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ZBrush symetry not working properly

[{"insert":"Hello, everyone. I've installed ZBrush, it's been a while since I used it and I planned to mess with it a bit and see if I can use it for 2D illustration. I started sculping a few things …
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Alexis MR

something wrong with myhandpainted textures. some wrong colors spawn over time and spread

[{"insert":"I paint in Mudbox. I tried painting in png 8bit, and now TIFF 16 bit floating point. happens with both. guess it must be my file settings that does this. the colors seems to have a proble…
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Mark Skovrup

How do you sum up your years of experience?

[{"insert":"I started working as a 3D artist while I was already in university, but it was not consistent. I'd generally do a few months at a time for periods in which I needed more money, afterwards…
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poopipe

Mesh shading problem [Solved]

[{"insert":"\nHey, \nI have a general shading problem with my mesh. I made the low poly in 3ds Max. \nEverything under 1 smoothing group because there is no hard edge (it's a body of a bow). I tried …
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MomentoDemento

Freelancing Revisions. Are you getting paid for baking and calculation times ?

Hey, I have a bit of trouble with how I should be approaching payment as a freelancer, or generally in projects. Especially when it comes to baking and calculation times for textures or procedur…
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thomasp

Problem with edges in baking

Hi, I've got some nasty problem with my low poly model. Some of the edges on the same plane dont smooth and they show later on the normal map that I'm baking in Marmoset.  Got few of those probl…
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Kanni3d

Problem baking normal map with hard edges

Hello,I'm a beginner, and I have made a wheel in blender, that I would like now to texture in substance painter.This is my low poly, it is about 5k tris. The back of the wheel in wireframeThe bo…
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poopipe

New to 3D modeling, could someone help or maybe point me in the right direction with this project.

Hey, I am trying to make a handheld game console using raspberry pi 4 and I've done the software and hardware part (a lot of soldering and sweat) and now I am stuck on 3D printing my case.I found thi…
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Mink

UE4 Imported collision question.

It bothers me to no end that whenever I import a simple convex primitive as a collision for mesh in ue4, it always manages to mess it up!I even went as far as experiment to see if it'll be better if …
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macoll

Rapid production and indie focused main characters. Will it sell?

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UraniumCM

[WIP] Any Advice on Creating a Game-ready Character in Approx. 1 month?

Current sculpt of a human character (realism). I've got just over 1 month to make this game-ready with textures plus I have other assignments. Is this feasible? I've been working on getting the muscl…
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Temppe

[Fin] Stylized Sword Project

Decided to start a project to create a stylized sword. Gathering reference, block out, sculpt, texture and take into unreal is my planned workflow. I've got a reference/inspiration sheet with a terri…
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atunnard

Troubles with making a candle. (Light and Particles)

I've run across couple of problems while making a candle blueprint.Problem number 1 - Shadows.If I leave "cast shadow" on the candle mesh, then obviously the result is not looking good, as you can se…
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Kligan

I am stuck Zbrush/substance painter

Hello everyone.I will try to explain best I can.So basically I am doing 3d on my free time from about a year I am not so skilled, but also I am not a total noob.I started doing a model of a big doubl…
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Don_Wasyl

How can I model complex electrical props and assemble them together while not knowing their form?

Hello! I'm currently working on a real-time 3D environment, but recently I've been creatively frustrated by my lack of understanding in certain elements. My scene includes many electrical boxes/cable…
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ZacD

About substance painter alphas

Hello all! Recently I came across this GIF in artstation and wanted to know how do you create this type of effectPrimarily how do you assign different materials in each alpha?
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voidseeker0_1

Art portfolio Critique pleasee!!!

Hey guys I'm currently still working on my portfolio but this is what I have so far and I'd be thrilled to hear what you guys have to say! I specialize in environment/props.https://www.artstation.com…
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smealer

Help with First Job Rates

Hi all! 👋I've received an unexpected email from a game developer (of those classic online girly games where you dress Elsa for prom)looking to hire me for 2D graphics work to develop assets for their…
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Larry

[Maya] Help and resources for MASH game-ready foliage workflow

Hi all.I am investigating MASH proceduralism for my game-ready foliage workflow. I am completely new to MASH, but can't really find a tutorial example that covers the things I'm trying to do her…
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Billwrosch

Critique my Character Bust plz

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JeffreyMedeiros

Just for a change... Lets have a topic for a newbie!

Hi all,First of all, I want to apologise for probably asking the same question you've all heard a million times over!I am a blank canvas, completely fresh to the industry and the art world! I have st…
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sacboi

BRDF please help!?!

Hi there, I’m super sorry to bother but I was wondering if someone could maybe help me out with an answer?As part of a project I’m to look into briefly what BRDF is and the difference/comparison it h…
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poopipe

Mari cannot export flattened all layers

Hi guys,Is there anyone here familiar with Mari Foundry?I export my displacement texture, dont know why only the "Base" layer information is there,no other layer texture in the final file.I choose Ex…
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zhuk0v1811

Victorian Environment

Hi,I am new here. I made these assets and put them in the UE4. I am self-taught in a short time and still lack knowledge. Recently I was told that my modelling and design is not commercial and profe…
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LHQ

Blender - Texture Distorted on Import

Hi there,I've had this problem for years now and never found a proper solution to this but some objects textures that are imported look really distorted on Blender for some reason and fine in other s…
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ChristheLancer97

[WIP] Stylized Fantasy scene

Needing some help with the scene. Something is off and I'm not able to figure it out. The cross in the middle is just a scale ref for a character. 
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smealer

How-to bake Transparency Effect in to Diffuse map

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Eric Chadwick

How can I make a simple tileable texture to follow the edges / shape of the 3D model?

