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Ya! There are such amazing references from China, it was super helpful when putting some of this stuff together

No worries, I'm selling these Japanese 3d models for Blender - you can check out my Attestation store in the description for more info :)

Hey! that is a great idea and thanks for this - I definitely think it is great to build your own assets as it will be your own design, this is especially important if you want to work as a concept artist. When building personal assets, it really helps to do drawings of them first (or a rough blockout and draw over) so that you can really control the design before you get too detailed. If you want to use the assets for an environment concept also - I would reccomend doing a sketch first of what you want, then build the assets to match the sketch. I have run into the issue that I haev built assets first and then when I end up doing the concept, some assets I cant use and I have to make more assets haha. Its not bad for modeling practice though x)

Hey! I think it might be a slightly similar method, but for game development, models need to be very optimized for game engines. That would be things like models with proper UV's and proper geometry - since I make these models for concept they are a bit rougher haha

Hey! Yea for renders / render time, the biggest thing for me is reducing the amount of polygons in the scene and the amount of textures in the scene. sometimes things just get heavy after a while when adding tons of details (especially detailed kitbash models) I would play around also with samples in blender - I tend to do around 100 - 200 cycles samples and it should be more than enough for a paintover. Things like particle systems can slow it down also, but the main thing is keeping in mind how many detailed assets are in the scene and how many textures

Thanks! I'm glad to hear you liked it!

Thanks! Since I already had the kit mostly made it went a bit bit quicker - I would say the 3D was around 6-8 hours (I tried to fit a ton of details in haha) and probably similar for the paintover!

Thanks so much!! :)

Ah thanks for the kind words! Glad you liked it!

@@kevinjickart Im interested in the camera clipping technique. Wouldnt using the ZDepth as a mask work the same way but there is no need to rerender?

@@TheMrLeoniasty Hey! Yea the ZDepth would probably work great as a mask. In the past I have had selection issues where the edges get pixelated, but im sure there are ways around that. If you are fast at it, you can probably save some time like that

@@kevinjickart Makes sense! The zdepth pass in blender can be wonky sometimes. Nice technique, I'll try to use it someday

Right onn!!

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Hey! Thanks for the questions - These 3d models are for Blender, so I am not sure they would work with SketchUp. They were also designed for use as exterior models (no interiors were build for these) so if you wanted interiors, they would need to be custom made. I do provide some wall pieces / wall panels in the kitbash set so you could theoretically make it yourself! For a new 3d user on mac, I would definitely recommend Blender! It is free, there are a ton of tutorials here on UA-cam to learn all the steps and it is an amazing program. I would try out different tutorials, but Blender Guru has great introductory tutorials and Ian Hubert has great tips and tricks for when you picked up the basics. And yes! I did make the kit. It took a while but it was really fun for me to make :) Certain elements were made in 3D coat as well (a program good for sculpting). If you are just starting out, start out with Blender though! They have good sculpting tools in the program as well.

Phillip! Thanks dude!!

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!! Ahh so I got some of these cloud brushes a while ago from Shaddy Safadi - I am not sure has still has them available for download. I think there are free brushes you can probably download! John Park sometimes has brushes with his Gumroad Patreon tutorials, for example 'S2 Assassin tutorial' seems to come with brushes

For sure! Glad you like it!!

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it!!

Hey man! This is not exactly the same but it goes over some similar stuff - the Stilt City tutorial is much more in depth and covers also the Blender side of things; such as how I model, texture, navigate in Blender, render, etc.

@@kevinjickart thank you

Thanks!! Glad you like it!!

Hahaha, yea thats totally it xD And yea, thats why I havent been using mist pass for masks, I felt like the edges would not be as perfect as I liked - but that is a cool idea with the mist pass you laid out here! I think there is definitely room for the mist pass to be used for masks as well, that is super cool

@@kevinjickart One good thing with the mist for mask, is that you can paint with a soft brush in overlay mode before you contrast the Mist, in order to "bend" it, so it's not a perfect flat plane in front of the camera, but you can push one element so it remains in the mask ect.. Just in Cycles it will display the volumetrics too, so you can do a render with 1 sample where you deactivated the volumes, and save that as exr 32bits. In the world settings you can set the far & near planes of the mist, and the interpolation, to have more data far or near ect.. This way it should be possible to have super clean flexible Z masks, without the banding / dither you have in 8bit.

