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What are the bare minimum primitives required to model anything? What are the operations? Stuff like Extrude, Bevel, NURBS, etc Is there a glossary or resource that lists every single primitive and actions that can be performed on them?

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Anon·10/11/25 20:23·No.1019988

3D modeling primitives

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Anon·08/29/25 09:49·No.1017727

home...

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Anon·09/16/25 03:18·No.1018686

whats some reliable means to animate things from walking cycle, loops, idle and scenes basically calculating physics to get the exact spacing in frames or pose to pose?

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Anon·08/28/25 00:44·No.1017678

This is my first attempt at a Megaman Legends style character for a game I'm working on. I'm redoing the jacket/torso but if anyone has tips on the face or anything in general I'd really appreciate it. I'm having a real hard time deciding if I'm being too hard or not hard enough on myself with the t...

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Anon·09/16/25 23:24·No.1018729

>some guy wants someone to help fix his model >dudes been whining about it for days >decide to volunteer >he sends the model to me >mesh is very broken >tons of unessessary vertices and faces >merge and delete some >fix the normals so the lighting on it isnt fucked >retexture and fix the UVs >send i...

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Anon·08/25/25 00:04·No.1017471

>have the drive to do something >open blender >stare at cube while alt tabbing back to other shit >drive slowly melts away >eventually do nothing and close blender how do you fight it bros? i used to spend hours learning and practicing, now its all gone

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Anon·10/03/25 17:37·No.1019553

How would I go with painting my own normal map from scratch? Experimenting with a better workflow than the traditional baking here.

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Anon·10/17/25 16:41·No.1020358

Some of you might have noticed using Decimate in Planar mode with low angles produces quite tasty results a bit reminiscent of handpainted edge highlights. But also they're often a bit glitchy and the resulting geometry is absolute mess. Did anyone figured out a way to use it practically? I tried ba...

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Anon·03/16/25 10:03·No.1009405

*teaches you nothing*

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Anon·03/02/25 07:06·No.1008463

What do we think of the new shrek? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbiwL74KyJQ

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Anon·10/14/25 07:40·No.1020114

How long would it take a beginner in 3D modeling to sculpt a face like this from scratch?

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Anon·10/15/25 20:43·No.1020256

What's your favorite custom normals editing workflow for modern Blender? I like the simplicity and native feel of built-in tools like "Mesh -> Normals -> Rotate", but it doesn't seem like those tools support customizing normals at the same vertex for different faces separately. I also tried "Perfect...

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Anon·10/13/25 05:10·No.1020060

3d model question

I know it's a bit outside the standard of this board, but does anyone know how PS2 and PPSSPP game models were made? Like those old RPGs, like Monster Hunter, Resident Evil 4 and Persona?

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Anon·03/11/25 19:25·No.1009076

It's over

let's blogpost and suck each other's cocks

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Anon·08/16/25 08:40·No.1017019

What do you 3D model for anon senpai? No this is not a doomer thread telling you to stop doing that, if you're doing it that's great, seriously I'm happy for you, don't let AI niggers tell you otherwise. Personally, I'm drowning myself in this endeavour because of how cringe the world around us is...

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Anon·09/30/25 17:01·No.1019394

What are GOOD courses for 3D animation in Blender? So far I only found Alive! by Pierrick Picaut. The rest suck fucking ass, but maybe I missed something

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Anon·10/09/25 11:03·No.1019874

Blender hatred

I've seen a lot of people dislike it. But there is no need to hate it. Blender is an alright little utility buddy. It's not the best at anything, though it's a great helper. Personally I only use it to clean up models post CAD modeling, store my hp and lp's in seperate collections, and it's simply g...

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Anon·06/01/25 04:03·No.1013015

Why Blender

I think blender was created to keep the bewannabes from real 3d artist and professional. Real artist use any tool at is disposal.

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Anon·09/23/25 06:18·No.1019109

Which is the best running animation?

Right girl obviously has more polys, but that's not the point here. Which one is best ANIMATED? And why?

Do modern video game trailers use the same in-game 3D models, but render them differently due to hardware limitations? If so, why do the models often look worse during actual gameplay, and can that visual difference be fixed through shaders or other rendering techniques? For instance, look at the h...

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Anon·10/09/25 11:19·No.1019875

Complete novice here

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Anon·06/18/25 05:14·No.1013847

It really is over..

