Dandylion - Art School Journey

[dandylion3d]

Dont look at my topology, i know its garbage lmao. this is for non 3d peoples to see XD

[daceronine]

Lol, looks works pretty good! As a non 3Ds people It looks amazing!

[dandylion3d]

Here's the final moneyshot render i made in marmoset of the Gboy. I've been playing around with it this morning for the first time ever and its pretty sick, its like if unreal engine and substance painter had a baby that kicks ass and smokes cigars.

[matthewwemes]

this is so good... the plastic texture and the smudging on the screen make it seem so real.

[mitsuki-youko]

i love how the cat sticker looks like a sticker but everything else is so realistic!

[gregorya]

The rendering of the classic GameBoy is amazing.

[dandylion3d]

Health Potion Slime Girl

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I'm doing Follygon's Sculptober this month to tune up my sculpting skills. I made this Health potion slime girl yesterday for prompt POTION. Just a sculpt made in blender no fancy topo or anything.

Reference:
I found this reference on AS designed by https://badtusk.artstation.com. I thought it was a super cool design. Alot of parts i didn't really have time or the knowledge on hand to figure out though like the broken glass. I know how to do the ropes but ran out of time for the day before i could make them.

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My Sculpture:

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Slime Shader:

I just looked up a slime material tutorial on YT, this was what i was able to find, really simple, i think it looks ok not super amazing but for 1 day render not too bad i suppose.

[daceronine]

That looks really sick, even more impressive it's a one day thing! Even as a WIP she already looks very detailed. Fun concept as well.

It all looks really advanced to me. Very excited on how the whole thing turns out!

[dandylion3d]

thanks a bunch, i'm putting my workflow knowledge through the ultimate meat grinder right now to see what i can get done eachday for the rest of october. I'm learning already how to refine and streamline my creation to post process to make it slicker and quicker.

[mitsuki-youko]

woah that looks amazing!

[dandylion3d]

Prompt Cryptid - MothMan
Day 2 of Sculptober:

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Reference:
I found this really cool drawing by the artist , James Bousema.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g220ne

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My Sculpture:

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Shaders:
Light Bulb - I found a better method for shading glass, turns out blender has a "in house" glass shader! so i mixed it with a transparency shader and placed a point light inside it. Overall i think it looked pretty neat. I used the same shader for the eyes, only i duplicated them and the outer eyes is the glass shader "shell" and the inside copy was the actual eyes that are just red spheres with transmission set to 2 so they have a little glow to them.

Shiny Carapace Leg Armor - This was originally for marble i just adjusted it a bit, i think it looked ok. I don't know exactly what insect carapace is like so i just figured shiny-ish & armor like is good enough.

[dandylion3d]

I think maybe the lighting here was a little rough but i did it in a day.. so maybe ill revisit it another time.

[daceronine]

As usual, impressive wor for just a day. Clearly a few things that would still need to be refined to try to match the style (like the eye expression, or some "hair strands" to make it more organic), but really impressive neverthless. Heck I wouldn't even know were to start something like this.

[dandylion3d]

Lol thank you! yea i think with more time i could get closer to the ref <3 this is like sprinting but forever lmao... once you know the lay of the 3d land like the UI, tools, and flow, its possible to do alot. there's just so many skills that have to be simultaneously learned to make it "good" which is personally why i like marcs course. Its helped me learn a bunch already about fundemental art.

[snakker]

Man nice job on these!

Blender looks complicated but i got to admit it piques my interest, especially considering its free

[dandylion3d]

Thank u, i'm glad you guys think its cool! it is a little complex, if you're interested checkout Bransculpts on YT he has a really good series on making a character in blender. Grant Abbit also has some great stuff! It is really great blender is free, i love it and the UI is so nice and smooth compared to Z brush. I will admit tho there are some paid addons on blendermarket that take it to a whole new level of awesomeness. I would recommend machine tools (10$) as number 1. it improves the programs camera alot so you can focus/ rotate on individual objects easy.

[snakker]

Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll definitely give blender a tey, nothing to lose after all, but must admit that so far despite ZBrush being kind of weird, I find it intuitive 😂

[dandylion3d]

Thats awesome! hope you have alot of fun trying out 3d stuff when you get to it!

[snakker]

Thank you 😃

Cheers

[mitsuki-youko]

you're making me wanna relearn blender again! XD

this looks awesome