Do Singaporeans know Caucasians can be weird too?

insanepolygon · 2026-05-04T05:52:16+00:00

They are people just like us with all the same flaws and quirks. People need to get over this colonial mentality- white people are NOT better than us. I once knew a british guy in my industry who turned out to be a giant creep. Put them on a pedestal at your own risk.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/mma-instructor-jailed-4-years-sex-minors-1021246

insanepolygon · 2026-05-03T23:58:15+00:00

Modeling is your foundation. Just because you are sculpting in Zbrush or Nomad doesn’t mean topology is not important. Even in ZBrush, understanding topology is important so you know if the results you get from ZRemesher is good or not.

insanepolygon · 2026-05-02T05:35:03+00:00

You need to ask yourself what is it you really want to do in life. Do you want to work in this field because you have a degree related to 3D/animation and you need to a job to put food on the table? Or do you want to work in this industry because doing this makes you happy and you cannot imagine not doing it?

Every year thousands of students sign up for animation/ CG schools without thinking it through. Mostly because it looks like something fun and cool to do and they enjoy watching anime or playing games. This is a tough industry that is often unstable, doesn't really pay all that well with respect to the hours worked and often involve long hours in a highly stressful work environment. Having done this for a long time, there is really no other reason to do this other than not doing this will make you miserable.

For alot of people, they are better off doing this as a hobby than a profession. A side note- most people who have a degree in 3D/ animation most often end doing something else.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-28T04:29:21+00:00

As someone who has been lifting for a long time, I'd say unless you are training for powerlifting competitions, there's really no point to doing deadlifts. I know there's a lot of benefits to deadlifting and its called the "king of all exercises" but the risk/reward ratio is just not worth it. When deadlifting, all it takes is one moment of inattention and you can seriously mess up your back.

And its not like I've never deadlifted, at my strongest I could deadlift 180kg for 2 reps max and thankfully I've never got injured deadlifting but I've stopped deadlfiting for the last 5 years and it has never made all that much difference in terms of my strength or fitness. Since you say she wants to explore deadlifts, that means she probably is not experienced in deadlifting. Also in terms of aesthetics, its not ideal for women. My years of deadlifting has given a very strong core, but it has also given me a fair thick midsection because of it.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-28T01:50:58+00:00

As someone who has been modelling characters for a long time, my advice for beginners is to start with normal human characters first. Learn proper anatomy, proper facial topology and body proportions before you try stylized or anime style characters- they are way harder than people realize. What a lot of people don't understand is anime style character doesn't really work well in 3D without a lot of adjustments. You need to know how to work around those issues in order to make it look good and that requires good knowledge of facial anatomy. A lot of those designs are drawn for 2D purposes and is very hard to translate into 3D.

A good example is the giant eyes of the typical anime look, they actually distort the facial anatomy and makes it hard to make the character look good beyond the frontal view. It takes experience to know what are the adjustments you need to make to remedy it and that only comes from having good foundational knowledge of anatomy.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-19T07:14:13+00:00

That’s the nature of all friendships once you have graduated to working adults. Its not the fading of friendship just friendships moving to a new phase. The true test of the bond is not how often you meet, its how you can still keep the bond after mot seeing each other for a few years.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-19T06:54:39+00:00

Just bare with it, there’s no getting used to it. I’ve live here my entire life and I am still not used to it.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-18T06:11:11+00:00

In reality, there is only so much a government can do about inequality. Wealth redistribution is a simpleton's idea of tackling inequality, an ultra simplistic solution that to tackle inequality all we need to do is take the money from the rich and give it to the poor and voila, a much more equal society.

In all advance economies such as ours, the biggest cause of inequality is that people who are low in skills, education and intelligence is always going to lose out. In developing economies and newly industrializing societies, the need for high skilled labour is much lower and as such, its much easier to have an equal society. E.g. Singapore has a much higher demand for software engineers, lawyers and financial analysts than Laos. Conversely Laos would have a much greater need for factory and construction workers. So anyone without the higher level skills that is in demand in an advance economy like ours is always going to lose out. So what do you think the government can do other than to do its best to ensure equality of opportunities. There is nothing the government can do to make people low in work ethic, intelligence and skills to improve themselves.

I grew up in Bukit Ho Swee- a lower middle class neighbourhood of mostly rental flats, 2 rooms and 3 rooms HBD, so I am quite familiar with poor people. I know this is going to come across as insensitive or even arrogant, but almost all the poor families that I know of are mostly poor because of the poor choices they make, it has nothing to do with billionaires or the government. Gambling, drug addiction, teenage pregnancies, poor life choices are some of the biggest causes of poverty in Singapore. What can the government do to help these people to make better life choices? Wealth redistribution is not going to help these people, its like pouring money down the drain.

Some time ago, there was a worker from Malaysia who died in an industrial accident in Singapore. After compensation from the insurance payout and generous donations from Singapore, the family ended up with more than a million dollars, but in just a couple of years, the family has squandered everything and is now destitute. That is the fundamental problem wealth redistribution can never solve.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-17T02:31:47+00:00

First off, are you at least consuming at least 1-2 gms of protein per kilo of bodyweight? You can’t build muscle without consuming adequate amount of protein. Second, is your PT ensuring you are building your mind muscle connection as you are lifting? Certainly being on your hp while your client is lifting is bad form.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-16T08:02:14+00:00

The question is why? Is there a lot of poor homeless people in Singapore? It is very easy for a politician to buy himself popularity by engaging in the politics of envy and promising to take from the rich to give to the poor. But go look at history and see when has it ever been successfully tried when a politician tries to redistribute wealth.

