Are there high quality blender projects with animations that I can study? I want to see how pros are making stuff. Maybe there some creators that share them on patreon or something?

Am I missing something or does the 3d community seem to be very checkered on sharing?
Sure theres the easy stuff to get like open3dlab, SFMlab, Smutbase, some good stuff at sketchfab, and if you want something decent on Itch or Gumroad you have to already have found a good modeler in mind to find their stuff
Not to mention sometimes you can find models in animations or youtube with next to no credit so its near impossible to find sometimes, I get if its your own model you'd want to have private ownership but 8/10 times thats not the case

Everything I read on reddit is complete doom and gloom about the 3D industry right now. In fact the entire job market just seems completely up the shitter. I was really banking on being able to find work doing this but that seems like it's not an option. Now even being a prodigy doesn't cut it anymore. How do you land a job?

Also the introduction and guide's readme.txt link and images are broken.

I assume paid lessons have the advantages of showing the workflow, but I guess time-lapses also works?

I usually like to model for games and mod them in, but all the games I've done it in suck now. What are some hip new cool games that are easy to mod?

What's the workflow to model an artificial/interior environment and texture it?
>le modular assets
Too restrictive.
>tileset with things like Sprytile on Blender or Crocotile 3D
I can't draw tilesets.
>just friggin model it, Lois
Can do, but then how the fuck do I texture it?

Please help. All tutorials online are for fucking forests or how to make a city with 5 house models copy-pasted all over the place. I need help for INTERIORS

Post your magnum opus
Your most bestest super-duper render

How did artists back in the early 2000s did textures like this in photoshop for games like Half Life 2, etc? It looks too good to be able to be handpainted. Is it photobashing and painting over it or do you really need to be able to draw well to do this stuff?

Looking to find the absolute worst 3D artist here on this board, like vomit inducing. Post your renders and the winner may get something.

I am not sure where to ask this question, as I have not seen anyone else asking this, so I will ask here (and if this isn't the right place, any assistance on where to correctly ask would be appreciated):

I would like to make an animation using the models Redmoa used, but I am just confused on the hair physics, as in this SFW video, there are hair physics: https://youtu.be/SkqhXkJiIg0?si=x9GFun8nYU1Xf2Tv

But when you load up the model in Blender, there are no physics to be found I believe, so my question is this: Is there a technique to get hair physics working, or is it done manually, frame by frame?

How do you go about rigging this type of dress.
How do you place the bones etc.

Not exactly the dress in the pic, but that type of dress with the long "loin cloth", not sure what the name is. Tabard dress? Qipao?

The character that will use it "fully modeled'. As in, the clothing can be taken off, or replaced with other clothes. Do you make a separate armature for the cloth or is it part of the characters armature?

I made some attempts, but making it behave nicely, especially when the character is sitting is a struggle.

I look at how complex this is at the high level and how much goes into it and I just get incredibly intimidated. I just feel like I'm not smart/talented enough to do this. Even though I took some intro 3d and animation classes and passed them I still feel like the high level professional stuff is just beyond my reach. Like I'm never going to be able to make something like pic related. I can't imagine myself being able to make something this good ever. I feel like I'm only good enough for retail work and anything too complex is outside my mental capacity. I don't know what the minimum IQ is for this work is but it's clearly way above me. It just looks so intimidating. I couldn't hack it with STEM which is why I went with a political science degree instead. I'm 27 now and I'm too old to learn. I still struggle with the UI of programs.

so I got this normal map from a unreal engine 5.x game, and i have no idea how to make it properly work with blender shader nodes

its a screenshot cause its originally a TGA and the filesize too large, its also in its orignal sRBG format. The file is also titles as "NWO", which is something i could not find any info on

I have tried the image non-colour and inverting the green, then though the normal map nodes, all of the options, creates awful flat shading on the mesh

If this requires a mesh in order to work let me know

Is there a way to make some quick money if you can do modeling & texturing with experience in the industry ? there isnt a single job out there
>pic related

Is it possible to sculpt a character like this without motion capture?

