Justin Frazee
@Justin_Frazee
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Senior Weapon/Hardsurface Artist. Working professionally since 2010.
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Sometimes things start turning out better than you could have imagined.
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I've started to realize how much better video is than photos for texture reference. Photos don't do a good job in showing how the surface responds to light.
So here's a video of a magazine shot through a magnifying glass/ring light combo so I could get really close.
I wanted a good reference for a pistol magazine, so I made my own. Here are a couple photos where my specific goal in lighting was to emphasize the vertical scratches. Watch the video linked below to see how the scratches aren't as contrasted as the photos make them seem
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Modeling like a senior Pt. 1
Tools and scale.
First attempt at short form video information.
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I have to say. I pride myself on impeccable high poly meshes with ultra clean topology. Beautiful edge flow.
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When you get to the last 10% you realize you're almost halfway done.
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WEAPON ARTISTS. I just found a treasure trove of scale reference. A holster manufacturer released all of their pistol and accessory 3D scans for free. It's just an external scan, but you won't find better scale reference than this.
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Have you tried using blender? It's an amazing program.
You just need to replace the
UV tools
Modeling tools
Selection tools
Delete tool
Import and export
😆
(Please don't take this light-hearted post seriously. I started championing blender in 2008)
For sure, here's a good start w prices:
UVPackmaster ($44)
ZenUV ($34)
UVToolkit 2 (free - Hard to find)
HardOps/Boxcutter ($38)
Machin3tools ($4.99)
MESHmachine ($44.99)
Maxivz Tools (free)
BetterFBX import/exporter ($28)
Looptools (free)
F2 (free)
Texel Density Checker (free)
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Another modeling tip and an explanation.
Not character art, but hard surface. Before doing your high or low poly your topology doesn't matter at all if your surfaces are planar. Delete edges that are in your way, make n-gons. You don't really need to clean up until later. Messy is faster and better
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An interesting byproduct of starting to mentor is that I've begun to record most of my process for the first time. So here's over 12 hours of me concepting, and modeling progress of the Splinter Cell pistol compressed into 2 minutes for fun.
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Lets make this a series. Of particular interest on this one is where the brass of the cartridges has rubbed off on the breech face and surrounding area.
I've started to realize how much better video is than photos for texture reference. Photos don't do a good job in showing how the surface responds to light.
So here's a video of a magazine shot through a magnifying glass/ring light combo so I could get really close.
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Still cooking with some renders on this Splinter Cell pistol. I want to do some isolated renders before tackling a few more with the Sam model.
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What's up
#PortfolioDay
I'm a Hard Surface artist who loves weapons and helping people. If you have a question I can answer just post below.
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I wanted a good reference for a pistol magazine, so I made my own. Here are a couple photos where my specific goal in lighting was to emphasize the vertical scratches. Watch the video linked below to see how the scratches aren't as contrasted as the photos make them seem
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@austin_walker
@waypoint
When I saw this Rainbow 6 image I immediately thought of you guys.
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Gun reference thread. If you're a weapon artist, or someone who has seen a good place for weapon reference please contribute!
I need a place I can bookmark good gun reference. I'm going to put everything I can find here. I'd like yours as well!
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Started texturing the Splinter Cell pistol. Still very WIP
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@Evanylaaa
If you're modeling a knife, sword, or similar don't merge your cutting edge down to a single geo edge. Leave a tiny quad flow that is your edge. It will be easier to model with and bake cleaner. You can always merge it down when you're completely done to save the tris
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Posting this again because I feel like it kinda got missed. Really enjoying just making renders for this Splinter Cell project. It's probably the most satisfying part. Also it's extra cool to pose a light a character, thanks to
@lizaledwards
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Looking for feedback on my texturing so far. So here's a couple renders in a neutral setting.
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Finally got the Splinter Cell pistol working in Ready or Not
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Just realized I only started seriously posting on twitter in April of this year. Seems crazy in retrospect. Shout out to all the cool people I've met since then and all the people that have followed me. Can't wait post more art.
Need to get back into posting my work and networking. Just finished a texturing/skins project
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100% if you're not capping your cylinders like this you're not a real hard surface artist
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#PortfolioDay
So glad I started mentoring. They aren't done yet but all my mentees are crushing it. The finished products are going to be amazing. In the mean time check out their previous work and give them a follow or a job!
@EdGreig_
@BenedictNeoh
@ArtforMiles_
@TheAlfax
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I don't typically post specifics about work because I enjoy keeping my professional and private lives separate. But I decided I wanted to share in at least part.
So, I'm happy to announce that I am starting as a Senior Hardsurface/Weapon Artist at a small but growing studio!
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Bunch of people were coming out of the woodwork to say they liked UVs...
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A GOOD TIME TO YOU?
