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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
I don't even know if I know what the thread is about anymore. All I'll say is that these insane videos you linked melted my brain when I was 16, I grew out of it in one year. Now I'm trans and I don't care what people look like or call themselves and, tbh, I'm happier than when I was 16.
Melomad
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (92)
Wanted some nice prop work for my portfolio, so I had a go at this. I'm sorry I don't have progress pics, I kinda just knocked it out in a productive haze.
For a lot of the little details, I experimented with a transferred-normals decal-ish approach that Christopher3D
recently featured on his channel, I have to say it works pretty well.
Especially for the little ridges in the handles - it would have been a mess to build them into the mesh, and the alternative was to do it entirely in normals (requiring further tedious materials work).
Paxwort
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (92)
Hey, first time posting and doing this challenge, wanted to start off smaller with the prop.
did a block-out trying to work out all the proportions, I banged my head against fSpy as that has helped before but I just couldn't figure it out for this one, ended up just doing it by eye, it seems a little tall but I think I got it fairly close
did a block-out trying to work out all the proportions, I banged my head against fSpy as that has helped before but I just couldn't figure it out for this one, ended up just doing it by eye, it seems a little tall but I think I got it fairly close
Vixen98
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (92)
@Pep_mepla Im not going outside blender. Small progress with bakes/little bit of painting and nicer render.
riceart
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
deep fake an actor over a video isn't the same as a real time video game character
the dorks who make these sorts of videos (can you imagine putting such time into that) have probably spent more time thinking about the character than the designers did
i bet they cast an actress and then did the best they could to match her within the budget they had and within the confines of a video game, not a deep fake overlay of a video
if the designers spent as much time considering the cleftiness of her chin as much as the biggest losers on the internet do, the game would have never released at all.
if you click those videos it sets your youtube algorithm on a track towards andrew tate. i think this tells you everything that you need to know about the situation.
also be aware, if you fuck up a big thing then people look at everything you do. So, if the game launches with shit performance or bad gameplay or too much greedy monetization, then all the losers pick apart the meaningless details. Like chins and stuff like that. In an open world ubisoft game.
IMO i dont see how they could cast a better lead character, she seems perfect to me.
if the model was overworked it would likely be because people were arguing over stupid shit like how hot or not hot she is and changing things too many times. It really doesn't make a difference. If the game is fun people will love her. If it game sucks they'll make lengthy videos discussing why the pockets on her jacket are incorrect and why her hair moves in an unrealistic way.
Can make the internet a smarter place or make a dumber place. all the videos posted here seem to be make it dumber to me.
the dorks who make these sorts of videos (can you imagine putting such time into that) have probably spent more time thinking about the character than the designers did
i bet they cast an actress and then did the best they could to match her within the budget they had and within the confines of a video game, not a deep fake overlay of a video
if the designers spent as much time considering the cleftiness of her chin as much as the biggest losers on the internet do, the game would have never released at all.
if you click those videos it sets your youtube algorithm on a track towards andrew tate. i think this tells you everything that you need to know about the situation.
also be aware, if you fuck up a big thing then people look at everything you do. So, if the game launches with shit performance or bad gameplay or too much greedy monetization, then all the losers pick apart the meaningless details. Like chins and stuff like that. In an open world ubisoft game.
IMO i dont see how they could cast a better lead character, she seems perfect to me.
if the model was overworked it would likely be because people were arguing over stupid shit like how hot or not hot she is and changing things too many times. It really doesn't make a difference. If the game is fun people will love her. If it game sucks they'll make lengthy videos discussing why the pockets on her jacket are incorrect and why her hair moves in an unrealistic way.
Can make the internet a smarter place or make a dumber place. all the videos posted here seem to be make it dumber to me.
Alex_J
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (92)
kwagner said:I need some stylized stuff in my portfolio, so I started a blockout of the prop to get some of the main shapes to the scale of the concept
The scale looks good to me! Will you use more polymodeling before sculpting the details, or will you go directly to zbrush after this?
jeju said:Hello! This is my first post/time participating in this since I started 3D relatively recently. I decided to try the hardsurface prop with a blockout to try and figure out how I'll construct it. I'm not quite sure about the bottom trim and wheels, and the bottom drawer with the canisters seem to be smaller at an angle. Will figure that out later
Maybe you can use Fspy to get the exact camera angle used by the concept artist, that has helped me more than once when they have very aggresive focal lengths and the objects look very distorted, like the cannister you mentioned.
riceart said:Hi, barrow blocked/sculpted. Good luck all.
Love the sculpt! Did you model the golden details, or used an IMM brush? Those types of details always give me headaches.
