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There are experts in one subject, then there are jack of all trades, then there's the master of all trades, and then there are very few legends. There was a point where it stopped being 3D art and I could literally just walk into the scene. As I climb up the steps admiring the long lost secrets of the gate I begin to see what truly lies in the heart of creation. You left no stone unturned, no blade of grass unbrushed, and no rim of light unblessed by your holy stroke... I hope one day I can be half the artist you are. A true scientist of nature. Your art could be the next sex icon for Men's magazine! Dude frickin good job!
It was crazy to see someone use 3D coat, which I've never touched. You literally took alphas and created geometry from it!! it was the coolest thing to see
@@Capeau To be honest blender development is now rubbish, mostly toy and useless features and yet no serious displacement baking for procedurals. Fortunately i now use mostly 3d coat for my project.
To place all stencils into the Stencil folder : Look at the Stencil interface on the right side, notice the three-dotted icon > click it > Add existing folder > select one of the images in Alex's folder > the other images in that specific folder will follow automatically
Really smart way of post processing in photoshop, using depth maps and such. I never really export more than the combined maps, but this makes a lot of sense!
This is fantastic work! Just spent the entire time thinking about all the steps, see if I can apply it to my work. Composition is brilliant! Really well done 👍
I'm sure it's possible to do that same thing in blender but the workflow is probably not as smooth. Great job. I love that bellow all of your skills you are a painter at heart.
WOW man, i am just amazed with your work and creativity, Really a inspiration, True Artist , you really know what you are after it. Really hats off for your commendable work and thank you for existing and sharing you stuff , really blown away😍
If I can offer my humble answer: If you have an interest in this sort of stuff, you could begin by doing beginner tutorials for Blender and Photoshop. I recommend checking out the website : ctrlpaint and Blenderguru on TH-cam to start. It's good to keep a healthy interest in other people's experiments and workflows like Alex demonstrates: it will trigger you into experimenting. But eventually you have to put knowledge into practice, and acknowledge you will fail many times before achieving a desired result. Don't give up though, because you will learn from mistakes and use that knowledge into your next painting or concept
@@michiel-vdheuvel You're right, I've been trying to jump the gun too many times. I started with automotive design and I'm pretty good at it, but I've been trying to branch out to other things as well and it's been pretty tough, but that's cause I've been trying to do bigger projects without properly getting my foundations straight. I should look into other people's methods and slowly develop my own *then* go into those larger projects. Thx again for your comment mate :)
Just check jama jurabaevs narrated concept art and 3d concept design on learn squared if you want a good start. If you know fundamentals properly those two tutorial is all you need.
Nice work dude. All things I'm in touch with but haven't yet implement as you've done. I'm impressed at the speed at which you progressed between each stages as I notice you mentioned you spent a working day on it. You must have used this workflow a bunch of times already ;)
Thank you! Experimenting with different pipelines and software is a kind of hobby for me, I practice a lot with different pipelines also at work, since speed is very important for concept art, I learn to use the strengths of each program.
amazing work sir, how much time do u take to create this amazing scene? because I procrastinate to quickly by watching time-lapse videos. amazing work sir.
I don't know if you gonna see my comment now or not but i hope you answer me or give me your advice because i can see you're hella good with 3dcoat i have been using ur stencls but it won't place good and correct on 3d mesh as you in 0:38 Is it possible to tell me what this problem is?
You should’ve added another light source illuminating the statues or atleast one of them. Usually the more complicated meshes need more of a direct light because they don’t seem very visible.
Alex Pi I get that but because of the statues not having a very simple silhouette, they seem confusing in the final render. Of course it doesn’t really matter because it is easy to identify that they are statues of some sort. Really great job 👍
At 16:27 you used blender render pass as a mask for this light rays effect. May I ask which pass is this in blender exactly, I mean name of this. I want to achieve the same effect in my render but cant figure it out. Thanks
Спасибо! Это сложный вопрос, я на протяжении долгого времени изучал их самостоятельно, методом тыка) Но мне кажется что у Яна достаточно хорошие уроки чтобы на на них практиковаться с нодами: www.artstation.com/janurschel/store
I never seen stencil tutorial before,,but I have a doubt, the wall you created are those displacement map or nomal maps,if displacement can I bake it to normal
hey quick question, I don't have 3c coat but I've always wanted to know how I can use stencils to engrave details into my models like you do in the beginning of the video. Is there a way I can do this without 3d coat though?
