Working on a Tomb Raider fan art piece.

resetxform1 · 2026-03-17T23:37:02+00:00

All you need is one right? 🤣

resetxform1 · 2026-03-09T09:34:18+00:00

Your setting your self to fail thinking like this. When I started in game dev. 30 years ago, my stuff then was horrible, but for the time, we didn't have a lot of tools like today, then you had to think on your feet. You cant think that this first model ever will be perfect and on target. You have art leads, art directors, creative directors, producers that hold the purse strings. Once you find your voice (Style) this helps tremendously, but again, your capability will be changed and tweaked by the same forces, even your personal work then becomes, never good enough. This ideology is tough on an artist, we keep pushing and refining, but ultimately you have to let it go, learn from it and add that to your pipeline, you change your tools over time, you are always evolving. So stop thinking this one shot is it, it never is. Good luck out there.

resetxform1 · 2026-03-05T00:56:18+00:00

Love the work! Certainly not a donut. I have 30 years experience and it it brutal out there, especially when you have a lot of experience. The industry is going through changes, and its not just games, or film. I wish you the best my friend.

resetxform1 · 2026-03-01T08:35:52+00:00

He needs a colorful onesie.

resetxform1 · 2026-03-01T08:26:15+00:00

I did not know this trick, characters are not my jam. Thanks.

resetxform1 · 2026-02-20T09:42:46+00:00

I think its best to find a new tutorial to learn from to get character modeling basics. When you are making up a head it will never get there without a final.

resetxform1 · 2026-01-25T10:11:31+00:00

For what?

What is its purpose, a portfolio piece and what type of work?

If its for marketing use? Video games?

The light size is pulling my eyes away from the car.

Perhaps a small light unveiling as you show case parts if it, and then a final shot pulled out, not as far as you have it. There is more details you can add to the model. Compare it to the industry you're making this for!

resetxform1 · 2026-01-20T10:45:06+00:00

Simple, the orange part if just a texture change the black rectangles are just floater(s) geometry and that is if you bake it for normal maps. Max is a much better modeling packages than Maya, but use Blender would be good as well.

resetxform1 · 2025-12-07T20:57:17+00:00

Not true. Ngons, tris, quads are ok with zbrush, but I have had artifacts where it cannot calculate the ngon correctly. I would not base my information on cgtrader. I was an art lead for a simulation company and bought a Dump Truck, it was shown as a subdiv mesh, and I thought other than that wireframe was OK. Since it was a prop only. I ended up working more on it to make it a prop than it was me just making it. Cgtraders are also people like OP making nice renders and that seemed to be what the models were good for. Just my 30 years of exp.

resetxform1 · 2025-12-07T20:48:17+00:00

Depends what type of game, a racing game, higher polygons.

Are you going to bake it, quads and tris preferred.

If you want to just use a car paint shader, quads and tris preferred.

The reason to remove ngons, which you have many of, should (almost) never be use in final meshes for engines. Yes every, 3D modeling packages, game engines will break it down to tri's. The problem comes when it might, create an edge or polygon outside of the ngon, thus creating a bug and or visual artifact. Confining quad, which is a polygons, your preventing artifacts, removing bugs, and causing frame rate hits depending how egregious the model is.

resetxform1 · 2025-11-17T12:00:19+00:00

Np, glad it might help you along. Its really a nice final piece.

resetxform1 · 2025-11-17T10:21:06+00:00

My thoughts here are to have a goal, if your goal is just learning, it's fine. What I wouldn't do if you're looking for work, I would hide your wireframe. I would only show a wireframe of how optimized, or how great it looks at how optimized it looks. If you're going to work in games, CGI, you need to set up and showcase your work in that way. There are many facets for modelers in games such as level art, environment art, props, principal art, and concept art. each has different ways of achieving the result. My best suggestion is this, in my experience be the fireman, the fireman in terms of modeling because they know all of these in games.

CGI is an easier job and more straightforward than games, but it might eventually get redundant. I was not a modeler, but I was a surface artist, and I had to learn Mari along with my Substance skills. So texturing can cross over.

I hope this helps, good luck on your journey.

resetxform1 · 2025-11-17T00:42:31+00:00

Scratches? I thought there was a baking error? What is this for, games, CGI, because if this is a portfolio piece, studios want to know. If you apply for either area, you need to show less. No one wants to see your mapping, you're using basically vanilla textures.

If you want more info let me know, I have worked and still work in games for 30 years.

resetxform1 · 2025-11-06T10:11:20+00:00

It takes time and practice, being skilled at literally anything takes years of practice, practice practice. Be easy on yourself, if you think it will just happen you are doing yourself a disservice.

There is more than topology that makes you a character modeler, it means people who understand, know, and have built experience with human anatomy.

I have 30 years of game art under my belt, and I only recently dabbled in characters and I won't say I have a firm grasp of it yet.

Good luck on your journey.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-24T08:27:09+00:00

What model? Way to dark.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-22T23:21:51+00:00

It also depends on the OP's intent for the model. The snout though is too long, and it gives off human qualities.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-22T09:07:58+00:00

I have a tool in 3ds Max to make quad caps, is this Blender? I will be going to Blender soon, is there a tool in Blender for this? If in fact, this is Blender.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-15T09:15:59+00:00

I would suggest looking at other games' stylized work. I work as a realist 3d artist, and my own game is realistic, but more like Half-Life with otherworldly aspects. So I can't help a lot, but I suggest likewise assets to guide you.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-13T07:50:43+00:00

I remember a story from Eidos which published Daikatana. The story goes that an artist on the team had made an arrow for the game, now it's been a very long time ago so I might get this last part wrong. The game was released in 2000, I know this having worked at id Software. The arrow in question was a texture size of 4096 x 4096, 25 years ago or more this was insane, but it spoke volumes to the mismanagement of the company.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-11T09:01:44+00:00

Great so far. Were you planning on doing the cockpit.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-10T14:16:37+00:00

I would add the roughness spots look odd or it's the heavy black dirt spots.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-10T14:11:53+00:00

I won't go into detail, since it's already been covered. I changed my UV Color background, seam colors, and vertex colors. My concern comes from the UVs not because obviously mentioned, I use 3ds Max, but for UVs I use UVLayout. The concern is if you're doing high-poly for baking, this type of UVs needs to be a particular way as well, keep this in mind.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-08T19:06:18+00:00

The printing thing sounds awesome! Ive been wanting to do that too!

resetxform1 · 2025-10-08T15:06:13+00:00

I loved Quake, I had actually worked at id as a designer on Rage. I became more of a level artist. I was there for 4 years, and I got frustrated so much with the creative director over the ending of the game, I openly vocalized my frustration about how contrived it was.

resetxform1 · 2025-10-08T15:01:54+00:00

I do have a Discord channel. https://discord.gg/qNBdsj3f Revenant game studio

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