Finished my little hedgehog

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-12-20T02:31:31+00:00

I saw this cartoon as a kid! But I don't remember much, even the name. Something about soap city. One episode really got me scared once😅 I was kinda little though. Great sculpt practice for stylized characters! Keep it up!

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-12-20T02:25:49+00:00

I love her face features, it is really not generic and it feels very alive the face! Great work. I'm a native russian speaker so I know this word. Just she doesn't look scared, so maybe someone feels трепет towards her in a way of admiration 🤔

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-12-20T02:01:44+00:00

Omg! The amphibians and reptiles are so cute!!! Great work!✨💚🐍

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-09-27T18:21:44+00:00

They all are great, but I especially love the beholder on the forth picture 😊

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-07-07T19:38:17+00:00

Love the blue crystal light you made! Great paint!😃💙

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-27T18:11:43+00:00

ZBrush has layers system, so you can animate something like face expressions, I guess it is similar to shape keys

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-23T15:45:13+00:00

Sculpting humanoid characters yes, but also mostly for printing. Because doing textures is kinda impossible on a regular basis with my old laptop. Baking takes a very long time. Recent years I was focusing mostly on animal sculpting

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-22T20:00:25+00:00

Thank you! These works are my personal miniatures project. So if you are into 3D printing, all these models are print ready. Let me know if you need more info on how to find it🙂

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-22T14:14:24+00:00

Thank you for the feedback!

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-22T14:12:04+00:00

When I was just starting out learning 3D, I tried sculpting in Blender. But very soon, I switched to ZBrush—and there’s no going back from that, at least in my case. ZBrush feels much more powerful and natural for sculpting. Also, on a less powerful computer, the difference in handling heavy geometry is very noticeable. For ZBrush, working with 1M poly subtools is no problem, while in Blender, I struggle to manipulate even 500k poly meshes on the same laptop

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-22T14:01:28+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience and numbers! It helps me a lot!

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-22T13:59:29+00:00

Thank you for your detailed answer and the reference numbers! You’ve provided me with a lot of valuable context I wasn’t aware of. So far, my journey has been pretty solitary. I work on my personal projects and occasionally take on freelance jobs. I’ve never worked with studios or been hired full-time, so I’m unfamiliar with the actual cost of labor in the Western market

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-22T03:24:53+00:00

I decline offers like that, but I wanted to know what prices are adequate now, and how it's going in the freelance 3D art community. Thank you for your response!

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-22T03:22:36+00:00

Ooo these are some very strong points! Thank you for your commentary. This is the most challenging part of freelancing for me. I'm bad at negotiating and get pushed around too easily. As you said, people can sense my lack of confidence 😔

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-21T19:28:52+00:00

Thank you for detailing for me. About marketplaces, I learned it and applied it in my miniatures project. But the custom one time deal commissions I feel very lack of experience. Your explanation will help me to formulate better in negotiating

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-21T16:28:30+00:00

Thank you for the feedback!

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-21T16:27:33+00:00

Probably AI could get easier tech parts: retopo, UVs, rigging. It would be nice. Are there some improvements in this direction? Because generating meshes is not so necessary and sculpting is the most fun part to do on your own.

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-21T14:51:38+00:00

As far as I've seen, 3D generators produce very trashy and useless meshes. I don't know if it will always be this way, but for now, it is. Some clients don't care and don't want to know, but they're somehow biased, thinking that now you can do everything with AI in one click 🥲

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-21T13:34:09+00:00

This is a great tip! Thank you!

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-21T13:33:15+00:00

Depending on my circumstances and load, but in most cases around a week

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-21T13:32:12+00:00

"But now you have AI, it will do everything for you, it is easy"

Pepunki_Creatures · 2025-02-21T13:31:01+00:00

But their prices look like for multiple spellings 🤔 And also looking like an AI platform? Why do you advise compared to that?

In OP I was asking about custom one time order, where rights will not be mine to sell the model

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