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Current Apple pencils also support pressure and tilt sensitivity. Lots of people are using an iPad with software like ProCreate to draw, which is a lot more por

by bzzzt 1y ago

Current Apple pencils also support pressure and tilt sensitivity. Lots of people are using an iPad with software like ProCreate to draw, which is a lot more portable than a laptop with a Cintiq hooked up to it.

skydhash 1y ago
Procreate is very good for sketching, but the iPad ergonomics is not fully there for doing a full painting. Especially with the lack of keys. And a lot of pros are using the larger (24“+) display of the wacom.
- Joel_Mckay 1y ago
  We found running a recent Intel pen tablet is nice for some applications like the full blender plugin ecosystem support, commercial and free offerings. Some treasure: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/releases https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/releases https://krita.org/en/ https://krita.org/en/ Avoid in commercial use-case: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion Seems ridiculous, but the 2nd paid seat you get works well for portable non-intensive tasks: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve The perpetual CSP or CS/EX license for iPad/MS Surface/Wacom is pretty much a necessity for the users, as in a commercial setting it is the only practical option for many use-cases (Wacom often included a free 2 year trial): https://www.clipstudio.net/en/dl/ https://www.clipstudio.net/en/dl/ --- Blender plugins: "Blob fusion" similar to ZSpheres with Metaballs/SDFs: https://bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/l/ahwvli https://bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/l/ahwvli 3D Normal Map Painting: https://tradigital.gumroad.com/l/brushflow https://tradigital.gumroad.com/l/brushflow Sanctus Procedural Textures: https://sanctus.gumroad.com/l/SLibrary https://sanctus.gumroad.com/l/SLibrary CC0 Assets: https://polyhaven.com/plugins/blender https://polyhaven.com/plugins/blender
  - reactordev 1y ago
    Krita + Blender + Brushflow = almost a complete toolkit. Substance Painter is just so good. It's the one thing I wish Blender would focus more on - Texture Painting/Layers. Painting albedo is easy enough to do but the others are a nightmare to do in Blender.
    - Joel_Mckay 1y ago
      Blender material node workflows are non-obvious, and indeed many find Adobe products easier to learn. Sometimes parametric options can be fairly useful when combining displacement modifiers: https://tinynocky.gumroad.com/l/tinyeye https://tinynocky.gumroad.com/l/tinyeye https://kuhantilope.gumroad.com/l/ultimate-skin https://kuhantilope.gumroad.com/l/ultimate-skin Where a few people make it look deceptively easy =3
      - reactordev 1y ago
        Yeah, I tend to stick to game models with a baking step. Realistic humanoids is the pinnacle of 3D art and I’m no where near. I buy mine like everyone else. Hard surface modeling and environments, vehicles and ships, props and guns is what I like. Rigging simple IK. I’m always trying to improve but I lack the time between work/life/sleep. When I retire I’ll devote my time to perfecting the humanoid sculpt.
        Joel_Mckay 1y ago
        Most of the time in a production environment people will just slightly modify rigged models and mocap (content licenses get messy fast, but studio time with actors is also expensive): https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/explainers/digital-humans/how-do-you-create-a-digital-human https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/explainers/digital-humans... https://www.reallusion.com/ICLONE/ https://www.reallusion.com/ICLONE/ Or modify low-poly content from an asset generator: https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/mpfb/ https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/mpfb/ Getting the physics to look right is hard, as people are very good at spotting motion errors in baked mocap data. Re-targeting plugins for UE do work: https://artell.gumroad.com/l/auto-rig-pro https://artell.gumroad.com/l/auto-rig-pro https://fbra.gumroad.com/l/Faceit https://fbra.gumroad.com/l/Faceit https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-link-face/id1495370836 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-link-face/id1495370836 I would advise against blender plugins that acquired mocap from unknown sources like research publications that rarely place the data into public domain, as the performance rights are not necessarily legally clean even if someone paid for or found some community asset pack. Again, it heavily depends on who you have on a team, project time/budget, and copyright/legal-encumbrance risk tolerance ("AI" is like shark-fishing with your arm). =3

by bzzzt 1y ago

skydhash 1y ago

Procreate is very good for sketching, but the iPad ergonomics is not fully there for doing a full painting. Especially with the lack of keys. And a lot of pros are using the larger (24“+) display of the wacom.