Realistically where do I get "connections' from?
Do I need to hit it off with someone? Where and how?
Do I need to change my personality? Do I need charisma? Apparently instead of being good at the job, I also need to learn social skills to an extent I don't know
I have never been in a professional environment besides college.
How do I even initiate things like these?

What technique did the Ape Escape 2 (2002) CG animators use to make these flat facial expressions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb0zEIV9N58

Where I can find a model of the Switch 2 and its dock that's not just an extruded rectangle or being sold for like $40? It's hard to believe nobody's made a believeable 3D mockup of it yet this close to release considering all the leaks and pics there have been of it so far.

Im trying to learn character concept art and 3d models, I don't know many people to talk about this with.
If there is a discord, forum, steam group, literally anything that's active where I can talk about this subject please LMK!

>Face "rigging" tutorial
>It's all shape keys/blendshapes being controlled by the joints again
What are some actually good resources that actually focus on the joint-based facial rigging? It seems like everyone avoids it like a plague.

why are roblox players so ass at their polygons

I have been trying to fix the topology for a Boolean operation, and this is the best I can do. The 3ds max tool set for making booleans is already ass since it triangulates my entire mesh and I spend the whole night requadding manually. Booleans are so gay. Homo even.

There is zero reason to dedicate this much time into something that will net you nothing. Everything in the 3D pipeline is going to be destroyed. The 3D industry has been decimated. You are competing with industry veterans for a small number of entry level positions.

>Hurr I do it as a hobby

In today's economic climate dedicating this much time to a hobby, a skill, is a detriment to yourself. If you're young your hobby shouldn't have to take hours of grinding that net you nothing when those hours could and should be used to make you more financially secure. Hobbies are a luxury that most people can no longer realistically afford. If you can't make money from your hobby you are hurting yourself. That's not a good thing but that's the world we are in, and trust me I'm not happy about it either.

YOU WILL NOT MAKE ANY MONEY DOING THIS, MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE!!! Go learn a trade.

If you think I'm wrong, go ahead and tell me how you can make this a job 2025+ . Go on, prove me wrong.

Previous: >>1002436
Daz youtuber's and general guides:
https://www.daz3d.com/help/help-daz-3d-video-tutorials
Wpguru
Parmy
Travis Davids (Marvelous designer)
Thundornd
CgBytes
https://www.laylo3d.com/
https://thinkdrawart.com/
Kelvin Jin

Bridges: https://www.daz3d.com/daz-bridges
Suggested Blender Bridge: http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/

News: Daz Premier replaces prior subscriptions and doesnt add much aside from a free character bundle every month and some tools that are worse than using another software like blender or maya.

Some anon created a cool character morph. Meet Quinn! https://mega(.)nz/file/rmZQWLKZ#lh4aluWj6drjfPLkW7FVAUVDaOZZqJfqjoAvsREDo7U

Post more Quinns!

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How long would it take to be this good?

Have you guys ever seen good stylish dithering in Blender?

I found two shaders on the internets and after some tweaking I got something I would try to use, but still, it's kinda meh, requires a lot of tweaking, and I'd like something better and more universal.

You can have it too btw:

https://blend-exchange.com/b/rGzgvO5r/ (the one I messed around with)
https://blenderartists.org/t/4x4-ordered-dithering-blend-file-included/1142358/9 (full screen compositor dithering, the later link, first one is dead already)

Why do using this hand pose in A pose cause artists maximum buthurt?

I mean, is not a pose that is not realistic, nor is anatomically wrong.

Neither causes extreme strain on the body and can be sustained as resting pose.

Should I learn 3D for a professional career in modeling/animation or should I not?