>Nvidia's PartPacker, a new AI-driven method for generating 3D objects from a single image, allowing each part of the object to be separately edited, which is a significant advancement in 3D modeling technology. https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/PartPacker

How do i merge vertices together?

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Anon·10/11/25 21:41·No.1019996

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Anon·10/13/25 00:04·No.1020056

This shit can't even generate cars for 3D blueprints, what are y'all worried about? All of the AI today is 90% marketing and 10% functionality, most it can do is generate some references for you to use or retopologize if fine with the result

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Anon·10/13/25 12:22·No.1020074

Keep working bros

If you ever feel bad about yourself, just look at picrel. Even better, staple it on a wall.

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Anon·10/10/25 04:24·No.1019904

I guess it belongs on /3/ Here is a model I made https://files.catbox.moe/gsuruh.glb

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Anon·10/11/25 23:23·No.1020000

progress on sword

i am following cg tracks tutorial, just one more hour and this project is done hows it look so far, any tps what to do next? i wanna learn guns, mechas, vehicles, etc, where do i go from here?

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Anon·09/04/25 08:59·No.1018028

/c3dmg/ - Christian 3D Modeling General #1

Post and discuss project ideas, WIPs, etc. If you want to upload a file, use a cat/litterbox file or an upload on a reputable 3d model sharing site such as Sketchfab. Don't post anything blasphemous and have fun. FEATURED: https://www.renderhub.com/jofox/jesus

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Anon·10/11/25 04:21·No.1019954

Whats the best way to make wrap like this in Blender?

Whats the best way to make a wrap like this in Blender? It need it to be tiling and matching, so it can be arraymeshed infinitely My method so far was: Cylinder > delete one poly column on each side so you have 4 separate pieces left > simple deform: twist on Z > duplicate and twist the same amou...

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Anon·10/10/25 13:30·No.1019933

Shapelab worth it?

Not much discussion about Shapelab.

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Anon·10/08/25 20:20·No.1019844

Why is there no "Blender Static" for users that don't need photorealism and aniamtion. Why is there no "Blender Basic" for new users? Why is there no "Blender Stage Designer" for theator directors planing stage layouts? Why is there no "Blender Viewer" that is only for viewing 3d models? Why is ther...

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Anon·08/10/25 04:05·No.1016662

Looking for old archived files from design3

design3 was a video game development site that's long since been dead, and was wondering if anyone had archived the content of it. I heard that /3/ backed up some of its unrestricted content on mediafire, but the link from the archives is also dead. I'm asking if someone still had that archive and r...

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Anon·09/23/24 18:40·No.996209

Houdini General

Houdini is fun and easy! Pick up a free apprentice version today: https://www.sidefx.com/download/

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Anon·06/23/25 01:40·No.1014066

A thread for my stuff

Jita - She doesn’t wear a shirt because wearing shirts is weird where she lives. Only her head is "finished".

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Anon·10/05/25 19:31·No.1019694

How the fuck do I texture in PS1 style? I can model the character, but I am absolutely lost on how to texture it. I usually only handpaint my models and never work in low poly, so I'm clueless. Where do I even get the fucking textures for it? Every tutorial I found is just about how to do ps1 style...

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Anon·10/09/25 06:53·No.1019869

RECORD GUITAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbRq9gjb40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOiOc2TRzJg

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Anon·05/17/25 16:40·No.1012229

Is even possible to create these pictures using 3D in blender?

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Anon·10/04/25 12:52·No.1019603

just made this tips

any tips and tutorials u recomend to learn more? i wanna do guns

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Anon·09/13/24 13:47·No.995160

PS2-Era Graphics

Im working on developing some games in my spare time and I’d really like to target the fidelity of ps2-ps3 style games, mostly for stylistic purposes (but also because I’m solo and don’t have the time and resources to make too many high poly things) Specifically, I’m really interested in how charac...

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Anon·09/19/25 15:07·No.1018907

Tom steps down, chuds. It's over.

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Anon·08/09/25 14:56·No.1016642

It's crazy how zoomers nowadays can't distinguish between CGI and AI They thought they hated AI but they're actually the ones who got brainwashed by AI videos

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Anon·09/19/25 03:53·No.1018879

What's the current AAAA workflow to make anime girls?

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Anon·09/27/25 20:49·No.1019245

A new texturing workflow without AI.

Took me basically an entire year to figure out how to texture in this HD style. but pretty happy with it. 3 steps of 30 minutes each one. So is a reasonable process in terms of cost. Not AI was used here.

