VECTOR

Good to see you around Dave, hope all is well

i don't use apple or amd hardware but using a egpu, especially for any high end cards is a waste of money imo, not only are you paying a premium for the card in the first place, the one you mentioned especially you're going to be throttled by the egpu and won't get anywhere near the performance to warrant spending the money on the card to begin with. ( i'd also argue that if you have that kind of budget available you'd be better of with a 3080 instead) also i believe redshift support for amd is relatively new this year which maybe why you aren't seeing an abundance of benchmarks for it.

I hear Alienware/Razor are rumored to have some 18 inch machines being released next year with what i image would be a 4090/4090 ti set up and i'll only cost you 4.5k 😄

They might need to be thinner

DeeDee!

i like cake

4k turntable

All done with this, what a blast! on to the next one

made them a bit wider they do indeed look a lot better, yea i kinda like the hand with the hard edges. modelling is essentially complete now just testing the materials and lighting

yea i think making them a bit wider would look good

Finally had some more time to work on this after a busy few weeks with client work 😄 can2.mp4

I think it would be a shame if the forum disappears. There’s not really any alternative anywhere else on the web. The sub Reddit for c4d for example is dead as a door nail I don’t see c4d zone doing much either. it really does surprise me that Maxon don’t see the value of having a dedicated forum for their software, that answers many of their users query’s a service they don’t offer them selves and don’t look like they plan on doing anytime soon. I get Igors frustration and stand point, the amount of work that’s gone into keeping the forum alive and kicking whilst simultaneously having support pulled, would leave anyone with a bad taste in their mouth. There’s only so long you can keep doing something before you think F - it. I agree having the forum as ready only until you subscribe would be beneficial, at least that way people can see what they’re getting and can make an informed decision about joining.

Whats up guys, so as the title suggests, one of my followers on Instagram by the name of Enox, is an awesome illustrator from NewZealand link below. Said i'd take one of his cool characters/stickers and turn it into 3D, So here's the progress so far original 2d illustration included https://www.instagram.com/enoxart/

Was browsing the modelling sub reddit, and noticed a post about someone having issues with using booleans to cut notches out for a watch bezel in blender, something i seem to be seeing quite a lot of recently (booleans not bezels) anyway after obviously advising him to model it properly/ increase the geometry , I knocked up a quick example in a couple of minutes of one simple , and relativity clean way of doing it. Thought it may help someone out if they ever come to doing something similar. nothing revolutionary here just quick, clean and easy, i worked out roughly how many segments i need using a disk, split off and modelled one section as seen in the images. To get the little notches i beveled the points with no subdivisions to get a diamond and added some additional cuts and loops before putting it in an array to finish off. nice clean, quad based result with out the use of booleans and/or clean up time etc

calling this one done..for now 😛

Thanks man 😄

Finally got around to finishing all the modelling now working on the materials. first time using bodypaint in side of c4d to paint the textures for the horse body 😄

New character eyes ive been playing round with the last day or so, probably won't add veins or anything as it i'll push it too far into the realistic look area, ill probably lose the Fresnel looking pink areas as well

I still have the exact same problem

Yea I’m looking at the elegoo Saturn 2 ! Yea I think it will take some trail and error to get right clean up doesn’t look as bad as the fdm ones. Sure insta is https://www.instagram.com/vectron3D

Yea I’ve been looking at resin printers and have one in mind, I also have a line of toys I want to release in the future and an awesome 2d artist to work on the designs and box art etc

Forgot to post these finished renders.

That is…beautiful. Really makes me want to build a desktop again, currently eyeing new laptops, how much faster would you say this is compared to say a 3080 that most of the top end laptops have in at the moment. Specing an Alienware x17 at the moment and I’m over 4k in price range.

Yea that would be awesome : D

Re worked my old Jedi model with new armor, materials and lighting ! looking forward to tales of the Jedi!