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What's this maya tool that lets you swap out diffrent versions of the model so quickly? (coming from a blender, I wouldn't know how to do that other by enabling / Disabling entire collections/groups)

Will Houdini's new mpm solver be a game changer for this?

Time to destroy everything!!

Thank you man! You made it look way easier! I´ve always thought that it was a great topology mistery to come up with a result like that! Incridible as always!!

Awesome video, exactly up my alley

Recently really started watching you, keep these up going.

Hi andrew im a vfx student right studying and my course is coming to an end, i wanna be an modeller i dont know where to start after the course, is there any advice you can give.

Really like the watch. Awesome piece.

I rarely find myself in other people, when you talk about how you gain in level by doing 100 hours a week of your activity, and sometimes people don't get you pushed your own limit for unlocking new skills. Had a good laugh on: "Then people ask me how I got lucky, I'm like, I don't know, maybe 100 hours weeks might have something to do with it" For a long time I've had impostor syndrome, especially as a self-taught developer, but never neglect the skills you've picked up yourself. And this advice is valid for any route taken. 😁

There is no work life balance in this industry unless you're freelancing or contracting. Forget about relationships or family unless you're in a salary role in an agency. If you want to get far this is what you'll end up sacrificing. So best advice is to do a shit load of up skilling while you're young and without commitments.

I always putted boxing lessons before my OT's at work. And I work so much better when I have some sport during my week. I can't imagine being efficient after hours sitting in front of my desk without sport.

This is how my freelance career usually goes but the periods are a bit shorter. 2 weeks of intense and stressful 12 hour days, followed by 4 weeks of recovery and better sleep hygiene.

i agree with u

Is this mostly just for aesthetics? Also, would it be possible to just apply 1 lvl of SubD afterwards and call it a day? Or should you subdivide first, then redirect? Would the topo be noticeably different?

This is true, No matter how long you work or how much time you spend on a computer, Always find time for your family, physical and mental health, and God. Because if you dont everything will go downhill fast

What about relationships though? I find this to be the trickiest one.

I can sooo relate to the time management stuff!

I've been a massive gamer and have put in close to 100 hours (Which is nothing) this year alone. All that time spend on doing 3D, until I get a job, gaming stays in the closet.

Make money spend money make money spend money

Is it really competitive? You dont have to work alot of hours if you dont want the best possible job, there are alot of interesting jobs in our industry without having to work every hour of the day resting is super important, even getting bored is important, because it makes you think of alot of different stuffs, help you see things with a different mind Personnaly i cant do 3d everytime, i love to do other things like playing guitar, playing games, do sport, go to concerts, go to the bar, meeting new people etc, its important to have various activities and not only one I just want to have a cool job, im still a "junior" so i dont have the best experience, i have 3 / 4 years of xp; i dont have a specific studio where i want to work, i just want to work with a cool team, on a cool game with great visuals, where i can create architecture, props, and do some level art etc I know some people that are having burnouts because they are obsessed by their work and think only of that (or almost), i feel like they are unhappy with their lives but dont admit it so they work hard thinking it would help them

Hope you don't mind pitching in with a wall of text from a different/uncommon perspective. I've been in the VFX industry for about 3 years now, 3D generally speaking for much longer, but I am, at the core of my studies, an architect. That's 6 years of master's degree and another 5-6 to get all qualifications plus god knows how much time I spent in the office. Needless to say, it was quite brutal but conditioned me in a weird way and I am now senior hard surface modeler in a very short time because of it, but also do a bunch of texturing, rendering, lighting, all that if necessary, plus Bifrost procedurals lately. After I joined the VFX world, I saw everyone getting absolutely stressed out of their mind, putting in just stupid amounts of hours, and I somehow managed to get the same results with far less stress and in a shorter time, because to me, the only real consequence of a poor job is not *my* job, it's the studio's image, and all those impacted by it, but realistically speaking it's not hardcore liability, it's not critical in the sense that a mistake can injure someone or worse, the consequences in architecture were far FAR more serious and real. Plus *A METRIC SHITLOAD* of project management training so in a way I have absolutely zero issues balancing everything out and managing deadlines, projects, etc. That doesn't mean I treat VFX work less seriously, just that I'm not enshrouded by liability if, say, I specify low slip resistance on ONE tile and it happens that someone slips and injures themselves, just an ingrained ethic of responsibility for my team and colleagues. Shitty jobs = time wasted for everyone, time they could spend better, and that's my cross to bear. The reason I say all this is because I wish there was a better way to prepare artists in a slightly managerial manner to complement the artistic side of things, so they understand their role far better and the context they find themselves in, and hopefully NOT burn out while still being incredible at their jobs. My colleagues' burnouts are more often than not the direct impact of not understanding that unbalanced lifestyles can lead to worse results, not to mention physical afflictions. A lot of people say work-life balance, I refer to it more as tension, people get tense, both literally and metaphorically (stress = tense = chemical imbalance, joint pains etc) - some people can take higher loads with less downtime, some need more downtime but have the skillset to compensate, the *right* way to manage this tension is to pay attention, introspect, and if the body needs rest, then rest but the absolutely critical component, and I cannot stress this enough, is DISCIPLINE. Rest/recovery is one thing, laziness and complacency have brutal consequences. If work doesn't allow it then you have to push through it a little, if it doesn't let off at all then find another workplace as that one doesn't seem to value your health, just your production turnover and boom - welcome to pixel factory conditions. I hope this helped provide some understanding that work isn't everything in life and guilt-laden recreation leads to poor rest which leads to worse results and it's a vicious feedback cycle that NEEDS to break.

