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Personally I'd just simplify everything to linear dimensions and relative offsets. Don't bother with trying to build in a polar coordinate system or anything. Start by revolving the sphere(oid) for the head, find its centroid, locate other parts relative to that point. Don't think of the eye as being on the surface of the sphere, but displaced from the centroid by some X, Y and Z translation. Fusion should work just fine for that model -- it's a relatively simple shape. How far are you right now?
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Nov 1, 2018 07:32
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As an industrial designer who works almost exclusively with NURBS, it's hilarious how every suggestion in this article is the exact opposite of what you should be doing in my industry. I know that animation in 1998 is very different from CAID in 2018 but lol I'd just outright fail a student for making an entire model out of a single lofted surface.
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Nov 1, 2018 17:01
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A radio set like that has 6+ analog axes that are controlled by dials or joysticks that can be set to a position and left there while you play with something else. For the kind of work he's doing, I'd imagine this is far superior to an Xbox controller or whatever where each stick/trigger springs back to its resting position as soon as it's released. I don't think it's necessarily about doing it live as much as just having quick access to a whole pile of different controls that would otherwise just be a bunch of onscreen sliders.
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Nov 6, 2018 04:04
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Is there nothing like a loft command that would let you connect those edges together? Or even like just a poly-from-planar-edges command?
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Nov 7, 2018 15:14
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A better division would be: animate or inanimate objects? Rhino does organic forms well, but not living things. In Rhino you can easily (well relatively easily) model swoopy organic curves like car bodies or modern jewelry, but it's not really suitable for making realistic humans or animals. On the other hand, while I haven't used ZBrush in any professional capacity, I would imagine it's just as bad at building mechanical assemblies as Rhino is at making orcs. I would personally go with Rhino but I'm also an industrial designer soo
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Dec 2, 2018 06:45
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That bump/normal map looks good. Have you found any way of doing anything like real displacement mapping in KeyShot? I've started using it recently because Maxwell quit doing good educational pricing (and KeyShot has become the industry standard in industrial design, so gotta keep aiming for those targets) but man do I miss those bumpy edges.
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Dec 14, 2018 02:12
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Please crank up the hair length to 11 and make a mega floofball tia
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Dec 31, 2018 21:00
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What program are you using?
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Jan 10, 2019 06:31
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I think your work is decent but your portfolio page itself needs improvement. It's not laid out very well and it's pretty stodgy. Consider that your portfolio design also reflects on your skillset as a visual artist, and the viewer will be looking at it for longer than any other piece you show. It's good to have your own site, but it needs to be punched up to look at least as good as one you'd see on Behance or Coroflot or whatever. Also I think the page of random sketches could be cut out. It's not really professional-level work.
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Jan 16, 2019 18:21
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Synthbuttrange posted:You left it too long, its about nuns on monowheels now she'd better tie up that goddamned habit or it's just gonna get sucked into the mechanism
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Feb 13, 2019 06:05
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Garbage men have better unions than Polygon jockeys lol as well they should btw
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Mar 30, 2019 22:13
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cubicle gangster posted:It is all kitbashed, he's built up a huge library. It's also now his full time job and makes him a decent amount of money, and I got the impression that in his first few years doing it he didnt need money anyway. Yeah I have a friend of a friend who's been "inventing" some sort of self-balancing electric space pod commuter vehicle for about ten years now. He has a company and a few employees but they never seem to really produce anything, still have the single prototype sitting unmoved in the garage while he decides he's going to use it to work on his land rover instead or whatever. So I eventually asked my friend "how does he make any money with that company? It seems like he just kinda farts around and doesn't have any clear goal, but it keeps going year after year" and he was like "oh well his grandfather started Kawasaki Heavy Industries." 
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Apr 3, 2019 00:48
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Ccs posted:I agree those examples look either unweildy or overdone. Ralph McQuarrie, one of the best of all time         Kanine posted:
Overall this one looks like you've taken most of your design language from a star destroyer, which is fine but it's not the same language that is used for imperial fighters. - imperial fighters don't have laser cannons that stick out like that -- they're little nubs - TIE fighter cockpit windows are circular with radial segments, not triangles - all of the TIE variants are very spindly and fragile looking -- this one is solid and chunky - imperial fighters don't have fins. if you're gonna use them, at least go with the lambda-class shuttle for inspiration, which has one fin on the top and two on the bottom - gotta have the solar panel wings somewhere! Also the scale is better but it's still the size of a medium bomber. I would expect it to have at least two crew and maybe four. Imagine how much space your pilot has inside that cockpit. An A-wing is literally like half the size of what you've got.
