 13:58:31 UTC No. 953997
>>953992
le german troon mommies
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 14:49:43 UTC No. 954001
>>953994
>not very efficient use of uv space and some unnecessary seams
what is efficient and not efficient? yup i heard the goal is reduce seams so it dosent appear like a cut off
>repack the islands
like manually? is there any principle i have to follow?
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 14:58:20 UTC No. 954003
>>954001
>what is efficient and not efficient? yup i heard the goal is reduce seams so it dosent appear like a cut off
I mean as in how much of the uv space is used up, there is a lot of empty space and thats "wasted" information unless you put something else there.
and yeah its good to avoid unnecessary cuts, but in this case its better to separate this island because its too long to fit into a square box nicely
blender has an automatic tool called pack islands
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:49:47 UTC No. 954036
>>954031
Higher res textures, bump mapping, material settings.
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:51:57 UTC No. 954037
>>954036
>bump mapping
is that the normal map anchor points? i have already used that
>material settings
isnt that the pbr maps? do i need to tweak pbr maps ?
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 00:29:32 UTC No. 954044
>>954025
ay thats not too bad, you might want to increase the padding just a little bit so things arent too close.
>>954031
you could do 4k yeah
if its a tiling texture which im imagining it is you could use the mapping node and increase the scale to tile the texture multiple times
this might not be the result you are after tho but could be fun to try
asking how to make things look better is pretty vague, cant really tell you what yo do if i dont know what you want it to look like.
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 04:43:43 UTC No. 954049
>>954044
>>asking how to make things look better is pretty vague, cant really tell you what yo do if i dont know what you want it to look like.
thats true, i was in a hurry to learn the blender -> substance -> unreal workflow that i completely ignored collecting references. the more i learn about this i realize how dumbdowned blender is in general, its powerful and can get results but substance is so much easier to texture with and god knows how i am going to learn optimization with unreal engine
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 08:42:24 UTC No. 954062
>>954052
Because that's how you turn into Cris.
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 15:01:33 UTC No. 954090
>>936854
took me like half a day to model simple ass bathroom sinks. how can I level up my modelling skills? i start with a cube then get confused then start with a plane then look up tutorials
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 16:32:20 UTC No. 954098
I am unreasonably proud of this wine bottle texture I made.
Despite owning it I prefer not using Substance and use Photoshop instead to mimick the way game devs used to make textures before 2014. Those perfect PBR textures seem too perfect and sterile to me, and I grew up with PS2/3 era games anyway so the style of those games resonates with me more
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 16:35:07 UTC No. 954099
>>954098
I almost forgot to mention, I didn't create the texture from the ground up, I found a pic I liked and touched it up. I think games like Half Life 2 and Fallout 3 made textures that way
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 06:07:41 UTC No. 954144
This might sound retarded, but is it necessary to bevel edges if you're putting a sub div on something?
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 14:48:14 UTC No. 954175
>>954144
Hey look buddy what you're working with here is an art, this isn't a quick in and out thing, there's more to learn than can be beamed into your brain ahead of time via 4chan post. You have to take the initiative and go try something out and then post it here, and if people think what you did is retarded enough to matter they'll tell you so.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 15:29:39 UTC No. 954179
>>954176
You should reference a video, there's like no weight (ironically) in that step.
Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 15:56:46 UTC No. 954281
>>954268
I think that's somewhat better. The chest/shoulder area is animating weirdly now, maybe it needs bezier interpolation to look right. I think the hands should also flip back a little when the arms pull back to help exaggerate the motion. Since your model is blobby you could also experiment with adding some thigh/butt squash when the foot touches the ground, so you have to rely less on the head bob to sell it.
Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 08:39:23 UTC No. 954308
>>948414
I want to sit upon that manta.
Dude.
Have you ever touched a ray irl? Holy fuck.
Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 19:08:40 UTC No. 954349
>>954344
not nearly enough chest bounciness
Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 19:13:21 UTC No. 954350
>>954349
I'm yet to add boob bounce physics
Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 19:20:23 UTC No. 954351
>>954350
technically, it looks bad, m8
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 06:11:05 UTC No. 954382
>>954344
>>954352
Looking a ton better than your earlier attempts; if you're not putting things in her hands in Unity or whatever I would animate the fingers and hands a bit and then call it done. I guess the hair could be timed a little better but it's probably not a big deal.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 14:16:10 UTC No. 954463
Sorry to be a nuisance here lads, but are you supposed to apply modifiers before you export for substance painter or do you export as is and then apply the modifiers after you've substanced?
Not a single video I've seen about a blender to substance workflow mentions it.
Also, can you just give anything any material as long as it's correctly named or do they need to be more or less the colour you want to use?
Using substance for the first time was the part I was looking forward to the most and now it's turned into a nightmare.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 14:19:16 UTC No. 954464
>>954463
are you talking about subsurf modifier?
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 14:21:03 UTC No. 954465
>>954464
Subsurf mainly, but I have mirror, solidify on a couple, and array on a couple too.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 14:25:36 UTC No. 954466
>>954465
apply mirror, solidify, and array so you can make UVs.
there is a way to export a subdivided mesh without applying the subd, just look for it
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 14:28:37 UTC No. 954467
>>954466
Based. Thanks dude.
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 12:22:07 UTC No. 954572
>>954567
looking good
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 19:40:22 UTC No. 954606
I know it looks like a Super Soaker™, but I'm hoping the textures will change that. Struggling to make that carry grip look less shit if I'm being honest.
