CG Modeler โข Digital Sculptor
Beholder's lair
Joined November 2010
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I love that the "slow and steady" way of producing these kinds of details yields the most rich and authentic look. Alpha are great as a starting point and supporting element but nothing quite hits like the hand done patterns do! ๐ช๐ผ
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As soon as I saw this game I knew this was going to happen. I don't know whether it's because of ai (it most definitely is + roblox) but indie Devs are going to have go silent and act like AAA Devs to prevent their ideas from being so easily stolen.
I keep telling people that I'm on the fence about switching over to Nomad, but I suspected that this UV update was forthcoming.
Maxon might have me in their pocket a little while longer....
Will need to stress test these features...
ZBrush 2027 is here. ๐
UV Editor and Selection Sets on desktop. Spotlight and 3D Layers on iPad.
Available today: maxonvfx.com/4zsHioJ
#ZBrush #ZBrush2027
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Clean modeling, a little noise in the NM, some SSS and this is some beautiful magic. ๐
Bulba one of my favs
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In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
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TIL the "mip" in mipmapping stands for multum in parvo, Latin for "many things in a small place"
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Iโm a human 3D artist. My Attack on Titan fan-made short film is a project I started in 2022 and released in June 2024. I redesigned all of the Titans myself. I didnโt use any AI, and I never made any money from this short film.
To be honest, I originally didnโt want to talk about this. In order to discuss it, I actually had to subscribe to X Premium.
Throughout 2025 and 2026, I started seeing more and more comments like this on my YouTube channel:
โYour one and a half years of work? I can make that with AI in 30 seconds.โ
โI can do it in one minute.โ
โI can do it in 90 seconds.โ
So I started looking into it. The first AI short film I found was actually made by modifying footage from my original film, while being presented as an AI-generated work.
I felt pretty disappointed.
If you think AI can make something better than what I made, then please create something better from scratch.
Iโve always found it difficult to accept being mocked while my work is also being taken and reused.
Since 2018, Iโve been focused on creating the things I genuinely love. Iโve done it simply because I love creating, and Iโve never made a single cent from these works.
As a result, my financial situation has actually been quite difficult. For a while, I was really struggling with the thought that maybe I should have spent the past few years trying to make as much money as possible.
Was trying to make a living by creating the things I love just a foolish fantasy?
Then I watch Orb: On the Movements of the Earth. Thereโs one line in the series that really stayed with me:
โBeing wrong doesnโt mean it was meaningless.โ
So recently, Iโve slowly started to accept something.
If I donโt make the things I love, I donโt think I would be happy even if I had a job.
Iโll keep looking for a way forward. Whether that means working harder, finding ways to make money so I can continue making short films, or finding some other way, I still want to keep creating the things I love.
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One of the best exercises for getting good at sculpting fast:
- sculpt a skull from memory
- sculpt it from ref
Repeat until you know intuitively how to sculpt a skull from memory. This pays insane dividends on basically every sculpt from here on.
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This one demonstrates the basis of how subdiv works.
Verts are constantly trying to relax with each subdiv level, and the longest connected edge pulls the hardest. So the bottom vert on the corner face is connected to a long edge which is what pulls the face around the corner.
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Just gave some feedback to an artist asking for lowpoly feedback.
This goes for everyone: When making the low poly, make sure to manually triangulate irregular quads. If it has a possibility to triangulate poorly, you need to force it in the optimal configuration.
Hey Lukas! Overall, it's not bad, but I do have a handful of comments.
I put a red mark on every face I could see that will need manually triangulated, either due to potential curvature issues or resulting triangle area. Irregular quads need to be triangulated to avoid long thing tris. When making the low poly, try to think of all the possible ways a face can triangulate. If one of the ways results in a long thin tri, then it needs to be done manually.
The red boxes are areas I think are probably too dense and the green box is an area I feel needs more density.
As a followup question, what is the intent of this asset? Like how close is the camera going to get in renders or in engine? That will largely determine mesh density priority.
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I get why people are frustrated. Itโs brutal out there, especially for juniors. But I donโt think the industry is โin shambles.โ I think itโs contracting, consolidating, and correcting after years of over-expansion.
Thatโs not new. This industry has always moved in cycles. Sixteen years ago (when I started) people were also trying to break in during a rough market, post-recession, with fewer seats and a lot of uncertainty. Today has its own version: layoffs, studio closures, streaming contraction, tech correction, and companies moving back toward leaner models.
But saying itโs all luck removes too much agency from the people who have survived and kept building careers through every cycle. Luck matters. Timing matters. Connections matter. But so do craft, consistency, humility, feedback, communication, ego management, and learning how to work with a team.
The โhow many hours did you put in?โ discourse is also too simple. Some people learn fast. Some people need more reps. I was one of those people. I needed hundreds and hundreds of hours to build the hard skills. But the soft skills mattered just as much: how you take notes, how you speak to people, how you handle critique, how you show up when things are hard.
I just donโt think all this negative mindsets helps juniors. And fighting vets doesnโt help either. The industry is small. We need more honesty, less ego, and more people pulling each other forward.
Itโs bleak right now, yes. But bleak isnโt forever.
The tide goes out, the tide comes back in.
The ones who stay kind, keep learning, and keep building usually find their way back to shore.
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There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.
He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.
He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing.
His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.
He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.
He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.
Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.
Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.
He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.
He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.
The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.
Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.
But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.
Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.
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Why is this so controversial?
Itโs true.
Okay so letโs assume this is hours of quality work.. because 8 hours of unfocused isnโt the same as focused. Quality hours matter. And they need to be high.
Even 10 years ago less than 3% of games art graduates would find work in the games industry. There are simply not enough jobs, and universities are churning out graduates. Most are completely unprepared because they think the degree will entitle them to a job. It doesnโt. Nobody cares about your degree. Only what you can do.
You should spend that time utterly devoted to your craft. If you do not have drive to succeed, if you do not want to succeed with your entire heart and soul, you will probably fail.
Is it fair? Is anything fair? Are we entitled to anything? No. We can only work our hardest for the things we want and hope it works out. Take a chance on yourself, maximise opportunity by working as hard as you can and being open to the varying avenues for success.
If youโre a student and youโre worried about burning out, crunching or having to overwork yourself then your mindset is wrong. Because youโre competing with the guy who puts in the time because they donโt see it as work.