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Apr 12, 2019 04:23
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Yeah, I was having the same problem a while ago trying to render a fluffy towel in keyshot. It's really just not a renderer meant for that sort of thing. It's for industrial design visualization first and foremost, as you can tell from the massive library of car paints and Pantone swatches but the total lack of natural, organic, or living materials.
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May 10, 2019 16:35
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Academics don't have the first clue about how computers work. "JPG is industry-standard" means "JPG was the first file format we tried with the software and everyone was too scared of breaking it to look into anything else."
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May 16, 2019 22:35
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Aargh posted:It's not 100% for this thread but does anyone know some good tutorials for Solidworks? Getting it put on my work computer to replace lovely Vectorworks that doesn't work after upgrading to OSX Mojave. Do you still have a Mac? You know SolidWorks only runs in Windows, right? Running it in Parallels is going to be unbearably slow for any serious professional work, and if you run it in boot camp just buy a Dell XPS or whatever instead. Fusion 360 is a reasonable SolidWorks alternative that runs in the Mac OS, provided you aren't doing complex industrial work that requires SolidWorks-specific features.
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Jun 5, 2019 18:01
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i told you in the drat yospos thread that i will buy one only if it has ＲＯＤＴＲＯＮＩＣＳ on it i need to display the brands with which i engage
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Jul 10, 2019 18:29
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something like the first one on a t-shirt please (helvetica is absolutely more appropriate for this electronics-textbook-cover design)
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Jul 11, 2019 04:05
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That chair looks very nice. One suggestion I'd make is to add some scrape marks that expose the bare metal in the areas where the moving parts would slide against one another -- just a little bit peeking out behind the side plates in the riveted areas and such. The paint almost immediately chips off in those areas in real life.
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Jul 27, 2019 22:35
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it would have been called "unreal tournament" except epic has basically cancelled that because of fuckin fortnite
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Aug 8, 2019 20:26
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I don't know if you're going for a realistic look or a more cartoony style, but in real life you can't see the shells, obviously. Maybe just a long translucent streak like smoke being dragged along behind the projectile? A static line also shows direction much better than a small object in motion, in my opinion.
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Aug 28, 2019 05:55
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Don't learn AutoCAD unless someone is telling you specifically to learn that program. In that case, report them to the police. Fusion 360 is probably where you should start. What are you trying to do?
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Yeah, I would also probably recommend Rhino for what you're doing if you are starting from zero. It can do all of the 2D stuff that AutoCAD can, but the interface is much better, and on top of that it's an actual 3D modeling application with extremely powerful tools for smooth, hard surfaces like you get in industrial design or architecture. I like Rhino a lot. As noted, Grasshopper (plugin included with Rhino) could let you do some really cool procedural design of these neon signs (or whatever) once you get good enough. Fusion 360 is like Autodesk's attempt to capture Solidworks' market because Inventor didn't do it. It does a lot of things pretty well and it's free. If your work has a lot of nitpicky mechanical details that you need to assemble against one another, like you're making gearboxes or engines or something, Fusion is probably better than Rhino. You could pull off what you're trying to do in either one, though. SolidWorks is better than Fusion 360 at mechanical assemblies but it costs $5000. AutoCAD is ancient garbage that no one should be using in 2020 except if they're working at a company with a huge backlog of plans in AutoCAD format, and even then it should only be used by the intern who's going through and converting them all to something newer and better.
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Jun 13, 2020 03:07
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That's like a 3 minute job if you literally just need the scaled 3-views and no fancy rendering or anything. What's the model?
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Jun 16, 2020 15:36
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mutata posted:I've been a Maya user since college (2007) and I recommend anyone starting now learns Blender. It just makes too much sense at this point. Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:And apparently blender is also production proven for games now, with a lot of support from game studios and even being used by some fortnite devs, hard to beat “free” It's nice that this discussion has come up because it's something that we are debating at the university at which I teach. It's a design program (graphic/industrial) and we're expanding into interactive media and VR as well. Currently the only 3D modeling programs we teach are industrial-design-specific things like SolidWorks, Rhino, and Keyshot. The interaction/VR track needs a basic polygon modeling and animation class, something that would let the students build simple models for their VR projects, and which would also support the graphic design program (kinetic typography, etc). This would be a second-year class in a 4-year degree. I have been pushing to have the class taught with Blender as it seems to be the most accessible (and free is great for the students), while other professors have been pushing for Maya citing industry adoption, and C4D has come up a few times too because apparently a lot of 3D typography people use it. What would you recommend as industry professionals?
