this is really pretty!

wait blender is industry standard now??
hecc yea
look you can do the 5 hour course
or
do what i did
start the donut tutorial
stop after 30 minutes
start making low poly characters for a year
profit???

dope for a first attempt, by attempt 3 you'd really be ready for pixar lol

i upgraded my computer for blender too, mainly the cpu
i'm riding my gtx1650 out till the end of time tho lol

i find myself not alone in the battlefield of ue5 once again

i love realistic fiction ocs! although this one sounds tough, i could name someone(s) i know who's like this but there's always some pain around identity, self-love, being cared for or having to depend on others, etc etc
thanks for sharing the lore and good luck on that backstory haha

incredibly videogameable

bruh i love the design!! does she have a backstory?

this looks really good for beginner art imo :)

i don't know why "out of my way, you mixed creature" is so funny to me 💀

I learned a ton about Blender constraints and had to learn a bit about animation curves too. This is the kind of stuff I want to be comfortable with before doing the main series.

you can do low/mid poly versions of those that look like the games without much overhead, blender starts to lag when you do stuff like generation and physics calculations, which there are ways around, but for rigging + rendering characters, shouldn't be too bad

maybe that'll be a twist for another campaign haha

yo thanks :D i think i fixed it now, we'll just have to see haha

a lot of people have been recommending me krita, especially for animation, so i might have to just jump right in and learn it one day :) thanks

my autosave didn't work in older versions of blender even though all my stuff is on the C: drive, i found my autosaves in 4.3 now but it's quite infrequent so i'll probably need to change that somewhere too

i will never understand why windows forces updates that breaks your workflow, like whyyyy 😭

i'm more used to photoshop than gimp but open source stuff is alluring since i actually know how to code

bro pretty please share your GIMP skills or videos you watched i'm serious GIMP seems nice to use but it's hard for me to get around and it sucked back in 2008 when i was a kid lol

i'll tell you this is a 4.0 thing. i had a lot of troubles in 4.0 that it took me 2 weeks till i folded and got 4.3 lol. 4.0 is more compatible with older versions but it still crashes like a house of cards. i have 4.3 then 4.0 for old imports. i think 4.4 is even more stable now and 4.2 is LTS :)

- in blender 4.3, the texture and sculpt brushes have been overhauled, you'll lose custom brushes in old projects
- picture 1 = new rendering settings you can tweak one by one, including performance ones!
- use mirror modifier as long as you can :)
- shader nodes + grease pencil = classic 2D looks 😀