One thing pissing me off, and is filtering me, is the front grip/extension thing. It's all square at the top of the front because I had to add an extra loopcut so it would line up with the other part it's connecting to. Without it it's more rounded like the bottom part of the same grip/extension is, but then it doesn't line up with the part it's connecting to. If any of that makes sense. It's (partly) why it seems to curve up the way it does instead of continuing downwards.
If anyone can help with that I'd appreciate it.
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 22:44:09 UTC No. 954622
>>954572
Thanks man!
>>954606
Nice, looks like some sort of mini flamethrower
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:34:22 UTC No. 954642
>>954622
Thanks dude. Yeah that's what it's supposed to be so I'm glad it's recognisable at least.
I like doing weapons, but I always struggle with them. Still, better to struggle and learn something than stay in the comfort zone and learn nothing.
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:50:58 UTC No. 954675
>dont 3d model for 5+ years
>randomly start 3D modeling during discord calls with friends cause videogames are fucking too much work and focus
Playing around with topology and shit. What do you guys think?
I dont know any actual theory so obv its not anything legit
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:23:48 UTC No. 954788
>>954781
And now I tex'd a FUCKING barrel and a FUCKING crate too.
Ubiquitous props in many games, true "bread and butter" kinds of models, it's easy to see why as they can quickly clutter up a scene without looking distracting thanks to their unassuming design
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:36:11 UTC No. 954863
>>954676
That's awesome. Something about the body topology looks off to me, but none of that matters for an inanimate object anyway. Great work.
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 12:03:52 UTC No. 954879
>>954863
as long as the edges look good, it honestly doesn't matter if topology is a bit off
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 07:28:43 UTC No. 954967
>when you're so proud of your model/texture that you stare at it for whole minutes instead of actually doing more work
Happens to the best of us
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 13:56:36 UTC No. 955014
I'm practicing so much with doing textures, getting more confident, doing them isn't as scary as it first seemed anymore. Really proud of this stuff, I'm feeling like I'm making real progress and getting ever closer to actually doing my dR3am G4m3 (TM). They may not look like much visually, but the real kicker is that I'm able to pump these out in a reasonable timeframe and the look of them looks appealing enough to me
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 13:59:09 UTC No. 955015
>>955014
I don't like how the products don't have labels
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:36:32 UTC No. 955021
>>955015
I feel you, these are just blanks for the time being, I have yet to design actual labels yet
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:49:37 UTC No. 955027
>>954925
KYS
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:49:44 UTC No. 955085
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:06:02 UTC No. 955091
>>953945
Not bad anon, I think she needs more skull around the eyes and back of the head. The eyes are in a socket after all and the head is egg shaped from a top down view where the smallest point on the egg is where the face would be
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:44:26 UTC No. 955097
>>955014
What sort of workflow are you using?
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:58:58 UTC No. 955099
>>955098
I think it looks quite good anon. Did you sculpt it?
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:26:56 UTC No. 955102
>>955098
the anatomy is just horrible, even for stylized. Crack open an anatomy book and grind your fundies
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:34:57 UTC No. 955103
>>955102
I guess you mean both look bad huh. I don't think it looks that bad but you're probably right. Last time I worked on the model was the first time I opened an anatomy book. I specially dislike how the stomach ended looking. Will work more on it.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:00:50 UTC No. 955112
>>955097
I'm modeling in Blender, and texturing by external software, in my case Photoshop Elements 10 (it's ancient, came out in 2011, but it works for me).
For those who didn't know, you can link to Blender ANY 2D image editing program you want and you can edit textures that way: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N9pM
Me, I'm using PSD files for my image textures, I use 2048x2048 texture atlases.
A slightly more detailed walkthrough of my whole process is this:
1) make model WHILE keeping in mind how it's going to be unwrapped later
2) when model is done, I Mark Seams
3) I assign a Material to my model > I attach an image texture to my Material; said image texture is going to be a texture atlas, 2048x2048 pixels and in PSD format (I have a whole bunch of texture atlases depending on the kind of model, so my tin can models' texture atlas for example I have called "PSD_PropsFood")
4) in the texture atlas, I drag and drop an image of the thing my model is made of: so for my tin cans, I have utilized my metal image texture of choice I have found on the internet
5) now I Unwrap my model > I edit my UVs and straighten my islands where needed (to do this, select the edges of your UVs > Right Click > Align X or Y or Auto, depending on the orientation of the Edge). While you move your UVs, make sure your texture looks good on your model: sometimes the image projection gets funky and you get some ugly distortions; if the texture you're using appears distorted on your 3D model it means you need to fix your UVs or seam and unwrap your model in a different manner altogether
6) now that I have arranged my UVs neatly together and have decided how much space they're going to take up in the texture atlas, I start making the textures proper in Photoshop, editing, touching things up, drawing, etc. I go back and forth from Blender to Photoshop: I draw in Photoshop, hit Ctrl + S (save), reload the texture in Blender (Alt + R in UV Editing Mode) to see how it looks
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:01:54 UTC No. 955113
>>955098
>>955101
For stylized characters these are pretty good, second one is already an improvement: more defined textures, better arm length (they were too short before). You'll get better with each iteration, and that's the kind of work modeling is: quite iterative, you get better only by doing, as you are. Brushing up on anatomy like the other anon suggested is always a good idea but you're already on the right path. Keep up the good work
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:25:16 UTC No. 955114
>>955112
[cont.]