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Jun 24, 2020 05:41
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lady's got that Pixar Mom figure goin on
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Aug 23, 2020 22:43
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they are the warp nacelles and what you see as jet engine intakes are actually the bussard collectors (i agree that the ship looks a little unbalanced and i think it would be better if it had a big gun on the pod opposite the cockpit but eh he's trying to replicate this guy's design)
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Sep 25, 2020 18:14
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Captain Splendid posted:First attempt at a claymation-style project this synchronized pretty nicely with the music i was listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w_oHSjd3vY (the art is great. nice job getting the fingerprint marks that change with every frame)
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Oct 1, 2020 01:05
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cubicle gangster posted:Yeah i seem to remember a big breakthrough around 5 (maybe more) years ago. used to be the only tablet worth a poo poo was wacom, for someone reason nobody else could make one that was anywhere near as good, The breakthrough was probably a patent expiring. The explosion of desktop 3D printers over the last decade is the result of two key Stratasys patents expiring in 2007 and 2009.
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Oct 13, 2020 21:44
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I do 99% hard surface modeling in Rhino and mechanical stuff with SolidWorks, and I use a mouse for both. I'm very used to all the keyboard shortcuts and I feel like the combination of the two is faster and more precise than a tablet. When I mess around with the sculpting tools in Blender, though, I definitely use a tablet. The pressure sensitivity alone is worth it
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Oct 16, 2020 19:17
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It looks like your environment rotation is different in each of those images. Lock your camera in position so that it doesn't move relative to the environment, then use the object move tools and geometry view window to position your models. Also maybe play with the exposure sliders in the camera and image tabs. For the most consistent results, set up an empty rendering scene with the settings you like, lock everything down, then make copies of it for each model set you want to render.
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Nov 26, 2020 02:15
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Yeah, in Keyshot by default you have a spherical panorama "environment" that produces all the lighting and reflections, and your camera and model move around inside it. When you tumble the view to look at a different part of the model, you are moving the camera around, but the environment lighting still comes from the same place, which is now in a different orientation relative to the camera. So it's kind of like you have a light box setup and you put the models in it facing backwards, but then swung the camera around to the back of the box to photograph them and that's why the lighting is weird. You need to keep the camera where it is and move the models instead. Find an angle that lights the models well, lock that camera in position (or make a new one called rendercam or whatever), then import other models you want to render in the same way and use the move tools to position them in the camera's view.
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Nov 26, 2020 03:12
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you don't even have to wait for market forces to drive wages down. a bunch of tech companies out here are already saying that they'll cut people's salaries if they move to a place with a cheaper cost of living. because apparently they think they pay you in a certain standard of living that they have the authority to set -- not however much loving money the job you do is worth to them. it's ghoulish
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Nov 27, 2020 19:25
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Non-manifold mesh? Inconsistent normals?
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Nov 29, 2020 21:39
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Post a picture of what you're imagining and if it's not too complex I can probably knock it out in a few minutes. No charge. (If it's like covered in skulls and snakes and poo poo then we can negotiate)
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I like the funny little pistol on the left. Bottom one is also decent.
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Dec 13, 2020 09:59
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Use Rhino instead, it's $995 
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Rhino and Alias are both class-A surface modelers, yes. But the automotive industry is almost entirely Alias so he's kind of going to be stuck with that if that's his field. Rhino's interface is vastly better though.
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SubNat posted:I hear the new Wacom Intuoses also have a rougher, matte cover nowadays which supposedly just eats through nibs? This has been my experience, yes. I got a new Intuos Pro as part of the COVID wfh poo poo and it does chew through nibs. The surface doesn't feel all that different from the older Intuos models I've used (though it is definitely more toothy than, say, an old Graphire) so I wonder if it's just that they changed the nib plastic. I have been able to get them to last about twice as long by sanding them round again with a nail file once they get squared off, but yeah, you'll need replacements eventually.
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