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Maya arnold rendering character newbie question - where to plug in maps?

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi guys,"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"im new to maya when it comes to rendering with arnold and it's shaders."}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Where the …
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oglu

[UE] Autumn Farm

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hello there,"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I have been dedicating my free time to working on this project, and it has been a great learning experience for me.…
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marxphua

UV issue with no reason in sight.

As you can see here I UV mapped it fairly well and there is no UV overlap of the highlighted UV islands. But when baked in substance painter and in Marmoset these issues appear.The issues circled are…
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sacboi

Bruno's Improvement Thread: CC wanted

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi, "}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Just recently got back into drawing daily. Been focusing on drawing people. This is the first finished piece I have done in…
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BrunoPuntzJonze

[Finished] Armored Police Vehicle

[{"insert":"I did this model months ago in about a week but then got busy with other projects and completely forgot about it.\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5…
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Mr_Shrek

Louis Bloom - Nightcrawler - Game ready character

[{"insert":"I finished this game character I've been working on.\nArtstation link: www.artstation.com\/artwork\/LRRKeR\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\…
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EmanueleBotta

Creating Low Poly assets

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi all, I've been following a udemy course on environment creation and one of the assets is a bookshelf seen below and for the low poly he just adds a 1 segment beve…
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Fabi_G

Would like some Portfolio Feedback/ Criticisms

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Been working in somewhat of a vacum for a while now, and would just like to ask and get some feedback on some pieces I've worked on recently, for context I'm trying …
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Siege134

[WIP] The Royal Alien

Unfortunately did not finish the Artstation challenge. Knew it was longshot with my experience level but really want to see this through so wanted to make a post here and will post updates as it goes…
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Enrique90

ZBrush to Substance FBX size problems

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I may never know the answer to this, but I'm stubborn and can't step away from a mystery."}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I have a situation where I have a low …
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sprunghunt

3ds Max & Maya Updates to USD

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Autodesk has released the 2024 line of products including 3ds Max and Maya. My role these days is pushing USD into both products and various workflows. Although USD …
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shawnolson

Sketchbook: JohannesAg

Finally decided to start posting stuff, here is a scene I've been playing around with for the past week in unreal.Critiques are very welcome
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JohannesAg

[HELP] Please help me complete a scene (sculpting/texturing/lighting assets)

[{"insert":"Hello everybody. I am working on a scene based on the image below, from Alexandre Dibone ("},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexandrediboine\/"},"insert":"https:\/\/w…
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iam717

2D concept artist|Available for work

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hello, my name is Kotunov Julian.\r\n"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Time zone: GMT+3, Kiyv"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I am a concept artist.\r\n"}]}…
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Nebulous

[WIP][UE5] Could use some feedback how to push my stylized enviroment to the next level

[{"insert":"Hi there!\n\nI've been learning UE5 during my free time, coming from years of using Unity, as I am slowly transitioning towards becoming an environment artist rather than just a 3D artist…
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HalfAsleepArtist

Knald - Master Thread

Knald 1.2.1 Released!New build ahoy! Since the 1.2.0 release of Knald we have been hard at work fixing a few bugs and adding a few miscellaneous under the hood improvements. Time for the Knald …
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iam717

Does anyone know how rain drops on a car windshield is done in modern games ?

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I did it once with UV shifting textures and flow maps but more I see in games like drive club of forza it looks much more complicated . I would be apprec…
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gnoop

Layer Recording is adding Polypaint

Hey guys, this is a relatively minor issue but one whose cause I can't seem to discover. When turning layer recording on or off in zbrush my subtool is filled with black polypaint and "colorize"…
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Acute

Sketchbook: rioosart

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I'm extremely new in this field (really started learning 3D in February 2023) but I'm having the best time learning new things so I'm making this sketchbook topic to…
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rioosart

MODO Action Centre far away from item

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi all,"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I'm trying to use the Drop and Align tool but am unable to because the \naction centres of the items i am dragging are v…
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braidedmat

3dsmax Quick way to collapse entire loop to adjacent loop?

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"…as opposed to collapsing to the average distance?"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I can't simply remove the loop since that will also delete the UVs."}]},{"typ…
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pxgeek

Project: Infinitesimals - An Indie Game Art Development Log

Hello Everyone and welcome to the Infinitesimals - Indie game art log. I'm making an Indie game and this thread will be the dumping ground for the work in progress artwork for the game. It's in th…
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macoll

Need advice on online studying while working full time.

[{"insert":"Hey guys I need some advice from you guys.\nSo I'm working as a full time 3D Artist in games here in Pakistan and I have got this opportunity to study 3D Environment art course online (th…
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Frankythebeast

Composer looking for projects

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi, I'm a freelance Composer and song writer, looking to build up my portfolio of work. I have a background in writing music for theatre and understand the importanc…
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ccraggs

(Critic welcome) Azir from League of Legends fan art

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi everyone, I'm new to this site. I want to share with you the last art I did. I'm still learning, so I don't mind criticism. Thank you!"}]},{"type":"rich_embed_car…
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Nebulous

For evaluation: my project on bringing photos to life

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"There was an idea: to create a service that allows you to play a video when you point your phone camera at a photo. The implementation turned out to be successful. N…
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Kragva25

