🧵 Blender General /BG/
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 13:48:23 UTC No. 942472
Download
https://www.blender.org/download/
Fundamentals
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li
Donut
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li
🧵 LightWave 3D is BACK
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 10:31:04 UTC No. 942456
Dear LightWave Community,
LightWave 3D is a proven, Emmy award-winning modelling, animation and render program, with a legion of followers and dedicated users such as yourselves. At Vizrt Group we have been looking for a home that offers the commitment and the enthusiasm it deserves.
With over 30 years in the animation and FX industry, Andrew Bishop and his team have now stepped forward to acquire LightWave 3D under the name LightWave Digital. Some of you may know Andrew from his VFX work and bringing LightWave 3D to UK and European market alongside handling distribution in the UK.
We did not make this decision lightly. The desire has always been to ensure LightWave 3D has a future with a team that has a strong desire to breathe new life into the technology, bring more value to users, and usher in the next generation of 3D graphics for film, animation, and VFX.
We are certain under this ownership; Andrew and his team will deliver this and more. As our transaction with Andrew and his team finalizes, more information will be shared.
For now, the new team can be contacted through this Discord channel here.
https://go.newtek.com/e/428312/invi
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Anonymous at Sun, 9 Apr 2023 01:01:25 UTC No. 942413
>intel i3-3217U
>4 gb ddr3 1600 Mhz
what can I run on these specs
🗑️ 🧵 State on the industry
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Apr 2023 15:31:11 UTC No. 942395
So in 2011 I contacted my uncle and I sucked his cock or something so he gave me money to develop gaem in hava and now we release on the Steam.
https://youtu.be/teTroOAGZjM?t=1498
Is this how it is to work in the industry these days? Is this the future you chose?
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Anonymous at Sat, 8 Apr 2023 13:55:43 UTC No. 942392
I don't have that many finished "portfolio pieces (scripts)" for my first job as a TD, - only 2-3 and they each took me a long time to write and debug - but I know a lot of languages and softwares. The only place hiring near me is AAA. I can't freelance because of the instability and having to do much more complicated taxes. What do I do? Apply anyway or wait? The 2-3 pieces I have are quite strong. Everything else I have has lost its relevance.
🧵 Margot Robbies Barbie Feet in 3D
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Apr 2023 11:53:57 UTC No. 942385
Margot Robbies feet from the Barbie movie trailer. Made with HAELE 3D - Feet Poser in UE5.
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Anonymous at Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:26:27 UTC No. 942346
Whats it like to work in the animation industry in Toronto?
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Anonymous at Fri, 7 Apr 2023 12:31:01 UTC No. 942332
why is it so extremely hard to model this, is the only way of making this pouch by sculpting it ??
🧵 Hair alpha textures?
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:54:02 UTC No. 942323
How do you guys making pic related(alpha textures for eyebrows and pube)?
I tried fiber shop and it did give me the good results, but I cant export it alpha map, not allowed in the free version I think
🗑️ 🧵 gumroad
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Apr 2023 21:33:15 UTC No. 942287
im trying to advertise these 3d models go out and buy them https://milobunny.gumroad.com/
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Anonymous at Thu, 6 Apr 2023 16:53:40 UTC No. 942249
Plasticity is out of beta and is being shilled on the socials. Got me interested in trying out CAD concepting again. Anyone used the thing? Looks a little autismy than moi or fusion.
Not piratable yet, but the demo isn't too limited so i'll probably grab it later.
🧵 animated text in blender
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Apr 2023 23:29:36 UTC No. 942175
I want to create a 3d animation based off a picture of someone else's 3d text to make it look like it's being handwritten. I can already do this with typed text or text I I write myself but I want to do it from text from photos. Is there a way to do this in geometry nodes or otherwise?
🧵 AI in the Workplace
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Apr 2023 17:14:38 UTC No. 942143
In 2018, Andrew Price made predictions about how AI will change the industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flg
Aside from pic related, Andrew made some other predictions:
>Procedural workflows will become standard
>Creative assistance from machines
Now that it's 2023, for those of you working in the 3D industry, has anything significant for you changed since 2018? Have you seen a cut in jobs or more use of AI and machine learning?
🧵 Clothing in games
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Apr 2023 16:38:11 UTC No. 942139
Ok fuck it, I'm making a thread, let's discuss this shit. Gamedev/character artist (hobbyist) reporting in.
It's been a few months now that I've been switching between Marvelous Designer/Clo3D and Zbrush trying to make nice looking (semi-stylized) clothes in these softwares but I can't reach the look I want to have on my characters. I'm particularly struggling on making a Gakuran (male studen japanese uniform).
With Zbrush:
> Clothes general shapes are off or very hard to get righ
> Looks too clayish
> Tedious as fuck
With MD/Clo3D
> Very little control on the style of the cloth
> Folds are generated "randomly" -> no control on the folds
> Shape depends on the character model not on the pattern of the clothing
In the end, I dislike both of them. Well I dislike both of them on their own. The most experienced of you are going to say "Well duh, you can't use MD or Zbrush alone for clothes, you make the base in MD and the details on Zbrush". But how do I cope with the ridiculous amount of MD/Clo3D "intermediate/advanced" tutorials?
So I'm asking here. How do you do it? Any tips to share ? Anything that changed your life in doing clothing? Should I use MD anyway?
🗑️ 🧵 >The state of Artstaion
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Apr 2023 13:12:46 UTC No. 942117
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Anonymous at Wed, 5 Apr 2023 06:11:05 UTC No. 942102
I went bug hunting around the "Assign automatic from bones" function int Blender.
Top row is default, bottom row is patched.
I wanted to get rid of that defect (pinch) you can see on the inside of 90° bends specifically.
Pic related is what I've got so far. I'll add more details later.
🧵 GroomBear (Houdini) link?
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Apr 2023 05:06:28 UTC No. 942098
Hey, I’m trying to find a download link/magnet for the groombear toolkit, but I can’t find anything on public sites, trackers or forums. Would anyone have a link if it can be pirated? New to Houdini, so I don’t know shit
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Anonymous at Wed, 5 Apr 2023 03:15:34 UTC No. 942096
let's talk business. for you guys working as freelancer or solo/small company owners, how did things start and evolve? what are your tips and takes to get the business side of things right?
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Anonymous at Tue, 4 Apr 2023 20:40:46 UTC No. 942067
All I want is to make an object always face the viewport view.
Basically this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzN
but object facing viewport view, not a "Camera" that you can add to the scene
I was trying Tracking Constraints but can't put the viewport view as a "Target"
Create a "Camera", check the "Align camera to view" box and look through it will not work for me
Send help
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Anonymous at Tue, 4 Apr 2023 00:00:13 UTC No. 941991
Does drawing 2D (grinding to get good skill) on paper with help you do 3d and im not just talking human anatomy but robots and buildings and everything else? I'm a hobbyist generalist, been doing this since 2011. I've been drawing here and there and buying drawing materials recently, but I find that I can't design (actually design) nearly as well as stable diffusion so what I do is just use SD for ref and then try to change the camera angle in 2D with drawing and then translate this into 3d later.
Is this about right? Will this help me do 3d? I find doing a lot of 3d stuff like sculpting, grooming, texturing, simulation, etc can be really really slow
🧵 Endless Engines Challenge
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Apr 2023 20:27:29 UTC No. 941973
Did your clip make the cut?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mID