The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | November - December (93)
Looks great, congrats! Great job on keeping the updates coming & responding to feedback, the gradual improvement is really fun to see!LeoNexus6 said:Finished it.
Big thanks to everybody!
This is my artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nJWXar
Paxwort
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | November - December (93)
I'm not wildly happy with mine at the moment.
It feels a little too cramped (I think my scale got away from the concept a little) - and I rushed a lot of the texture work, just wanting to get it out of the way. I'm going to give it a couple days' space, then either push on or call it finished.
The initial plan was to bake it all down to game-ready assets, but I just don't have the time or energy, I think.
Paxwort
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Re: Display123 , any thoughts , experience?
Well , I got one today from Amazon. So far the software : "Calibrite Pofiler" doesn''t even work on my w10 laptop . I see just a welcome screen frozen and that's all. Will see what their support would say.
gnoop
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[3ds Max] miauu's Tab Panel
miauu's Tab Panel allows you to organize all of your toolbars into tabs.
What you can do:
What you can do:
- convert existing toolbars into tabs
- create new tabs and easily fill them with action buttons
- rename tabs
- hide and show tabs
- rearrange tabs
- convert tabs to toolbars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkB48n2wgWo
miauu
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Re: Certain "Homemade" matcaps make ZBrush very unstable and crash often
Follow up to previous post.
Many thanks to pxgeek for the suggestions that basically made it possible for me to render my ZBrush sculpts using the matcaps I had created for the job.
By removing the alpha that was in the Surface Bump Texture, setting Canvas Bump Scale from 100 to 1 and lowering my bump from 0.6 to 0.02, the matcaps behaved like any other matcap and all was good with the world.
Many thanks to pxgeek for the suggestions that basically made it possible for me to render my ZBrush sculpts using the matcaps I had created for the job.
By removing the alpha that was in the Surface Bump Texture, setting Canvas Bump Scale from 100 to 1 and lowering my bump from 0.6 to 0.02, the matcaps behaved like any other matcap and all was good with the world.
Erwin0265
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Re: Kevin Johnstone has passed
A message from his wife via Kevin's LinkedIn account:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-johnstone-3051551_precious-johnstone-wife-memorial-service-activity-7271955142432669696-r5XL
Precious Johnstone -Wife
Memorial Service is set for 1/11/25 11 am -2 pm
900 Bass Lake Road
@ Bass Lake
If you cannot make it and want to share photos / short message for me (family) about your time with Kevin send them to me via email no later than 1/4/25.
Preciouspearl.sieduke@gmail.com
[mod note: phone number redacted; DM if you’d like it]
Thank you all for your shared stories here about my love, he loved ART and the ability to share his love of gaming and the craft itself with you all. Let's celebrate his life with fond memories and pictures.
Thank you greatly
Precious-Pearl Johnstone
Memorial Service is set for 1/11/25 11 am -2 pm
900 Bass Lake Road
@ Bass Lake
If you cannot make it and want to share photos / short message for me (family) about your time with Kevin send them to me via email no later than 1/4/25.
Preciouspearl.sieduke@gmail.com
[mod note: phone number redacted; DM if you’d like it]
Thank you all for your shared stories here about my love, he loved ART and the ability to share his love of gaming and the craft itself with you all. Let's celebrate his life with fond memories and pictures.
Thank you greatly
Precious-Pearl Johnstone
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-johnstone-3051551_precious-johnstone-wife-memorial-service-activity-7271955142432669696-r5XL
Eric Chadwick
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | November - December (93)
@LeoNexus6 Glad you found it useful 
@Sarp Cool that you're joining the challenge. I think each of the press designs has quite the distinct personality, so I'm not sure how successful one can mix parts without creating something new entirely. But hey, if that's the goal you're setting yourself, I'm curious to see what you come up with You could explore options in 2d, painting over renders of your current state. Currently I think the overall shapes are a bit too straight/rational and edges too sharp, deforming some and adding bevels would help to make it more exaggerated. Keep it up!
