🧵 CGSociety shutting down
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Dec 2023 19:47:28 UTC No. 968104
Where have all of the forums gone? These places used to be treasure troves full of tutorials, WIPs and contests
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:29:32 UTC No. 968114
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Dec 2023 23:19:31 UTC No. 968118
>>968104
CG Society, 3D total, every singe forum and every single CG magazine except 3Dworld is also dead
We have more than ever people making 3D shit but less than ever people talking and sharing their stuff? What's going on?
>>968114
CG reddits are barely active and half of posts people shilling blender youtube videos
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Dec 2023 23:50:40 UTC No. 968122
>>968118
>CG Society, 3D total, every singe forum and every single CG magazine except 3Dworld is also dead
sidefx official forums are not dead, mate. Neither is blenderartists
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:57:31 UTC No. 968133
>>968104
>>968114
>>968118
>>968122
Get with the times boomer, it's all on Discord.
>b-but
I don't care if you like it or not, that's how it is and there's nothing you can do about it. You can either move to Discord or just do without.
That and Pajeets. It used to be artists in movies, games, etc. would be at least somewhat passionate, nowadays more and more are being replaced with Pajeets who only care for the money. They don't discuss /3/ matters beyond what could make them more money faster, they don't post their progress because they think other jeets will steal it cutting into their profits. They have discussions but it's all about how to shit out as many barely passable assets as fast as possible to get the most money possible to get girl to open vageen. Only east Asians seem to have proper tutorials, communities, discussions, etc but good luck with that language barrier.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 01:01:52 UTC No. 968134
>>968133
>t
no, its not all on discord. SidefFX forums and blenderartists. Discord is terrible for WIP sub boards. Side and blender artists have these in spades. They have AgX creator answering hundreds of questions. They have contests with good prizes. Once you post on discord your post is forgotten forever after like 20 minutes unless you search for it.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 01:43:24 UTC No. 968144
>>968133
I will NOT join your discord tranny!
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 02:24:29 UTC No. 968151
>>968118
>What's going on?
faggots keep posting their works on websites like 4chan that just delete every thread after a while instead of posting on long-term public forums
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 02:47:17 UTC No. 968155
>>968104
>CGSociety/CGTalk is kill
its actually, unironically, and literally over for cg industry.
AI and pajeets did this.
you could've prevented this, /3/, but you dont...
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 04:16:35 UTC No. 968162
>>968155
post your work
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 10:29:34 UTC No. 968178
>>968122
Blenderartists is for blender and sidefx forum is very slow might be slower than this dead board.
Only place for news left is CGpress and only "Galley" is Artstation and artstation is fucking trash. In 2005 we had dozens of those.
All forums are dead, all magazines are dead, 3D reddit on life support.
Yep it's officialy over...
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:18:49 UTC No. 968181
>>968178
>Blenderartists is for blender and sidefx forum is very slow might be slower than this dead board.
this board isnt dead. This board is the only one that lets you post real criticism. The thing about discord is that its basically a online ID where if you say too harsh words or wrongthink you will get banned from your precious discord faster than anything and then all of your discords and your entire reputation is in jeopardy. Its just not worth it. Fuck discord. Think procedural / cgwiki are for zoomers like Alfie Vaughan with no practical experience and horrible reels, too.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:47:11 UTC No. 968184
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 14:06:22 UTC No. 968187
>>968184
learn from example scene files with tutorials embedded in them. SideFX content library example files does this.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Dec 2023 14:18:38 UTC No. 968189
>>968184
None
3Dtotal used to have huge tutorial section with thousands lessons but not sure if it still up, would be a shame if all of those gone forever.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:30:33 UTC No. 968277
>>968181
>Checks out a (year and a half old mind you) reel of this so called Alfie Vaughan
That should've never left his local area network, holy shit.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:31:35 UTC No. 968278
>>968184
BiliBili
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:50:54 UTC No. 968281
>>968278
I found good tutorials before that's true, are there any "hidden" channels? (written only in chinese so you can't find them by typing keywords)
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 14:13:50 UTC No. 968286
>>968281
Not that I know of unfortunately, I've been out of the tutorial phase for a while
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:00:44 UTC No. 968291
>>968286
>I've been out of the tutorial phase for a while
the tutorial "phase" isnt a phase, you just have your head in the sand. Side releases official tutorials embedded in scene files on their content library. If you dont follow side closely by now you are an npc
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:28:03 UTC No. 968293
>>968133
>Discord
literal internet cancer
it's a total information black hole. no search engine indexing and if the server gets shut down then it's all gone
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:41:52 UTC No. 968295
i miss c4dcafe
used to be a regular back around 08-14. there were frequent (monthly to quarterly) challenges with reasonable prizes like plugins or some assets. Not so much that it wasn't sustainable, but enough to keep people engaged.
