THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR SHIFTING MY PERSPECTIVE. This was very insightful and eye opening! ❤❤❤

Considering I use shrink wrapping to save time this is a whole ass process I'd rather avoid. Cool though.

How do i add camera shake to this setup?

My work is mostly fantasy enviromments based on exploration, using colours and light.. the everything is violence is so stale and why im no longer interested in the AAA dream.. my life and talent will not be sold to creating such a distasteful reality

Sell to your target market.. peoples are simple and easily confused..

TÚL VAN EZ MÁR BONYOLÍTVA, KI JEGYZI EZT MEG?

It’s a nice video but the title is misleading. You hardly mentioned actual blender courses.

Amazing video. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

How does one even think of something like this?? You are awesome man!

Hi, wat do i do if i want to put Logo inside that group? Logo is jpg with background with color ramp im able to make mask but if i put my mask into alpha of BSDF of nodegroup then even the main material gets tranpsarent. How would you fix it? prob best solution is to make it into png and delete background in PS but is there a way to do it without this step?

Dude, honestly, its crazy how a year ago you had 65 subscribers and since then, you've gotten all the way to 37.5K. That's honestly crazy, and quite frankly you deserved it for your well done tutorial! Keep up the great work man, instant sub!

3d sucks as well as nuke

To mee is just GLARE, GLARE, GLARE, bleahhh - LUMION

Mine doesn't even look close to urs 😭

Because art is not just craft… it’s ideas, it’s philosophy, subjective perspective on life and existence. The hard truth is that most people aren’t actual artists, they’re content creators, they follow trends and styles, they don’t have actual ideas that forms the foundation for art. Go out, live life, read books, great stories and philosophy, study history, listen to new forms of music etc. If someone wants to be an artist, they don’t get there by just getting good at craft.

As a music producer / DJ this advice is incredibly applicable. Referencing has helped me a ton with the finalizing stage, but most music has clear cut genres and feels the same. We have great relative hearing but without a frame of reference mixing is really difficult. When I find a song that sounds incredible anywhere on any sound system, I use it as my "truth" frame of reference, so I strive to get my main elements feeling the same way as the truth elements. Same could be said for color grading. Your eyes get used to colors and lie to you after a while. It's like when you put on glasses and your world is tinted for a bit but then stuff starts to look normal after a while. So through these glasses your green will be different than my green but it will look normal to you. If you have a truth reference of what green looks like when it translates to every screen it helps. But the actual concept of the art needs to come from you or it's going to be generic af. Good references are hard to find

I feel like the crate digging paid off now that I found your channel lol

Why is your name robin squares why not robin triangles ?

Pewds is making art videos now 😯

1- we stay with fantasy because there is no freespeech and anything can cancel you nowadays 2- too many softwares, too much technical stuff. A concept artist back in the days was a guy with a pen and ideas, now you must be a 3D generalist, know all kind of tools and plugins 3- games and movies became unoriginal so our creativity is never challenged, most of the time we just follow someone elses idea that have the creativity of a rock

Amazing video!!! Thanks

Reference are the good starting point, but BLENDER !! Like, B L E N D E R !!!! You gotta mix it all into a sublime smoothie not one ever tasted or even saw the colors of yet ! XD

Thank-you this gave me confidence to make indian theme based 3d art without any judgement

A lot of artists are regurgitators. Nothing wrong with enjoying just drawing/making, but there's a reason concept artists and illustrators aren't the same (they aren't mutually exclusive though). Just like you have eg writers that can imagine, create and write fabulous worlds, but they don't have the skills to bring what's in their head to paper. And then you have people like James Cameron, who both imagine, draws, writes and all of the other stuff too. This is why it's important to be laterally competent if you want to be more than a cog in a large machine. Also musicians don't do violence? 😅 Dude.

Thumbs up just for the title👍

Good video. Great graphics. Helped immensely in understanding. Thanks. Your latest subscriber 🙏

8:35 Maybe its the new 4.3 update, but when I typed in {} it says invalid python expression. But when I remove the {} it works completely fine. Whats going on? Should this be happening?

Great reminder to strive for originality and intentionally set yourself apart. Although some of that repetition you see is probably due to what a given social media favors. For example, you'll find lots of sci-fi and fantasy on art station but almost none on Behance...But THAT leads me to wonder... what's the best social media for discovering diverse art styles?

