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09 December 2021 stream - UE5 interior - blocking out stuff

Got tired of retopo and moved to block out some interior scene for UE5

08 December 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - retopo shirt

Back to Bruce Willis and worked on the shirt retopo for a while. 

06 December 2021 stream - environment in UE5

Some more work on the environment in UE5

Ziel's Tommy Lee Jones likeness

Ziel finished a few days ago this Tommy Lee Jones likeness. For more images and videos check his artstation: 

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/o2bm6w

02 December 2021 stream - some UE5 fun

I've started playing with UE5 for a bit. This stream refining a blockout of environment i made off stream and figuring out a landscape material. 

1 December 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - holster - texture retouches and low poly for the shirt

Finishing the texture for the holster and moved on the low poly for the shirt. 

30 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - holster - Finishing the low poly, UVs and texture

Finished the low poly for the holster and moved to UVs and texturing. 

29 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - holster - low poly day 3

Day 3 on the low poly for the holster. 

26 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - holster - low poly day 2

Day 2 on the low poly for the holster.

25 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - holster - retopo

Started working on the low poly for the holster.

18 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - stitches on the shirt and a long talk and feedback session

Made some stitching for the shirt and had a nice feedback session. 

17 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - detailing the shirt

Some detailing for the shirt in Zbrush

16 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - reworking the shirt

Reworked the shirt now to accommodate the holster. 

15 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - holster - high poly

Worked on the holster in Marvelous Designer a bit. 

11 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - finishing the texture

I've finished with the gun texture during this stream. 

10 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - low poly, UVs and started texturing

Finished the low poly and UVs for the gun and moved on the texture. 

9 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - almost done with the low poly

More work on the low poly for the gun. 

New mentorship format

Hey guys.

It's been almost 3 years since I've started the mentorship and I've seen that people felt somehow cheated by the multiple tiers in the mentorship and the most common question is when can I join the lowest tier. Starting today there will be no more tiers. The desperate thieves will be the only tier where you can join the mentorship and the one that will remain till you decided you had enough.  So no more confusion. The mentorship is 600$/month and that's it.  We don't...

8 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - more low poly work

Continued working on the low poly for the gun. Two of my favorite things in 3d in the same stream....guns and low poly....

7 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - low poly and the bug/feature in Marmoset

I was working on the low poly for the slider of the gun. While doing some bake tests I encountered a bug in Marmoset that sorted out a problem that any 3d encountered while baking their normal maps. Usually if you have long triangles no matter what you do you get some weird shading errors which in general means you will need to optimize your mesh to a point where you don't have long triangles or using smoothing groups/hard edges you try to place them on perfect planar surfaces. This "bug" act...

6 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - finalizing the high poly

Last touches for the gun's high poly.

5 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - working on the high poly day 4

Almost done with  the gun's high poly. 

4 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - working on the high poly day 3

Even more grind on the high poly for the gun. 

2 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - working on the high poly day 2

More grind on the gun's high poly. 

1 November 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - working on the high poly

I've continued working on the high poly for the gun. Most of the workflow is blocking big shapes in 3ds max and booleans in Zbrush. 

27 October 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - gun - blocking out

Started working on a gun for John McClane. In Live free or die hard he used a sig sauer P220. I haven't made a gun in a long time and I'm not the biggest fan of making guns...but hey...someone has to do it. 

26 October 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - refining the pants in MD and Zbrush

Finished with the pants in Marvelous and moved to Zbrush to add some memory folds and details. 

21 October 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - pants in Marvelous Designer

Now that we have boots, I went back to MD to finish the pants. 

20 October 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - boots - finishing the low poly and texturing

Finished the low poly and dived into texturing the boots in Marmoset Toolbag. 

19 October 2021 stream - Bruce Willis - boots - finishing the high poly and some low poly work

Finished with the high poly for the boots and started working on the low poly.