Amazing! How and by how much do you decimate you 3dcoat models? And is there a way to purchase the blend file for this to take a look at the node setup?
@@AlexPi Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately I NEED a laptop... I move around a lot, portability and space is an issue. So I am between the M1 macbook air, and the Zephyrus g14 ryzen 7 5800HS / RTX 3050.
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Do you have an education in this? If so, where did you acquire it? I'm very much interested and in awe of your skills.
There are experts in one subject, then there are jack of all trades, then there's the master of all trades, and then there are very few legends. There was a point where it stopped being 3D art and I could literally just walk into the scene. As I climb up the steps admiring the long lost secrets of the gate I begin to see what truly lies in the heart of creation. You left no stone unturned, no blade of grass unbrushed, and no rim of light unblessed by your holy stroke... I hope one day I can be half the artist you are. A true scientist of nature. Your art could be the next sex icon for Men's magazine! Dude frickin good job!
haha! Thanks dude! I appreciate it :)
That 3D coat programme looks absolutely overpowered in modelling.
Insane, I would have never thought this was pre-rendered in blender.
It was crazy to see someone use 3D coat, which I've never touched. You literally took alphas and created geometry from it!! it was the coolest thing to see
yeah i only use blender and to the that is like magic :D
@@der_da7982 Well, there's a lot more blender cant do...
@Gap both are true
@@Capeau To be honest blender development is now rubbish, mostly toy and useless features and yet no serious displacement baking for procedurals. Fortunately i now use mostly 3d coat for my project.
blender does the same thing in sculpting, in several different ways too. RTFM ;)
To place all stencils into the Stencil folder :
Look at the Stencil interface on the right side, notice the three-dotted icon > click it > Add existing folder > select one of the images in Alex's folder > the other images in that specific folder will follow automatically
Thanks man!
@@AlexPi Very nice work, where did you get all those gorgeous alpha please?
Really smart way of post processing in photoshop, using depth maps and such. I never really export more than the combined maps, but this makes a lot of sense!
Best 3D work I've seen in 2020
Thanks a lot!
All my life I've never seen anything like this! Superb is the wrong word to use. Even perfect is not enough to say
Crazy detailing
This has inspired me to use 3dcoat more. Thank you and great work.
And your comment is an inspiration for me ;)
Thanks!
That's amazing! A narrated breakdown would be super cool too, some parts are just making me confused LOL
Thanks man! :)
Yeah, would love some commentary
This is fantastic work! Just spent the entire time thinking about all the steps, see if I can apply it to my work. Composition is brilliant! Really well done 👍
Thanks man! I appreciate it.
You are very very talented. Thank you for Inspiring!
Thanks man!
As a new amateur 3D artist ... You're my God! So glad I saw your channel in recommendations. Keep up the good work !
I always love coming back to your work. The detail work is on another level
Because of this tutorial i came to know about 3Dcoat, life has been easier ever since. Thankyou for that!
I'm sure it's possible to do that same thing in blender but the workflow is probably not as smooth. Great job. I love that bellow all of your skills you are a painter at heart.
Thanks a lot!
I think this is one of the most informative video i've ever seen thank you!
Wow, you really know your 3d Coat!!!
Amazing work!
Thanks dude!
This is just a new level 🤯,
You are tho most talented man on earth if not on the galaxy 🤩
Amazing work keep it up man 😍
Thanks a bunch! :)
WOW man, i am just amazed with your work and creativity, Really a inspiration, True Artist , you really know what you are after it. Really hats off for your commendable work and thank you for existing and sharing you stuff , really blown away😍
Thank you very much, very nice to hear that.
It really amezing work you have done appreciate so amezing
Thank you!
Шедевр как всегда!!!
Спасибо!!
Chuvak, people (like me) would love a Gumroad tutorial on how you set up your shaders! Great work man.
Perhaps in the future there will be such lessons.
Thank you!
Really cool mate ! thanks for sharing !
Thanks man!
amazing! You have just become my favorite artist.... all around! thank you for this video, and taking the time to share it with us! Simply amazing!
how to are adding the stencils like you are getting the green square box while applying stencil to model. can tell me please
This is insane, what Beautiful🙏
Great artwork! Thx for process!
Thanks a lot!
Really amazing! Thank you for sharing your workflow !
I'm glad you liked it! Thank! :)
Amazing work. Reminds me of Frazetta's art.
What a huge inspiration thank you for sharing your work.
wow invy generator....cool
Thanks!
