I am currently working on a character based off a mafiosa character mixed with chinese motiffs. I am targetting her aesthetic towards stylized and flashy fighting games/hero shooter vibes, with Marvel Rivals as my art direction/goal.
I am on the blockout stage so far, and would like some feedback on how is it going (shape, silhoutte, anatomy, etc.). The meshes on the side (Skin color and Blue) are the sort of stylization I am trying to achieve.
*I am aware the hands are still rough and I will focus on them as my next step, just been procrastinating on them*Best Of
(WIP) Mafiosa character project
Hello everyone!
The concept arts were also done by me so their no perfect, but they are useful as a guide as reference
The concept arts were also done by me so their no perfect, but they are useful as a guide as reference
XwX
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Re: I'm tired of 3d modeling and everything that goes with it.
It's a bit like adding insult to injury, but to address the elephant in the room: At least according to your portfolio, you are a young man from Ukraine. Unless you are applying to companies that are in Ukraine themselves, that's probably a major red flag, especially for companies with an HR department, since, at least to my knowledge, you are not allowed to leave the country and at worst, you might get drafted or displaced down the line. So if you could dispel those concerns in some way, that might help.
As for your portfolio: Looks good to me, but I'm not a weapons expert. Maybe get rid of the pepe the frog sticker as some might see that as offensive (probably not people working on military shooters, but you never know, and it would be a stupid thing to lose a job over).
Then, three complex pieces should be fine in theory, but it's still on the lower side and might add to the impression of little experience. No one can look into the future, but I'd say if you keep at it and add some pieces, maybe broaden your horizon a bit from only weapons if that's ok for you, there's a good chance you'll get lucky sooner or later if your general situation is sustainable. Or you could go the way kanga suggested or do something in between, but the air is thinner at the top.
Edit: Maybe show some wireframes, textures etc?
As for your portfolio: Looks good to me, but I'm not a weapons expert. Maybe get rid of the pepe the frog sticker as some might see that as offensive (probably not people working on military shooters, but you never know, and it would be a stupid thing to lose a job over).
Then, three complex pieces should be fine in theory, but it's still on the lower side and might add to the impression of little experience. No one can look into the future, but I'd say if you keep at it and add some pieces, maybe broaden your horizon a bit from only weapons if that's ok for you, there's a good chance you'll get lucky sooner or later if your general situation is sustainable. Or you could go the way kanga suggested or do something in between, but the air is thinner at the top.
Edit: Maybe show some wireframes, textures etc?
Noren
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Re: 'Halls of Torment' 3D/2D environment art
The 'Halls of Torment' Outro Cinematic. I was responsible for the shading, lighting, rendering and compositing of the scenes and I tried to emulate the old 90's video game cinematic aesthetics like dithering, oldschool lensflares and oversaturated colors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKr6SZ1NQ3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKr6SZ1NQ3c
Controller51
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Re: I'm tired of 3d modeling and everything that goes with it.
Great portfolio! Would recomend sending an email to Dekogon, got my first jobs there and was working with them until last year. They don't always have weapons and military stuff to do but they always have lot's of hard surface work.
Udjani
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Re: I'm tired of 3d modeling and everything that goes with it.
godforgivesme said:...Yes, I realize that this portfolio is not top tier and that many people have much better pieces and for less time, ...
From yr own comment above it's no mystery that you don't have a job.
Look with your eyes! As my Dad was fond of saying. You are in artstation where the best weapon smiths in the world have their work on display.
Vary your subject by modelling old to futuristic weapons. Check out Lone Wolf: https://www.artstation.com/lonewolf3d, study the guy's modelling ability, skill at presentation, range of subjects and do likewise. Keep doing likewise till they are knocking down your door.
kanga
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Re: Brawl Contest: And the WINNERS are...
A pretty girl in a bathhouse full of sweaty fat men....nice.
c0ldhands
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Re: Learning Diary - Zbrush Sculpting for Characters and Creatures.
Hey !
You've finished it ! At least it's something.
Posing is not as hard as animating but it's already something not as easy as it may seem and stiffness is not such an easy task to get rid of.
The more you'll want to make your character/scene alive, the more complicated it will be to do, ligth, camera position, everything gets more complex as you add up technicalities. (Ok I don't even understand my own sentence there ... It's supposed to mean something but I lack the words).
Anyway, without rigging you won't have that much control to make things look good so I guess you just found limits in the tools you used until then.
As for the feeling of not so much of a big accomplishment well ... You've progressed VERY fast in the beginning so of course at some point you will feel like you're stagnating. It's a step further, but it's not a big step, visually speaking.
First, it's not as easy to have a realtime model look good than a pre-calculated one. The first thing I notice, is the very common, unepic lighting. The guy is bathed in light when usually you use way more contrast with light and shadow. Maybe you were fed up and wanted to finish this as soon as possible to move on, or you wanted the full model to be easily seen so we wouldn't miss any detail as viewers, but the result is that it makes it less interesting to watch. Which is a shame, as you're way better than me at lighting !
More complexity doesn't equal better that is true ! But as you've made your work around a good looking concept I don't think that's the problem. It's the feeling actually. You've had to work harder, yet you don't "see" if it's that much better than your previous work, but you're missing the point. Realtime is its own thing, and it takes time to find a satisfying result, and yours is actually good looking, but it took you probably more efforts, and that's where it hurts, but it shouldn't as you're less experienced and things will only improve from there.
Also, a sad thing with 3D is, the more you want to do, the very much more you will have to do (like insanely multiplied).
For instance, you've made a creature to encounter your character, and wanted to put a dynamic scene (as far as I understood), yet you found that it was a bit too big for you right now and lowered the complexity of your goal, good call ! But you found yourself with a bit too much to work with and no idea (no real idea at least) as to what to do with those damn goblins.
Now you find yourself with kind of a scene but with no real intention at all, no storytelling, the guy is kind of ambushed but actually is just facing two other guys in a totally blank space. Therefore you fell unsatisfied with it because it would have taken way too much work to have something satisfying (a bit of a forest environment, lighting coming through the leaves of trees etc.) and you should probably have get rid of those goblins so you can focus on your character (presentation wise).
But how tough is that to just throw work in the trash ? So you were kind of stuck in a bad situation anyway cause your project was a bit too big ^^.
Hope that helps you feeling better about your work, because in my eyes it's definitely not bad looking at all ! But yeah I think you lost yourself in a bit too much at the same time and haven't found the right presentation that would make your model justice 
Congrats on your piece, you've made it till the end, that's not nothing !
PS. I might have said offensive things here, but it's only due to my bad english so I apologize if I was unsensitive here.
Dabou Master
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Re: How do you texture different pattern bricks around a window?
I would start by making a tiled texture of the bricks. Then use that to make a variant which has the lighter colored bricks on the edges. Then make a fan-shape mesh and uv the tiled brick texture onto it, with a thin strip of geometry along the top to UV the mortar onto it.
A clearer shot of window with a similar feature:
A clearer shot of window with a similar feature:
Eric Chadwick
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Re: How do you texture different pattern bricks around a window?
Here's a quickie to explain it better, hope it helps!
Eric Chadwick
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Re: How do you texture different pattern bricks around a window?
I guess it's what your most comfortable with..... I'm not really in the "creation process" anymore and being a lazy sod I usually just go hunting on the web for a suitable texture slap on some grunge and call it done 
I'm sure someone on here should direct you too suitable resources.
I'm sure someone on here should direct you too suitable resources.
Klunk
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