Today i discovered a new emotion

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Anon·08/26/25 18:02·No.1017599

An amount of disgust and HATE that i never felt before. The amount of sadistic fantasies that i have developped. I never EVER felt this raw revulsion towards something that i have made. This is my first character model in blender and i have no words to describe how much i want to hurt it. I want t...

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Anon·08/26/24 13:22·No.993096

/ADG/ - Autodesk 3D Modeling applications

Reminder: Subscriptions SUCK! Have a 3Ds Max/Maya question? recently started a project? Or simply want to complain about Maya crashing? Previous thread: >>

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Anon·10/05/25 03:39·No.1019653

I'm just told my 3d art sucks 24/7 here.

>>106794615 >It does. What we're calling "AI" is a pale imitation of one facet of the human mind at best. I'm just told my 3d art sucks 24/7 here. (all opensource and free for all) No one ever shows their own.

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Anon·09/26/25 14:13·No.1019195

Just how groundbreaking was this video back then?

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Anon·10/02/25 00:36·No.1019476

What are some things that can be done to make animation and rigging actually good in Blender? What UI changes and functions need to be added to make it competitive with MAYA?

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Anon·07/14/25 09:42·No.1015225

Learning how to animate by hand

Kind of bummed that there don't really seem to be any serious threads about animation on this board. Of course, most games nowadays just use motion capture for everything, but I'm still of the opinion that animations made by hand such as all the animations in Fumito Ueda's games have a special somet...

We (programmer and 2D artist) are working on a small 3D idle game. Was wondering if any 3D artists here with some experience in low poly, cute characters are interested. Would be nice if we could launch a project consisting of only 4chan devs, but if we can't find someone we will end up looking else...

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Anon·09/29/25 00:38·No.1019308

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Anon·10/02/25 11:33·No.1019493

hello frends, i've just started using blender, am i doing good?

how do i set up a local AI mesh generator? this shit takes forever to give me a turn

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Anon·09/27/25 09:49·No.1019223

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Anon·08/15/25 06:49·No.1016944

One Car Challenge

We're halfway through the deadline, but are any of you going to partake of the One Car Challenge? https://3dmodels.org/one-car-challenge/

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Anon·04/02/25 13:55·No.1010467

AI will take our jobs

AI will take our jobs! The ones none of us have!.

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Anon·01/28/25 14:30·No.1006395

it's over fuck this timeline

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Anon·09/07/24 16:46·No.994610

What is the best controller for modeling/sculpting in VR?

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Anon·09/25/25 16:40·No.1019174

Niche af question but I'll try asking here. I'm trying to make a civ 5 mod and I can't for the life of me export an .fbx file that nexus will understand. I've tried making the mesh super small. I've made many different kinds of materials. I've used an FBX converter to convert the file to 2010 format...

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Anon·08/29/25 21:35·No.1017781

AnimBOT

The single most used Maya add-on and not a single person has decided that it would be worth the time to crack it. Maybe they have? If they have, someone send it my way I'm not paying for it.

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Anon·02/20/25 15:47·No.1007862

/DailySculpting/

a thread to post your daily sculpts and sculpting in general previous thread >>1003156

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Anon·09/29/25 01:42·No.1019312

New blender tutorial dropped, time to make a mineshaft my fellow #blendheads also, why does /3/ hate blenderguru so much? he just wants to teach you how to make digital donuts for free.

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Anon·09/23/25 03:19·No.1019102

Memz3D models

Anyone know where you can rip this dudes models? $100 is a bit too much, and i know theres a repository somewhere

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Anon·08/17/25 16:01·No.1017066

Gay homo faggot vending crypto ATM machine

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Anon·09/25/25 21:17·No.1019178

How do I connect 2 different parts without ruining the texture? I tried "ctrl + shift + num +", which connects the whole body, but merges the textures into 1 making it look bad. The rig works but I can't move the head or arms without a gaping hole. I tried looking up tutorials but all I got was "ctr...

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Anon·09/02/25 08:00·No.1017942

/3/ if it weren't for you I would not have found this cool hobby I like to take molecular biology stuff from the protein databank and render it in Maya. I once asked about this here on /3/ in a stupid questions thread and was told where to go and what to do. A year later here I am playing around wit...