The number 1 essential advice I can give for when you make textures, is that an image texture is essentially made of 4 things:
1) a base. This is the overall image texture of your model, so if the object you're modeling is made of, say, wood, that there is the base
2) edges. This is where your model will be worn out the most, take the most damage, which results in these areas looking lighter colored than the base. You can see this here especially >>954781. Edges are very handy because I use them to hide image texture seams: right at the edge of my UV islands, I run a single color at full opacity (that color being the brightest color present on your base, use the color picker tool for this)
3) highlights. This is where light is most reflective, this is where your object would realistically appear the brightest. I use a full white color for highlights, visible especially on the drinking glass here >>955014. But there are other instances where highlights are used much more subtly, for instance if you look next to the drinking glass and see the drinking tin can, you'll see the edges of the can's body have a faint white tint to them, that there is also a highlight, just less obvious. On the handles of the cutlery you can also see some highlight white, on the ridges of the food tin can etc. You'll have to play with the opacity of those whites to find the best result
4) darks. This is where your object would realistically be lit the least, or where contact shadows would be on your model. Also this is where grime could build up on your object, also making it look darker in that spot. I used dark gradients on the bottom of my cans: those gradients are darkest at the bottom of the object, and weaker the further up they go
Lastly, for finishing touches, you can put some smudges here and there for either dirt or damage on your object
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:29:15 UTC No. 955115
>>954352
That’s pretty impressive, anon. How’d you manage to animate it so well with only one hand?
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:31:51 UTC No. 955116
>>955076
In general if you smooth out planes and your model looks better it means that you have the wrong shapes in mind to begin with. Good planes and angles are a lot of what make sculpts good. The less your model's features are separated from a sphere you might put them on, the less striking they're going to be, if that makes sense to you. I would recommend looking at some other reptilian models and identifying key shapes and trying to work them in because right now your guy looks kind of like a Machoke with a tiny mouth.
>>955096
Tear duct probably won't look good if you do it this way - I think you should expect the eyelids to meet a lot closer, and probably pull the sides nearer the snout back so they curve more around the eye.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:09:53 UTC No. 955150
>>955147
>he photographed his own screen like it's 2007
Breh have you ever heard of screenshot programs? Get Lightshot, I use it myself, it's pretty God.
Nice model by the way, reminds me of Jak And Daxter, you know, the elf looking fellas that are everywhere there, reminds me of them in a good way not like I'm accusing you of plagiarism or shit like that
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:53:46 UTC No. 955164
>>955150
im aware of screenshots lol, but this was the only pic i had of the character. now that you mention it this model does remind me of Jak 2's characters lol
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 23:25:35 UTC No. 955166
>>955113
Actually it doesn't have any texture, it's just a flat color. Yeah I'll keep working on it. Thanks
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:48:33 UTC No. 955184
>>955129
3DGuy, is that you?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:28:17 UTC No. 955200
Today I have created anatomically accurate and proportionate feet. At 27cm long and 10.2cm wide it appears to be what people would consider normal and average sized, for men
>>955164
>now that you mention it this model does remind me of Jak 2's characters lol
Based Jak & Daxter enjoyer, it's nice to see other people who played it. Though successful it was never really "mainstream", and having released so long ago it's hard to find people today who played it back then
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:57:37 UTC No. 955203
>>955200
merge and retopo
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:46:30 UTC No. 955204
>>955203
Aye aye captain! Will do, soon (TM)
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:22:29 UTC No. 955324
>>953779
>google user
your google search results are curated based on your interests, so almost nobody using google images will get the same results for the same search. you aren't wrong about using a references from a search engine, but just FYI.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:27:16 UTC No. 955326
>>955076
looks like machop
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:14:58 UTC No. 955332
>>955326
Ye, that was my inspiration for this nigga
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 22:54:13 UTC No. 955371
If i try to make a business on 3d modeling and 3d printers is that going to be a sucess
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 23:47:06 UTC No. 955377
>>955371
> 3d modeling
ai will come for us all and the bar for getting into a proper, non-pajeet studio asset factory is pretty high
>3d printing
you can make decent side money from dnd people, figurine addicts etc.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:51:22 UTC No. 955380
>>955324
>results curated based on your interests
Only if you login to your google account.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:08:35 UTC No. 955402
>>955371
>3d modeling
I'm not an industry expert but, reasonably speaking, as one can infer from observation, your only way of making money from 3D modeling is either if you become a archviz guy, go into some big AAA movie or game studio or go the indie vidya dev route, and even than it'll be for your game that they're gonna give you money, not really for the models themselves (although art direction does play a crucial role in games, no one is gonna buy it if it doesn't make the customer go "wow, this looks cool" or "wow, I wanna jack off to this")
>3d printers
This anon is pretty spot on >>955377
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:11:15 UTC No. 955403
>>955402
Oh yeah one more way to make money from 3D (both virtual and printed): furfags.
So long as your style looks fuckable, those guys have some pretty deep pockets they'll be willing to spread open for their precious uwusona
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:12:46 UTC No. 955406
>>955402
>>955403
>I'm not an industry expert but
So why don't you just shut up?
