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21. Importance of grooming a 3d character if want to get into the industry?

    

    Topic by focus_method · Mar 2021 · Home› Career & Education

    Hi, how much is important for a companies to see grooming skills of a 3d character artist? and i assume they prefer haircards grooming? i see a lot of professional work on artstation but those characters are assembled by various artists. But i guess that's the case when you already get into a company/industry. But what if…

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22. Do i have to do grooming to be a candidate for 3d character artist job ?

    

    Topic by focus_method · Dec 2021 · Home› Career & Education

    Hi, i find myself struggling trying to do grooming of the characters , also xgen is buggy af. Trying to make realistic hairs with haircards is pure hell. Is it ok if i avoid this part on the character? Do i need to learn grooming in order to be a candidate for 3d character artist job ?

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23. Baking Interactive Groom to Texture (Maya 2018)

    

    

    Topic by CB_Productions · Nov 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

    Hey, quick question since I couldn't figure this out. I have an interactive groom in Maya and want to bake that to a texture. I would need to bake diffuse and alpha to a simple plane (and maybe some other textures like a depth map). Basically, I need all the textures that are mentioned here:…

24. Arnold Xgen Interactive Groom Splines flickers primitive ID while rendering

    

    

    Topic by denisvfx · Dec 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

    I am trying to render animation with Xgen Interactive Groom Splines. I use Arnold renderer and aiHair shader uses aiUtility with primitive ID connected to ramp for randomization the hair color. The phoblem is that while rendering on every frame it has another primitive ID positions. So I have a flickering in animation. I…

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25. Xgen hair/groom not showing *SOLVED

    

    

    Topic by vonboe · Oct 2023 · Home› Technical Talk

    I have an issue in Xgen that my groom won't generate when set to the standard Generate Primitives mode: Randomly across the surface ( which I usually use ) but when I change the generation mode it displays the hair just fine. Anyone knows what the problem might be? It would help me a lot, thanks :)

26. I'm looking for models to practice groom on

    

    Topic by kat_sta · Aug 2023 · Home› Collaboration & Unpaid Work

    Just as in title, I'm VFX artist that wants to expand my cfx reel and I'm looking for character/creature artist to collab with. Do you have model that needs groom? give me a shout!

27. Xgen/Grooming tutorials

    

    Topic by elcucuy · Sep 2019 · Home› Technical Talk

    Hi,Im trying to improve my grooming but it's not going to great. I've watched the Jesus Fernandez series and a couple others, but I was wondering if anyone can recommend some other tutorials, resources or just some advice. It's much appreciated!

28. Maya interactive Groom Problem

    

    

    Topic by SeanWink · Apr 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

    Does anyone know why I am only getting 4 splines when I try to "Create Interactive Groom Splines"? My approximate spline count is low why is that? It should be high definitely not 4.

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29. The Hound, a likeness and grooming exercise

    

    

    Topic by bob3636 · Jan 2018 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

    Hello guys! I'd like to share a work i did recently, a likeness of the Hound from GOT done as a likeness and grooming exercise, done in Maya Zbrush Mari Xgen Arnold Hope you guys like it!

30. Grooming softwares and opinions.

    

    Topic by KoalaT · Jun 2016 · Home› Technical Talk

    Hey guys. I would like to ask if anyone could recommend some software for grooming. Since im a 3Ds Max user i know that Ornatrix is pretty good for that. Could anyone give any advices or opinions on what software or addons towards maybe 3Ds Max are good for that sole purpose ? :) Thanks in advance and looking forward to an…