🧵 /wip/ - Works In Progress
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:21:50 UTC No. 998180
/wip/ - Works In Progress - "graphic design is my passion" edition
Post your work-in-progress projects, recently finished projects, or things you'd like critiqued here.
Previous thread: >>993026
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:29:05 UTC No. 998182
>>998180
you ruined it.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:59:45 UTC No. 998189
>old thread at page 4 and not at image limit
>whole board only has 9 pages
yeah you're special
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:17:50 UTC No. 998190
shoulder mechanism. flawed but it doesn't seem to break easily at least. also why can't IK just fucking work? why do I need to add so many extra bones and constraints just to make it so it doesn't shit the bed?
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:52:29 UTC No. 998195
>>998189
>anon doesn't know what a bump limit is
>anon is obviously a newfag because this has never been a problem before
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:02:17 UTC No. 998198
>>998195
You are so retarded, holy shit.
/3/ needs twenty more threads before any thread can fall off the catalog. It doesn't matter what page the old thread is on if you can still post in it.
Bumping has also been broken for eight years now. Sort by last reply and shoot yourself.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:14:38 UTC No. 998199
>>998198
Again, it's never been a problem before, and it's not a problem on any other board. Creating a new thread after the old one has reached its bump limit is how it's done on literally every other board that has generals and no one shits their pants over it except you.
People are less likely to post in threads that have reached their bump limit, and I just like to see the board be active.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:27:15 UTC No. 998200
>>998199
>Creating a new thread after the old one has reached its bump limit is how it's done on literally every other board that has generals
so why do you have to be such a little smug faggot with that op pic
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:42:43 UTC No. 998202
>>998200
I don’t recall feeling smug when I edited the OP pic, maybe just a little silly. I could have probably written “You don’t need to be someone special to do it.” Instead of “You don’t have to wait for someone special to do it.” because that would have gotten the point across better. It sounds stupid, but I have encountered people on this website before that think the jannies are the ones who make the general threads. I've seen the activity in the wip threads grind to a halt for weeks at a time because no one wants to make a new thread.
Maybe it’s my fault for wording things wrong, but your need to tell me I’m not special and that I’m being smug makes me think you’re projecting your own ego disorders onto me, because that's just not the way my brain operates. I’m just trying to have a little fun.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:46:08 UTC No. 998203
>>998199
Here's some prior work and a reasoning for it: >>997228
>10 days ago
>it's on page 6 and still has space for images
Stop shitting up my thread watcher. You make the thread when you need it, and right now you don't.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:29:15 UTC No. 998220
>>998217
Can I cum on it?
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:37:31 UTC No. 998222
>>998220
No. Great shame. Ancestors cry.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:41:34 UTC No. 998224
it is op's fault for making a cringe statement that he should have known would make retards have a temper tantrum
it is anon's fault for getting chipped by a throwaway cringe pic
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:02:21 UTC No. 998234
>>998217
Is it even worth the effort to use plasticity, bro? I have a real, paid, active license, but I also like modelling with polys because it just makes more sense to me, if you know what I mean.
the chair nerd at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:57:15 UTC No. 998237
>>998180
I touch my pee pee at night
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:03:39 UTC No. 998240
>>998234
For surface modeling, absolutely. Polygonal modeling is quicker for most things, but I will say that I could spend an eternity trying to model that with polygons, and in the end I would have failed. I would never be able to get the perfect shading, the fillet washouts, the smooth transitions, etc. Maybe with subdiv, but even then... I wouldn't recommend it. It's not worth the effort if you're aiming the surface modeling look. The gorget, I could do with polygons, but not the rest of the helmet.
And I just think it's very fun. Time flies, which is why I only do this at weekends, or I wouldn't get any work done during the week.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:15:06 UTC No. 998241
>>998240
are you using the blender bridge at all?
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:16:43 UTC No. 998242
>>998241
No, I'm using plasticity through vnc on a separate computer and I couldn't get the bridge to work over a different IP. I just export as OBJ when I'm finished.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:32:50 UTC No. 998269
>>998246
perfection
>>998264
What else is there to do? I assume the parts who aren't visible?
This looks pretty fucking good
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:14:22 UTC No. 998271
>>998258
super neat anon
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:09:30 UTC No. 998286
>>998269
There’s still a lot to do with the wood. Some splintering here and there, some texture adjustment to add granularity. As for the metal part, it’s barely worked on, I’m still gonna work on it for at least three weeks before it’s close to what I want. I have multiple references that I’m following. But thanks for compliment my guy
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:09:49 UTC No. 998335
>>998284
holy gemmy...
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:19:53 UTC No. 998337
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:22:51 UTC No. 998340
>>998338
how long have you been doing this?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:48:53 UTC No. 998344
>>998199
>it's done on literally every other board that has generals
It's literally not. Generals stay until they reach image limit and then get refreshed. That's how it works on every board.
