You are a huge inspiration for me Rafa! I'm changing my whole life career because of you. After seeing your work something clicked and I knew that's what I wanted to do as a profession. Since then I've been studying 3d really hard everyday. Thanks for the inspiration, hope I'll be able to work with you someday in the future. Abraços!
7 months later. How’s your progress? I started back in mid November and am like yourself - really trying to push myself. It can be hard to stay motivated but I’m happy with how quickly I’ve progressed and how far I’ve come. Where I’m at now is I’ve sculpted and modeled my own characters and some weapons and armor for those characters. I’ve rigged this main character and have made some basic animations for him. All the texturing and retopo logy I’ve done too - as well as dabbled in some material design in substance designer. I started out learning to make my own rigs but after spending a solid week or two on that realised I’d get better results using advanced skeleton. So that took awhile. Anyway it’s been a hell of a journey I might look at starting to upload some short videos of the stuff I’m working on for this game I’m making with a friend.
Hey Andrew, It has been quite a journey for me. I improved a lot since I first started. I have focused my studies mainly on anatomy. Usually I just sculpt a head and a full body, because I really want to get the male and female anatomy right. I have always liked more realistic characters so I really need to get that part right. In the process, whenever I like one of my studies I try to make it into a character. I haven't done many final projects to be honest, because with the time I have to study I really want to get better at the first stages of sculpting (because they are the most painful ones). Retopology I have done just once, while following a course, and rigging I havent done it properly yet, just some simple posing using masks in Zbrush. That's nice to see people starting just like me, it can be really challenging not having anyone around to help. Follow me on instagram, I have been posting some of my work there, you can see my progress during these months. (rodrigo.3d.art). I would like to see your progress as well! Cheers.
@@rlsvid sounds good mate. Keep at it. Sculpting is a really cool part of the process. Probably one of my favorite. Rigging can be very painful haha. I think if you focus on your sculpts above all else you have a good opportunity to become really good at that part and produce some amazing stuff.
I'm a sel-taught solo game-developer, and I love to bring my 3D creation in my games and I must say this mindset confused me a bit. I mean obviously I can't spend all my time trying to improve my art comprehension, cause I've got scripting to do, music, illustration and all those stuff. Does this mean I will basically rarely or hardly improve my art ? Or maybe this means that, I will never be competitive, or did I misunderstood :/ Thanks for all your content btw this is a lot of inspiration.
man... search about the old masters... da vinci for example: painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, mathematician, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, botanist, poet and musician. We all can reach and do everything we like and love! but sort of... you have time?
You will always improve as long as you try to push your limits. The key is to step outside your comfort zone and not to stay above a paper or a screen 24/7. Each time you try to model a shape that you can't atm, or try a composition that you can't make work, you improve even if you fail. It might take you an extra year if you want to live a healthier life or focus on other things at the same time, maximum 2 (in my experience) but in the end if you honestly keep pushing your skill limits daily just a little bit, 2-3 hour per day, then you will be in the same position as him.
@@CM-oz2xs da Vinci was a genius so he shouldn't really be used as a comparison point. even if your relatively smart the truth is most people have a finite amount of actual mental focus the can expend in a day. obviously, discipline and hard work can go a long way but there's a limit, that's why most people cant be experts on multiple things, you have to dedicate your time to one thing. sure there are some phenoms who can be brilliant at multiple things but chances are, you're not one of them. you can still learn other things and be skilled at multiple things don't get me wrong.
Haha, well on the surface they all seem to be happy but not having free time and seeking perfectionist has a high price to your mind and healthy lifestyle, the less you think about competition the better you can focus on your own art progress.
These people compete against themselves and you should do the same. Don't compare with the one who are famous on the internet, they are 1 in a million and luck is still a big part of the game. Just compete against yourself, improve and enjoy what you do.
@@followjesus3891 he seems very happy and healthy to me. He is bright with an insatiable appetite for knowledge and learning. You can tell he is healthy because his brain is clear as a whistle and very sharp.
this question is useless because you go nowhere with it what you should do is take the advice he gives and he does this in several videos out there and try and implement in mindset or workflow it becomes easier sometimes. dont compete be inspired instead and create