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Anon·09/02/24 18:38·No.994071

/GG/ - Gunt General [Cockroach Edition]

No nuke can't stop the Gunt. Post anything Gunt related or of a Guntish nature >I want to use the Gunt model Gunt's model should be here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r0MbQRcUnbRGwzS4wRSYEfjrLFUoP3b6/view?usp=sharing Old nuked thread: https://warosu.org/3/thread/918176#p963992

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Anon·07/03/25 18:49·No.1014631

Did sfm set back 2010s animators years? (kinda ignore pic)

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Anon·09/22/25 11:08·No.1019051

In /3/s expert option what went wrong? Are they really running a UE5 Lumen PBR pipeline with stylized post-processing on top? Would doing stylized rendering in Unity's scripted render pipeline fix this?

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Anon·09/13/25 19:15·No.1018572

How would you make this in 3D?

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Anon·08/31/25 06:54·No.1017841

Learning 3d animation

Can you guys recommend me some really good YouTube channel that teach us how to make 3d animation. REMEMBER A REALLY REALLY GOOD YOUTUBE CHANNEL THAT TEACH US HOW TO MAKE 3D ANIMATION Addition : i'm the same guy who make thread that post “Is there a good channel to learn how to make 3d animation an...

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Anon·09/09/25 19:24·No.1018336

Softimage

The program that solved the modeling problem for good and got assassinated by Autodesk as a result. 1. Same interface for decades, already has 99% of tools you need, with an intuitive UI that any non-tech person can easily master. 2. Autodesk bought it, added extremely well Maya keybinds and yet nob...

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Anon·01/06/25 18:27·No.1004856

/sg/ - shader general

a thread for discussion about shaders. show off, post exaples from others,your own node setups,code,tips,questions,etc.

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Anon·07/08/25 15:54·No.1014897

Cinema 4d

Have a cinema 4d question? recently started a project? Or simply want to talk about modeling and texturing

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Anon·03/11/25 09:04·No.1009031

It's pointless and you should give up

Jobs are drying up. Talented 3D artists are getting laid off. Accept it, it's over. The jobs aren't coming back and AI is going to take over this field. So accept it. Accept it and go into trades. Quit doing this this and do real work. Go be an electrician. Just quit living with your head in the clo...

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Anon·08/31/25 13:50·No.1017854

Alright started my very first lowpoly character trying to use techniques here >>1017490 [/3/thread/1017490#p1017490] How fucked is it?

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Anon·09/15/25 20:36·No.1018668

Substance

>link folder with 2000 sbsar files into library in Substance Designer Works fine >link folder with 2000 sbsar files into library in Substance Painter It shits itself, long loading times at every start up What's the fucking deal with that? Aren't they supposed to work similarly? How do you anons man...

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Anon·01/03/25 21:50·No.1004617

First attempt at rigging my first character...it's NOT looking good bros

What do you think of this shoe model I made?

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Anon·05/24/25 19:50·No.1012614

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Anon·09/06/25 07:57·No.1018155

The truth.

None of you are going to make it in the 3D industry. The industry doesn’t want you, your “style” is irrelevant, and your “passion” means nothing. Studios are drowning in Chinese portfolios better than yours. AI is already doing your job faster than you. And no, your donut, your anime bust, or your c...

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Anon·09/14/25 08:32·No.1018594

can someone animate jax but short and fat? i think it would be funny

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Anon·09/14/25 03:45·No.1018588

hi anons i am new to this stuff heres a meatball he says hello

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Anon·09/08/25 13:13·No.1018253

How does it feel knowing the second best skill in the world?

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Anon·09/12/25 14:54·No.1018504

There has to be a less retarded way of setting up UV shifting for low poly face texture swapping than this

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Anon·09/12/25 02:02·No.1018482

Diving into 3D work has me aching for an upgrade.

I upgraded to an RX 6650 XT a while ago. It's fine for gaming at 1080p, but once I got into 3DCG work now it's showing it's lackluster performance. Rendering is slow, VRAM is short, and compared to NVIDIA offerings, the AMD cards just don't excel in 3DCG. I got a 500W PSU and am running Ubuntu, so ...

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Anon·08/07/25 21:27·No.1016562

shared exercise: anon's room a.k.a. /3/ cribs

Gentlemen, may I propose a shared learning experience? Here's how it works: - a subject matter is chosen, and anons participating create each their own rendition of it; - the exercise is divided in "phases", for each phase we shall set a deadline; once it's reached we move onto the next phase, and ...

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Anon·09/07/25 17:36·No.1018217

Is it possible to make things like this in Blender or is there another program? I want to create psychedelic liquid simulations like this

Any recommendations for Learning professional animation for Blender? I'm swapping from Maya to Blender.

