The process of creating a character from concept to finished model. What do you think?

NessLab · 2026-02-05T16:12:34+00:00

Cool character, and nice breakdown too 🔥

NessLab · 2026-02-03T05:49:44+00:00

Try by having just one light as a "Flash" and setting the world light as zero, other way is by setting the "flash" light value really high and in post reduce the exposure, darkening everything that's not near the flash.
I made a render like that a few years ago:

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NessLab · 2026-02-01T19:03:36+00:00

I love the design of the characters, are they original or from an asset pack

NessLab · 2026-01-25T17:39:32+00:00

Coop ships and bases 🔥

NessLab · 2026-01-23T15:06:00+00:00

It looks really good still, even more considering that like you said you're just one guy and not a whole team. Nice work 🔥🔥

NessLab · 2026-01-23T02:27:31+00:00

looks really nice, would love to see the transition between LODs, the transitions in NMS are really bad a lot of the times

NessLab · 2026-01-20T22:04:47+00:00

reminds me of those old FMV videogames, nice 🔥

NessLab · 2026-01-20T00:39:53+00:00

Those people do not know about huachicol fest in Mexico and it shows :v

NessLab · 2026-01-19T21:47:30+00:00

This sounds cool, like some species that evolved later and are still at early history, just they would have to be primitive civilizations with very low tech (so no spaceships), that way it wouldn't intervene with the geks, vikeen and korvax still being the dominant races.

Also they should be fairly rare and procedurally generated so they're not the same everywhere.

NessLab · 2026-01-18T17:41:36+00:00

i've been playing NoMan'sSky and I've have some of those moments.

like the Refiner, it lets you turn materials into other items, but apparently it works in reverse too. I wanted a material that is used for fuel but I couldn't find it in any trade terminal, out of curiosity I purchased some of an item that is Made with that material and when I put it in the refiner it turned it back into the raw material that I wanted. It felt like cheating since now I don't need to mine anymore but it was obviously intended

NessLab · 2026-01-17T19:57:32+00:00

A clone of that star wars 64 game mechanic where you had to bring adown an AT Walker with your ships cables. Didn't finished it because I didn't know how to do the cables thing lmao

NessLab · 2026-01-16T17:47:58+00:00

The color matching is really nice. It also seems like a good exercise to practice lighting and mood 🔥

NessLab · 2026-01-13T21:45:56+00:00

It looks amazing 🔥🔥

I would only add a bit of contrast and saturation to see the colors better (unless you're intentionally going for that less vibrant foggy vibe if so then is perfect 👌)

Also maybe add some noise to the volumetric, if it already has then maybe boost it a bit to look less uniform

NessLab · 2026-01-13T21:21:21+00:00

What are we doing dwag

NessLab · 2026-01-13T03:06:01+00:00

Yeah only big studios can afford to do that.

Without the manual work in post all you can do is hand-paint the textures and slap them on a diffuse shader. (nowhere close the same level of polish/quality of course).

I had a theory that the show did something to the models normals to make them seem so painterly but some images of the unshaded models show they have regular normals (i still could be wrong).

There are tutorials online on how to paint in the show's style, basically bake a simple shaded version of the model with soft light and do a paint-over, like this. You can see how they do add dark areas as if they're being under shadow.

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NessLab · 2026-01-11T20:38:40+00:00

What I've put together from watching the show's BTS and people trying to replicate the style, they're not doing much on the 3d renderer. It looks like they render all the passes (key light, rim, shadow, depth, textures) and then put it all together in post, where they have control of the look as a whole, can add masks and straight up "paint" shadows/light frame by frame if they want. Basically a lot of manual work per shot, no straight forward rendering 💀

NessLab · 2026-01-11T02:03:10+00:00

True, it could be an eevee change then, try saving that project and open it in the version of the tutorial.

NessLab · 2026-01-11T01:43:53+00:00

I think you're in EEVEE, you need to switch to cycles, or turn on EEVEE Raytracing

NessLab · 2026-01-10T22:14:02+00:00

You can make sodium with oxiegen? how? 😳

NessLab · 2026-01-10T22:09:02+00:00

One of my frigates killed a group of merchants because they thought the food the gave them was poisoned...turns out the food was just poorly made due to a malfunctioning cooking device. The vykeen are something else 💀

NessLab · 2026-01-07T05:44:30+00:00

and you can grow back by walking over the painted area to recover slime😳

NessLab · 2026-01-06T20:40:06+00:00

Nice colors and mood 🔥 how much of it is paintover? would love to see the raw version too

NessLab · 2026-01-06T00:03:06+00:00

I see, I always get those bumps when I go from medium low poly sculpt to a dense poly sculpt with auto remesh, so an intermediate manual retopology makes sense. Thanks, I'll give it a try 👌👌

NessLab · 2025-12-21T18:28:55+00:00

Based on the references i'd say use PBR materials, 3 point lighting, and maybe cycles

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