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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
5rettski said:This is all so-so-so incredibly useful, I have another question regarding early 2000s workflow,
Theres a video that talks about the development of God of War 2005, but it skips a part of the whole reason I was looking for it, character modeling.
Was ZBrush or something used back then to make these models?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1G-rvB7Wxg
This is the video I was trying to watch, if anyone knows, it would be incredibly useful, thanks!
Manual sub d modelling was the thing, afaik Zbrush wasnt that main stream till 2008.
Alias Maya as it was called, enjoy the making of Final Fantasy Spirits Within some cool insights in 6 parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj0XXYJ3gCY
HAWK12HT
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Re: SuperPNG broken these days, any alternatives?
If you want to preserve the RGB values, you can force Photoshop by increasing the black level of your mask to be 1/255 instead of zero. Use Levels on the alpha, and set the lower Output to 1. Then it will look to the human eye as being completely transparent, but the full RGB will be preserved.
The PNG spec says in the simplest case to use a solid color for 0 alpha, usually white, and set a flag that tells readers to set that color as zero alpha. But it does also support separate RGB and Alpha, using a bit more work and also getting a larger file size, which SuperPNG supports.
The PNG spec says in the simplest case to use a solid color for 0 alpha, usually white, and set a flag that tells readers to set that color as zero alpha. But it does also support separate RGB and Alpha, using a bit more work and also getting a larger file size, which SuperPNG supports.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
ZBrush was out in like 2003(?), but wasn't used in the capacity it is now. I am sure that was sub-d's in Maya.
Lamont
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Re: How do i rig this
Rigging something like this is mostly about looking at what you want to directly control, probably the top platform, and then working your way front the start and end of the chain to make that work. For this you'd start with the pistons and having a track to constraint have the top half of the piston looking at points parented around the bottom and the bottom looking at points parented around the top. After that you can worry about rotating linkage to match the piston.
ZacD
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Re: How do you make the 3D pipeline less painful?
It looks like OP is working at a machine-learning startup for 3d content creation, so that's where this is coming from.
___'s machine learning and in-house art team combine to deliver production-quality assets in minutes.
___ specialises in developing cutting-edge Machine Learning algorithms for transforming images into digital 3D models. Our primary focus is serving game developers, offering a 10x speedup in their 3D asset production pipelines.
Blanked out the name to discourage SEO, but I'm sure you could find it if you looked hard enough.
Anyhow, it's all a bunch of astroturfing. Looking at you AsdiusWork, kostadina, lucaK25.
I get it, this is how you market these days, embedding things. But at the very least treat us with some level of respect and announce where you're from, don't hide behind some pseudo anonymity.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Sketchbook: Tim Smith
I agree his head-to-body proportions are a bit off if the intention is to have a taller character.
There are a few other things that could be revised, but the most important is a structural mistake in the head which immediately stands out, specially in profile: Ear placement.
Unfortunately the skull you're using is missing the ear hole, a vital landmark for the head. When it's not being actively considered when placing features and your ref lacks it it's very likely the ear will drift. When it drifts other features tend to also drift, with jaw and sternocleidomastoid and hairline usually being the worst victims.
In this case because the ear is so high the sternocleidomastoid is attaching to the side of the skull instead of to roughly the underside of the protuberance in the temporal bone. He'd also have odd sideburns and beard as it is, and a vast expanse of empty back rim of the jaw below the ear.
There are a few other things that could be revised, but the most important is a structural mistake in the head which immediately stands out, specially in profile: Ear placement.
Unfortunately the skull you're using is missing the ear hole, a vital landmark for the head. When it's not being actively considered when placing features and your ref lacks it it's very likely the ear will drift. When it drifts other features tend to also drift, with jaw and sternocleidomastoid and hairline usually being the worst victims.
In this case because the ear is so high the sternocleidomastoid is attaching to the side of the skull instead of to roughly the underside of the protuberance in the temporal bone. He'd also have odd sideburns and beard as it is, and a vast expanse of empty back rim of the jaw below the ear.
Celosia
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Idea for Feedback on Tracking 3D Content Creation Pipelines
I’ve been thinking about a simpler, more modern way to manage the flow of 3D content creation, as an alternative to heavier tools like Shotgrid. The idea is a web app that focuses on clarity and ease of use, with features tailored for artists and teams:
- Kanban-style board that shows what stage of production each asset is at.
- 3D viewers in the browser so assets can be reviewed instantly without extra tools. After reviewing, the user can decide whether to request revisions or approve the asset to the next steps.
- Requesting revisions directly on assets, and assigning to teammates or external collaborators. This will include a simple UI to annotate on top of 3D models and add notes.
- Onboarding team members and external contributors, and assigning them to specific steps of the pipeline so responsibilities are always clear.
- To-do lists for each team member, showing just the assets assigned to them.
- Custom properties and filtering, inspired by tools like Notion and Linear, to let teams organize things the way they want.
- Grouping assets into projects and milestones, with deadlines to track progress.
I’d love to hear your thoughts: would a tool like this help simplify your workflow, or are there other pain points in your process that should be addressed first?
kostadina
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Re: How do you make the 3D pipeline less painful?
I'm thinking it's hard to tell whether if you're working for microsoft or nvidia, and what percentage of the trillions invested into generative AI is allocated to marketing
zetheros
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Re: Theoden King of Rohan
Finaly finished! Hope you like end result!
I have more shots on my artstation post: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RKdVkm
drvoseca995
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