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Anon·08/19/25 13:19·No.1017171

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Anon·07/30/25 11:51·No.1016084

Blender General

Previous: >>1011128

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Anon·10/23/24 06:06·No.999421

Painting with stencils allows you to use textures generated by an algorithm to quickly photobash your models. Here, a tutorial will be shown on how to do this from the basics.

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Anon·09/11/25 10:10·No.1018442

Tell me where's 3D modelling AI located at? There's free Pepe 3D model but the face doesn't look like this one. Aaarghhh! It feels like shit that this is the first time I'm being scammed. Fucking indonesian.

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Anon·07/25/25 14:25·No.1015811

for all my low poly phototexture enjoyers here https://youtu.be/bK3XwkbEPRg a world4jack video... its a tutorial on how he textures his dudes i downloaded it, so if it takes it down ill repost

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Anon·08/25/25 16:06·No.1017532

why is the graph editor in Blender still such a piece of useless shit? why don't they improve anything to make the work more intuitive? literally the worst UI of any DCC

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Anon·09/05/25 18:01·No.1018131

I hate Blender 4.4

I hate the fucking animation slots. What possessed them to take something that was simple and worked perfectly well and make it complicated for the sake of complicity. I can no longer export animations from blender to unreal because all the animations are the same. >Clearly keyframed jump animation?...

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Anon·08/26/25 02:57·No.1017559

why are they always hiring? is it a shitshow to work over there?

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Anon·09/09/25 16:40·No.1018318

New idea for a 2D cutout 3D renderer.

I had the idea of a 3D renderer that projects a 2D cutout rig into a 3D space, but sort of minimizes the X rotation and keeps everything looking like the 2D drawings, but the lighting and animation is done using a low poly model. Only that the 3D mesh is used to project the 2D planes vertex to the ...

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Anon·01/17/25 01:24·No.1005594

[email protected]

I'm creating a video game but I don't know what it's going to be about (I'm just modeling meaningless rooms and some furniture)

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Anon·07/23/25 14:04·No.1015711

Making this character jump

In this thread I will be making a character jump. Even if it kills me.

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Anon·09/06/25 17:41·No.1018175

Environment Filters > Piss Filters

Can we get some filter analysis? After replaying some old games, including RE5, MGS2/3, NFSMW, etc I found them quite useful to hide the uncanny ambient lighting. Even in GTA SA the orange PS2 tint enables you to see the game as its own pocket universe instead of a game that is trying to emulating r...

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Anon·09/04/25 14:55·No.1018054

Cosmetic bottle blender render 3D

rate my cosmetic bottle, made from scratch you schmucks ( 5 hours of editing to make it as realistic as possible and they didn't hire me)

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Anon·09/04/25 12:05·No.1018044

>Oh you installed Blender huh? Making a low poly game are we? Good luck, buddy, you and the million other schmucks, heh.

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Anon·09/05/25 19:52·No.1018141

is EMV engine hard to setup, or am i just retarded?

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Anon·09/05/25 08:32·No.1018082

Dear or Alive 6

https://youtu.be/jD3TFbSmztI?t=1 Is there a term for DOA6 style hair/materials that aren't realistic and looks gorgeous? The shading on clothes are simple yet looks intricate.

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Anon·06/16/25 03:58·No.1013702

I come with a heavy question, I come with hunger for answers. I tried making fortnite 3D blender porn a year ago, I never got better, I never got better. I want to present the evidence of lack of progress as well as present the works of others, current day, that are performing better works. Could i...

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Anon·05/11/25 12:57·No.1011815

how the fuck does a studio of 30 people total (including programmers, managers) create such a massive game with unique environments and character models? I struggle to create any environment in less than a month that is going to be rendered in a still frame. what kind of magic do these people do?

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Anon·09/02/25 08:48·No.1017944

Lighting/Shading

I remember reading somewhere that old-school video games used to treat illumination through a lens of studio lighting. Instead of simulating rays, they use a combination of point/directional/spot/ambient light to convey the emotion of a scene. Is there any blog or video that talks about this phenome...

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Anon·08/22/25 11:27·No.1017350

crocotiles 3d

is this program worth anything? I am primarily going to decide between it and blender. I am a complete permabeg. Any thoughts? not a single person on /v/ or /vg/ or /3/ has ever talked about it afaik.

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Anon·09/03/25 21:29·No.1018015

Rate my 3ds Max render. Am I ready enough for a position in the animation industry?