Buddha

Damn these look amazing!

Wait it actually seems like it was the way to make mesh circles before. Is this my relic-moment? Can I now go up to young 3D-artists and say that they don't know how easy they got it, "back in my day we made circles out of cylinders. What happened to good ol' repivoting, all these fancy meshcircles"

Wild. I hope no recruiter ever reads this, but someone way back taught me to make a mesh circle by creating a cylinder, deleting all faces but the top, repivot. Over a god damn decade later I'm like "wait, this can't be right, there's a mesh circle object right here?". Monkey see monkey do hit hard.

Taking the bait #procreate #gay #water #cyclic #fraility

I always liked that mindset! A system kind of makes something feel a bit more alive than if it’s just this one fixed thing. Either way, I do love over-engineering, the best part is convincing myself that I’ll reuse it in the future and not completely overhaul it and scoff at how poorly I did it last

Although I did have some other stuff I needed to do, I still feel like this #blender #3dart #unreal #environmentart

And here you got the object info that comes from the sculpt data

And here's the world-space splotched on color variation #ue5 #environmentart

The object random color

My favorite thing is setting up an elaborate material that has generated world-space brush-strokes, and then object sculpted normal maps as well as other attribute-map parameters, as well as per object tint randomness... for something that in the end probably will be like 8 objects #ue5 #3dart

ugh this kind of workflow for variation goes so hard for variation. I feel like I avoided this way of working with art because I always told myself I wanted to my things to be crafted by hand but girl who has time, and top of that my handcrafted stuff sucked ass #unreal #environmentart

Me: is it not perhapseth the ironic twist of fate, that we call ourselves 3d artists, yet we mostly sit in nodes? Where is the little boy who sat with crayons, crafting his art with his hands?
Also me when I realize I have to actually open zbrush to sculpt:

It was what I always hoped for when dreaming about becoming an artist as a child; endless node networks until 4 am and severe lack of sleep #3d #substancedesigner #unreal #gamedevmemes #3dartist

So, I’m not saying these are realistic by any means, I’m saying: I let go of what I thought I was restricted by, and it just became fun to create vegetation like this. To quote Marge, my metric of success instead became “I just think it’s neat”

But when we were together, my ex’s mom and sister were really into botanics and always showed the cool plants they found from here and there. At that point I realized how god damn wacky foliage can be, sure there are rules to abide by, but overall, they can come in so many colors and shapes

So what I mean by that is, like when you’re a kid you just have “an idea” of what things are, a sun is a circle with lines from it, and leaves just have one shape. And honestly I kind of just stuck by the same shapes and specifically, I always kept making vegetation green in all my environments

Okay I’m finally done with my node-based vegetation. This was really fun tbh, even though it took ages. I think what made it fun was that I started breaking free from just plants as I imagine them. #substancedesigner #unreal #vegetation #environmentart #blender #stylized3d

So the answer to my question “wouldn’t this be cool on print” was answered with “it sure fuck didn’t” 😭 idk I’ve been told bold colors can’t be printed, but I’ve had another print firm able to do at least somewhat closer, this was… so… off

One in motion as well, I gotta say I don’t hate how the terrainblendinf ended up #blender #3d #unreal #wip

A little WIP before bed… which is also long overdue. Finally got around to getting the new #stylizedstation tutorial for RVTs in unreal… was a true pain but I’m here now. #blender #unreal #stylized3d #3denvironmentart

After stalling touching this project for like… idk like 3 months I finally got back to it and finished the vegetation atlas, will now do some blender assembly. Spent way too much time on getting ivy that “melted together” #substancedesigner #3d #vegetation

I’ve felt remorse not being more active creatively , but funny enough I also stumbled on a quote from my late grandfather in a letter to my mom, loosely translated, “moving through life with an even cadence remains impossible” #procreate #escapism

I might try to see how this one works printed out in shifting colored lights, imagine if I knew color theory and knew that beforehand, but then it wouldn’t be a surprise #art #procreate #gay

Smooch on loop #procreate #art #gay

“Tins and craniums not welcome!” It says in the window, allegedly #procreate #art #snow

Some nsfw practice #bara

Some practice except I can’t draw buildings

A toad is not a frog but nonetheless a creature, its innards don’t bleed blue but nonetheless a life. Its carcass not a meal, but when its form begins to unspool, communion alone beckons hungry patrons. #procreate #toad #fairytale #prince #appetite

A little timeline

If I ever get this good at art it's over for you guys, I'd never shut up about it, I'd be paying billboards to showcase it