Joel_Mckay 1y ago
We found running a recent Intel pen tablet is nice for some applications like the full blender plugin ecosystem support, commercial and free offerings. Some treasure: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/releases https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/releases https://krita.org/en/ https://krita.org/en/ Avoid in commercial use-case: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion Seems ridiculous, but the 2nd paid seat you get works well for portable non-intensive tasks: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve The perpetual CSP or CS/EX license for iPad/MS Surface/Wacom is pretty much a necessity for the users, as in a commercial setting it is the only practical option for many use-cases (Wacom often included a free 2 year trial): https://www.clipstudio.net/en/dl/ https://www.clipstudio.net/en/dl/ --- Blender plugins: "Blob fusion" similar to ZSpheres with Metaballs/SDFs: https://bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/l/ahwvli https://bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/l/ahwvli 3D Normal Map Painting: https://tradigital.gumroad.com/l/brushflow https://tradigital.gumroad.com/l/brushflow Sanctus Procedural Textures: https://sanctus.gumroad.com/l/SLibrary https://sanctus.gumroad.com/l/SLibrary CC0 Assets: https://polyhaven.com/plugins/blender https://polyhaven.com/plugins/blender
- reactordev 1y ago
  Krita + Blender + Brushflow = almost a complete toolkit. Substance Painter is just so good. It's the one thing I wish Blender would focus more on - Texture Painting/Layers. Painting albedo is easy enough to do but the others are a nightmare to do in Blender.
  - Joel_Mckay 1y ago
    Blender material node workflows are non-obvious, and indeed many find Adobe products easier to learn. Sometimes parametric options can be fairly useful when combining displacement modifiers: https://tinynocky.gumroad.com/l/tinyeye https://tinynocky.gumroad.com/l/tinyeye https://kuhantilope.gumroad.com/l/ultimate-skin https://kuhantilope.gumroad.com/l/ultimate-skin Where a few people make it look deceptively easy =3
    - reactordev 1y ago
      Yeah, I tend to stick to game models with a baking step. Realistic humanoids is the pinnacle of 3D art and I’m no where near. I buy mine like everyone else. Hard surface modeling and environments, vehicles and ships, props and guns is what I like. Rigging simple IK. I’m always trying to improve but I lack the time between work/life/sleep. When I retire I’ll devote my time to perfecting the humanoid sculpt.
      - Joel_Mckay 1y ago
        Most of the time in a production environment people will just slightly modify rigged models and mocap (content licenses get messy fast, but studio time with actors is also expensive): https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/explainers/digital-humans/how-do-you-create-a-digital-human https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/explainers/digital-humans... https://www.reallusion.com/ICLONE/ https://www.reallusion.com/ICLONE/ Or modify low-poly content from an asset generator: https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/mpfb/ https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/mpfb/ Getting the physics to look right is hard, as people are very good at spotting motion errors in baked mocap data. Re-targeting plugins for UE do work: https://artell.gumroad.com/l/auto-rig-pro https://artell.gumroad.com/l/auto-rig-pro https://fbra.gumroad.com/l/Faceit https://fbra.gumroad.com/l/Faceit https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-link-face/id1495370836 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-link-face/id1495370836 I would advise against blender plugins that acquired mocap from unknown sources like research publications that rarely place the data into public domain, as the performance rights are not necessarily legally clean even if someone paid for or found some community asset pack. Again, it heavily depends on who you have on a team, project time/budget, and copyright/legal-encumbrance risk tolerance ("AI" is like shark-fishing with your arm). =3