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Re: Need advice: How to get unstuck in 3D modeling
Hey,
Stop watching tutorials and start to get things done. No matter how cruel it turns out, finish it with your current skills and knowledge. Then analyze how you can improve next time. This work, no matter how imperfect it is, also allows you to get feedback.
Work in smaller chunks that are manageable for you. Set lower goals to lower your frustration. Also accept that you are years away from being a useful 3d artist. One year is nothing. You still scratch at the surface.
Separate the creative part from the crafting part. This is vital. It's one thing to model a ship along some blueprints and concepts. And a completely different task to create this blueprints and concepts. And the worst that you can do is to change the concepts at your way. So first define the goal, then do the technical part.
And learn to analyze what exactly "does not work". "Does not work" is no task that one can solve. Lighting is too dark, the shape does not fit, the topology behaves bad at deformation etc. is.
Good luck
Stop watching tutorials and start to get things done. No matter how cruel it turns out, finish it with your current skills and knowledge. Then analyze how you can improve next time. This work, no matter how imperfect it is, also allows you to get feedback.
Work in smaller chunks that are manageable for you. Set lower goals to lower your frustration. Also accept that you are years away from being a useful 3d artist. One year is nothing. You still scratch at the surface.
Separate the creative part from the crafting part. This is vital. It's one thing to model a ship along some blueprints and concepts. And a completely different task to create this blueprints and concepts. And the worst that you can do is to change the concepts at your way. So first define the goal, then do the technical part.
And learn to analyze what exactly "does not work". "Does not work" is no task that one can solve. Lighting is too dark, the shape does not fit, the topology behaves bad at deformation etc. is.
Good luck
Tiles
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | November - December (93)
Note: Sorry if this post is somewhat duplicated, for some reason it didn't post and disappeared! Not sure if the original post will reappear in the future.
Hi all! This is my 2nd attempt at doing as art challenge, and I'll be creating a 3D environment in Unreal Engine 5 based on Marius Villard's "Work and Live There //" 
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/04g0wK
I first started with creating a quick build of the scene in Blender, to allow me to get my scaling correct, and get the basic form of the main objects in the scene. Most assets have been modeled and UV Unwrapped during my workflow, however there are a few small areas such as the carpet where I am aware I can further optimize the topology by reducing unnecessary edge loops:
I then imported these assets into Unreal Engine 5 with basic world lighting:
My future tasks are:
- Create the remaining main assets within the scene, such as the desk monitors, books and boxes that litter the floor and shelves.
- Improve the lighting in the scene, modifying the current lighting, and adding new light sources into the scene to give a night light impression. (This requires the monitors to be modeled so that I can provide the glow in the corner).
- Begin texturing the main objects in the scene.
Any and all feedback is appreciated!
DaFluke
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Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.
There are many problems the with the entertainment industry as it stands
now and I feel it's difficult and fuzzy to point to any one area and
shout THERE"S THE PROBLEM!
It's simple. Financial clout has crapped all over the copyrights of creatives. It's that basic. No amount of legal spin smoke screens can justify what has been allowed to happen. Its flat out reprehensible theft on an industrial scale.
kanga
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2024
Just finished a big Unreal 5 environment, I am really proud of this one!! Check the video out on my Artstation I had a great time going through old Italian songs on the internet archive. Ciaoooo
ArtStation - Venice, Sarah St Laurent
ArtStation - Venice, Sarah St Laurent
kaspurr
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Re: basic knowledge help
Not to disagree, but this type of error is because of bad baking technique, not because the low poly needs bevels. Baking with a soft cage should eliminate this kind of error.kanga said:Might be dated info so take it with a grain.For game art bevels are important when it comes to baking textures. Rounding off corners and edges is important because no edge in nature is a pixel sharp. Even a knife edge is round and reflects light. If corners are left square they look unnatural and artificial and they bake badly where you will get this effect.To fix, bevel edges.
What I would say is, if you have the polygon budget, and the silhouette meaningfully benefits from beveling a certain edge, you may as well bevel it.
It's always a balancing game though, because sometimes those polygons would be more beneficial elsewhere. There are all kinds of reasons to bevel an edge or not, but most you'll learn through experience, as they really depend on context.
Joopson
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Re: Need help understanding topology.
@FrankPolygon
Wow, your posts were actually REALLY helpful. It finally "clicked" with me what I have to do.
This shape would've been a struggle for me before:
Huge thanks, again!
Wow, your posts were actually REALLY helpful. It finally "clicked" with me what I have to do.
This shape would've been a struggle for me before:
Huge thanks, again!
Kligan
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