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They don't need to know that much and it's all not that hard to learn, albeit hard to master.

And they don't carry any real risk either.

>>573917
3D graphics only become more and more mainstream every day, and that means there will always be a need for 3D artists, even if it's just crunch work based on something that was already designed for you.
Knowledge is not that much more complex than traditional or digital art, training and experience should eventually reduce technical specifics to muscle memory either way.
Of course it depends on whether you choose to have a strong focus in one thing, or want to learn all the things. Even if you want to branch out, a lot of things can be semi-automated for you to not have to worry about them too much.
Even if you're just a straight modeler, you can always throw on an pre-fab rig, do a render based on some preset data and composite in a program you may already know well, like Photoshop. It won't blow anyone's socks off as if you had a dedicated rigger and TD, but it doesn't have to, you can already get much of the way there just from pressing some buttons.

i don't think 3D modeler are underappreciated. its just that 3D content takes so long to develop in comparison to 2D so people are still risk adverse to 3D unless its somehow tied to an already successful franchise.

>>573527
What makes you think that anon?

>>573527
I bet they used maya, they just dont' give a fuck about texturing

You mustve seen quite a few pixels in your time, OP

>>574543
>presents UE4 as if its an alternative for render engines
>can't even make a mirror in UE4
kek. lemme know when UE4 can handle some baby steps

>>574544
Literally 5 min in fucking After effects or Nuke to fix this. Pretty worth when you dont waste 5 days in rendering

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>>574550
>no realtime raytraced GI
>crappy inaccurate ambient occlusions everywhere
>no decent fluid simulation like fire or smoke
>you wait for hours for a large scene to lightbake
>even then you get lightmap bleeding everywhere
>lightmaps are static and if you move 1 thing, you rebake everything all over again for hours
>backface reflections are horrible
>even screenspace reflections are too noisy and inaccurate
>transparency sorting issues
>list goes forever

Good luck shitting out crappy UE4 renders and waiting for days infront of youtube, begging to get a thousand views for it. I'll go with the industry giants who use real products like renderman, arnold and mentalray for the million dollar blockbuster movies they create.

>>566281
80% of the work is done by 20% of the features
Progress is rewarding
Stick to tutorials, if you're getting that frustrated feeling of "I can't make the software do what I want" it's because you haven't learned enough yet
Eventually you'll git gud enough to customize the UI for your own needs

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>>566281
the interface is horrible, but you can customize

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>>566331
ups that's an old one

>>574523
like 2 or 3 dollars ?

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>another ironic thread another blend
>another retard who need to push a thousand buttons just to make a basic model
>another schmuck that things blender is wings3d with perks and don't realize its actually a serious software

>>574528
I wasn't actually being ironic, I guess I don't lurk this board enough.

>>573881
hey man, unsoften the mesh, extract the perimeter of each piece and join it with a plugin called curviloft, search it on youtube it does just what you need.

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>>573881
I'm not sure if exactly what you need, but I worked on a similar sounding problem.

I work for a company that does dispersion modeling for petrochem/oil & gas facilities, and long story short, they wanted to show the clouds in 3D. Well the program we have that does the actual dispersion modeling is old as fuck, and the best i could get was "slices" of the cloud, much like you have "slices" of the scan there. I wrote some relatively simply python code to create a new mesh and stitch the slices together. i don't know what the MRI data looks like, but that may be your best option for getting a real smooth model.

pic related

http://www.meshlab.net/

>>573027
> girls
Lol

>>573039
He's including the fe(males), which amateur 3D attracts like honey.

>>573027
honestly your topography is still looking like shit.
There is ton of optimization to be done.

please end his suffering

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>>569802
Still looks pretty good; you have full color and ray traced shadows + self shadows in your scene, things you probably wouldn't even be able to reasonably do way back when.

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>>569813
Thought it'd be fun to try my hand at it.
What do you think of this?

Show me your worst renders, /3/.

>pay some fiver to videoconf with you
>play with the sliders until the fiver says it's the right color
>pay him 5 bucks for the hour you needed to get the colors right
>????
>profit

>>574298

You can get glasses to compensate for colourblindness now.

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OP, do you want to stay poor? Just use your brain for a moment.

For example, use your colorblindness and just use the shades that look right for you.
To all others it will be the biggest color clusterfuck and everyone will call it art and you will make big bucks.

What do you think retard?

Loop cut extrude loop cut loop cut loop cut extrude etc . and you can create anything prove me wrong

>>574345
What do you need cut for? If you start with a plane you can extrude to any shape.

What do you need it for?

3d printing isn't /3/. It's /diy/

they have a general.

>>574405
I'd like to 3D print character models, body armor, and architectural stuff.

>>574406
I'll repost in /diy/, thanks.

>>574155
What are you yapping ? Oh so the shortcuts are different and the viewport navigation is like the industry standard and you have difficulties to adapt?
Have fun getting that non standard Blender muscle memory out of your system while you use C4d, it will take some time (but its worth it).

Look, C4d is not shitty, its just in your head because you don't know it yet.
If you want to do Motion Graphics or TV/Broadcast kinda stuff stick with it (or any other discipline where it is more useful than Blender.)
Keep on using Blender learn C4d and use each of them to their advantage.
I use both, and i think polymodelling in Blender is faster and more fun, also UVing. But C4d isn't bad either and shines when you work with Splines, Parametric objects, procedural stuff and the mograph tools.
It works well with all the others 3dDCCs and Adobe, all important Renderers available, Realflow and Houdini implementation etc...

It works well as an 3d hub pipeline tool where all stuff comes together and gets rendered.
Unless you want to do high end character animation and VFX then go Maya/Houdini.

>>574155
Also After FX is nice and effective for easier stuff, but if you really want to use 3d and Composition to its fullest potential, start looking at a node based compositor like Fusion or Nuke.

>>574172
Unironically AE can do the same shit (and more) Nuke can but people recommend that fucking garbage ancient piece of shit because muh professionalism

>>573392
Bevel?

You push the button that makes a selection rounder but be careful because it's next to the button that sets your mesh on fire.

Press "3"

>lost /co/ck

begone

>>574264
I only ask because I can't find the answer anywhere else and I feel like I'm the first person to ask

>>574266
It's a lot easier to draw than it is to render.
Corrections are also easier with drawing.
The creative freedom of drawing is unparalleled.
3d comics look like absolute shit for the same effort done with 2d

>>572242
still haven't got the creator's update. why ms hates me?

>>572242
Paint<

It's the 3d equivilant of ms paint

good for getting an 8 year old interested in 3d modeling, and you could probably get something great with it if you put in the effort, but it's much easier to get good results with a real 3d program