Anddddd...
This is my blockout so far of the stylized environment. I think the proportions are more or less correct, so now I'm going to play a little with the lighting before moving to the more detailed modeling.
Pep_mepla
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2024
Ok! well was less painful than I'd originally thought, anyway completed the bevel shader baking series for each separate element, a fair way to go yet however I think there's a glimmer of light at the end of that ever-loving tunnel 
sacboi
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
This is all so predictable, the "raising concerns", "just trying to have discussions", the "haha, I was just a joke guys!". In fact this topic has been so humorous that this is the second time it's been made the topic of a thread by the same person! So laugher, much funny, wow! In all seriousness... no one laughed, no one found it funny
In all honesty dude, just stop, these talking in circles and pontificating are doing you no favors. All of these talking points are the exact same ones reactionary use. Which when they quack like a duck, and walk like a duck, I'm going to call them out as ducks. You may not be walking like one now, but you're definitely quacking like one. Either this makes you a useful drone where you'll be on whatever next culture war thing the reactionaries point at, or you genuinely believe this stuff but are trying to hide it. Quacking like a duck, still makes you a duck all the same.
This is the flavor of the week, the current point of outrage. No one who is in dev takes this outrage seriously, because here is the thing: even if you bend and do exactly what the reactionaries say... they will still find something to complain about, because once you're on that emotional spiral, it just keeps on wanting to be fed. It has already happened to a game that chuds loved and made a culture war out of, until they found something they didn't like and created a petition around it.
I may not care about Star Wars all that much, or this game; however I do care about reactionary sentiment leaking into the game dev space, potentially pushing people out, stifling accessibility and creativity for everyone. A unsolicited piece of professional advice, if you keep going down this rabbit-hole, it will make you, at minimum, unpleasant to work with as it seeps into all parts of your life (it's already apparent in some of your other threads). If that does happen, you will have no one but yourself to blame as we all tried to warn you.
If you want to get yourself out of this loop, stop watching reactionary content, go outside, learn new hobbies, play with your pets, take an anatomy course, focus on your art, etc. Maybe also understand how to deprogram yourself and what kind of tactics are used to draw you in... because yes, it can happen to anyone. Recommended playlists:
I think this thread has run it's course
In all honesty dude, just stop, these talking in circles and pontificating are doing you no favors. All of these talking points are the exact same ones reactionary use. Which when they quack like a duck, and walk like a duck, I'm going to call them out as ducks. You may not be walking like one now, but you're definitely quacking like one. Either this makes you a useful drone where you'll be on whatever next culture war thing the reactionaries point at, or you genuinely believe this stuff but are trying to hide it. Quacking like a duck, still makes you a duck all the same.
Did you also know, that everything you read on the internet is not completely true? How many of 450K signatures are bots, dupes to inflate numbers? How many bought the game anyway for the "haha funny memes?" because as we all know, the gaming community is great at sticking to boycotts (This is sarcasm, they aren't). Hatred is not the death of a thing, apathy is. Hatred is still really caring about a thing, just in a negative way and it is addictive. I personally do not care about this game and had no interest. I didn't need to sign a dumb petition, all I had to do was not buy it and play games I'm actually interested in instead, it's literally that easy.
This is the flavor of the week, the current point of outrage. No one who is in dev takes this outrage seriously, because here is the thing: even if you bend and do exactly what the reactionaries say... they will still find something to complain about, because once you're on that emotional spiral, it just keeps on wanting to be fed. It has already happened to a game that chuds loved and made a culture war out of, until they found something they didn't like and created a petition around it.
I may not care about Star Wars all that much, or this game; however I do care about reactionary sentiment leaking into the game dev space, potentially pushing people out, stifling accessibility and creativity for everyone. A unsolicited piece of professional advice, if you keep going down this rabbit-hole, it will make you, at minimum, unpleasant to work with as it seeps into all parts of your life (it's already apparent in some of your other threads). If that does happen, you will have no one but yourself to blame as we all tried to warn you.
If you want to get yourself out of this loop, stop watching reactionary content, go outside, learn new hobbies, play with your pets, take an anatomy course, focus on your art, etc. Maybe also understand how to deprogram yourself and what kind of tactics are used to draw you in... because yes, it can happen to anyone. Recommended playlists:
I think this thread has run it's course
Alemja
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (92)
Hello! This is my first post/time participating in this since I started 3D relatively recently. I decided to try the hardsurface prop with a blockout to try and figure out how I'll construct it. I'm not quite sure about the bottom trim and wheels, and the bottom drawer with the canisters seem to be smaller at an angle. Will figure that out later
jeju
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