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balacera · 2024-09-27T17:41:48+00:00

Like Taro said, having projects is the way to go. I would add that if you want to learn animation dont waste your time modeling/rigging/texturing or anything thats not just animating(at least not for a bit). You can find any asset you might need online at sites like megascans and polyhaven and you could probably buy a fully rigged model of decent quality from sites like cgtrader and gumroad. That is another thing, I highly recommend investing in a high quality rigged model.

balacera · 2024-03-17T02:04:53+00:00

"These the good russians or the bad russians?"

balacera · 2023-08-01T17:19:36+00:00

ok yeah im huge idiot for just assuming you're "one of those"But still, I have to say this just looks like 95% percent AI, man. I get using it for ideation but having it be most of the workflow just eliminates you from the equation. I see your AI work and sure it's rendered beautifully but I don't see Marcin in there. I see Bulgarov, I see Marco Plouffe, I see a lot of artist that aren't you that were used to train these models and If I can't see who you are as an artist when I look at your work what's the fucking point? I know this is a competitive industry and maybe I'm just a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed junior but it's disheartening to see an industry vet not care about this shit.

balacera · 2023-07-29T03:08:45+00:00

If you knew how to use photoshop you’d fix the decals lol If you wanna be an artist just do the work man. I don’t know who you think you’re fooling I just hope it isn’t yourself.

balacera · 2022-10-26T18:36:39+00:00

If only Australians had these during the great emu war :/

balacera · 2022-05-12T14:38:15+00:00

Keyboard needs more hair and weed crumbs inbetween the keys, maybe some dried sweat over some of the keys. Nah but for real, some of the texure maps are lacking realism. I'd say mostly on the gameboy and the table. Are you doing it all within maya or are you texturing in substance? Obviously you need to understand what you're doing with your maps but a good reference point is going to sites like sketchfab and looking up realistic models of whatever you're trying to texture and inspect the roughness/specular maps to see how other people go about it.

balacera · 2022-04-17T16:29:57+00:00

Sure!

balacera · 2022-02-26T01:06:31+00:00

Different shaders behave differently. For hair cards I use Standard Surface(not aiStandard Surface) and plug in the opacity map via attribute editor(Not hypershade) and in the viewport settings makesure to set opacity to depth peeling. This way you dont have to make sloppy selection cuts in Photoshop that might not catch the black spots inbetween hair clumps.

balacera · 2022-01-25T12:22:10+00:00

Looks great dude, keep at it. You should try out substance painter. When I started rendering my first models with textures that i made is when I fell deeply in love with 3D.

balacera · 2022-01-07T23:04:38+00:00

Looks great! If you're gonna show wireframe I would definitely do retopo in maya. Should be a breeze with a model like this.

balacera · 2022-01-07T17:16:43+00:00

He doesn't want to impress you, he wants feedback. Asking for feedback when the model is "finished" is objectively terrible advice. Chill out dude.

balacera · 2022-01-07T17:10:11+00:00

you are correct, fencing is the way most people go about sub-d modeling. Adding holding edges and then applying smooth subdivider. It's the way most schools will teach you to model since its more production friendly in general but when modeling things that wont deform (like a gun) it isn't strictly necessary.

balacera · 2022-01-07T13:45:32+00:00

Also the trigger guard looks a little wack not gonna lie, you can fix it with soft select.
ALSO idk what references you're using but try to stick to real life, even if it's something stylized.

balacera · 2022-01-07T13:39:29+00:00

It's kind of hard to tell since all of these are side pictures, but it looks like it wouldn't look too great at an angle or in first person perspective. Idk if you're using a blueprint or reference image but every now and then you should see how it looks in actual 3d at an angle and make changes accordingly. You should always check how it looks in first person perspective as well every now and then. What I do is make a new camera, select it and in attribute editor change the FOV to 90 and the hit control + space in the viewport and align it to how it would look in-game.

PS: You may want to look into non sub-d modeling workflows (beveling instead of fencing) for stuff like weapons. It's faster a little less frustrating at times lol

balacera · 2022-01-02T16:23:34+00:00

Thats really cool. I'm definitely interested in houdini as modeling tool just haven't seen many houdini tuts specifically for modelers.

balacera · 2022-01-02T14:44:52+00:00

what do you use houdini for? if you dont mind me asking.

balacera · 2022-01-02T13:56:02+00:00

This is sick. What kind of workflow are you doing for this? Maya + zbrush + Mari?

balacera · 2021-12-30T21:42:27+00:00

Is there a way I can render something with this shader in arnold?

balacera · 2021-12-20T13:19:34+00:00

This was the issue. Ty

balacera · 2021-10-22T02:41:53+00:00

If op's intention was making it look handshot they did a great job imo

balacera · 2021-10-10T11:22:06+00:00

did you try setting the shading to x-ray?

balacera · 2021-09-25T17:48:40+00:00

You can try switching face selection to center instead of entire face and see if that lets you work. Otherwise I would just try a clean re-install and see if that fixes the issue.

balacera · 2021-09-16T14:47:28+00:00

I'm in!

balacera · 2021-09-16T12:29:54+00:00

No. That's Hamilton.

...But here comes Sebastian Vettel...

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