>furfags
The pay you to corrupt yourself, because that's their fetish, not because they like your art.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:17:22 UTC No. 955407
>>955402
>>955403
And again, you should really need to wait until you're at least 15 before giving advice to other people.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:36:21 UTC No. 955441
>>955422
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FN
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:39:28 UTC No. 955442
>>955406
>>955407
Funny that you accuse me of being a 15 year old when you're the one butting in being needlessly confrontational and emotional, because that's precisely what 15 year olds do. Are you projecting, perchance? Still I'll clue you in regardless:
1) I prefaced I'm not an industry expert because I don't want to mislead the anon that I'm some sort of authority on the matter, even so I do frequent 3D centric spaces so although I'm no expert I do have reasonable familiarity on the matter. With this information, the anon can then decide whether to read what I have to say or not
2) some furshit is pretty great, you don't need to be insecure, I won't judge you for trying it anon-kun
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:44:17 UTC No. 955445
>>955422
UV Editing Mode > select an Edge of one of your UV islands > Align Y or X or Auto, depending on your needs
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:55:11 UTC No. 955450
>>955442
No. Go back to Discord.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:34:55 UTC No. 955460
And then, the fucking hands, also as anatomically accurate as possible.
Hands are the final boss of 3D modeling: for FPS games you just cannot afford to fuck them up even one bit or it'll look stupid. I find myself with this very conundrum gentlemen, wish me luck
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:10:59 UTC No. 955467
>>955459
nice femboy
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:09:42 UTC No. 955470
>>955469
Upper head is too big that's some Megamind shit brah, but the rest looks ok. With the fabled anime style it'll be textures and shaders that will make all the difference
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:11:02 UTC No. 955471
>>955467
Fuuuck it's that obvious? And here I thought I had made a more "masculine" body this time around
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:22:20 UTC No. 955546
>>955459
Quick and dirty rigging test, to get a taste of how the finished model is gonna look like and deform, to fix any last glaring issues before potentially wasting hours to retopologize shit that ain't gonna look good anyway.
They say you can't skin a sculpt, but that's not true, so long as your sculpt has relatively few faces. I think my model here is like 40k faces-60k, didn't check, but I assume 100k is the max before your computer starts stuttering or downright freezing.
Looks good, will start retopoing
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:03:27 UTC No. 955549
>>955546
Or you could just decimate your model and be done. Nobody will ever know the difference.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:43:54 UTC No. 955552
>>955549
Mmmmh tempting, I'd save a lot of time and effort, but Decimate is too approximative for my liking. When retopoing I like to go along the crevices so as to preserve at least to some degree the elevation details of the original sculpt. I also make sure to follow the shapes of the pecs, abs, glutes etc., as if I were "drawing" those shapes in my retopo work. It's some fussy work, but considering this would be my male basemesh it's worth the effort
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:52:41 UTC No. 955553
>>955546
just use retopoflow
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:51:18 UTC No. 955570
>>955469
why does it have double eyebrows?
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:40:16 UTC No. 955594
>>955586
Never used it (yet), but I watched a video of someone doing it so I would have a clue what to do and it looked a complete piece of piss.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:34:59 UTC No. 955651
>>955586
It's easy, though adding extra fonts does require the use of Substance Designer.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:38:14 UTC No. 955652
>>955594
Skill issue
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:54:37 UTC No. 955693
my textures are pretty flat, boring and ugly
right now I'm just finding images and using them as textures, often manually adjusting the contrast and such in photoshop, but it's painstakingly slow
is there a better way?
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:29:26 UTC No. 955698
>>955660
Nice camera nigga. What kind of game are you making?
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:48:14 UTC No. 955701
>>955693
textures.com is your best friend of you want photorealistic materials or you can find a good diffuse or albedo map then make the rest of the pbr maps.
>>955698
Thanks Anon, learning unreal so I can try my hand at archviz or environment design. It’s really frustrating to be so used to blender’s pathtracing then switching to UE4 to learn baked lighting. If I am making a game it’s gonna be 3d psx styled megastructure game kinda like rainworld
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 03:55:31 UTC No. 955719
>>955715
nice
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 08:35:45 UTC No. 955736
>>955715
>high tower: spoopy edition
Cool sky by the way, I should experiment with scrolling textures myself some day
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:44:16 UTC No. 955750
>>955715
I feel like there isn't enough contrast in that scene
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:36:29 UTC No. 955760
>>948414
>>948714
>>953121
>>954308
Surprised this thread is still going, i actually finished the animation some weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAS
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:41:56 UTC No. 955761
>>955750
You are probably right. It looks a bit different on my phone screen than on my PC screen (which isn't calibrated or anything).
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:45:19 UTC No. 955762
>>955701
How does the switch from Blender to UE look like? You make meshes in Blender and then texturing, animation, and what not is in UE? What if you want to go back and modify the mesh, you have to redo everything?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:48:41 UTC No. 955763
>>955693
Contrast and stuff you could maybe do with nodes in Blender (assuming it's Blender) which would save a round trip/to Photoshop. Also the model in you pic maybe needs some displacement or normal map to not look flat.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:46:31 UTC No. 955770
>>955660
man i had an idea with the camera for this scene but i completely forgot what it was and now it just looks empty. what will fit in this scene?
>>955762
my current workflow is blender - substance - unreal. there is a reimport option in unreal for tweaking meshes but setting up materials in unreal is a lot longer than blender which is just a matter of dragging in textures. a lot of technical stuff carries over but the lightning system is hard to configure for me to get good shit unlike cycles which looks great out of the box.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:11:47 UTC No. 955781
>>955770
Thanks. Does UE allow to make procedural textures, like nodes in Blender do? (Although if you're using substance painter, I guess you're not making procedural textures in Unreal anyway).