Hi all!I'm trying to improve and ease the way I create the textures for my 3D models and as a point of reference, I'm looking to achieve this level of realism:The issue I'm facing right now is that I…
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gnoop

Photocamera critiques please

modelHi and thank you for your reply.What can i do better?Could this model be a game asset?
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Commiesaur

Wallace Sword

Here I share my new project. Please feel free to comment.
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MagicAnton

Marmoset flat backing problem

Marmoset bakes any model flat. I made a sphere with a pattern for the sake of experiment and used a zrmasher, but still the map turns out without details.How to fix it?
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9RUN

Unpaid work as level artist - dillemma

Hello guys, this is my first post on Polycount, so if I posted in wrong forum let me know! I have an issue with the approach of my employer to my workflow as an level artist - some things that I do …
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Eric Chadwick

Need FEEDBACK! Sci-fi pistol

Hello! I need objective feedback. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.Direct me to the right vector.I used blender and substance painterhttps://sketchfab.com/3d-models/sci-fi-pistol-worn-f6b17fb9db0…
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Dethling

Zbrush Wood Surface Damage Help

I'm trying to sculpt some damage into this gun stock but I can't figure out how to get the same look that's in my references. All the tutorials I find online are for either stylized wood or wooden pl…
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Kanni3d

Using Zbrush For Highpoly Detail

I'm trying to get into Zbrush for the first time and I'm wanting to sculpt some detail into a wooden gun stock I'm making. I made the shape of the stock in Maya and I've brought it into Zbrush but I …
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Ruz

First post: I've completed these creature busts, I would like to hear your feedback on it

Hello! I worked on these the past three weeks and now that i'm done with it, I hope to get some feedback on what I could've done to make it better. Anxious for some guidance
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_Alexander_

Substance Painter Curvature Map Errors

Hi everyone, I am currently trying to bake my textures from a highpoly mesh to a lowpoly mesh, and for the most part everything is working fine, but I had noticed these weird sharp points on my textu…
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WarriorN2000

Please Critique My 3D Portfolio (Any Suggestion will Help)

I want to get a job in a bigger gaming company as a 3D artist, but I mostly worked in small companies so I don't know if my artworks are good enough. Let me know what I should change, what I should w…
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Chino1989

Need help with Substance Painter's particle brushes

Hey there!I'm trying to use the "leaks" particle brushes, but I'm having some trouble with it.Firstly this happens:https://i.imgur.com/SXYwoG9.gifWell my brush is not in Uv or texture space, yet it o…
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Montrec_inc

[WIP][Blender]Need help with Allods online logo

I've set a goal wanting to remake this logo in the highest possible fidelity to the original, but I've hit a wall with it and frankly do not know which steps to take to continue my progress.here are …
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JACKJAKE

Need some Rig help. Getting evaluation errors when using Expressions(Maya)(SOLVED)

Hello there everyone! So basically, the TLDR is this: I'm creating a rig for class and on the arm rig we are using a twist Expression on the wrist and forearm joints so that the forearm joint rotates…
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WeatherMan

My first Artwork | Mew

Hey guys, this is my first Artwork. I did this on Krita which I started using 3 days ago. This took me about 5 hours to make. Took a random Google picture as reference and tried to do my ow…
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nE0n1nja

Need Help for Emissive and Opacity map

Hello, i post a message here, because i deeply need help for a marmoset presentation project. For the last couples of months, i finished the modeling of the Eotech L3 holographic scope. I'm pret…
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Tokushima

Help on some modelling

Hi! could I get some help on how to approach this? I start with a smoothed cube, sort of a watered down sphere and then used the multi cut to create the details that i would carve out, sadly the edge…
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lenteja

Is my workflow stupid?

I am making a game that is an ode to zelda, here's a gif:I am currently in the early stages, trying to settle on a workflow that will allow me to smash out maps and environments while achieving certa…
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A_B

[WIP] Stylized bow sculpture help

Hello,I hope you are doing well. I'm modeler and until this time in all my props I made a base mesh in maya and after this I sculpt the details in Zbrush. This time I tried to do a bow completel…
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JulioCruzalta

(Maya) Lattice in Maya 2020 doesn`t work

I do not work lattice, can anyone come across this? Thank you in advance
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sprunghunt

Creating and implementing multiple armor/clothing sets

I'm using Maya and UE4. I need to swap out lots of different clothing items on a single character. I'm not sure the best way to tackle this problem in a way that I can have a huge variety of items wi…
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SuperAdrianna

Poly count for hand grenades?

Hello there, I'm making the low poly of a flashbang asset and I included a simplified interior for the fuze but my poly count is at 6K and I'm wondering if this is acceptable for a first person grena…
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AB3LL1

[XGen] please help

Hello people of polycount, forgive me if this is the wrong way to go about this this is my first time here and I'm finding the visuals today to be very overwhelming. I have a rather odd occurren…
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infinity774

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