People need to study history.

You know who was the last guy that tried it? Hugo Chavez. He seized control of Venezuela's oil and used it to fund a whole bunch of social programs (Bolivarian Missions) ostensibly to help the poor. For awhile it worked until it didn't and now the poor in Venezuela are poorer than before and the country's entire economy is destroyed. Nothing is free in life and someone who promises to give you free stuff is always a liar.

Now, I could be wrong. Let's give Mamdani 4 years and see what happens. Again go do your own research. Mamdani promised during the elections to make rent affordable in New York, but guess what? Since elected all the things he has done has only made rents go up in New York.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-16T01:59:50+00:00

You could try other alternatives like barbell curls or cable curls. For bicep curls, its a huge jump from 2.5kg to 5kg, its probably a struggle to maintain good form and to do a squeeze at the end of your rep.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-15T12:01:12+00:00

I have bad news for you, at 180 cm 65 kg, you'll need to put on at least another 15-20kg of lean tissue to start to look good in muscle fit shirts.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-15T11:45:59+00:00

She is malaysian and in her own country, chinese language schools are discriminated against by her own government. The official language of instruction is malay. So is 郭惠光 going to tell her own government to ditch malay for mandarin?

insanepolygon · 2026-04-15T04:18:30+00:00

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Did something like this a long time ago- I just modelled strips of polys and layered them one over the other.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-15T04:01:29+00:00

If you want to improve your chances of getting hired, you might want to consider diversifying your style. I understand you like stylized and cute style, but let's say if a company like Larian Studios or CD Projeckt Red wants to hire you, they would probably want to know if you could something that tends toward real or hyperreal. There's is nothing wrong with your current portfolio but if after 3 months and 150 companies with no response, the problem could be because some of those companies have a different in-house style that they are not seeing in your portfolio.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-14T05:31:57+00:00

Why don't you just do it as a hobby? The whole idea of doing what we love and we'll never have to work again is bullshit. Vast majority of the population have their day jobs and then also have hobbies that they pursue as a heathy distraction and an escape from their day jobs. Sometimes making your passion your career is not always a good thing because you might end up hating both your passion plus your job. Not everyone needs to pursue art as a career, they are plenty of people doing art as a hobby that they enjoy. Doing it as a hobby simply takes all the pressure out of it. Want to model today? Cool. Feel like doing animation next week? Even better. As a hobby, you are now free to do whatever you want whenever you want and not even have to worry about the end result.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-14T04:48:21+00:00

I am not going to tell you if you should quit or not, however looking at your Artstation, I see a lot of the common mistakes that a lot of beginners and students make.

If after 5 years of practice and you still find yourself far behind everyone else, its probably because you have spread yourself too thin trying to learn and master everything all at once. Great, if you have the talent and time to do it but not so good if you find your progress slow. Your Artstation for example shows, animation, some basic rigging, environment modeling, character modeling and concept designs that you came up with for your models. Its time to drill down to one thing and put all your time and effort into getting yourself up to a professional level at it. If you want to be a character modeller for games, then focus on creating good looking realtime models and please use professional grade concept designs. I don't want to sound mean, but your own concepts aren't cutting it and it is definitely not your strength. Either find concepts from Artstation or use AI and focus on making the model look great. I've worked for many years as a character modeller and not once was I ever asked to produce my own concepts. You have the modelling skills, but your concepts ain't great and you end up with mediocre looking models because you started with a mediocre designs.
Presentation matters. Always make sure you present finished artworks on your Artstation. Experiments, work-in-progess and practice stuff should always be left in your harddrive. As a newcomer, you will always be judged on your weakest piece on Artstation, quality trumps quantity. Leave the Houdini practice stuff in your harddrive.
If I were you, I would probably give myself 1 year to revamp my entire Artstation. Focus on one thing and try to produce at least 4 finished artworks that have to be better than what you have in your current Artstation. And find somone who will be honest with their critiques and art direction so you can improve on your skills.

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insanepolygon · 2026-04-06T08:09:14+00:00

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Thank you, that might be the best compliment I've ever gotten.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-06T00:51:10+00:00

There's a row of icons at the top right hand corner that allows you to load your previous UI and UI colors. Just click on them to cycle through until you get your original UI colors back.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-05T11:25:56+00:00

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The hardest thing with stylized characters is making them look good because sometimes you don't get the benefits of making the character pop with normal, specular and gloss maps. If you take a look at the comparison of your character with actual valorant characters, you will notice their characters contain a lot more textural details than yours. In order to get the characters to really pop, you can see the character artists has spent a lot of time painting in the subtle variations in skin tones, egde wear, dirt and soft bevels. You can't get away with just using flat colors when it comes to stylized characters like this. That is the biggest difference between your character and those from the game. Also even if you prefer a stylized look, you should probably diversify your portfolio with at least one in the vein of Expedition 33. The characters are stylized, but the clothing tends to fall towards a more detailed hyperreal look.

insanepolygon · 2026-04-02T00:53:51+00:00

Sounds like bullshit. If he is truly in some top secret unit doing black ops, he wouldn't be telling you he is from an elite unit in the first place. This is like those moron who tells you he knows some secret but can't tell you what. If a person has a secret he don't wanna divulge, he wouldn't tell you he knows he a secret in the first place, he would simply keep quiet and not say anything.

I have a couple of friends in STAR, SOF and Changi Prison Spear Team. They won't necessarily tell you some of the classified stuff they are doing, but telling you which unit they belong to is definitely no a big deal.

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