i make (electronic) music :)
I own too many instruments than I'd like to admit and still not be a musician :(
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#12Are you asking for 3D specifically (based on the example you provide). I'm not a professional, but I'm learning digital painting. I use procreate on the iPad (It's way easier than connecting the graphic tablet to my computer) and I've made some good progress recently. I learned a bit about 3D, but did not really pursue as I got interested in programming instead.
My wife uses Procreate on her iPad as well. She loves it. Only thing we find frustrating about it is the limited amount of layers, although it's my understanding that's mostly limited by iPad resources and not procreate itself.
Yeah. It depends on the canvas size itself. I have the ipad air and 4000x4000px gives me 27 layers. But layer management is not the greatest thing on procreate and I rarely go over 6
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#13i make (electronic) music :)
I own too many instruments than I'd like to admit and still not be a musician :(
being the type of person that need to focus on one task/life, i completely understand you! when I was commited to music production and paid the bills with it, I couldn't focus in any other thing/job. Now since the pandemics started, I had to focus in programming to pay the bills and had to quit music completely.
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#14I became interested in computer graphics at a very young age, spent the first 9 years working as a developer. Then switched and started working as a cgi artist in media/advertising. 10 years later i have gone full circle and am way more happy with what i am doing. We have come such a long way- from mode 13 to GPUs, from scanline to raytracing, from offline to realtime. It still excites me. If it wasnt for graphics i would not even be interested in computers.
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#15Senior Visual effects artist here. Hi! 20+ years in the industry, worked on movies from Final Fantasy The Spirits Withing to Disney's Enchanted and a whole mess of forgettable cinema and TV shows.
My axe is SideFx's Houdini. I've been in love with it since I first set eyes on it in 1998, but didn't use it in work until 2010. Until then I was using Maya. Yuck. It's now off my resume and I've left studios that made me use it. It makes my hands clench up in pain.
I've also used Shake and Nuke, After Effects, Photoshop, etc... But Houdini is really my jam. And it keeps getting better all the time. Best damn customer support in the industry, bar none!
Any questions?
My opinion on Blender is: Sure, if it fits your needs. It seems kinda quirky, but the community looks good.
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#16I became interested in computer graphics at a very young age, spent the first 9 years working as a developer. Then switched and started working as a cgi artist in media/advertising. 10 years later i have gone full circle and am way more happy with what i am doing. We have come such a long way- from mode 13 to GPUs, from scanline to raytracing, from offline to realtime. It still excites me. If it wasnt for graphics i…
Oh using Maya, Nuke, VRay and Unreal btw. Maybe its best to start with Blender/Unreal these days.
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#17Senior Visual effects artist here. Hi! 20+ years in the industry, worked on movies from Final Fantasy The Spirits Withing to Disney's Enchanted and a whole mess of forgettable cinema and TV shows. My axe is SideFx's Houdini. I've been in love with it since I first set eyes on it in 1998, but didn't use it in work until 2010. Until then I was using Maya. Yuck. It's now off my resume and I've left studios that made me…
interesting. I haven't used maya I wonder why you think that. I only touched houdini (donut tutorial) and it seemed amazing at the time, but blender had what I needed and now has geometry nodes so I don't see the reason.
and I've been considering branching to 2D, photo/video editing, post production stuff. just out of interest but other than that I just don't have a reason to learn even more stuff if I end up not using it.
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#18I am a physicist by trade, but recently I started drawing on my Samsung tablet. I'm really enjoying it. For other folks that are doing digital drawing I can recommend that you print out your stuff on canvas with a high-end printer. The feeling of having your work that you can hang on your wall is amazing!
I put my stuff on my blog. Feel free to check it out here: https://physica.dev/art/
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#19I make music with Logic Pro and a piano :)
https://dclassic.work
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#20I started as a painter, discovered multi-color 3D Printing and learned basic coding skills. I'm currently working on a Blender Addon that lets you modify G-code inside of Blender.
Shifting more and more to the developer side of things, but still trying to work with both, can be a powerful combination.
G-code importer can be seen here: [link redacted] Some results here: [link redacted]