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Re: How does a beginner stay encouraged?
I would post some pictures of my attempts, but... I've deleted them >_> I do have a forum post with one piece I've done though, still looking for critiques. @Mark Dygert I'm not really looking for someone to pat me on the back, more so someone to teach me the good habits and encourage me to finish what I start, right now… -
Re: Can a regular guy really break into the industry "by himself"?
Excellent Thread! I find my self asking the same question constantly. Most artists I know are hard on themselves. I don't think the feeling ever truly goes away until one lands a job and holds it for a significant amount of time. I've heard it can take anywhere from 3-5 years in an industry in order to feel comfortable, if… -
Re: 3D hobbyist looking for advice
Useful information so quickly! Thank you! @GCMP Indeed I AM box modelling the head! Though not any more due to the excellent tutorial you sent me. That looks great - much obliged. Thanks also for the quick paintover, makes your point very clearly, shall endevour to do better on this in the future. @pior Which fold are we… -
Issues Exporting Animation Into Marmoset
I'm using Blender to export my object's animation into Marmoset. I've tried baking my object before exporting, using the bake animation feature when exporting an fbx, and I've looked at quite a few different tutorials but nothing seems to work. Everytime I export it, only a certain part of the animation happens and the… -
Welcome to CeleryLand!
Hello PolyCounters, After teaching classes for the last few years I realized that a lot of students still have difficulty connecting the dots when it comes to making a complete environment. For instance they might understand individual lessons like baking normal maps, creating materials, modeling, etc but they don’t feel… -
Starting a project
As most artists know starting a project is the fun part, the excitement of creating fantastic art can sometimes be over whelming. More often than not however projects get abandoned because we just don't like the look of our models before we even finish them. This is surprisingly common for beginners and here is why. Most… -
Texture Guide for 3D artists, Part one: Quick Bakes by Thiago Vidotto
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Procedural Bush Plant in Unreal Engine 4
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a procedural bush plant in Houdini 18. We will start with the generation of the stems whose height depends on the height of the boxes selected as input. The methods used in the tutorial offer full control over the shape of the whole plant and at the same time it keeps a natural… -
Vray Noob. Render time to long any suggestions?
Hi everyone, This is my first time posting here so sorry in advance if I've got this in the wrong spot or am doubling up a question that has already been asked. I'm just looking for some advice regarding Vray render times and also a question about materials. The above image is one of my first Vray renders and as you can… -
Stylized textures practice
Hello Polycount, around 5 days ago, I've started to learn to hand paint stylized textures which is a thing I've wanted to learn for a long time now (since I really love the style) but never really got to it. I thought it was time to start so I started watching a lot of tutorials. I've never drawn textures (or anything…
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