Smoothing groups from max to zbrush

Been searching around for a solution but havent found out how to get the smoothing groups out of 3dsMax and into zbrush. Even checking the option to export the smoothing groups as part of file doesn'…
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iam717

Texture in blender

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Nikkitten

Modo the action center...or iam gonna kill someone

Ok here is my problem. I dropped an item (not centered which should not be a problem...but def is for modo) and select it and want to upscale it uniformly. Problem: the Gizmo for Auto Center stays at…
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braidedmat

Some basic lightmap questions…

[{"insert":"\nsome questions regarding using both dynamic and static lighting. working on a level that uses dynamic outdoor lighting, but anything indoors is set to static lighting.\nDoes a lightmap …
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poopipe

Help!!zbrush spotlight alpha error

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"hey, guys,"}]},{"type":"rich_embed_card","children":[{"text":""}],"dataSourceType":"image","url":"https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/GP8EUN3ORG18/screenshot-28226-…
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_Ranii_

[Solved][3dsMax] Transfer vertex normals from another object.

[{"insert":"I need normals of border vertices on object A to match normals of vertices in same coordinates of object B, basically to fix the seam without affecting object B.\nTried noors normal thief…
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Klunk

First sculpt : corrections or critiques needed

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EmyC

2D Character Artist & Animator-- Reskin Game and Start on New Project (2.5D)

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"My main focus would be to do a small project, reskin an old game to evaluate the services, then potentially do 2 bigger games. \n"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text"…
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sgunther

2D Environment Artist -- Reskin Game and Start on New Project (2.5D)

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"My main focus would be to do a small project, reskin an old game to evaluate the services, then potentially do 2 bigger games.\n"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":…
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sgunther

Unreal 5 Packaging Error - Wise Plugin

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi all,"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"My brother and I are working on a small project, he is a musician and taking care of coding a few levels but when it com…
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LeonardoScazzocchio

MAYA Quad draw mesh distance

[{"insert":"Henlo and greetings...\n\nI tried to retopo model imported as decimated mesh from zbrush but something strange happens in maya. Someone told me i need to set up mesh distance in quad draw…
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Benjammin

Sticky 2D ConceptBank - Post your concepts to model

Hello all!. 2D Artists - I invite you to post your concepts in this thread. If you're anything like me, you have big motivation but spend too long looking for a concept, only to be denied permiss…
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shevelevandrew

Please give a feedback and advice for newbie 3d artist

[{"insert":"Hello, my name is Mikhail, i am a newbie self-taught 3d artist, i am 33 years old and recently discovered that 3d is my passion, and thing that i want to do for a living. \nFor now i am s…
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Fabi_G

I am thinking of becoming a 3d Interior / exterior visualizer, need advise.

Hello everyone!So i just graduated as 3d artist and i am having a hard time (as a lot of people as i can see) deciding on which industry should i focus. I am not interesting working as an animator or…
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studio2a3d

3D Character Artist - Available

My name is Victor SantosBorn in São Paulo (Brazil), I'm a Character Artist and 3DSculptorI started my career working with 3D artist for advertising studiosI worked in several areas such as, Advertisi…
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Victor_Santos

Moving uv's to 0-1 space in 3DS Max

Currently have a problem with uvs inside 3ds Max when importing models made and textured inside google sketchup. The problem with sketchup is that it does not keep uv position centered to the o-1 ti…
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wildrun

[Full-Time, Onsite/Remote] Art Director – 3rd person Action shooter – Unreal Engine (PC, Xbox, PS5)

[{"insert":"EQ-Games (www.eq-games.com) has expanded to Midtown Atlanta and is looking for an experienced Art Director to help lead the development of a visual style and identity for our upcoming tit…
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eqgames

Material/Color picker?

Is an interactive color or material picking tool on the roadmap for the texturing suite? Unless it's already there, but I haven't seen it mentioned and there isn't a "tool" for it right now, so I tho…
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BagelHero

Is it possible to merge smooth motions into a static mesh? (like low exposure photos of dancers)

[{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/8HWUKP3RNK9J\/image.png","name":"image.png","type":"image\/png","size":214309,"width":640,"height":640,"displayS…
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sprunghunt

[WIP][UE4] Conscious (A story made in UE4)

Hello! So I Haven't posted in a while here but I want to showcase my project with the community, friends and colleagues. I'm working (solo) on a story project in my spare time (which I have…
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JUSTINJAGER

RSI from 3d modeling / Wacom tablet advice

Hi, I've been doing 3d modeling for a while now in my spare time and I have a real problem with RSI. The nature of 3d modeling using Maya and Zbrush and painting textures in Photoshop naturally means…
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Leinad

Lead during preproduction - what to expect?

[{"insert":"Hey. So I was a senior artist for a few years just making the art and worked on a project from mid-base release all the way through dlc (still on the project). I got promoted mid way th…
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poopipe

UE5 Bones Creation for Control Rig

[{"insert":"Hello there,\nIs anybody can help me to understand how to create my own skeleton for mesh for future creation of control rig to use it to animate a character in sequencer? I know about Mi…
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sprunghunt

Giants of Valoran

[{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/KC4WPG9VSUY9\/markcarier-leagueoflegendsmmo-fan-art-unreal-engine-finalrender-01.png","name":"MarkCarier_Leagueo…
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markcarier25

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