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 02:43:57 UTC No. 955794
>>955781
Look up Ben Cloward on YouTube, he has a series on UE4 materials
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:49:11 UTC No. 955838
I have a few UV questions if someone could be kind.
>If UVs aren't square/rectangle, but there's no stretching according to the display stretch option then that's cool right? They aren't ngons or nothing, but they could be asymmetrical rhombi for example
>If the islands only take up a small portion of grid (I don't know what it's called, the square part where the UVs cover in the UV viewport), should I stretch them to fit the "grid" or is it best to just leave them as is with lots of wasted space?
>Why is it that on some objects, before I unwrap them, they look like they've already been unwrapped in the UV viewport and look perfect, but when I do actually unwrap them they turn to complete shit?
Yes/no answers will do because I don't want to take up anyone's valuable time. Except for the last one which doesn't really have a yes/no answer.
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:49:36 UTC No. 955868
>>955838
Good UV’s have to be square, Look up Texel Density which will explain the 2nd question. Not sure what the third question means but I assume scale is not applied hence it looks fine in the viewport. It’s better to ask questions on other sites like polycount where you can see what level the person helping you is at. Use /3/ more like a feedback place. It’s very rare to find the highly experienced people and I found most of em in archviz threads
Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:40:54 UTC No. 955905
>>955868
Thanks bro. Usually I just stick a smart UV unwrap on it and call it done. Actually doing it manually is much more difficult than I ever imagined. I've watched videos on it and everyone seems to do it with total ease. I was even going to try drawing the UVs by hand on paper just so I would have an idea where to put the seams.
>Polycount
I guess that's probably best, but I like staying anonymous so no one knows how much of a retard I can be.
Thanks for the help. I'll check out Texel Density too and hope that can help me.
Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:10:50 UTC No. 955938
>>955905
>Usually I just stick a smart UV unwrap on it and call it done. Actually doing it manually is much more difficult than I ever imagined
yeah i started doing it that way but there are situations when it just dosent work at all. i am still learning but i started manually uving according to that basic shap. for example lets say a part of my model close to a cylindrical shape, in that case i try the basic cylindrical seam layout and most of the time it works. learn to unwrap basic objects like cubes and cylinders and try applying it more complex models.
Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:24:59 UTC No. 955943
Texturing WIP of a 80s/90s inspired low poly computer I'm working on. Photographed my own images from an old 90s computer still hanging around in my grandma's basement. I only edited the keyboard for now and holy shit I'm never fucking creating a keyboard texture ever fucking again I spent a whole afternoon on this. Pretty satisfied with the result though. Will need more work, I'm already noticing at least one wrong looking key
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 05:17:00 UTC No. 956002
>>955943
sharpen your normals bro
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:02:20 UTC No. 956024
>>955938
>i started doing it that way but there are situations when it just dosent work at all
I never really noticed as much until recently, but I think that's because I normally do scenes where everything is so far away you can't tell anyway.
>learn to unwrap basic objects like cubes and cylinders and try applying it more complex models
This is one of those things where basic shapes I can do no problem, but the second the difficulty gets bumped up a notch I'm all over the place. Even worse is when I get something with the difficulty bumped up looking right, but then when there's a subdiv on everything goes to fuck and the checker pattern looks almost smeared.
I'm just going to keep plugging away at it because I have to get it right at some point.
Thanks for your help.
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:15:28 UTC No. 956026
>>956024
yeah my best advice is to just keep practicing it, another tip is to place seams where there are in real life usually sharp edges and such. its better to make the uvs straight (via follow active quads method or some uv addon) but in my case i was just putting together a scene for unreal so i just kept as it is since it worked well enough in substance.
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:29:47 UTC No. 956054
I know it looks kinda alien but does this look like the reference image in the pic at all? All I have is one view (it's the only canon pic of that character), so the shape of her face is hard to read, and I'm not very experienced.
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:40:10 UTC No. 956067
>>956054
>her
I was sure it was a guy. You know how it is, elves and their androgynous looks...
Anyway, sculpt looks pretty on point with the ref, good work
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Aug 2023 02:13:12 UTC No. 956098
>>955926
post on X literally wtf are you doing here this deserves more 10000 likes from the japanese figurine coomunity.
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:49:18 UTC No. 956145
>>956026
I'll take that advice on board thanks. Still getting filtered, but I'll get there.
I promise this is my last question since you mentioned substance, do you apply the subdiv before marking the seams or do you just mark them without the subdiv and export with smoothing?
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:16:46 UTC No. 956183
>>956026
>>956145
Never mind, I'm retarded. I think I fixed it.
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 25 Aug 2023 23:10:44 UTC No. 956234
>>>/vg/442616538
Artificial Academy 2 General /aa2g/ #1289
Butt Stacking Edition
Welcome, this general is for the discussion of ILLUSION's Artificial Academy 2.
COPY ERROR MESSAGES WITH CTRL+C, PASTE THEM WITH CTRL+V INTO GOOGLE TRANSLATE. JUST CLICK THE WINDOW AND PRESS CTRL + C, IT WORKS.
>Downloads:
/aa2g/ Pre-Installed Game, AA2Mini: https://tsukiyo.me/AAA/AA2MiniPPX.x
AAUnlimited updates: https://github.com/aa2g/AA2Unlimite
>Information:
AA2Mini Install Guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/
General FAQ:
https://web.archive.org/web/2020021
AAU Guide and Resources (Modules, Tans, Props, Poses, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet
>Character Cards [Database], now with a list of every NonOC in the megas:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet
https://db.bepis.moe/aa2/
>Mods & More:
Mods for AAU/AA2Mini (ppx format, the mediafire has everything):
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vw
/aa2g/ Modding Reference Guide (Slot lists for Hair/Clothes/Faces, List Guides, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet
Booru: https://aau.booru.org
>HELP! I have a Nvidia card and my game crashes on startup!