This is insane! Got very inspired by your video! Thanks!
Insane work
Thanks man!
Woaaah that looks sick man!
Amazing stuff, keep it up!
Thanks a lot!
Mate how does one even begin to learn concept art like that. I've been wanting to do stuff like this for so goddamn long.
BTW Keep up the great work
I'm interested as well. It's a very creative activity.
If I can offer my humble answer:
If you have an interest in this sort of stuff, you could begin by doing beginner tutorials for Blender and Photoshop. I recommend checking out the website : ctrlpaint and Blenderguru on TH-cam to start.
It's good to keep a healthy interest in other people's experiments and workflows like Alex demonstrates: it will trigger you into experimenting. But eventually you have to put knowledge into practice, and acknowledge you will fail many times before achieving a desired result.
Don't give up though, because you will learn from mistakes and use that knowledge into your next painting or concept
@@michiel-vdheuvel You're right, I've been trying to jump the gun too many times. I started with automotive design and I'm pretty good at it, but I've been trying to branch out to other things as well and it's been pretty tough, but that's cause I've been trying to do bigger projects without properly getting my foundations straight. I should look into other people's methods and slowly develop my own *then* go into those larger projects.
Thx again for your comment mate :)
Yes do Blender Guru’s donut tutorial. I feel like it’s one of the best starts as a beginner
Just check jama jurabaevs narrated concept art and 3d concept design on learn squared if you want a good start. If you know fundamentals properly those two tutorial is all you need.
solid as always mate, keepon rocking!
Thanks a bunch!
Love it man!
Thanks!
You'r amazing artist
Thanks a lot! :)
did you use ivy generator in blender ?
Amazing 👏👏
your videos are soo motivating
thank you :DDD
I got to about 6 mins in and my mouth would not close :O
Love this! Great work. Very inspirational.
So much details 🥰🥰🥰🥰
You weren't tempted to extinguish the life of the obect once known as the default cube and instead carved a masterpiece using it.
Amazing!!!!!!
Thanks dude!
Any chance you can teach how to use 3d coat?
this blows my mind🔥
Очень круто!!!! Художник.
How to do the same in Blender what you do in 3DCoat ?
Саша, подскажи плиз как в иви генератор объект загрузить, пробую 2 дня не выходит
Nice work dude. All things I'm in touch with but haven't yet implement as you've done. I'm impressed at the speed at which you progressed between each stages as I notice you mentioned you spent a working day on it. You must have used this workflow a bunch of times already ;)
Thank you! Experimenting with different pipelines and software is a kind of hobby for me, I practice a lot with different pipelines also at work, since speed is very important for concept art, I learn to use the strengths of each program.
awesome Sanaya!!!!
Wow! Is this one day sketch?
amazing work sir,
how much time do u take to create this amazing scene? because I procrastinate to quickly by watching time-lapse videos.
amazing work sir.
Thank you! This art took me about 8 hours.
I don't know if you gonna see my comment now or not but i hope you answer me or give me your advice because i can see you're hella good with 3dcoat
i have been using ur stencls but it won't place good and correct on 3d mesh as you in 0:38 Is it possible to tell me what this problem is?
Do you mind doing a video on that Ivy Generator. Or maybe shoot me in the right direction to learn it myself
Wow!! Can I ever be as good as you?
Thanks!
Sure! :)
what is this software that you are using ?
You should’ve added another light source illuminating the statues or atleast one of them. Usually the more complicated meshes need more of a direct light because they don’t seem very visible.
There are 5 additional light sources.
But the satuis must remain in the shade, they are not the focal object.
Alex Pi I get that but because of the statues not having a very simple silhouette, they seem confusing in the final render. Of course it doesn’t really matter because it is easy to identify that they are statues of some sort. Really great job 👍
What is the thing he did at 12:38 to brighten what he selected, and how did he do it ?
pc specs ?
At 16:27 you used blender render pass as a mask for this light rays effect. May I ask which pass is this in blender exactly, I mean name of this. I want to achieve the same effect in my render but cant figure it out. Thanks
Awesome works~~! Could you tell me how to make the depth alpha mask which called layer 0 copy at 16:15 ? It's so usefull.
so why 3D coat over Zbrush? can you create optimized geometry from alphas?
What render layers did you export from Blender to be able to use the levels masks in PS?
the more software the better 👀👀👀
👀
Do you have a link to your program please?
What Software do you use first sir? substance painter?
Круто! Где можно научиться такой работе с нодами и их пониманием?
