It's kind of funny, now all that tech to make muscles etc can be created easier with soft cloth physics weight maps. I did this and provided a free version of the demonstration in Reallusion's market place "Camilla Soft Body Physics." Even Reallusion didn't know the potential their Cloth Physics engine was capable of. I created/painted high resolution maps in Zbrush consisting of mostly black on the body and painted the areas I wanted to be flexible grey. AO maps are a good painting starting point since they define wrinkle area and if you first make it very dark so the white becomes grey .The movement of the character and the shape resulted in how the physical body would respond with movement. Not only that, you can use animate morphs with cloth physics (currently only works on the head/neck area) I added appendages to my Troll character, defined them to have more SSS so they look like puss-filled balloons when the light hits them from behind. Another tip, when using soft cloth, you don't need to use tessellation for displacement on the body because it adds resolution for the stretchable physics - this way you can have very realistic character skin with physics. Apply spring bones to the eyes, butt and tongue and you will have a lot of extra character in your character. So far, Reallusion's Character creator program is in the lead allowing anyone to make skin physics combined with a 3D paint program. I used either 3DCoat or Zbrush for painting. For creatures like squids, spring joints applied to the ik chain is good but if you want more skin physics, using both skin/cloth physics and spring joints the effect can be amplified so the strength has to be reduced. The solution I discovered may have made Unity's purchase look a bit foolish since now I'm telling you how to get these kinds of results.

This is not Unreal.... This is Ember Gen, a VFX software

i dropped modo do to price and the mac shift to 64bit about 10 years ago, still can't figure out blender for the life of me. I gave up on 3d modeling entirely.

his voice sounds so beautiful

Sono ancora arrabiatissimo per quello che hanno fatto a XSI ...Maya al tempo era una schifezza e anche ora va solo se riempito di plugin... ho continuato con Blender, ma SoftImage 3d e XSI erano devastanti confronto a Maya. (bastava fare un test di deformation by surface per accorggersi di come fosse lento maya). Se softimage xsi girasse sui pc odierni sarebbe ancora il migliore.

Nice video!!!thanks

too expensive, creates rather than solves bottlenecks, plus forces closed ecosystem in terms of content and interchange between other 3D packages, the pose editor is insanely useful but as soon as another tool (powered by AI) that does the same is available, lights out for cc4.

How do I get the shader seen at 5:27

Sketchup is not free or open source. But there is a very basic web version that you can use it.

SmartDraw is NOT free or open source, it does not have a free version.

My Virtual Home is abandoned, it aldo isn`t free or open source. It does not have a free version.

VectorWorks isn`t free or open source, It does not have a free version. it is just another bs subscription base software

what kind of accent os this ???

Hey is bifrost good if I don't want to use any other software

Can you export the whole thing to your unreal after you make a scene like this?

Houdini the best, 1000 tips for same, and complex result..

Why no mention of Maya? Where does that fit in?

And he just used other people works like training videos or showreels and put them in his videos like he know them. I bet he never used any tool or really knows any 3d tools. Wasting his time editing other people videos with some blog posts from google. I wish people understand that and not support this kind of clickbait channel.

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There is new amazing methods for caustics like PSSMLT, smallUPBP, CPPM, Specular manifold sampling etc. I personally think if someone combine UPBP with SMS and main render be automatic bidirectional PSSMLT it would kill everything and if UPBP receive new samplings like in CPPM it could be used by its own completely without path tracing. I would say if we make vector merged bidirectional Primary Sample Space Metropolis Light Transport progressive chi squared unified points, beams, paths photon mapping it would be UBER method - in short VCMBPSSMLTPCUPBPPM ahahahahahh. Im real freak for caustics not gonna lie.

You forgot the mosr important thing : blender is open source and free . It offers quality for the sake of quality , not to get money from you

by the way you have now since maya 2024 the un-subdivide tool

This is like taking Karl Marx's "the capital" , the theoretical framework behind each and every communist revolution ever to happen on this planet to this very day ; and comparing it to liberal twitter . This video be like " We all know how smart and importsnt albert Einstein was , but did you know that theres one smart person that no one knows about? Despite being born in 1965? Its my highschool math teacher, he was really smart and cool. So lets try and answer this question once and for all : my highschool math teacher or Albert Einstein; which one is better ?"