>and no one shits their pants over it
Everyone shits their pants over it when some retard bakes a thread early.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:59:26 UTC No. 998388
>>998340
since january
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:28:58 UTC No. 998389
>>998388
doing good so far, but i think you only have the initial step. I think you should do rigging and animation on this character
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:13:21 UTC No. 998391
>>998284
high effort meme
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:51:55 UTC No. 998396
>>998391
You mean high effort art
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:14:47 UTC No. 998437
>>998389
ty. mostly rigged already, ik/fk limbs and parent switching for the gun. just need to add some constraints to the fingers and we're good to go. animation on the other hand... that shit is hard man. kind of have an idea of what I want do with him but it ain't gonna be anywhere near as good as it is in my head.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:53:35 UTC No. 998438
>>998437
are you using blender for animation?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:57:43 UTC No. 998439
>>998438
yeah, using blender for the whole thing.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 03:59:25 UTC No. 998448
>>998180
i have not been to this board in over a decade and you're all still using this same image.
that makes me so happy.
>still haven't hit 1 million posts
glad to see nothing has changed.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:30:37 UTC No. 998589
Cool thread idea
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:40:46 UTC No. 998639
>>998589
Bot, I hope whoever made you gets fucked in the ass with one of those baseball bats that have rusty nails embedded in em.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:41:25 UTC No. 998947
>>996394
Been pluggin away at this in the background, nearly time to cut things and start rendering. I could probably work this to death, but I need to make sure I have the time to actually render the anim.
One question though. Anyone know of a way to make heat haze that's more or less "depth accurate"? Like yeah I can throw a refraction on a plane and call it a day (which is what I've done), but there's a bit more nuance to actual heat distortion than that. Not to mention since it's just a plane at a fixed distance from the camera, anything that passes that plane (for instance the train), will be distorted instantly like someone just turned it on, instead of a gradual thing as it gets further on. So a heat haze that was a bit more gradual over a distance would work, but I'm not really sure how to do that, and searching for it just gives the basic bitch "just throw refraction on a plane, bro".
Also, I'm pretty fed up with Blender at this point. It's a fucking dice roll now when I press render whether it will crash (about a 50% chance), get stuck on "initializing" and not render at all (30%), or actually fucking render (20%).
I've narrowed down WHAT is causing it to fuck up (the road and adaptive subdiv), but not how to fix it. All searches point to "disable GPU subdivision", which I have, but no dice. Switching to the 4.3 beta made it a bit more stable, but it's really that extra 10% to make 20% on the render dice roll.
Not to mention the random, "will this object render or not", or "will the displacement displace" roll when adaptive subdiv on.
The modifier is a fucking mess.
Thanks for reading my faggy blog post/rant.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:29:20 UTC No. 998949
>>998947
get a more fucking powerful GPU then faggot
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:32:01 UTC No. 998954
>>998947
do it post-render and use a depth-pass to drive it
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:00:55 UTC No. 998958
>>998949
Next "more fucking powerful GPU" than I currently have is a 4090. Somehow I doubt that's going to make a difference. The GPU's strength isn't the problem. There's something fucky going on with Blender in conjunction with my project. Just weird shit all around, despite throwing much more at it in the past without issue.
>>998954
Yeah that actually sounds like a good idea.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:31:21 UTC No. 998960
>>998958
have you tried a clean uninstall and reinstall drivers with DDU? Also, this is exactly why I dont buy the most expensive cards. Cards always break after a while. I've had so many cards malfunction that I just buy cheap ones like 60 series now. To be honest with you I think 60 series cards can do everything almost as well as a 90 series card and you can replace it easily
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:44:00 UTC No. 999004
>>998960
I've updated drivers, but not reinstalled them. I'll give that a go.
Again though, I don't think it's the GPU. It works great. I've never had any problems with it, nor any of my previous ones (My 1080ti is STILL trucking in another computer as well). Like I said, the problem persists even with GPU subdivision turned off, so I don't think it's the GPU at all.
As for 60 series, I also use this for games too, and I run at 4k. 60s won't really do me much good.
I've got a 12600K (not the best CPU, but again, no issues), and 64gb of RAM. GPU, CPU and RAM all bought this year, all the parts have been working great.
For all intents and purposes, things should be well within my margins to render. I think it's just a freak thing. For some reason it's been crashing less, so who fucking knows now.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 05:56:29 UTC No. 999036
>>999012
I had meant to say cacti, but I like the chunky pillars better.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 11:53:46 UTC No. 999060
>>999012
what mr bone contemplating about?
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:16:20 UTC No. 999063
>>998180
newfag here
why does this thread always have the same image or slight variations of it
the dedication is admirable
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:35:23 UTC No. 999071
>>998976
its good, but i want to see beyond a simple walk cycle into something "original"
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:46:18 UTC No. 999073
>>999063
>why does this thread always have the same image or slight variations of it
Tradition. One of the few things true /3/ fags can take pride in.
