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>>563809
What's your skill level senpai? Post some of your work

>>563809
same here. bump

NO.

Choose Maya or 3DS Max, it really doesn't matter (I use Maya) and pirate intro tutorials from The Gnomon Workshop and pluralsight.

>>565600
Like with most art, trying to do anything from imagination is difficult without a good visual library.

Try modelling things you like from reference of things you like to start with.

>>565613
Alright so I'll just go with 3DS Max then, thank you
>>565615
Should I use the backround image thing when starting to model something or is that a bad habit to get into? ( Since I probably won't always have perfect reference image to use )

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>>565495
Second pic

Well that's fucking interesting. What program is that in?

Also hello fellow frenchieÉ

your modeling is just shit dude

Try Catherine Z. Jones next.

>>565071

Remove polypaint it is cheating. Someone here nearly got a job at naughty dog as a character artist but he got rejected because he did polypaint cheat.

>>565119
naughty dog keeps making the same game over and over. Why would anyone want to work there lmao

light maps aren't used anymore.
nowdays every game engine have a standard shader with diffuse/specular and realtime lights

you would need this if either:
1.your engine dosen't support realtime lights or isn't capable of having a specular shader
2.you need your game to work on a casio calculator or some shit like that and you save every bit of performance possible
3.you have a large animated scene and you want bake some elements so it will render faster

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however what you are refering to lightmap can might be an old version of specular map

pic related. you can do specular maps in blender or 3ds

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>>564685
>>564686
Yeah by far this style of shading is the one that is more similar to what I want it to look like. All other bakes I make get too influenced by light position, AO map looks too dead and this one has this "shine" that spreads evenly around the mesh.
I really want to know how it's done, even if it's obsolete... The specular example you posted looks good, but too flat if it makes sense

Dude I love the Dreamcast.

>>564034
I was thinking about learning it this year.

>>564034
Not enough resources to start learning it on my own. 20 Maya tutorials for every Houdini tutorial out there.

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wouldn't happen with Blender>>565218

>>565218
happen to me all the time with max... life is hard when your dumb

well gosh, that was pretty rude to be honest anon

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>>559596
I'd like to say I'm making a face, but....
First attempt at it plz no bully.

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>>559608
Also

>>559600
Checked

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>>565361

Help.

>>565361
sent ;)

yeah its an excellent goal

>>562946
usually i model unwrap and texture in a week but if you can do 1 still life image every week like those donuts here you gonna get far

>>562946
>>562947
what these guys said. i'd also add that make sure you learn something new with every render image whatever u make per week. perfect practice makes perfect

>>564967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pBswdmT9iY
hope it helps

>>564968
top kek

Guys, I have a question.

I'm using 3ds max in my college class. The thing is that it is going pretty slow so I'm learning by myself pretty much. Currently I'm trying to make a photorealistic archviz project but a lack of tutorials and constant crashes of 3ds max are pissing me off. I was thinking to, either:

>learn UE4 (rendering, texturing and lighting)
or
>give blender a try, since I see it has everything I need, the renderer is pretty good and there's a shitton of good tutorials available

I figured if I actually learn general 3d concepts with blender, I will still be able to transfer that knowledge to 3ds max, but blender has the advantage in that it has more tutorials I can learn from.

What is the smartest thing to do, as a beginner? I don't want to spread myself too thin either, but I've tried working with 3ds max and vray, and I spend more time waiting for the program to react to my commands then actually working in it.

I mean, I don't know what is the other option since my scene already crashes at 1.5M polygons and my PC is not that bad. I heard that 3ds max is prone to crashes anyway.

>>565079
bump. other anon here from the maya / max thread

>>565079
if you have just started learning you should focus on mastering 3d modeling first then rendering. Are you planning to go into games or cgi animation or vfx? I do 3d art for games and i use marmoset toolbag or game engine for rendering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu5fg5C7XHY radeon pro sofware is free! http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/top-free-rendering-software-cg-artists-91412918 hope this helps you out.

>>565079
Vray is good

do you want a "most autistic post I've seen today" award

Do 9/11 next

>>564652
yea, always use Up-to-date tutorials and paid ones.
Here you can get them for free, and also everything else 3D-related: cgpeers.com

ill give you an advice after more than 2 years meddling with this shit

i see a TON of game developers who are code oriented do their own models, their own sound and their own assets in general. and so many of them fail.
why? because they don't put the same signifance on the visuals as much as they put on the code. they think that if they can slap one thing here and one thing there, and get a free music from this dude etc.. is gonna help them.

and YES there are very successful developers who do ALL the shit by themselves and nail it right on the head. but those people have put their heart and soul into these games. some indie games take years to finish and no one is even paying you for your efforts in that time. kickstarter and patreon are unreliable options too.

tl;dr if you cut one corner its gonna fall like a house of cards. just look at all the games that are being developed on /agdg/ and take notes

>>564652

Start with runescape looking shit and go from there.

I loathe recommending booleans but the sum of an intersection is a Boolean operation