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RE: Visual Arts - DANMATUS - 10-04-2026

(16-07-2025, 01:06 PM)Dirty Duck Wrote: What’s the progress like now, Jass?

I’ve been working on some papier-mache catfish heads for a project I’ve been asked to be a part of. It sounds all fun and games but I’m going away for work soon so I’m running out of time to work on them and I may have to make a third when originally I thought I’d only need to make two. I’m fluctuating between massively stressed and serenely calm at an alarming rate lol

Here’s a pic of the one that’s at a state of near completion which may end up being scrapped and having to be redone:

Oh god you should really do a Kerotan head!

RE: Visual Arts - tr0nic - 17-04-2026

Just dropping a small update since I'm quite proud of myself:

Wanted to see if I had the skills so far to make a low-poly arsenal for myself to use once I get somewhere farther down the line in learning Blender. Just finished my first attempt at putting together a Portuguese-style AR-10 Carbine:

AR-10C:

Kind of amazed I pulled this off as nicely as I did. For reference, I'm trying to make some guns that look similar in style to GTA III/VC guns, so there's some acceptable roughness that I can lean into with my limited skills. Here's III's M16:

GTA III M16:

I'm gonna model the AR-10C's mag separately of course, maybe put together a little weapons crate with a few guns n mags in there soon. Having a lot of fun ripping images to turn into 256x256 textures, which is WAY higher than GTA III's weapons textures were (64x64!!) but I just love the look I've got going right now. I think next up I'm gonna try to make an MP5 chambered in 10mm:

MP5/10:

That 10mm straight mag will come out really great I think.

RE: Visual Arts - Jassassino - 17-04-2026

(17-04-2026, 05:15 AM)tr0nic Wrote: Just dropping a small update since I'm quite proud of myself:

Wanted to see if I had the skills so far to make a low-poly arsenal for myself to use once I get somewhere farther down the line in learning Blender. Just finished my first attempt at putting together a Portuguese-style AR-10 Carbine:

AR-10C:

Kind of amazed I pulled this off as nicely as I did. For reference, I'm trying to make some guns that look similar in style to GTA III/VC guns, so there's some acceptable roughness that I can lean into with my limited skills. Here's III's M16:

GTA III M16:

I'm gonna model the AR-10C's mag separately of course, maybe put together a little weapons crate with a few guns n mags in there soon. Having a lot of fun ripping images to turn into 256x256 textures, which is WAY higher than GTA III's weapons textures were (64x64!!) but I just love the look I've got going right now. I think next up I'm gonna try to make an MP5 chambered in 10mm:

MP5/10:

That 10mm straight mag will come out really great I think.

That's banging, Tron. You've kicked off to a great start.

Did you downscale images of the guns and use them as textures? If so, if you wanna get a crunchier look, in the shading tab change the texture sampling from Linear to Closest, that way it won't use pixel data to blur sharp edges and you'll see every pixel.

RE: Visual Arts - tr0nic - 17-04-2026

Appreciate it, brother. I don't know why I didn't sit down and dig into Blender sooner.

Thank you for the tip! And yes, I downscaled a really quality image of the actual AR-10 for this but I got lucky, right now I'm trying to create a texture set on Shoebox for the MP5 and it is definitely tricky with these more obscure lower res images.

I actually did have the shading on "closest" but this was an accident and I had no idea I had already done that, now I actually know what I did lmao so thank you.

Now I am torn. "Closest" gives me the crunchiest look by far, but "cubic" gives it a distinctly smooth, early 2000's PC game look. Looks like it could be a model from Max Payne 1.

Cubic:

Probably sticking with the "closest" one over this "cubic" variant, but man it feels so cool to be learning this stuff.

RE: Visual Arts - tr0nic - 18-04-2026

OKAY one quick doublepost to show off my day's work and then I'll fuck off until I make some more measurable progress.

Made some SKB-brand foam lined cases for my AR-10C:

Spoiler:

Wrangling those textures was a bitch and a half but I learned so much in the process all on my own so it was entirely worth it.

Putting the cases to use:

Spoiler:

Realizing now that the stock on the AR-10C is PHAT and needs a bit of squishing in, and maybe making the barrel a bit longer. But I'm having a blast. Next up I'm definitely putting together the MP5 and maybe a Colt 1911. More stuff to put in these cases.

RE: Visual Arts - DANMATUS - 19-04-2026

(18-04-2026, 01:56 AM)tr0nic Wrote: OKAY one quick doublepost to show off my day's work and then I'll fuck off until I make some more measurable progress.

Made some SKB-brand foam lined cases for my AR-10C:

Spoiler:

Wrangling those textures was a bitch and a half but I learned so much in the process all on my own so it was entirely worth it.

Putting the cases to use:

Spoiler:

Realizing now that the stock on the AR-10C is PHAT and needs a bit of squishing in, and maybe making the barrel a bit longer. But I'm having a blast. Next up I'm definitely putting together the MP5 and maybe a Colt 1911. More stuff to put in these cases.

This is so cool, gives me alot of Max Payne vibes with the old graphics, keep em coming! A inspiration for the MP5 could be the MP5 from Counter Strike 1.5 / 1.6. Always loved that gun!

RE: Visual Arts - Dirty Duck - 20-04-2026

Only something silly but here's a poster I made for a Smash Bros tourney. It's a BBQ/tournament reunion of people who used to play together at locals every weekend until covid happened, so the last one was 6 years ago. The venue has long since closed down and this reunion is being hosted at one of the house of one of the old regulars instead. The characters on the poster are all ones that were people's mains back when we used to play.

I was really looking forward to it honestly but I now have work that weekend so can't make it. Bit of a bummer but I need the work right now so shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth or whatever-hopefully this one goes well and there's another down the line.

[Image: Smash-at-the-BBQ-Final-Final.png]

RE: Visual Arts - Jassassino - 20-04-2026

Recently played FO2 and felt like it gave me some nice inspiration - so I'm working on some scenery to put together inspired by it. Spent the past two days making these Poseidon Energy retro petrol pumps. Work in progress still - want to add a ticking display meter for pricing and add a bit more wear and tear, but please with them for the most part.

Was really fun imagining how the logo would work in a 3D space - looked at a lot of classic petrol signage including Shell (lol) to get it down properly.

[Image: Poseidon-Energy-Petrol-Pumps.png]

RE: Visual Arts - Roger - 07-06-2026

Garnet FF9:

Yuna FFX:

I recently got back into digital painting. Man I love this stuff.

Jass and Tr0nic those are some really sick 3d skills.

RE: Visual Arts - Dirty Duck - 07-06-2026

Wow Roger, really cool!