Yes the past year has flashed before my eyes. WAIT A MINUTE. ITS BEEN ANOTHER YEARRRR!!!!! ITS 2025!!!!

best advice ever given to 3d artists in general. Understanding this and having it present when making new projects is what imo makes a GOOD artist. I want to know who you are through your art. Stop showing off technique and give me a glimpse of what concerns you as an individual. What do you have to say to the world other than you can use XGen or Marmoset.

Right pointing. E.g.ven most of animators is getting close the Arcane style etc these days

Everybody feedback looping into everyone else's work, spitting the same result.

Everybody feedback looping into everyone else's work, spitting the same result.

super interesting subject. I guess artists copy whats successful and sites like artstation becomes echo chambers sort of.

Iam a former art student with a bachelor in finearts but i failed that Path. Atm im studying at futuregames and planing to release a small game where you run around a art museum and destroy art😅😂

Hello Mr Robin, i have a question for you With the rise of unregulated Ai on social media platform, do you think it will have negative impact on artist's jobs or not ?

I spend a lot more time looking through the Cara frontpage these days because of this. I think the issue for Artstation is the same one we're facing with AI though. Art and creation, the communication of story and humanity, isn't a goal unto itself now. The primary purpose now is to provide content for distribution and most only measure by the yardstick of profit; Not impact, emotion or legacy. Business is risk averse, so it pressures the same risk aversion and homogeneity into the rest of society, including expression, because that yields "more predictable" results. No discomfort, no breaking new ground, no advertiser unfriendliness - Only to shift when there's a new trend to chase, ignoring the real source of those new wells. The so called maturation of industries follows the historical cycle, where the makers and experts are made subservient to the interests of the merchant. And so most of the crafts people have to... "Low, keep your head, keep your head low, Oh, you gotta keep your head low, If you wanna keep your head."

I really like your opinions! Thanks for sharing them

Chocolate though! 😂

"without showing skin" is important boys

@robinsquares, your videos always seem to arrive at exactly the right moment! I've been dabbling in 3D for a while now, but I'm becoming more serious and trying to find a good lane for myself. As I’m getting faster and thinking up new projects to work on, I do something similar to imagining how my grandmother would respond. In my case, I think about my normie friends on Facebook and Instagram and what they might respond to, and that helps me veer away from most of the common genres you mentioned. But at the same time, I was questioning whether I was trying to please others instead of myself, and this video really helped me answer that question. I think what it really comes down to is that I like a lot of things, not just robots and spaceships. So I for sure can find something in that Venn diagram of what I like vs. what’s not over-saturated that will make me happy, and maybe help me stand out from the crowd at the same time. Thanks for this, and keep the great videos coming!

Life truly is strange, recommending me the channel and video of a former classmate some 7 years later. If I remember correctly you made a skull mixed with a typewriter quite early on while the rest of us struggled to make a hole in a cube (or thats how it felt anyways)

very good point! thanks for uplifting my new ideas :)

As always nice content

hey robin, can you create a video on "the trends to avoid in 2025" like the one you did back in 2024??

This is honestly amazing advice, thank you!

They do this because this gathers views, likes and attention. Viewer demand is a major concern. Of course you can make "something special" but it will drown amongst 45 deg sci-fi hallways anyways.

Artstation and Behance are portfolio sites. The point is to show your skils to employers and clients. And despite them talk that they looking for creative people, they actually don't. They don't need crazy, though provoking art. They need another sci-fi corridor, another viking axe, another sexy female character etc. Look at best selling games, are they that creative? Not really. And outside of game industry it's even worse. If a client want 3d render of thier automatic cat litter box, they are not interested in portfolios with unconvential, creative stuff. 99% want things that they already saw and they like. And it's very hard to find this 1% who let you do crazy things. And if you can it's most likely becouse of personal connections, not online portfolio. And AI made everything worse because a lot of people leave platforms that use thier work to train AI. There are crazy things on Artstation. It's just rarely get any traction. Did every one forget about beeple? He posted every day for years before got noticed.

Agree with a lot here, and if the images aren't about war, then they are usually just busty girls and "Anatomy". I myself find my personal work leaning towards war and dystopia, and its both easy and hard work to get out of the mold and find new ideas that feel fresh and positive even. It always bothered me because it seemed like so many artists work was overly sexualized on Artstation, if not about war, etc. 3D anatomy studies are one thing, but when I see a portfolio that I would hesitate to show to an employer for a normal set of 3D jobs I hardly see how the art they are making is anything other than self serving.

Very inspirational! I only regret that I have but one like to give this video. :)