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It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025
can't type outside of quoting if quoting with no words beforehand.
Joopson said:Working on my first real stylized project-- at the stage where I'm struggling about where to go, but here's what it is thus far. (Based on a concept by Vahid Dousti)
thread? i'd like to see those amazing colors inside the 3d render, that would be a challenge i think and would look so baws.("boss")
More can be done like beveling a lot of areas like the cloth(stitching) and wood-panelings (extruded).
Where to take it? :
What you might be able to do is take from alternative conceptual designs and merge the two crediting two concept artist instead of one with the 1 being more noted since it started the project. Your choice, looks great if you can achieve the entire look i think. Edit: conceptual designer has more of a similar theme, merge those other renders/concepts.
iam717
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025
@ Joopson I just think it needs more areas of interest, looks a little bit diffuse right now. maybe zoom in more on the actual buildings as the foreground is not as interesting, but maybe add some stones , rocks etc
the key lock things are quite cool, but they are hidden in shadow .
as @iam717 mentioned , needs more bevels to catch the light
Ruz
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025
The mech im currently working on, i tried to post update weekly, Striker Zero by Hyung Woo Kim
https://polycount.com/discussion/235951/striker-zero-wip#latest
https://polycount.com/discussion/235951/striker-zero-wip#latest
np1094
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | January - February (94)
ATaylor96 said:Quick progress update, haven't managed to get too much done this week but I have been slowly refining the high poly model. Mostly cutting out shapes so things sit nicely in place and making sure everything looks good with a higher subdivision.
This is my favourite so far, beautiful presentation. All these models have turned out great so far, awesome entries
Torch
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Re: Sketchbook: David Cruz
Can considered this a limb connection exercise, i really tried and i think it looks natural, tried connecting it to parts like the would be upper location for the tail bone and the general "wings on a Human skeleton guide" floating around by concept artists.
Lots more to do still, made this a project for as long as i could do it, we will have to see whats cooking in the bg round us. Otherwise will update when i can: okay better.
oh yeah c&c if anyone wants to, either way good bad eh, learning is learning.
iam717
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Re: [WIP] Trench Shrine - UE5 Scene
For next time since you already made the piles, looks like maya?
Is there a similar copy option in maya as in 3dsmax where you can clone an object and instance it so that you can then "edit", the "original" mesh and also be editing the entire pile so that, this situation you speak of with the "ugly-unoptimized meshes", are no longer an issue at the end of the project.
Where you can then edit that one mesh and have it sort out the pile meshes and you can then have the best of both worlds and have the nice looking optimized wires/u.v.'s also?
Edit: forgot to mention
For max i found a script that replaces meshes, so if you desired to preform this technique you could if maya have a replace meshes option and then you can preform this in your current scene, the script has position constraints on axis also, so it would face correctly the separate (replaced) meshes. So script spot or similar scripting location for maya might come in handy for you.
Its what I've been fiddling with lately, the scyla nades/exhaust nozzles are doing this in that project. (I think its worth getting used to when the situation arises for anyone, if they haven't already, you could also then if you want unique uv's move the uv's to the side and texture some completely differently "making them unique" and even edit to be a single object and have different things like dmg,ect..)
Only issue I've found is if you do not continue with the projects, which utilize this "technique", can become an issue in remembering what you did last, if you put it on the back burner for a bit. 
Looks neat otherwise, i appreciated the animated gif.
iam717
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Re: [WIP] Trench Shrine - UE5 Scene
Next I moved onto making some sand bags, just to get the general elements of the scene in place
I initially planned on sculpting these so I can get a little bit more details since in the reference image there's quite a few stacked on top of each other both around the shrine and on top of it. I was thinking to potentially make the low poly meshes, apply physics to them, make some mounds and then touch them up in Zbrush.
I ended up playing with the simulations a bit more and decided to maybe do the bigger piles later on and just keep these as "low polys" for now.
Hurts me to see so many unoptimized meshes, but hey it's just for show and it's not actually going into a game, and I need to live with the idea haha
I initially planned on sculpting these so I can get a little bit more details since in the reference image there's quite a few stacked on top of each other both around the shrine and on top of it. I was thinking to potentially make the low poly meshes, apply physics to them, make some mounds and then touch them up in Zbrush.
I ended up playing with the simulations a bit more and decided to maybe do the bigger piles later on and just keep these as "low polys" for now.
Hurts me to see so many unoptimized meshes, but hey it's just for show and it's not actually going into a game, and I need to live with the idea haha
Tul_
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Re: Flaoting Geo normal map bake warped?
I dont like this approach tbh.Noren said:You could also try combining two bakes. Also, if the outer hull is supposed to show up in the normals from the front, make sure to adjust the lowpoly/cage accordingly.
ignoring the fact it's a hack.. if you're working with others it obfuscates the process used to create a piece of content and that can cause confusion for someone revisiting it later.
Not a problem if you're working independently on a portfolio piece of course.
The solutions offered - disabling averaged normals. skewmapping in toolbag,or simply painting the detail on (probably what I'd do in this case) are all preferable IMO
poopipe
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Re: Does anybody know a soft like Photoshop but working with material channels ?
Thanks iam717 probably a time for one more closer look for Krita. Need something I could spend seconds for simple like 2x2 tasks instead of puzzles of Adobe products when you need a while to figure out how the heck did you do it month ago and what slider adjusted what.
gnoop
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Re: Fan Art Striker Zero by Hyung Woo Kim - Finished
More body works, clean up, refine the design of the back, time to add some color so it isn't as boring to look at
np1094
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