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Recreating Marvel's Cyclops As Stylized Hand-Painted 3D Character

28 October 2026 - Daniil "Split" Voskressensky shared a breakdown of his first deep dive into Blender's shaders, modifiers, and render setup to create a fully hand-painted, comic-style 3D model of Cyclops.

#Character Art#Interviews#Blender#ZBrush

Building a Stylized Mountain Cabin with Modular Assets and Custom Shaders

27 October 2026 - Arjun Perayil explains why blockout is the most important part of production, shows how he created a complex master shader for the cabin in Unreal Engine 5, and talks about the process of hand-sculpting stylized vegetation.

#Environment Art#Interviews#Blender#Unreal Engine#Marmoset Toolbag#Maya#SpeedTree#ZBrush#Substance 3D Designer#Substance 3D Painter

Building a Game-Ready Nordic Village Scene with Day & Night Lighting Setups

26 October 2026 - Danylo Kyslenko shares his tricks for saving time when building modular assets, explains how he made a custom Material Layer Blend function and used it for texturing, and demonstrates how he created fake interiors for the nighttime view of the environment.

#Environment Art#Interviews#Blender#Unreal Engine#Marvelous Designer#ZBrush#Substance 3D Designer#Substance 3D Painter

Terraforming The Alters: Last Variable with Blender, ZBrush & UE5

22 October 2026 - Artem Ostapchuk of 11 bit studios shared how the team built the terraforming pipeline for The Alters: Last Variable, visualizing alien flora over a barren planet with opaque Nanite cutout geometry, PCG scattering and a global HISM system so every level worked in both its scorched and terraformed states.

#Interviews#Props#3D Art#Blender#Unreal Engine#Photoshop#Quixel#ZBrush#Substance 3D Designer#Substance 3D Painter

Building an Abandoned, The Last of Us-Inspired Mediterranean House with Custom Materials

22 October 2026 - Barış Kılıç explains how he blended Mediterranean architecture with The Last of Us aesthetic in his Mediterranean Echoes scene, shares his trick for distributing polygons wisely, and reflects on the challenge of making a set of custom materials in Substance 3D Designer.

#Environment Art#Interviews#3ds Max#Unreal Engine#Marmoset Toolbag#Maya#Megascans#ZBrush#Substance 3D Designer#Substance 3D Painter
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Creating Realistic Textures on an Old Woven Basket Decorated with Seashells

20 October 2026 - Shubham Vijay talks about the meticulous process of recreating an intricate pattern on a woven basket in 3D, breaks down the process of texturing several different surfaces, like rope and seashells, and explains how he integrated 3D scans of real-life objects into the project.

#Interviews#Props#Blender#Unreal Engine#Marmoset Toolbag#Maya#ZBrush#Substance 3D Designer#Substance 3D Painter

Gunfire Reborn's Dragonchaser Reimagined as Painterly 3D Asset in Wayfinder's Style

19 October 2026 - Max Osta showed us the workflow behind the Dragonchaser project, discussing recreating the gun from Gunfire Reborn in a painterly, Wayfinder-inspired style, sculpting wood planks and jade in ZBrush, building ropes with Blender modifiers and procedural textures, and rendering in Eevee. 

#Interviews#Props#Blender#Marmoset Toolbag#ZBrush#Substance 3D Painter

Sculpting Scales & Simulating Clothes for Creature Chef in ZBrush & Marvelous Designer

16 October 2026 - Yuriy Barchuk walked us through the workflow behind the Breakfast – Chef Extraordinaire project, discussing clothing simulation for a non-human character in Marvelous Designer, sculpting scales in ZBrush, and rendering in Unreal Engine 5.7.

#Interviews#3D Art#Unreal Engine#Marmoset Toolbag#Marvelous Designer#Maya#Photoshop#ZBrush#Substance 3D Painter

Maxon One 2027.0 Release is Here with Scatter System for Cinema 4D & UV Editor for ZBrush

15 October 2026 - The release covers Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Redshift, Red Giant, and Autograph.

#News#3D Art#ZBrush#Cinema 4D#Redshift

Best 3D Modeling Software: Blender, Maya, ZBrush & More

10 October 2026 - Compare them all with prices, free options, pros and cons, and who each tool is for.

#News#3ds Max#Blender#Houdini#Maya#ZBrush#Cinema 4D#Substance 3D Painter

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