@GroovyDaft0I think the scene is coming along nicely
In my opinion the blocky nature is also somewhat present in the original concept. You could divert from it in order to make it more comfy/lived in, for example adding an old, worn chair (leather perhaps) and a steaming cup would bring some more cozyness and contrast to the scene. While this changes the narrative somewhat (not as cold anymore), I think fleshing out the place (who lives there and what do they do) it's part of the fun and ultimately helps the 3D environment to exist on its own. Much success going forward.
@Sarp Cool that you're joining the challenge. I think each of the press designs has quite the distinct personality, so I'm not sure how successful one can mix parts without creating something new entirely. But hey, if that's the goal you're setting yourself, I'm curious to see what you come up with
You could explore options in 2d, painting over renders of your current state. Currently I think the overall shapes are a bit too straight/rational and edges too sharp, deforming some and adding bevels would help to make it more exaggerated. Keep it up!@GroovyDaft0I think the scene is coming along nicely
In my opinion the blocky nature is also somewhat present in the original concept. You could divert from it in order to make it more comfy/lived in, for example adding an old, worn chair (leather perhaps) and a steaming cup would bring some more cozyness and contrast to the scene. While this changes the narrative somewhat (not as cold anymore), I think fleshing out the place (who lives there and what do they do) it's part of the fun and ultimately helps the 3D environment to exist on its own. Much success going forward.
Fabi_G
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
I was low key hoping for more opportunities to post memes but I guess we can close the thread and destroy my dreams.
Nikhi, in the future, maybe run your posts through chatGPT and ask it to provide tl;dr versions of your comments. They can be really long and I avoid reading them because they're super scattered and lengthy.
Ashervisalis
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Re: Is it harder to sculpt women than sculpting men?
I think that what makes sculpting a person more or less difficult generally has to do with the goals of the sculptor.
For instance, let's consider sculpting a game character with simple hero anatomy in an A pose with stylization. That approach is going to be basically the same for male and female characters, in my opinion. IMO the female characters might have a little more subtlety to the forms, whereas people generally like to see highly defined musculature with the male charactes. This essentially means you have hundreds of anatomical landmarks to work off of on a male character, as opposed to maybe 50-60 in between subtle form changes with the female character. For some people, the former is more difficult, for others, the latter. The catch is that a lot of game artists take this way too far and the male characters end up looking like a conglomerate of pieces of bubble wrap of varying sizes while the female characters look like they're made out of noodles. So, y'know, there are checks and balances even in this anatomical use case. The point is that due to the nature of an A pose and game art, neither is really more challenging than the other, but they are different enough so that you may find yourself gravitating towards one or the other in your personal work.
That being said, if you want to take a more fine arts approach and you're sculpting nude models in complex poses, then I would say that the difficulty actually evens out between male and female and the challenge becomes more than a technicality, but rather a test of artistic insight for capturing emotion. For instance, is it more difficult to sculpt a woman in a dynamic pose that captures a feeling of the sublime than a male? No, probably not. That's because capturing the feeling of the sublime is insanely difficult in both instances.
For instance, let's consider sculpting a game character with simple hero anatomy in an A pose with stylization. That approach is going to be basically the same for male and female characters, in my opinion. IMO the female characters might have a little more subtlety to the forms, whereas people generally like to see highly defined musculature with the male charactes. This essentially means you have hundreds of anatomical landmarks to work off of on a male character, as opposed to maybe 50-60 in between subtle form changes with the female character. For some people, the former is more difficult, for others, the latter. The catch is that a lot of game artists take this way too far and the male characters end up looking like a conglomerate of pieces of bubble wrap of varying sizes while the female characters look like they're made out of noodles. So, y'know, there are checks and balances even in this anatomical use case. The point is that due to the nature of an A pose and game art, neither is really more challenging than the other, but they are different enough so that you may find yourself gravitating towards one or the other in your personal work.
That being said, if you want to take a more fine arts approach and you're sculpting nude models in complex poses, then I would say that the difficulty actually evens out between male and female and the challenge becomes more than a technicality, but rather a test of artistic insight for capturing emotion. For instance, is it more difficult to sculpt a woman in a dynamic pose that captures a feeling of the sublime than a male? No, probably not. That's because capturing the feeling of the sublime is insanely difficult in both instances.
MagicMeister
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