If I remember right, it was an oldfag's project that he made for WoW or something along those lines. It's been a good long while since I heard the reason, so that might be a bit off. Still, it's been the wip image even back in 2012 when I first started hanging around. /3/ was a wildly different place back then, that's for sure.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:36:34 UTC No. 999077
>>999071
ty, the plan™ needs a bunch of animations, just knocking out one I actually somewhat know how to do first
>>999060
idk. inspired by picrel. grew up in a very rural area and every other house had one of these out front.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:48:31 UTC No. 999099
>>999095
I'm going to be harsh with you but its because I see potential in you....
i think you need to challenge yourself more because right now what i see is very easy, like anyone could do it
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:00:29 UTC No. 999100
>>999099
by all means, harshness is why I post on 4chan instead if discord or reddit or something
>challenge yourself
so what do you recommend? that's quite broad but I'll give anything an honest try
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:25:25 UTC No. 999102
>>999100
you have to find something you're passionate about or else you won't do it. This can differ for everyone.
For me, I'm so into what I'm doing that I'm doing these subjects all the time, at home, at work on break, while I'm watching tv on my phone, when im driving in my car im listening to stuff thats related to what im doing. You have to find something big that you can do. You have to plan. You can create an animatic in resolve with images and videos
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:23:12 UTC No. 999104
>>999102
what a load of shit with zero feedback of any value
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:25:35 UTC No. 999105
>>999104
this
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:38:00 UTC No. 999106
>>999104
Re-read what i wrote. You are making extremely basic animations with keyframes. Me, I am planning like mad, making animatics, trying to stay at the front, coming up with new things that don't even come up with anything substantial on a google search. What this is, you have to find out because its personal for you. If you dont like what you are doing, you wont do it, period.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:45:25 UTC No. 999107
>>999106
that was a different anon but I kinda agree with him. you come off as a bit pretentious with this, whether that is your intention or not.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:48:38 UTC No. 999108
>>999107
I dont even know what pretense means.
You do you. I'll keep from replying to you from now on, but know this : what you posted is low effort. Most of what gets posted on this board is low effort.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:59:32 UTC No. 999109
>>999108
post your work then, let's see the high effort masterpieces you have created
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:20:12 UTC No. 999114
>>999110
Kek, please tell me you're not the raw chicken schizo and that you're just using his work as bait.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:23:53 UTC No. 999115
>>999114
It's they/them.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:24:36 UTC No. 999116
>>999110
I'd love to see your animatic for this
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:39:21 UTC No. 999119
>>999118
lol, learning fem and then vellum to a high level is so pointless and silly am i rite guise? Time to get some kind of meme to post from mah folder?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:45:19 UTC No. 999128
I'm messing with parallax eyes again. It might not be obvious how they're different from the previous parallax eyes I made. But in the previous one, I used a very difference node set up. all the difference are under the hood. I pretty much made my own displacement node. Doing so gave me a better idea about how this stuff works. And I was able to get the parallax scrolling to be more accurate. Now, when you turn then camera, it perfectly offsets.
Though, there is still a problem with it I have to work out. The work isn't done. As the nodes grow, it gets harder to identify the problems and fix them. I don't know exactly what's causing the problems.
I didn't go crazy with the displacement in pic related. Just gave it some subtle depth.
The cool thing about this is: it doesn't require UVs. So when I finally get a handle on this, then it should be entirely independent of pesky UV unwrapping.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:20:45 UTC No. 999138
>>999130
dont you think there should be more "thickness" to it? Like, everything looks like it has only one side now
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 11:51:06 UTC No. 999143
>>999138
Yeah I'll make a cloth sim to add cushion on the inside. Hopefully it turns out nice.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:00:13 UTC No. 999144
>>999143
why dont you just model it with thickness in plasticity, like you do in real cad when you have specs
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:45:06 UTC No. 999147
>>999144
Shelling is quite fickle when you have multiple joined surfaces. At least in plasticity, it tends to give undesirable results when you go too thick. It's already as thick as sheet metal, which is what I was going for, and even thicker in some places, like the interior of the helmet. Plus, I like the look of cloth padding. I'm thinking maybe a leather lining, but I haven't decided yet. Something like pic related.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:48:05 UTC No. 999148
>>999147
Maybe velvet. I think that might fit better than leather.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:04:39 UTC No. 999187
I had to follow a tutorial, but I got my first working rig. While the IKs work fine, I don't know why, after setting this up, I'm unable to manually rotate the shoulders. Has anyone got any good guides that could help?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:15:02 UTC No. 999212
Making a Scavengers Reign/Moebius inspired environment
Need to figure out how to modify the shader to get some of the shadows back into the scene
and work on the general landscape and foliage
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:42:11 UTC No. 999218
Getting closer, but not quite yet at what I want. Its going to require some work to get a artist defined sculpted shape to override the automatic tension line flex shape which my previous tool had in its toolkit by default. Because this is not present and I have not been able to attempt to implement this in houdini, I cannot currently match what I had in maya which had this feature
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:55:18 UTC No. 999220
progress is still being made. What I need to do now is duplicate and sculpt a target shape that will trigger upon flex because the default tension line method doesnt give enough control. Overall, excited with my progress, but I don't have much time to work
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:03:33 UTC No. 999263
>>999221
big flexa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g0