I loved to be reviewd, I have send an email already but not heard anything

I worked the hardest in my life when I had the best physical and health, I ate well, was seeing people everyday, exercised, and had a lot of energy to spend on my passion. But as soon as I started working (as a remote freelance which is an important point) I was first excited knowing I could spend most of my time working on 3D, learning new stuff and doing a bunch of cool projects, but reality striked really fast when I was now spending most of my time on my computer, sitting down all day and not seeing a lot of people besides the cashier at the nearest shop, I lost a lot of energy and 3D was not really fun anymore, which meant a really slow progress and not many "cool projects" to work on professionaly. That's when I realised my general health was a really important side of all of this, and living a decent healthy life is more important than being highly passionate, because to me one drives the other. So I subscribed to a sport association in my town, went on hikes more often, fixed my sleep schedule, and eat properly, and as everything was feeling better, I also found my "hard working mode" strike slowly coming back. I think it's fine to spend all night going hard on art and 3D, and it's actually to me a really good way to progress and have fun, but it just shouldn't break your healthy life cycle. And if it does, try not to fall into it, and fix it back as long as it's still holding on. Thank you Andrew for your thoughts on this topic, you're a real inspiration!!

Hi Andrew! Love your work, what is the best way to get in touch with you reg a mentorship?

this is one of the bests videos for my mental health

No matter how you balance work. Always take time to take care of your body. It will work wonders on you. Trust me, I leaned that the hard way.

nice one

I think overlapping is fine, it looks cool for sure, but having 3 of them back to back could of been better.

What is wrong to not fit to the VFX pipeline?

you will have a great artist as your mentee and Lukasz has an awesome mentor. Good luck on your journey Lukasz!

is this because its just prims nicely put together to make something “complex “ looking

Yeah. blender do require mousewheel for a lot of stuff. But those in modal modes (modes where most of the other hotkeys doesn't work and some buttons switch to certain functions) can mouse wheel functions be reprogrammed on unused keys on a keyboard. (usually q-w or 1,2,3,4). But in situation where it's not possible there is indeed a need for a dedicated wheel somewhere near the keyboard. It can be easily made with any cheap (and\or partially broken) mouse soldering of 3 wires and some 3d printing. Or no 3d printing is you are fine with using hot glue on you keyboard\ tablet. But just like having a 3d mouse it's just a good thing to have overall. Not only for blender but for any other software that can uses mousewheel extensively. Like hoodini. Though Hoodini also has good pen support for discreet numbers input, but it's not as tactile as real mousewheel or dial.

any sort of moddeling just flies straight over my head

Is there a way to get out of tool mode and into selection in a marking menu? If I use the marking menu to multi cut and then want to get out of the multi cut. I need to hit the hotkey "q". Is there a way to get out of the tool mode without hitting hotkeys and into selection or any of the QWER keys?

I was always curious about this topic relating to modelling. Thank you for posting this video <3

What I find hard to understand in the criticism is that, in itself, all you have to do is smooth your model so that the topology suits you? So your mesh is basically clean, and you simply don't want to see this low poly on a presentation?

intuos + space mouse = perfect combo for modeling, especially when switching between multiple apps with different orbit/pan/zoom shortcut

There is the Mouse Look Navigation add-on for Blender that makes using a stylus a lot better but I can't work out how to set it so that you canswep the nib across the viewport to select multiple objects. The whole point of the tool is to be able to mimic Z Brush navigation but out of the sculpt mode it doesn't seem to be able to adapt.

But how you imitate some small imperfections or paint chipping effects? No normal maps too?

How funny, I went the other way. I even paint textures with my mouse 😂

Made that transition close to 5 years now and reached the same conclusions you mentioned in this video. Being able to always use pressure-sensitive tools is huge. The only difference is that I moved the keyboard from being on my left to above the tablet, because when I'm programming is more comfortable for my wrists and easier to touch type placing the fingers on the home row.

Heh, a coworker on Clone Wars always used a pen and it was just the oddest thing to see. his frustration was in Maya not responding fast enough to his movements, and it was frustrating. That stopped me for sure, it annoyed the hell out of me.

If you use one display and one application, I can see the benefit of a tablet and pen. But navigating trough windows, shifting applications, navigating menus and making quick notes or pulling nodes, there is no competition to mouse. I have met countless people who say there work faster with a pen and after I see them use a computer, I always ask the same question: How slow were you with a mouse? Pen has many benefits but it has no place in actually doing things quickly outside of a single application or multiple displays. Predicting what you do with your mouse or keyboard and adjusting your other hand before/during accordingly will be much faster every single time. Multitasker here with three displays, nuke, houdini and 5 other apps open on three displays at the same time :D

super interesting, I remember when you first brought up that your using a pen to model hardsurface I was so confused, might try it sounds great for longevity

For blender I just use the RMB context menu to model with a mouse.

Been Modelling with a wacom pen for years now. I can use it all day but with a mouse it feels a lot slower and you start to get RSI in the pinky finger after an hour or so. It's also handy to switch easily to i.e. Maya to photoshop.

Dude thank you so much for releasing this video. I had been waiting on a full video from you on this topic since you first talked about it on your Autodesk stream.

Wow i didn't know that "0

Hey Andrew, are only reviewing modelling portfolios?

Hey Andrew. Love your work and these reviews. Is it possible to get chance to get my portfolio reviewed?