Спасибо! Это сложный вопрос, я на протяжении долгого времени изучал их самостоятельно, методом тыка)
Но мне кажется что у Яна достаточно хорошие уроки чтобы на на них практиковаться с нодами: www.artstation.com/janurschel/store
@@AlexPi Спасибо большое за совет!)
How?
Ohh, that was so interesting to watch! Thank you for making the video! QwQ
For some reasons I got Dragon Age Inquisition vibe ohoh
Amazing work! Just a quick question, how do you create the blue layer with all the selections in Photoshop?
Really inspiring piece
How many hours? Howwwww? Amazing work
I never seen stencil tutorial before,,but I have a doubt, the wall you created are those displacement map or nomal maps,if displacement can I bake it to normal
This is high-poly geometry. You can bake this into a normal map just like any other geometry.
@@AlexPi thanks
hey quick question, I don't have 3c coat but I've always wanted to know how I can use stencils to engrave details into my models like you do in the beginning of the video. Is there a way I can do this without 3d coat though?
yeah would like to know to. Is it possible in 3ds Max or Blender?
My thoughts exactly. Can blender do this? I don't want to learn yet another 3D tool just for this feature...
bro when I use stencils the lines always come out jagged and not smooth like the stencil? can you help
Hey man awesome video, later on are you using a z-depth pass to create different objects in photoshop and controlling it with a levels?
yep!
@@AlexPi thats a very good idea man, thanks for the video 👍
Does anyone know where he got the statues?
Thats insane ! But one question what do you use to lower the resolution of the 3D coat model so blender wouldn't crash ? The decimate modifier?
Thanks!
Yep! Decimate.
9:37 How do you do this area rendering?
CTRL+B to select the zone and ALT+CTRL+B to diselect
@@CoasterTutorielRedst Thank you !
Man this is so crazy! What are your PC specs? That looks like a crazy heavy scene to render. Any tips to optimize rendering such heavy scenes?
Thanks a lot!
My pc:
Ryzen 5 2600X
32gb RAM
RTX 2070s
For optimization, I use the Decimate modifier and textures no higher than 2048x2048.
@@AlexPi is it 2x2070s u using?
@@mene2172 Cool that you noticed two video cards :) When I rendered this scene, I still had a 980 ti, I used it in conjunction with the 2070s.
@@AlexPi so it's 1x980 and 2x2070s?
Nice :)
thx :)
Holy moly
god. .. wow.
0:36 how do you apply the Stencil only with the Transform tool? And the depth control? @Alex PI
I used extrusion to stencil. I adjusted the depth on the brush.
@@AlexPiThanks, I got it to apply the Stencil with the extrusion ...I still have a lot to learn!
Are you still using 3dcoat?
Amazing! How and by how much do you decimate you 3dcoat models? And is there a way to purchase the blend file for this to take a look at the node setup?
Of the 38 million, 66,000 polygons remain. Perhaps a little later I will post this file to the gumroad, but this is not certain. :)
Do you have a patreon or gumroad....
Not yet :)
I have gumroad, but there is no tutorial material there.
Hey, great video. Do you think its possible to do something like that on a Macbook Air M1 16GB ? (without melting the cpu)
Hey, thanks!
I think it's possible, but the weaker the PC, the more time you need to spend on optimizing the scene.
@@AlexPi Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately I NEED a laptop... I move around a lot, portability and space is an issue. So I am between the M1 macbook air, and the Zephyrus g14 ryzen 7 5800HS / RTX 3050.
вот это работа!
Спасибо!)
which software is that?
What kind of witchcraft is this? This is freaking amazing, never paid attention to 3DCoat, I guess I was very wrong
Ляяяя это просто бомба!!
Спасибо!!)
Amazing man!! Did you not retopo the sculpt before going to blender, it must have had a great number of polygons if not ?
Thanks man! :)
I have applied a Decimate modifier to reduce the polygon count.
Параметры компа для такого рендера?))
Привет. Это не очень тяжелая сцена на самом деле)
Процессор: Ryzen 5 2600X
Оперативная память: 32 гб.
Видеокарта: 2070 Super
@@AlexPi Ясно-понятно.)) Спасибо.))
Great work! What plugins were those, that you used?
I only used the ivy generator, but this is not a plugin but a separate program: ivy-generator.com/
@@AlexPi Gotcha thank you. Didn't realize you were creating in 3DCoat, new to that. You do incredible work, keep it up!