How Can I Implement a Markdown-Supported 3D Book for Players to Write In? (Unreal Engine 5.5)

I'm developing a game that allow players to write in a 3D book, and I want the writing system to support Markdown, mostly for the ability to embed and render images within the game.

example: 

However, after extensive searching, I haven't found a suitable solution.
Most available plugins are designed for documentation rather than allowing players to write and edit text dynamically. I also experimented with a web-based approach using an HTML widget and the Marked.js library, but having an HTML widget for every page feels inefficient (as far i know, if there is a more efficient way to use web widget then that would be awesome).

A bit more context:

>Many of my game collectibles are HTML-based IE making a system that allows you to use some links as objects for certain areas.
>The game relies on both internet data (about 30%) and local storage, using reference links like the file:/// protocol.
>Ideally, I want a solution that doesn't require downloading additional in-game data.
>My background is in web development, and I'm aiming for something similar to Obsidian for the book in term of functionality.

Idk what to do. Would love suggestions on how to implement this customizable diary system efficiently. Any advice or alternative approaches?

Do you think both WoW and Genshin's rendering can be described as "stylized PBR"?
It seems they both use normal maps, roughness maps, maybe even metallic,
yet they also use handpainted textures, and somehow also painterly looking photorealistic textures sometimes I guess?
Would you consider this the hardest type of stuff to work on?

Whats the point of making realistic graphics? nobodys gonna zoom in and say "oh my that water has fake caustics!!"
Takes so much time and resources for heck nobody gives 2 shit about, might as well make it stylized with distinctive features

>mfw spend years ignoring compositing
>learn some basics
>renders improve 2x
learn comp

For those of you who made it to employment,
how the piss do you get used to switching between different programs and software suites that use different camera/viewport controls?

Specifically,
I'm having to switch between blender, maya, and marvelous designer.
Unfortunately, I started and spent most of my time on blender. The Maya control set, is that more of an industry standard majority? I _think_ substance painter uses it for simple things like camera controls.

For those of you who do have to switch between environments, have you found a certain program's viewing controls are able to be adopted in all the competitors? I tried once to get Substance Painter to use Blenders, but it was something like everything but one set of key commands were unable to be switched which caused an insanity spiral of moving other actions around. This was 2018 or something though, maybe do-able nowadays.

Ahhghhhhhh I hate the shit outta everything.

GOAT

How do I make good terrains for Unity games?

In this case for example I bought a map where it came with a terrain that is just a flat plane, but I want it to be more of a cube because I want to add water and depth under it.

I will explain more in the comments

Why is it that everyone who has successfully made it into a studio job... simply have no personality? All they do is eat, sleep, breathe, and talk about the type of work that they're skilled in. Has the 3DCG industry at-large reached the point where only silver spoon nepo babies and people who are autistic enough to have no other qualities/traits but making fancy computer art, have serious consideration by studios for jobs?

I don't want to demoralize but do you think it's over?
This is generated by Hunyuan3d Image to 3D AI. What do we think about it?

... And meet your former self right before you picked up 3DCG, what would you tell him? Anything that you've learned that would have helped jump start your 3D career or avoid any pitfalls?

Do you have to make the model from scratch for portfolios? If not can I use kitbashed game assets?

Feel like I haven't been learning anything lately. I watch tutorials apply that knowledge then told it's not good as a beginner unsure how can improve in many cases I'm answering questions suppose more knowledable people should know

Is there anyone that can make better 3D anime girls than seismic?

not being trolling, serious curious if there's anyone at this level.

What is the point of doing this? Isn't it better to have two triangles with transparent texture of foliage than having it converted into gazillion triangles with non-transparent texture?

how do i make exagerated perspectives like this in blender?

any one have any recommendations for good greasepencil tutorials/3d artists or just gp advice in general? (artists that use greasepencil on 3d models not just a 2d plane)im struggling with contour lines,it seems obvious where to draw contour lines but it always looks off

is there any real source for insight on how to implement vertex weight proximity modifiers in blender like this?

Hey i am new to 3d for trying something kinda weird I would rly aprciate your advice.
i am going to try to paint depth maps to sculpt 3d models ( only bas reliefs ) does it make any sence? will it work ? what should i be carefull about