those slowed down over the years. People aged out. Cactus Dan passed away (RIP)
fewer students were choosing Cinema as their general 3D package, and it always was best at MoGraph to begin with. MAXON went subscription model, and their development is lacking according to some folks
the site got slowly less active, and now it doesn't exist anymore
core4d is not the same
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:10:28 UTC No. 968307
good riddance. now you'll have to consoom the discord garbage that may be plugged off once you're offending someone without notice.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:12:37 UTC No. 968308
>>968307
You must possess self-respect in negative to use reddit or dickshoard
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:13:34 UTC No. 968309
>>968308
ONE wrong move, even if its not egregiously wrong, just offends someone a little bit and you are DONE
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:15:29 UTC No. 968310
>>968291
I mean the beat for beat video style of tutorials when talking about the 'phase'
I'm sorry for not being a scene file downloader either though
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:20:11 UTC No. 968311
>>968309
The first wrong move is consider entering those pools of narcissistic circlejerking manchildren. As if there is an actual pro hiding in the depths somewhere, waiting to answer your questions, constantly checking for them before they get washed away by stream of bugmen asking about most trivial stuff possible that can be found in 2 minutes of googling.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:20:25 UTC No. 968312
>>968310
yeah side releases those as well - masterclasses
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:32:12 UTC No. 968316
polycount still exists and has not had any issues since it's inception. it's always been weird to me that people sleep on that forum, considering it has a full wiki with link-backs to important threads and information.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:34:20 UTC No. 968317
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:35:34 UTC No. 968319
>>968317
how are you out of the "phase" for brand new features? You have your head in the sand.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:39:48 UTC No. 968322
>>968319
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:41:43 UTC No. 968324
>>968322
you dont get complete or correct documentation for beta features, idiot
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:46:20 UTC No. 968325
>>968324
Hasn't been a thorn in my side yet,
But it's not like CG has changed in a decade so I guess that'd explain it
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:47:38 UTC No. 968327
>>968325
side changes houdini each and every year.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:52:55 UTC No. 968328
>>968327
Yeah, software changes all the time. Renders? not so much
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:54:56 UTC No. 968329
>>968328
wat
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:05:15 UTC No. 968332
>>968329
When new bells and whistles come out, there are new methods to get to the end, but the end has been the same for many many years if you haven't noticed
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:09:04 UTC No. 968333
>>968332
tell me how to do machine learning ONNX skinning without following the tutorial, same with APEX rigging
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:29:42 UTC No. 968338
>>968333
There you have it, I don't use any of those
Now see >>968325
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:33:13 UTC No. 968339
>>968338
Have what? You didnt answer my question. Do you concede?
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:42:40 UTC No. 968340
>>968339
>I've been out of the tutorial phase for a while
>Explain how to do this thing you'll never need to use that'll achieve the same end result that CG has been achieving for a decade
Yeah I concede
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:56:27 UTC No. 968341
>>968281
There’s some very good 3D animation shows from companies who were sponsored by Biilii and one of them is Hoyoverse with upcoming projects. You can search for them by ova or specials because most aren’t available at the moment but give small 30 minute videos.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:34:13 UTC No. 968406
Honestly I can't believe that cgTalk is shutting down. To this day it comes up with answers to scripting questions from the main packages. Now those results are going to not be there, for no reason but literal internet Rot.
Fuck this timeline.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Dec 2023 05:45:03 UTC No. 968409
lol freeloaders get fucked
this is like a party that was cool at first and then a bunch of dorks showed up and their negro friends carrying guns
bye!
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:59:07 UTC No. 968424
>>968354
You look like a Jackass
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:06:42 UTC No. 968425
>>968424
What are you going to say next - that KineFX isn't the future of rigging and animation??
Ouch man, ouch!
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:18:42 UTC No. 968428
>>968425
No
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:18:00 UTC No. 968481
>>968118
>What's going on?
Cattle keeps flocking to huge soicial media hubs instead of staying in specialized forums.
