Michael Collins
Admin of the artist-friendly home for #3dart and #3dcg created with any 3D modeling/ rendering application. #lgbtq friendly.
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Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2023-02-19
I bought a spray from Home Depot and used that. It's lasted me close to 10 years in my garage. It literally was called "Privacy Spray for Windows".
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Queen of the road

Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2023-02-15
New "CENSORED" prop I kitbashed together this morning to use for censoring all the big dicks and erections I love to include in my art when posting to certain "social media" platforms. LOL ;-)

Made with a primitive cube with a matte black plastic Iray shader applied, neon letters from the "Real Neon Signs" product that came out recently, EdArt's LED alphanumeric display pieces, and mechanical power switch.
Neon "Censored" prop.Neon "Censored" prop.Neon "Censored" prop.
Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2023-02-08
FYI but SamSil's entire store is running a 50% off special right now for the next 3 days. This is a perfect opportunity if you're looking to add some more diversity to your DAZ3D and Blender renders as SamSil specializes in Black and African-centris characters, clothing, and hair, and he produces some awesome and amazing shit! https://www.sdebstore.com
www.sdebstore.com
Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2023-01-28
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2023-01-19
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2023-01-19
Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2023-01-18
Layer 0 - The perimeter.
Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2023-01-17
Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2023-01-03
Attention #3D #Artists! This firm is looking for some 3D artists to create environments. This is a paying gig!

More info: https://unofficial3dforums.com/t/paid-freelance-junior-3d-environment-artist-at-grid-paper-studio/1038

#job #helpwanted #3djobs #3d #employment
Help Wanted Sign
Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2022-12-31
This is what happens when you don't have diversity on your staff and all your marketing decisions are being made by a cishet white guy.

I get the fact that #DAZ3D is in #Mormon Country, and staffed primarily by #Mormons (statistically), but putting the #GrimReaper in front of the #StarOfDavid was probably not a good choice.

I showed this screenshot to my best friend who's #Jewish and asked her what she thought of it. First thing that came out of her mouth was "Why are they calling for the death of Jews?"

I mean #DAZ has done shit like this before too. Literally publishing promos of #European faces and bodies with virtual #blackface by simply applying an African skin texture without changing any of the underlying ethnic features.

And yes, I know DAZ doesn't do its promos. They outsource them to DAZ3D artists, PAs, and content creators.

But DAZ does decide what goes on the site.

So I blame DAZ 100% for this.
Screenshot of a DAZ3D store page pictured the grim reaper standing in front of an illuminated Star of David
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Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2022-12-31
The goal for 2023 is to minimize #DAZStudio as much as possible and switch to #Blender as my primary workflow.

This is TruForm's City Scene Builder for Studio imported into Blender using #Diffeomorphic.

Frankly I've tried every permutation of Collada, FBX, and OBJ export/ import to get the scene brought over and while they all work they all fuck up the materials in Cycles. Yet Diffeomorphic converts the materials to Cycles materials without any issues!

This is just the Cycles preview window. 128 cycles with the denoiser active so it looks a bit... flat.
Screenshot of Blender user interface with a city scene loaded
Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2022-12-29
"Hand me some tomatoes."
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Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2022-12-27
Another scene from my story "#Marsdale".

This is a continuation of the render I posted yesterday. The portal has now dissipated and one of the allies/ protagonists in the story approaches the traveler to see if he needs help.

We can clearly see now the traveler is young, male, and humanoid but he is no man. He's not even a boy.

I ultimately decided not to go with this render and went with another one that I'll post here shortly.

I wanted to highlight the distance that the man on the left gave himself as he approached the unfamiliar figure but ultimately I thought it was too much waste of space.

As with the last image this image was rendered in #Iray using #DAZStudio with a custom LUT and postwork with #AffinityPhoto2.

And like all of my works this one is also #CCBySA.
Image of a man talking to a younger male.
Michael Collinsmjc3d@3dart.social
2022-12-27
Mazel tov!
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