I saw a well-known industry veteran post about how there are still plenty of jobs in character art and that people shouldn’t give up. His next post promoted his mentorship.

I’m all for encouraging artists to keep going, but I think we need to be honest about the state of the industry. I worked at PlayStation and got laid off, and even some of my former leads and supervisors have struggled to find work since.

There’s nothing wrong with promoting mentorships, but painting the industry as if everything is fine, only to sell hope to struggling artists, feels a little sketchy.

Yes, you can find work, but not everyone has the financial stability to spend months or years trying. Some have families and bills to worry about.
I want artists to keep chasing their dreams, but they deserve honesty just as much as they deserve hope.

Completed the retouching of a Dracula character inspired by Richard Roxburgh's portrayal in the movie Van Helsing (2004). The focus was on polishing materials, textures, and final render details.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/DLn6qo

Work in progress. Will upload full video on my youtube when finished.
More of sculpting videos on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulscience_sculpts

The Flesh Goddess,

She Who Gives Form to the Formless.

I wanted to give up on this sculpt so many times throughout the process.

-Modeled and rendered in Blender

-Textured in Substance painter

-Base wood texture image was created in Photoshop from my own photos.

I've had this pile of ff7 concept art in a folder for a long, long time. Figured I'd finally do something with it, and got around to make this materia shop that can be found in Wall Market.

This... uh... was... initially supposed to serve as an example for some students about gradient texturing. Then it also became a lesson about the spin modifier. Then it just completely took over my life to a point where I was like "wait what's point of this again".

In the end, I mean, if I'm honest, I think the shader and compositor are doing most of the heavy lifting. But I thought it was kind of a fun piece to work with. Mostly because... I kinda feel once you're in the workflow zbrush - painter/designer - baking etc, it's just kinda nice to be 'mashing out models'.

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detailed Medium-Voltage Generator Breaker VR Asset, modeled in Blender and textured in Substance Painter. This industrial electrical equipment model features realistic materials, metallic components, insulators, wiring, and mechanical details for an authentic look.

Created for immersive VR training, industrial simulations, and interactive 3D experiences, with a focus on accurate visual representation and high-quality texturing.

Speed modeling Zbrush

So i just completed my Gshock model. I made it primarily for a advert i am creating for it. But i have heard from some people that one can sell these kinds of models on internet. Is it possible and can this model be sold like that? Maybe i get a good burger out of it😂

hi, I wanted to ask opinion about what should I focus on a portfolio because I have 2 ideas and cant decide on wich one

I want to make 3D renders and content for my portfolio focused on realism first, and them making stylized stuff later, so first starting with the "basics" and them going into more stylized stuff when I see myself as good enough for it

the thing is that besides 3d modelling and such, I also want to try to make games myself, was thinking on making a simple visual novel or point-and-click since they consist of static images so I was thinking I could make renders to use as assets

so I got the idea of making realistic 3D renders and assets that can be shown in my portfolio as practique, and them use them for the game, however since realistic 3D takes much longer than stylized 3D I was also thinking that maybe is best to make stylized 3D for the game later and first focus on stuff to showcase skills on the portfolio

so the 2 options I was thinking and its pros and cons are:

1- creating realistic stuff focused on the game, pros be that all the stuff made can be used for the game so will do "2 things at the same", cons be that it will be focused on one "theme"

2-focusing the portfolio on realistic stuff first, pros be that can do varios stuff instead on focusing on one "theme", like say some mechanical stuff and some organic stuff, or some archviz and other stuff etc, cons is that will need to make new assets if I want to make that game idea, even if in a more simpler stylized style

the game idea I have is a horror like game, so assets will include monsters, scenarios and props though obviously will use assets from sites like polyhaven etc, and maybe some humans characters, will be short like those games you may find on itchio and the like

so I will like to hear opinions on what is the best course, if focusing on stuff that shows various skill for a portfolio, or just using all the assets made for the game as the content of the portfolio even if is just one "theme"

thanks in advance

I mainly have been using Fusion for creating more architectural/geometric shapes, but I wanted to try experimenting with the form tool as well. Fusion doesn't really do tris or polys that well when making curves, so if I imported this into Blender, their count would probably be really high. This took about 2 hours or so.

Any tips on how to make it better would be very much appreciated.

My process - unfortunately, I can't show the actual making of each form because of how Fusion handles the timeline

1 - top-right corner view
2 - front view
3 - wireframe

I want to create diamond like this in a procedural way. I know I can place it manually, but it was time consuming. Does anyone know how to achieve this using any software?

i found that if lowpoly is same size as highpoly (too shrinkwrapped) then shading will be disgusting on bake. So i've tried to make hole smaller (first image) and bigger (second image). So, where's better shading: on first image or second? i'm trying to understand if on first image it's possibly to notice that hole smaller than it should be like on highpoly. On second image you can see that black line around hole and it looks bad. On third image is highpoly

Eu estava pensando em comprar alguns cursos de blender, entre outras coisas eu comecei atualmente a 3 dias no blender (30 horas na steam) estou viciado em tentar achar algo para estudar, alguem tem dicas? nesse meio tempo fiz este machado!