That's literally all to it.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:24:07 UTC No. 968482
To be quite honest with you my dudes I'm actually surprised that Chyna doesn't simply soak up the increasing amount of dead websites, indexing, archiving them and hosting them on their servers again, harvesting all the traffic. There's tons of stuff on those about to get fucked websites that people are still interested in. If they copied that stuff over, tons of people would visit their copy sites. The sites are dead. Who'd complain about the shit getting copied over? The admins who already threw the towel? LOL
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:19:22 UTC No. 968489
A lot of knowledge and scripts are being permanently lost, for no reason, because people dont want to pay moderators and now they're moving to discord, where servers can be permanently deleted because of one mod thats on drugs
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Dec 2023 05:30:28 UTC No. 968499
>>968489
>A lot of knowledge and scripts are being permanently lost
It's safe, it's been scraped by AI companies already. This is also a good thing, when I need info I'd rather interact with a helpful and knowledgeable customer service chatbot than some snarky autist with a superiority complex.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Dec 2023 07:02:25 UTC No. 968506
remember when we could customize our (main) post with the most obnoxious animated gif, backgrounds and marquee wordings and links that went over the page borders for free? now on shitcord, those days are over and everything looks like sanitized hospitals with decors that can only be changed with limited palettes and designs.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Dec 2023 10:58:42 UTC No. 968540
>>968499
Same shit happening here https://3dtotal.com/tutorials
site prob has like 10k tutorials and all of that going to be lost, i mean the 3d total shop still going to be up but news site and tutorial site going to be down, the fuck.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:00:36 UTC No. 968541
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:06:11 UTC No. 968776
People shouldn't just bitch, they should offer alternatives that exist. For Instance:
I'm coming back to this thread to, again, remind people that Polycount.com still exists and has plenty of information and users that are willing to help and work with newbies. It's always been there, and it's alot more geared towards realtime rendering workflows given the site initially started as a place for modders to learn to make mods.
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:21:04 UTC No. 968788
>>968776
That forum seem to be made to be as hard as possible for humans to use and at the same time as easy as possible for machine to datamine.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 05:37:56 UTC No. 968808
>>968788
I have absolutely no idea what this is even supposed to mean.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 05:54:42 UTC No. 968809
>>968808
It means that all those compartimentalized sub-forums are annoying and are a burden to the user because he has to self-categorize his posts and adhere to all the bizarre rues and stickies of every padded chamber.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 06:07:36 UTC No. 968810
And speaking of internet moderation, I've found this videos that shows how jannies look like in real life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZT
Be warned. It's graphic content.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 06:21:12 UTC No. 968814
>>968104
CGS died a long time ago this is just the corpse decomposing.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:45:19 UTC No. 968821
>>968814
There are tons of maya scripting and maya c++ API examples on cgtalk and they dont expire. In my own scripts i often have to look up "how to do x in maya scripting" and the only solutions that come up are from cgtalk. The solution does NOT have to be recent. It doesnt matter if the solution is from 5/10/15 years ago.
Nobody writes script or maya api stuff here tho so you "think" you know what you are talking about. All you do is useless modelling.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 11:33:28 UTC No. 968826
>>968821
So go archive those pages before the corpse decomposes completely.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 14:06:37 UTC No. 968834
>>968826
Its already been done on archive.org. My scripts - they are safe!
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 15:01:16 UTC No. 968841
>>968776
>it's alot more geared towards realtime rendering workflows
That's why I always hated it showing up in search results
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 15:11:55 UTC No. 968845
>>968841
realtime is the present and future, anon. Nobody watches movies anymore. The games industry dwarfs the movie industry
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 15:26:12 UTC No. 968850
>>968845
That's cool and all but I do shit for myself not for profit
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 15:30:33 UTC No. 968851
>>968850
Games in RT can like just as good as movies. Look at The Matrix Awakens demo with UE5 in HDR
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 17:40:25 UTC No. 968860
>>968851
It's not the same
Maybe in 5 or 10 more years it'd be acceptable to my hyper fixated brain
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:42:49 UTC No. 968876
>>968809
You don't have to stick as strictly as you think you do. The rules are incredibly loose.
Are you just annoyed that there's any rules at all? Then why even complain about cgsociety dying, since that place is almost guaranteed to be the same?
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Jan 2024 13:20:33 UTC No. 969534
It's over
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Jan 2024 14:50:23 UTC No. 969547
>>968104
People are just using Ai, that's why, you don't need any tutorial or artist knowledge, you need to copy and paste some prompt that has gigantic breasts on it and you are done
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Jan 2024 15:03:16 UTC No. 969548
>>969547
prove it
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Jan 2024 15:24:44 UTC No. 969550
>>969548
Prove what?
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Jan 2024 15:26:32 UTC No. 969551
>>969550
>People are just using Ai,
>"people" - what people
>to do what?
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jan 2024 00:03:39 UTC No. 969719
We are literally in the final hours 4
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jan 2024 00:04:58 UTC No. 969720
We are in the final 4 hours