I hope I’m not being a bother putting thing son the post, I just want it to be more visible on my art blog.
But hello! I’m Neonhorn and I am a 3D artist, I have a background in SFM and have moved over to Blender for a few years now. While I mostly still do posing with pre-made assets, I’m also trying to learn to animate and model!
- Just do things. This isn’t the same as practice, but is a part of it. Just doing things, for fun, for serious, it doesn’t matter. Make something silly and dumb, every step counts.
- In my early SFM days I was told to use a rule of thirds overlay, using it helped me learn better composition and I can visualize the grid by now. Though bringing it up every so often is still good!
- if you’re not doing things professionally/for money. Take requests! It forces you to learn how to use different models in different poses and settings than what you’d do on your own. Plus making people happy is great.
- lighting is very important! Incredibly important! Almost always get your three point lighting down and go from there. In SFM there were fake PBR materials and you had to fake lighting and things like bounce lighting with limited lights. This skill has translated to Blender, while HDRI’s do a good job at general lighting. Adding your own lights can really make things pop and be more visually interesting.
- move those shoulders. No not the upper arm, the shoulders. The clavicles.
- something that I still struggle with is being okay with compete overhauls of a project. Sometimes you get near the end of a pose and you shift the model around or the camera and notice it looks much better in this position, but you then need to redo half the pose to make sense in it. It can suck, but also be worth it.
- it’s a part of the first point but; just finish things. Just get it done. You can agonize over something for days when it’s 95% complete, or you can get it done and move onto the next things. Consciously or subconsciously learning. Though this doesn’t apply to big projects, just smaller ones/ones for fun.
- the content wheel is crushing and unless you’re planning on being a freelance artist full time, don’t fall for its wiles. We unfortunately live in an age that chews up and spits artists out and has little respect for them overall. Don’t burn yourself out for nothing.
- Final point for now: enjoy what you do.
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