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Re: Anatomy study entirely made on my Ipad
that's actually pretty impressive for ipad. She's leaning too much forward. Wrists are too thin. Pick up a copy of Anatomy for Sculptors. I don't know if the ipad version comes with subtools, but Zbrush is prepackaged with Ryan's ecorche model that you can drag in to compare and reference
zetheros
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Re: Hard Surface Blog: Sci-Fi Processing Station
This is coming along nicely!
I'd love to see some rim/back lighting on the outer meshes. Upper left and upper right seem needlessly dark, and devoid of visual interest. Same with bottom left & right.
I'd love to see some rim/back lighting on the outer meshes. Upper left and upper right seem needlessly dark, and devoid of visual interest. Same with bottom left & right.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025
I finally finished working on my stylized character!
I stopped working on it for a while since I was pretty burnt out but I finally managed to finish it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDU71xFlA90
You can see more in my progress topic here which includes a video of my full process on how I made the character: https://polycount.com/discussion/236231/finished-stylized-character-kid/p1?new=1
I know this place is filled with veteran 3D artists and this may not seem much but I'm pretty proud of this one.
I stopped working on it for a while since I was pretty burnt out but I finally managed to finish it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDU71xFlA90You can see more in my progress topic here which includes a video of my full process on how I made the character: https://polycount.com/discussion/236231/finished-stylized-character-kid/p1?new=1
I know this place is filled with veteran 3D artists and this may not seem much but I'm pretty proud of this one.
BaldTuesdays
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025
Hi everyone, I'm working on a small indie game set in a horror sci-fi climate. Below a WIP of the main character. Thread
kosmoski
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Re: [WIP][UE5.3] Forgotten Waters
You can also use light functions which are more powerful, but shadow casters would probably be easier to setup and control. Could use WPO to add a bit of animation if it doesn't alias too much.
ZacD
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Re: Idea for Feedback on Tracking 3D Content Creation Pipelines
Yes, they are astroturfing. More info: https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2802300/#Comment_2802300myclay said:FWIW: both accounts above joined on August 15 2025.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game Models
Great posts above.
This is still a great watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckOTl2GcS-E
We have more resources here on the technique:
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Subdivision_Surface_Modeling
This is still a great watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckOTl2GcS-EWe have more resources here on the technique:
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Subdivision_Surface_Modeling
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game Models
Hi there @5rettski ,
Your question seems to imply a difference between "then" and "now" ; yet there is nothing special about the screenshots you show. As mentionned above these models were built then the same way they would be built now - the software of choice might differ, but the toolsets and processes are the same, ie building shapes and volumes by editing polygons in space. Anyone can learn the basics of that in about a day with a mentor (been there, done that).
But perhaps you are not so familiar with polygon modeling in general ? You could maybe show examples of models you've built yourself so that we could get an understanding of where you're at. I'd love to understand where this assumption about current day models being any different from old ones could possibly come from.
(And of course sculpting tools being available at the time is largely irrelevant. For instance the first Kong movie coincides with the early releases of Mudbox, but this didn't affect how the base mesh was made - outside of it needing to match the high of course).
Your question seems to imply a difference between "then" and "now" ; yet there is nothing special about the screenshots you show. As mentionned above these models were built then the same way they would be built now - the software of choice might differ, but the toolsets and processes are the same, ie building shapes and volumes by editing polygons in space. Anyone can learn the basics of that in about a day with a mentor (been there, done that).
But perhaps you are not so familiar with polygon modeling in general ? You could maybe show examples of models you've built yourself so that we could get an understanding of where you're at. I'd love to understand where this assumption about current day models being any different from old ones could possibly come from.
(And of course sculpting tools being available at the time is largely irrelevant. For instance the first Kong movie coincides with the early releases of Mudbox, but this didn't affect how the base mesh was made - outside of it needing to match the high of course).
pior
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Re: Idea for Feedback on Tracking 3D Content Creation Pipelines
FWIW: both accounts above joined on August 15 2025.
kostadina said:The idea is a web app that focuses on clarity and ease of use, with features tailored for artists and teams:
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?
uegh a wEb ApP. Negative bonus points if its electron and chrome only X/
please Address this one first, without an answer to that, it makes imo 0 sense to give feedback:
Is it going to be opensource or will there be at least a perpetual license offered?
Is it going to be opensource or will there be at least a perpetual license offered?
subscriptions to your own data and having it locked away is borderline stupid, dangerous and should be boycotted.
myclay
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