Try the dgVoodoo option in the new win10fix settings.
Alternative: Update your AAU and see if it happens again. If so, disable win10fix, enable wined3d and software vertex processing.
>HELP! Required Windows 11 update broke things!
winkey+R -> ms-settings:developers -> Terminal=Windows Console Host
Previous Thread:
>>441051309
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Aug 2023 05:03:27 UTC No. 956259
>>956108
It looks like a good game main menu.
Also, IDK how you could find this place being comfy, it's looks like post Apocalypse bathroom.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Aug 2023 09:45:51 UTC No. 956270
>>956259
https://streamable.com/l1yzze
this is the concept i am going for
>Also, IDK how you could find this place being comfy, it's looks like post Apocalypse bathroom.
that's fair, i have only been making comfy looking render's like pic rel and my brain thought golden hour = comfy. but the overall tone i was going for is ominous so that works
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:42:00 UTC No. 956401
>>955943
Finally it's done, a huge pain in the fuck to figure out how to properly texture an electronics item but I'm happy with how it turned out.
With my current setup I can change what's being displayed on screen by simply changing the UV coordinates, I could even animate a 4 frame animation if I wanted to, maybe more than 4 frames
>>956002
Copy that, I did that but only for the screen (I Marked Sharp the edges of it, specifically), I actually like the shading on the rest of the object
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:46:56 UTC No. 956403
>>956402
And lastly this is the Shader Nodes setup I used to actually change the UV coordinates on the fly. I stole it from this video (3:00 onwards):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gt
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:42:53 UTC No. 956423
>>956403
Looks like a normal Tex Cord setup
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:04:35 UTC No. 956433
>>955926
Looks pro, and that's why you really shouldn't be posting here though. Any links?
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:13:43 UTC No. 956435
>>954861
Looks soulful man.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:43:44 UTC No. 956440
>>955715
Needs a lightning flash once the top of the tower is in pov.
Looks cool, got that comfy movie suspense feel to it. The kind you get when watching traumatic/adventurous shit happen under your comfy duvet.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:57:56 UTC No. 956442
>>956440
Maybe just a few distant rolling lightning flashes between the clouds. It has a very foreboding effect that some of my favourite movies employ. A scene very similar to yours unfolds. Events up until that moment has revealed that the protagonists are about to set their plans in motion, or something big is going down.
The implied storm that is brewing is also very symbolic. It's usually unexpected. It implies hard rain/ hardship. But it also brings with it a sense of hope - cleansing/ new life after the rain.
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:53:59 UTC No. 956468
>>956098
>>956433
Thanks guys, I have sometimes posted my progress in studying anime figures since Tomoyo last year. This will be my first garage kit, we intend to exhibit and sell it at events like Wonfes in Japan, if approved. In picrel it's being promoted at an event in Taiwan
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:22:57 UTC No. 956580
>>955459
>>955546
Finished that idealized male body model I was working on, all Retopo'd up and good to go (except for the head, as this is "just" a basemesh). I want there to be sex appeal to this model but I tried to avoid freakishly hypersexualized distorted proportions.
Do you see anything out of the ordinary? Any glaring issues? I'm thinking about putting more meat to those legs for starters, they're a bit too skinny
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:25:13 UTC No. 956581
>>956580
welp, abs dont look like that. Start again
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:24:06 UTC No. 956627
>>956625
jesus man!!!! This is a blue!!
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Aug 2023 07:06:38 UTC No. 956658
>>956625
I prefer puffy assholes
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:00:34 UTC No. 956668
>>956625
I wanna stuff her cunt with my cum
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:28:51 UTC No. 956676
I'm thinking of getting into 3d printing. Anyone know if the Halot-Mage 8k is any good for small minis like warhammer or D&D. Also, should I get the washer+curing station combo?
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:10:45 UTC No. 956680
>>956676
You might be better off asking on /diy/. They have a 3D printing general.
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:26:30 UTC No. 956681
>>956680
Thank you anon, much more polite than the fa/tg/uys in their 3d printing general.
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:24:57 UTC No. 956722
>>956711
K I N O
as well as
S O V L
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:37:38 UTC No. 956725
just started my first rigged character. fucking rotation in blender is awful, half the time the cursor gets all fucky and it glitches the limb out. texture is a wojak for the time being until I learn how to do UV and texture stuff
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:40:18 UTC No. 956727
>>956725
Cris garbage belongs in /cris/ containment
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:41:14 UTC No. 956728
>>955546
ankle joints look a lil fucky wucky, maybe just me but I would put then way down at the heel bone
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:42:15 UTC No. 956730
>>956727
damn is it that bad
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:40:43 UTC No. 956760
>>956725
>another rigger
show us some movement man! use webmcam or something
I don't get what you mean with the rotation though, you mean the 3D cursor or just your PC cursor?
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:04:52 UTC No. 956761
>>956725
>wojak
As a placeholder, I hope. Stupid fucking "meme" models are a waste of time and I hope you'll do something more imaginative than the creative wasteland that are wojaks and all its fucking derivatives.
Is your model some kind of robot?
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:24:59 UTC No. 956764
Any good resources for environments?