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Good morning 3D art Twitter! How can I help you today?
I'm serious, you, the one scrolling past this. Do you need anything? Can I offer you some advice? A critique? A pick-me-up chat? Need me to measure something with calipers?
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Which is reference and which is render? 🤔😉
The snow here got me inspired to get outside and take some reference photos so I could recreate them as a render and composite them. Fun little exercise.
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Thanks to everyone for the feedback. I think I still have some work to do, but I'm happy with the direction I'm traveling in. I've been focusing just on the pistol, so I've hidden the attachments. Feedback is still welcome.
Looking for feedback on my texturing so far. So here's a couple renders in a neutral setting.
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Glock 22 slide
Note: this is not mine, also you can see that there is an excess of oil in the ejection port area.
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#PortfolioDay
I'm Justin. A hard surface/weapon artist. I like trying to make unique things inspired by beautiful cultures. And helping people!
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Trying to keep up with Liz over here but she's so fast 😆. I think I'm done with the midpoly on the Splinter Cell pistol though.
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Had to try whipping up something similar. Realized though a weakness of marmoset is caustics.
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@Krankify
This just got me thinking about how there's just no going back. Even if all forms of "ai" (I hate calling it that) were outlawed tomorrow there's still the millions of garbage things already created that will continue to obscure the good stuff.
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For this
#PortfolioDay
I'll just share my current WIP. It's my custom designed pistol inspired by the Splinter Cell lore.
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More Splinter Cell pistol work. Put a bunch of time on the OCP emp attachment.
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I like getting a preliminary render scene setup early on in the process so I can see how my materials are looking in a context, instead of the vacuum of substance painter.
Started texturing the Splinter Cell pistol. Still very WIP
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Glock 22 Magwell
Lets make this a series. Of particular interest on this one is where the brass of the cartridges has rubbed off on the breech face and surrounding area.
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Ironically this random tip has seen more attention than any blade I've modeled. I've been thinking that I want to do more to help educate other artists. Starting tomorrow I'll be posting short form videos sharing my knowledge.
@Evanylaaa
If you're modeling a knife, sword, or similar don't merge your cutting edge down to a single geo edge. Leave a tiny quad flow that is your edge. It will be easier to model with and bake cleaner. You can always merge it down when you're completely done to save the tris
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@ohle_mathiebe
I feel like some people don't comprehend that in AAA shooters the guns take up a huge % of the screen. And they are basically the characters. Of course the texture budget is high. Then for personal renders you push it even higher for those sweet macro shots.
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XD 40 Frame
Glock 22 slide
Note: this is not mine, also you can see that there is an excess of oil in the ejection port area.
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Splinter Cell pistol WIP. More slide and frame refinement.
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I've been adding some sculpting details to the Splinter Cell pistol
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M&P Shield breech
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Splinter Cell pistol Sub-D done. One step closer to putting these together!
just sharing my favourite renders of my Splinter Cell / Sam Fisher fan art ✨
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Hardsurface modeling tip.
How do you easily model planar surfaces that are not in line with an axis?
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Sorry to be my own hype man but...
Am I cooking today or what!
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Been putting more work into the Splinter Cell pistol. Wrapping up the OCP attachment.
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Not character art, but hard surface. Before doing your high or low poly your topology doesn't matter at all if your surfaces are planar. Delete edges that are in your way, make n-gons. You don't really need to clean up until later. Messy is faster and better
Character Artists; ✨
What is the best piece of advice or tip you have to share?
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@Evanylaaa
If you have stacked shells in your UVs move all but one out of the 0-1 space to the 1-2 space before baking or texturing. This will prevent errors and your textures will still appear correctly.
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@beccahallstedt
Transparent liquid inside of a transparent container.
Mechanical things that are put together in an asthetic way instead of a functional way.
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It's been a bit since I posted about my Splinter Cell pistol but I have been working on the high poly. It still has my impeccable topology too.
I have to say. I pride myself on impeccable high poly meshes with ultra clean topology. Beautiful edge flow.
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Time for a team up! After seeing
@lizaledwards
awesome work I couldn't *not* make a pistol for her Fisher. Here's my concept so far. Since I'm usually the only one that sees them I focus on speed over beauty. I use a combination of photobashing, painting, and 3D. Conically Sam 1/
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Not done with this Splinter Cell pistol project by a long shot. But I was cooking something up over the weekend.
Thanks to
@lizaledwards
for letting me borrow her Fisher model.
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Glock 22 backstrap
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Stop what you're doing and go check out the best hard surface model ever created.
This project was very difficult to capture renders of. There are so many details I want to highlight, it's nearly impossible to show them all.
I hope you like it. More info in the description.
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Here is me creating this edge flow wonder.
It's the integral suppressor on the Splinter Cell pistol I am currently creating.
