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How To Paint Realistic Sculptures In ZBrush Using PolyPaint

Sherif Dawoud shares a step-by-step video tutorial on painting realistic 3D sculptures in ZBrush using PolyPaint. The process demonstrates how to achieve natural-looking skin tones and textures, optionally using a custom ZBrush realistic skin clay material pack. Additional related tutorials on polypainting hands and other character art topics are also referenced.

Substance 3D Painter Tool For Generating Highlight Masks

Nyanneco Position Mask is a free Substance 3D Painter generator by Nyanko that creates highlight masks for hair and other patterns using Position maps. It generates lines and shapes based on spatial data to produce highlights. Users should note it is sensitive to UV layout, particularly overlapping UVs, and its internal blur does not cross UV islands, which can cause visible seams. It is free until July 5 and supports commercial use, with a Japanese tutorial video available.

How to Model & Texture a Cursed Knight with Melancholic Vibes

Senior character artist Gábor Meggyesi breaks down his Cursed Knight project, a Souls-like inspired character. The workflow covers armor modeling in Maya and ZBrush using Dynamic Subdivision and custom IMM brushes, hair grooming with Ornatrix, retopology in TopoGun 3, UV unwrapping in RizomUV, and complex layered texturing in Substance 3D Painter with metal, rust, and moss materials. Final lookdev and rendering were done in Unreal Engine 5.7 with multiple light rigs, Post Process Volumes, and cinematic camera settings.

3D Character Artist Shares a Jinx Fan Art Made with ZBrush & Blender

3D character artist Eugene Roienko recreated Jinx from Arcane season 2 using ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, Blender, RizomUV, and Maya. Starting from a sphere with no base mesh, he sculpted stylized proportions from scratch. To achieve the iconic Arcane look, he used Blender's hair particle system with a custom shader for a 2D appearance, and rendered separate passes (albedo, AO, hard shadows, emission) composited in Photoshop rather than relying on traditional 3D rendering.

Check Out This Flapple Poison-Type 3D Reimagining Made in Blender

3D artist Amed Alexander Bueno Rodríguez created an animated reimagining of Pokémon's Flapple as a Poison-type character using Blender, ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, and Nuke. The project draws on Pokédex lore, replacing the mud bomb move with a purple liquid to reflect the Poison-type visual identity. Two rendered camera angles and process videos are shared.

Experimenting With Real-Time Water In Unreal Engine 5.8

Jesse Pitela thử nghiệm mô phỏng nước thời gian thực trong Unreal Engine 5.8 bằng Niagara Fluids, đạt 1,3 triệu hạt GPU/giây cho chất lỏng và 40.000 hạt/giây cho hiệu ứng bọt và văng nước. Hệ thống lực trường nước cải thiện foam, splash và tương tác đẩy nước mạnh mẽ hơn. Niagara Fluids nhanh hơn 30% trong UE 5.8, và anh ấy sẽ ra mắt khóa học Niagara Liquids 5.8 vào ngày 8/7.

Lập trình viên muốn nâng cấp hiệu suất và chất lượng hiệu ứng nước thực tế trong game hoặc ứng dụng 3D nên đọc bài này để khám phá cách tối ưu Niagara Fluids 5.8 với 30% hiệu suất cao hơn, từ đó tiết kiệm tài nguyên và tạo ra những hiệu ứng nước sinh động hơn.

Alien Isolation 2 devs on the 12 year wait

Creative Assembly's creative director Al Hope and animation director Simon Ridge discuss the 12-year gap between Alien: Isolation and its sequel. The extended wait proved beneficial, allowing the team to observe growing audience appreciation, gather player feedback, and avoid simply copying the original. Alien: Isolation 2 expands on the first game's stealth-action survival-horror formula with a new protagonist (Blake), a new outdoor colony world setting (Terra Firma), and a seesaw of claustrophobic indoor and exposed outdoor environments. The developers credit the original game's cult following, livestreaming culture on YouTube and Twitch, and the broader resurgence of horror games for validating the sequel's development.