Like greyboxing lighting etc.
Idk, anything from tutorials to speed proccesses or something like that
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:26:02 UTC No. 956765
>>956760
it's like when I press r and drag with my mouse sometimes the rotation doesn't follow my mouse and instead just kind of jumps around
>>956761
robot that I'll probably use in the background for something for some animations I want to make. Not my primary focus but more of just a learning experience for when I start to rig the character models I made. wojak is a placeholder just so I could work on the cel shading. I'm still working on mapping the UV map thing right in picrel, so far only worked on the main pod
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:39:34 UTC No. 956769
>>956765
>wojak is a placeholder just so I could work on the cel shading
Phew, thank God.
Nice robot dude, best of luck with UVing / texturing. Making good seams on an object and UV unwrapping it nicely takes a bit of getting used to but you'll get the hang of it
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Sep 2023 03:38:40 UTC No. 956897
>>956807
post base mesh
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Sep 2023 13:44:07 UTC No. 956908
Mealtime continues, this time featuring a plate and a bowl. Textured off of dinnerware I got at home
>>956897
My basemesh is this >>956580 plus some minor adjustments to make it more balanced (torso was slightly too large and legs were slightly too thin, now they've been adjusted but changes are so imperceptible that it's not even worth posting a pic of it imho)
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 20:55:33 UTC No. 957034
>>957031
You some kind of gargoyle-kobold fucker anon?
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 21:00:53 UTC No. 957036
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 21:02:02 UTC No. 957037
>>957034
It's called been a degenerate, but I guess you are right about that
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 21:26:22 UTC No. 957040
>>957031
I like the model but it's really too fat
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 21:38:16 UTC No. 957041
>>957036
Yes I found the porcelain doll especially peculiar, in an interesting way, you sure do have a hard-on for hard materials eh, first porcelain, now statues. Keep up the weird work anon
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 21:43:43 UTC No. 957042
>>957031
>>950378
I really like these anon!
I haven't made an avatar since before the stretch/squish physbone update, I know marble/porcelain doesn't jiggle, but I don't suppose you've had a chance to play about with the new bone types yet?
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 21:49:07 UTC No. 957044
>>957041
Its not that exacty, I just thought it would be more interesting to give what is more or less a fat kobold with wings a marble texture than a lizard like one. and my next project is going to be completly unrelated to hard materials.
>>957042
the physbones are pretty powerful. I even used them to emulate soft body simulations on the tummy and ass by limiting rotation to one axis and adding collision to them
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 22:50:40 UTC No. 957047
This is the early stages of a cupcake. I finished the blender donut tutorial, so now I'm trying to build something on my own. The next thing I would like to try is find a way to deform that bottom cylinder so that it's ridged, like a cupcake wrapper would be. It currently has 32 faces. I know if I do that with the mesh, it will probably really push the render time. So it would probably be better to do that with textures. But it would be nice to know how to do it, if anyone has any insight.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 22:51:59 UTC No. 957048
>>957047
do it with the mesh and bake it if you want it to render fast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mha
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 22:52:20 UTC No. 957049
>>957048
Thanks anon
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Sep 2023 01:42:25 UTC No. 957060
>>957044
Post some jiggling anon
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Sep 2023 08:00:56 UTC No. 957078
>>957059
The textures on the grips and carry handle trigger me, because they're different sizes (the "diamond" shapes I mean). I strongly suggest to make them all roughly the same dimension, preferably the way they are for the front grip as it more closely resembles a pistol grip. Have you looked up references of actual pistol or rifle grips when working on this model? If you didn't I highly suggest you do it.
I'm not particularly fond of blue for the "rear tank" there because it makes me think too much of a super soaker. You could either change color or add more details that sugggest it is not in fact a super soaker's water tank.
Lastly, the main body (that whole yellow central piece) seems a bit too plain personally, I think it could use some more details. Maybe you could put the classic "flammable" or other warning signs there, the signature of the maker of this weapon (tool?), serial numbers, place of production, instructions of use, some paneling, ridges, hollows etc. Looking up real weapons and studying the detailing on their bodies for inspiration is always a good idea.
Other than that, it's a promising model with a good silhouette to it, a compact and as far as it seems practical design. Keep up the good work
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Sep 2023 14:20:59 UTC No. 957096
>>957078
I did the carry handle first and couldn't give it that "distressed" look that I wanted. I planned on going back to it, but totally forgot. Same with the grips really, I wanted those to be similar to the rest of it having clear signs of wear, but because I couldn't do it with the carrier grip I knew I couldn't do it with those so I just left them as is.
Similar thing happened with the pipe thing so it looks bright and shiny because I didn't know how to age it.
Yeah, I even said when I posted the model originally that I thought it looked like a super soaker kek. Do you have any suggestions on what I could add to it rather than changing the color? Or a color you you would suggest instead? Originally I was going to make the tanks more of a glass, but that seemed impractical and I always really struggle with putting liquids in glass so I didn't bother.
I'm not sure what happened with disc above the red tank neither, but the map seemed to get all fucked up and it's just solid black instead of looking like the other dark parts.
There was something I wanted to add to that main body, but I think it might have looked retarded so I didn't bother with it. Although I do plan to add the things you suggest (signs, serial numbers, makers marks etc). I just rushed it towards the end because it was 4am and I was impatient. I haven't even put a dial or anything on my little gauge yet.
I'll remember for next time to use more references. I always forget to do that.