I have to say. I pride myself on impeccable high poly meshes with ultra clean topology. Beautiful edge flow.
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@lizaledwards
Dang. When I saw the start of this thread I was hoping for another "bonkers honkers" moment.
This is really sad. I feel bad for those that are obviously being exploited.
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Need to get back into posting my work and networking. Just finished a texturing/skins project
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Based on twitter reception I suggest prioritizing your portfolio in this way.
1. Jokes
2. WIPs
3. Unfinished work
4. Things with glaring problems
5. Finished pieces that are good
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Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
Would anyone be interested in a video where I recreate my marmoset scene in a tutorial sort of way?
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Breakdown of the cloth wrap on my Hexbringer rifle.
I started by first playing around with cloth in Zbrush. I didn't spend much time on it in there because I wasn't able to experiment with shapes the way I wanted. Wrapping and tying knots with cloth simulations is difficult. 🧵
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Apparently the secret to a good looking WIP is to use the blender viewport. I'm learning so much from my mentorship, and I'm the one supposed to be teaching 😆
Splinter Cell pistol: I've been working on the frame and optic.
Struggling with the best way to present WIPs and how frequently to post them. Anyway here's some progress on the Splinter Cell pistol. I've been focusing on the slide. Getting facets that looked cool and integrated the shapes of the suppressor took a lot of itterations.
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Modeling like a senior Pt. 3
Automation/Script writing
A little theory, but mostly practical script writing for Maya specifically. I'm sharing all my most used custom scripts to increase my speed. Had to break this one into two videos. Combined into one youtube video below.
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Thanks for the Tag! Art Train! 🚂
Current WIP plus some past projects
I'm tagging some of my current mentees who are all doing awesome work!
@EdGreig_
@TheAlfax
@BenedictNeoh
@ArtforMiles_
Thank you so much for the tag! ☺️
It's been a long time since I've finished anything but here's a mixture of Wips and some old stuff!
Feel free to continue the art train!
@grico316
@peachmarzi
@Vertexpolyfort
@odd_enough
@Justin_Frazee
@Vertrucio
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XD 40 slide internal and barrel
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I'm Justin from Chicago in the US and this is my art.
(And my new headshot that I got so I've been waiting to use it)
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@jeighto
To be honest it doesn't feel much easier once you're inside of it. At least in my experience.
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Most of the stuff was reusing things I did this year. But I was pretty happy with how I got these water droplets to turn out. It was a fun little puzzle to figure out how to make them. I'll probably make another render breakdown video soon about my setup. If there is interest.
Which is reference and which is render? 🤔😉
The snow here got me inspired to get outside and take some reference photos so I could recreate them as a render and composite them. Fun little exercise.
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I did not get in
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Another one from MK11. This one was for the Terminator.
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Does anyone have any advice for speeding up substance painter?
Every time I work on a project it eventually slows down to a crawl and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to speed it up.
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More experiments with naturalistic lighting. My previous setup was hand placing spot lights. There is something interesting in the stylization of it. Like product photography vs museum photography. New setup is just an HDRi.
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I'm developing a theme in my advice, so let me put it out there for everyone. Do you want a fast way to look JOB qualified? Learn how to rip assets from a favorite game. Or find somewhere that did. Pick them apart. Recreate something from them so closely its interchangable. 1/
Good morning 3D art Twitter! How can I help you today?
I'm serious, you, the one scrolling past this. Do you need anything? Can I offer you some advice? A critique? A pick-me-up chat? Need me to measure something with calipers?
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Ed worked really hard on this project and got some great results. You're going to want to follow him on artstation to see what he does next.
Here's my full M1917 Revolver project and breakdown up on ArtStation. It would mean everything if you could go check it out and tell me what you think!
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Modeling like a senior Pt. 2
Follow up scale video
Youtube link:
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If you happen to be using Maya instead of Blender you can achieve the same effect by using the Edit Pivot function in the tool menu or by the shortcut holding "d". Check on Position and Orientation. Then scale down to 0.
You can align a group of faces to a particular height by using the 'Active Element' pivot point in Blender to define the desired height based from the last selected face/edge/vert.
No need for guess work.
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Maya's marking menu system is superior to any other 3D software short cut system. You never have to move your hands from their home position. I miss it every time I learn a new software.
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RT with the first and last art project you worked on this year
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As promised here is some walk throughs of my render process.
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If you had...
One shot...
One opportunity...
🍝
ARTISTS you can only use one Art picture to convince people to follow you.
Which art piece you using?
OK GO UWU
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Struggling with the best way to present WIPs and how frequently to post them. Anyway here's some progress on the Splinter Cell pistol. I've been focusing on the slide. Getting facets that looked cool and integrated the shapes of the suppressor took a lot of itterations.
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