Max is old so the powers that be see it out the door

The worst thing for me with Mari is it’s a lot more difficult to learn. Cumbersome interface but the lack of tutorials makes it even more of a challenge. Ifyou can get over these hurdles it’s by far the most powerful tool.

Can you do a video on tutorials or courses for Unreal 5 for filmmaking?

I watched 4 minutes of this video and it still didnt tell me what unreal engine is, only what it can do. Maybe its just me but id like to know what a car is before someone tried to teach me how to drive and where i can go.

THE THUMBNAIL OF THE VIDEO SCARED ME LMAO

Firstly great content coming from your side. I loke the videos you put together. I have dabbled in maya a bit back in the days when it was Alias and starting with Maya 4. But again i got used to 3dsmax so much and i was giving training to a lot of students back then also. Everything is so spontaneous in it while work and it comes to a point when you no more need to think about aa tool, you just go to it naturally and indeed the nondestructive workflow is awesome in max . Now i have found my second liking to cinema4d. I think you should do a feature pass on it in detail.

Thanks for these!

Might get into some of those but i dont see myself using Maya for modeling when i have 3ds Max which is unmatched in vanilla state already. For animation, rigging and grooming its a different case and i love using Maya for those purposes, especially with add-ons such as Animbot and Advanced Skeleton.

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Is it a secret? Nomad sculpt on Ipad can handle nearly the same

Thanks for the awesome list. I'm surprised Turbo Tools didn't make it onto the list though, it's one of the highest rated, most reviewed, and most developed addons on the Blender Market. It's the only addon I couldn't live without.

Blender seems perfectly adequate and I'm also noting that users claim that it's better than alternatives like 3ds Max and Maya. However, when you've spent a decade or three working within a UI that's somewhat standard across multiple suites, you find Blender's uniqueness as the primary reason why the industry has refused to adopt it. Mastery of a particular system doesn't happen overnight so you're basically having to choose between resetting your art pipeline, losing productivity in the process, or staying the course. The old adage, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", applies here, especially when the cost effectiveness of a free, albeit a reportedly formidable, product would cost exceedingly more up front for down time due to having to retrain everyone along the pipeline to work with an entirely unique solution. For artists who have already mastered 3ds Max or Maya, for example, basically being asked to throw everything they know about 3d content creation out the window is an unreasonable ask.

not finding any tutorial online on how to create custom trees with it... your video didn't walk us through that process

CC is great for game resolution characters, the workflow is fantastic with a few quirks, and is heavily burdened with a confusing monetization scheme. I wish they added an option for a higher poly base, as the subdivided characters look quite "soft" and unrealistic and need more geometry to support higher fidelity. I would like to see a poly density for the base mesh similar to 3dscan store or metahuman, it would open up many possibilities. Ideally the meshes would degrade gracefully in resolution from a higher poly mesh somewhere around 50 - 100k quads. From a single cinematic mesh the resolution cascade would look like Cinematic > CC4+base(the highest resolution right now) > Game Optimized (CC game base) > INSTALOD (LOD1-3+). Taking time and workflow complexity out of the equation metahuman and even Daz offer more realistic charcters. Character Creator has the best workflow, but is the weakest of the three for cinematics and higher quality character animations.

as I recalled, Houdini, despite being expensive, have permanent license, Maya on the other hand is still subscription based

Thanks for the GeoTagger presentation.

Great contribution. Great tutorial. Thank you so much. Greetings

Thank you for showcasing Roadscape!

3ds Max gotta be the greatest piece of shit in the industry of both games and movies outside modelling. Yeah it's the king for archviz but it's already obsolete for both games and movies, the few studios left using it have so many plugins and own scripts that it can't be considered 3ds Max anymore...

Max Hay just announced that he's launching a new environment course on June 1st. Looks really good 😀

its actually hilarious how many add ons and pay to play tools you need to get results in blender. Fortnite is free, but you still need a battle pass for the full experience lol

Yore advice is good to look for another field, but you ignored an important fact, what is the field that AI can't replace so can we move to it

I didnt Even Know Maya can Be A Freaking beast when Included with some Of the Plugins Here , Like Real Flow , Goalem crowd , fume fx , phoenix etc.

I was curious what 3ds Max plugins would help with UVs. Thanks for the great video! TexTools is great, and I wanna try out Advanced UV Normalizer.

None of these hold a candle to marvelous designer and I'll debate anyone to death on that

I made something in minecraft it'd a sculpture of a guy flying