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This year’s accountability update (aka, I don’t really post on tumblr that much anymore but I’m not dead)

So this year has been rough, but I’m going to try to not dwell on that.  I’m not going to make promises that I’m going to do more art (I want to) or going to stream more (also on my list last year)  but rather going to just promise that I’m going to try to tackle a lot of the problems that I’ve been hoping would just go away on their own.  Namely burn out and depression.  Kinda feelin very old, very unskilled, and very frumpy all around.  So I’m going to do my best to tackle as much of that as possible first.

I post more frequently on instagram / twitter as xsculpts on both, largely because a lot of my WIP stuff has been flagged as mature here, and I’m probably one strike away from being deleted.  I should make a backup,  the last 7 years have been fun. even though I probably only was active for half of that.

to the future, all the best

x

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I usually just do streaming notifis on twitter and the discord server lately, but thought I’d post here!  streaming a bit on https://www.twitch.tv/xsculpts

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Octobus Marina!

artstation | sketchfab

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A study I got a little carried away with. 

(I’ve also opened up a Ko-fi ! If you wish to support me follow the link either on my tumblr’s header or through this post)

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wip from the last coupl-a streams!

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xsculpts - Twitch

Zbrush 2018 first impressions and Marina sculpt!

we’re back!

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Missed goblinweek but I’mma post anyway!

Model viewable here: https://skfb.ly/6wtZU

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Trying streaming on twitch !  pop by and say if you love/hate it!

https://www.twitch.tv/xsculpts

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💖Mini-Hen💖

She’s only about an inch and a half tall but full of love :o

Mini  Hensa draw by @hensa Here

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Accountability update 2018

So the past year was pretty stagnant for me, art wise, so I'm going to take the advice of a friend an focus less on 'projects' and more on just individual sculpts. I found that a lot of stress was me trying to get things "perfect" which often just meant noodling things without discipline or reason.  So this year I'm going to focus on big forms and gesture, and putting a soft 'limit' on how much time I spend on a piece to be like a weekend or so.

I still want to do large scale pieces, but putting all my attention into 'projects' was not a good way of doing things.  It discouraged me from doing something small or daily and had me dragging my feet on things.

So more art, it may start out a little rougher at first, but last year I made like 5 things I can call 'done' and that just doesn't make me happy.

Now I may or may not post these pieces here on Tumblr or Artstation, I'm not sure.  We'll see the quality I can achieve, but I will make it a priority to post more on my instagram as the atmosphere there is a bit more casual.

I also want to make an archive of past work for download / persual, but I need to find a good way of doin that.

And I want to revisit my “color for the colorblind” series.  Whether that’s in the form of a PDF or a video, I’m not sure.  But it’s something that I want to do this year.

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Calling this one done!  Sculpt was based on the design of Catwoman from “Batman of Shanghai”

turntable on my instagram!

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Time for my like-once-every-6-months-stream when I say I’d stream more stream

https://picarto.tv/xsculpts

Come by and chat

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BATTLEPOTS: a personal project WIP I’ve been having a lot of fun with tiling materials and trimsheets in Maya, Substance Painter, and Unreal over the last week and a half. More cannons and some mechanical legs to come! Most of these bevels are faked in the normal map of the trimsheet. Since this is a modular set of textures, it’s easy to make large set pieces with a lot of detail, and it’s just as easy to make new material variations using the same maps. More information about Trimsheets and how they’re used in games: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022324/The-Ultimate-Trim-Texturing-Techniques https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Pyga4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS0k2SBEQDI https://www.pinterest.com/andreamassa/trim-sheets/?lp=true If you have any technical questions, let me know!

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Rose taking a bit of a break to stargaze!

Glad I was able to pull this out before the end of the year.  Here’s hoping for a better 2018!

see some WIPs and stuff on my instagram

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Hyped for MUTAFUKAZ, made a little Angelino fanpiece 

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In your opinion is retopology time consuming, do u do it in zbrush?

it’s time consuming yes.  and doing it in zbrush is a pretty daungting task outside of like “good enough for previs” zretopo.

I recommend learning to do retopo in : Topogun, 3dcoat, blender or maya.  Take the decimated version of the mesh out of zbrush and then do your retopo in one of those suites.  It’s still time consuming but not nearly as painful

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xsculpts is live on Picarto.TV! Watch our streamer do 3D Modeling stuff and chat with likeminded people. 38759 have watched xsculpts’ stream!

here I go again