This is awesome - next level stuff man! I gotta try it out, thanks a ton for the tips with this. Hearing your method really opens up the possibilities with just the mist layer and using it for masks and blending, that's awesome

Thanks! Im glad you like it! It has helped me a ton / saved me a ton of time

:) Glad you liked it!!

Thank you!

Thanks!! 🙏

Hey! I would say even small sketches, such as pen and paper is totally fine even if you are new at it! It can be simple shapes, thats totally okay! If for example you know a bit of 3d, you can block out a space in 3D using boxes and cylinders and then start from there. Another thing you can try is finding a reference, such as a street on google maps or a cool reference photo and then take a screenshot and draw ontop of it. you can use it as a base and change things up a bit based on your story. The #1 thing is practice!

Hey! Thanks for the question! Blender is still in my opinion 99% the same as from 2 years ago, just more powerful, so still relevant if you are interested in it! The biggest differences are now in blender 4.0+ are the Principle BSDF node is slightly different. It still has the same functionalities but it will look different. The rest is pretty much the same! If you have any questions just let me know

Hey! That is awesome to hear you are interested in the course! Unfortunately this modeling style is only for concept - this would not work for a real game environment as this is focused on making the scene only in Blender

Thanks, glad you like it! And haha, yea my computer was definitely feeling it after a while haha

Hey! Thanks for reaching out with this problem regarding the Normals and exporting - Similar to the disclaimer that is on the asset store pages - these assets were designed for use in Blender. This means that in Blender they will work well; however, if they are exported to other 3D Programs there will be issues with them (such as the normals you pointed out) I'm sorry you are having this issue, but please refer back to the disclaimer on the store page for more information!

​@@kevinjickart There is indeed this statement, I saw it at the time, but I didn't pay much attention to it , I understand. Thank you. Through inspection, I feel that in UE, it is mainly due to shaders and textures. In blender, color maps are directly modified to be used as Normal mapping, metal maps, and rough maps. The compression settings of UE maps are specified, so the texture effect is abnormal.

@@yantingye1677 Ahh I see. Honestly that sounds really cool that you tried taking these assets into UE. UE5 is such an amazing program; unfortunately my modeling and texturing skills are not ready to make assets for Unreal Engine haha. I hope one day to be able to optimize my assets so they can be brought into UE! Sorry you ran into this problem man.

@@kevinjickart that is fine,blender and UE are very powerful engine,I love them 😁

@@yantingye1677 Would baking out PBR textures from Blender solve this issue? There are some very reasonable PBR export plugins available for Blender.

Hi Craig - thanks a ton for the kind words and feedback!! That is a great idea to have had voice overlay with talking more about the 'why' to use it - I will be keeping this in mind for future asset packs or videos :)

Thanks a ton Walter!! :)

🙌Hey man! It was so fun putting this together, excited to finally release it!

@@kevinjickart I love it man, gonna buy it

@@humble-aleksandrpronin3160 🙌would love to know what you think man!!

Hey! Thanks for the question! Yea I model everything here (buildings, props, assets, environment) using Blender and I show off the process for it in the tutorial :) Thanks for the interest in this!

Thanks so much for the kind words! Glad you like it!!

Hey, thanks for the question! The majority of the course focuses on Blender, probably about 80% of it, so if you are interested in Blender, I bet it can be helpful to you! I like to use photoshop to paint over my renders to give them that last level of polish :)

That is super nice of you to say! Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for the kind words! For this stuff, it is all about the process and building upon the basics bit by bit :) If you like concept art, check out FZDSchool here on youtube, really great concept art videos that cover some all aspects of concept art

That is awesome to hear! There are lots of great free resources here on youtube you can check out since you are interested. I highly reccomend FZDschool's videos, they cover all aspects of concept art!

Hahaha xD

Thank you :)

Thank you man! I hope to make some videos like this for youtube in the future :)

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