Thanks anon, I appreciate the feedback. I'll see if I can finish it tonight.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Sep 2023 14:21:44 UTC No. 957097
>>957060
I need to fix the rigging on the left titty, and tweak the jigglyness of some things.
https://files.catbox.moe/azv6pg.web
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Sep 2023 16:31:45 UTC No. 957105
Working on finally putting some clothes on mah nigga. Clothes are meant for a post apoc setting, trying to making it stylish and tacticool, as if some civilian walked into a gun store and grabbed whatever leftover surplus he could find
>>957096
>Do you have any suggestions on what I could add to it rather than changing the color?
Same as what I said here really:
>the classic "flammable" or other warning signs there, the signature of the maker of this weapon (tool?), serial numbers, place of production, instructions of use, some paneling, ridges, hollows etc.
Should work pretty well there as well
>>957101
Centre and rightmost tric look like they saw a voluptuous female specimen. Leftmost saw a t-rex
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Sep 2023 08:13:32 UTC No. 957133
>>957031
where's the full, uncensored nude render?
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Sep 2023 11:06:48 UTC No. 957137
>>957044
oh not rotational jiggle! there was an update a few months ago that adds the option for bones' length to change dynamically too
they can also be squished when collided with
I've wanted to experiment with the new settings, but I have to finish my model first
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Sep 2023 14:37:49 UTC No. 957150
>>957133
https://files.catbox.moe/qgh3kz.png
she is ment to have an outline and other shadding stuff like in >>957097 but I dont know jack shit about shaders beyond dropping in image textures.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Sep 2023 21:00:19 UTC No. 957387
>>957305
Please tell me that vampire is at least 500 years old
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Sep 2023 01:27:33 UTC No. 957405
how do I make all of my islands have the same sizes relative to their parts on the model? I'm doing pixel art on top of this and I need each island's size to be relative to their size on the model. The two islands in picrel should be the same size but I'm tired of resizing them all by hand
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:48:19 UTC No. 957438
>>957405
select all - UV - average islands scale
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Sep 2023 02:44:09 UTC No. 957537
>>957507
Oh god I love your normals man
(teach me)
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Sep 2023 07:18:22 UTC No. 957560
>>957507
Stop posting pedo shit, nigger
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:28:56 UTC No. 957985
>>957952
Is yours the one on the left or the right?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:07:39 UTC No. 958019
>>958007
Then why not just leave her naked?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:16:49 UTC No. 958024
>>958019
How can she take her clothes off if she has no clothes? But yeah I guess it ain't a huge deal. I went with this and now I am too tired to do anything but maybe fix up the face to be a bit less off looking.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:22:37 UTC No. 958172
Any anatomy guides that arent full of dumpy old men?
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:06:05 UTC No. 958180
>>958172
Sketchfab and Google Images
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:14:44 UTC No. 958189
I've been messing with shader nodes to make a customizable spiral, but I feel like I'm making it more complicated than it needs to be, I still don't know the difference between sphere and quadratic sphere gradients...
>>958172
anatomy for sculptors has been quite helpful to me - I still use is all the time since I keep forgetting the basics
you can have this copy I yoinked
https://files.catbox.moe/fv4r0q.pdf
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:24:07 UTC No. 958194
>>958189
and the rest of the tree
the value over time that's added is just the current frame divided by the total frames to get a 0 to 1 value depending on the frame number, you gotta multiply it by 2pi so it rotates seamlessly though
then you can just multiply it by as many times you want it to loop over your timeline
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:09:42 UTC No. 958271
>>956468
Are there plans to sell it online?
Also, blog (twitter, or pixiv, or ...) ?
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:14:08 UTC No. 958273
>>957952
>>958261
Is the one on the stand up for grabs somewhere?
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Sep 2023 05:10:53 UTC No. 958282
>>958273
not that i know of. some guy posted on a thread. i guess he used the ingame modeler or something
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:34:35 UTC No. 958297
I'm just curious if anyone here sells their assets or anything online? If you do do you get many sales?
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:58:21 UTC No. 958313
>>957105
>>957763
"The world has ended in nuclear armageddon. The remnants of sapientkind band together in bickering gangs. The mutant swarms have overrun the ruins of California. Brave scavengers search them on the lookout for valuable resources that can keep going whatever vital infrastructure is left standing. Survival is not guaranteed."
At long last I'm almost done with my WIP, now all it needs is textures and I can start working on animation hell yeah
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:06:04 UTC No. 958324
>>956468
I wish the board had this level of quality but who am I kidding lmao this is a dead board that attracts schizo blender hobbyists all over the world. GL anon.
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Sep 2023 07:25:56 UTC No. 958571
Does anyone have the hobbit hole image saved? I'm thinking of making a new thread, bump limit was reached ages ago
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:09:01 UTC No. 958589
>>958273
>>958282
it's Sybil from Pseudoregalia
someone rigged her and was kind enough to share it a while ago
I'm just passing it along
https://files.catbox.moe/1i9w3u.ble
>>958582
good stuff! looks like hell to unwrap though
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:37:18 UTC No. 958760
>>958582
Neat. Are you the usual train guy or a different one?
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:49:04 UTC No. 958809
>>958760
idk who that is, I rarely post on /wip/
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:29:18 UTC No. 958852
>>958313
Nice, I like your stylization. Would love to see the textured version.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:37:50 UTC No. 958853
>>958375
>>958754
Model looks AAA. I think the shader looks fine. Could it be better? Sure. But I think it looks decent for a toon shader.