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We're excited to announce our pro-artist AI policy at FlippedNormals. Read on if you're ready to join a marketplace where artists come first.
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'Good topology' is one of the most misunderstood topics in 3D modeling. Universally good topology doesn't exist. Let's explore a better way of looking at topology.
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Nikolay Naydenov has just released an absolute homerun of a tutorial! Learn to create a full character ENTIRELY in Blender 🔥 This is the most complicated character Niko has ever done in Blender, and he has recorded and narrated every step in real time to make this tutorial!
We've never staff picked anything as fast as the Mystery Shack tutorial by Art Director Ian Worrel ✨
Learn from a true master, and create a stylized 3D diorama with gorgeous hand-painted textures.
Christmas Sale 🎄 25% OFF all FlippedNormals Exclusives!
Want to learn rigging? Then check out our Face Rigging for Beginners tutorial that'll teach you exactly what you need to get started!
With 18 5-star ratings, it's no surprise that this ultimate Blender animation course by Pierrick Picaut continues to be a bestseller on FlippedNormals. If you want to learn how to animate in Blender, this is simply THE tutorial!
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Once in a while, we get what we call a "God Tier" product on the marketplace - and this is one of them! 🤯
Physical Starlight and Atmosphere is a completely volumetric procedural sky, sunlight, and atmosphere simulator for Blender. Get it today!
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Alive! Animation Course in Blender is 25% off 🔥 This is the best selling course on FlippedNormals in 2021, and it's one of the best animation courses ever made!
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Finally a tutorial on 3D printing!
Learn to prepare your sculpts for 3D printing and get to grips with the best techniques for splitting the figure into keyable parts while keeping in mind two important aspects: getting a clean print and ease of paint.
With this addon you can create Cloths faster and easier than before. You don’t need a lot of deep knowledge with the Cloth physics settings, you can simply select a presets and quickly adjust them to your needs.
Get it here:
Remember to play with 3D! When studying and working in the industry, things can get very serious. It's important to still have fun!
Sculpt a silly creature, model a spaceship without caring about topology or light something crazy - all just for you.
4/11 Visually pleasing topology is NOT good topology. What provides great deformation doesn't always look pretty. In production you'll see 'weird' topology like this all the time.
To get the exact shape you need, you often have to add highly specific topology.
HALLOWEEN SALE 🎃 For the next 30 hours you can save up to 70% on more than 30 THOUSAND products!
Get 30% off on this popular Zbrush tutorial by Speedchar and learn to sculpt a full cyberpunk character
Switching to Blender from other 3D software can be a real challenge! To make it easier, here's a collection of our top tips!
We also have a full course to make it super easy: Switching to Blender for Experienced Artists
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Realistic Character Portrait Masterclass is 40% off! This is the ultimate masterclass where you'll learn how to create a full character bust. Learn how to sculpt in ZBrush, retopo in Blender, texture in Painter and finally render in Blender.
Create an epic Red Dead Redemption style game environment with this massive new in-depth course by FastTrack Tutorials 🤠 Get it on FlippedNormals
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Let's make a pipehammer in Maya and Substance 3D Painter 💪 This 6+ hour tutorial is perfect for intermediate artists who are ready to level up their skills.
BLACK WEEK 🖤 Save up to 70% on thousands of products!
If you're quick you can grab Introduction to Sculpting at half price 🤯 it doesn't get any cheaper than this!
You are welcome to upload and sell a wide variety of content, as long as it's not AI generated. Any AI art uploaded, even if given away for free, will be taken down.
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FREEBIE DAY 1: Starting today and for the next 10 days, we'll be sharing some of the best FREE products you can download on FlippedNormals right now!
Starting off, learn how to rig and animate your character in Unreal Engine with this free tutorial by Kamila Bianchi
Here are some super simple tips for making ZBrush more comfortable to work with.
1. Remove Gradient
2. Hit WSize and then New Document (this makes the doc the same size as your screen)
3. Preferences - Store Config
You'll now have a big canvas without a gradient. Happy eyes.
See the full process of making this Cyberpunk jacket from scratch. The video covers modeling, sculpting, uv mapping, bake, texturing and rendering and is created by the extremely talented Vadim Meshcherekov.
Let's create a detailed realtime knife for high-end games in this new tutorial by Navid 🔥 Join us and unlock the secrets to making world class game assets!
A ground-based explosion asset. Hand animated and then turned into a 3D sculpt. 49 frames long with three shapes and direct control over the animated color. A very easy plug-and-play pyro asset with good results.
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Bonus: If you're making a portfolio, make the topology as visually pleasing as possible. The studio will judge it and showing you have great control over topology is VERY important as a modeller.
You can decimate your rendered models, but all wires shown must look ✨beautiful✨
If you'd like to incorporate the use of AI on your store, it could for example be a tutorial showing people how to use AI as a starting point to generate references, which you then paint an illustration from.
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We're excited to have professional hair artist and tutorial maker Maria Puchkova join FlippedNormals as a creator 🙌 Give her a warm welcome by checking out her tutorial on creating Real-Time Hair for games
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Interested in learning a new creative tool? Have a look at what Emilie Stabell did in Dreams on PS4 👀We're thinking about doing some videos and timelapses on the software to show you how to make games and art using Dreams 🙌Let us know if this is something you'd be interested in
Learn to Create Trim Sheets in Substance Designer with this new tutorial by Experience Points
Step by step, Keegan Keene, walks you through the process of creating a trim sheet using only Substance Designer.
FREEBIE DAY 10: The final freebie day has arrived 🥲 For the final free product, we have these gorgeous Head Basemeshes by Jordan Knight.
Let us know in the comments if you enjoy us posting free products and you'd like us to share more free content 🙏
In less than a week, Pierrick's new Blender animation course Alive! has already reached the 3rd row of all-time best-selling products on FlippedNormals 🤯 That's insane!
Make sure to get it while the 25% sale is on
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We're about to record a really exciting video: Switching to Blender 2.8 for Advanced 3D Artists!
For all advanced 3D artists looking to make the switch to Blender, this is for you 🙏
5/11 As a 3D modeller in a production, you need to make high quality models at a fast pace.
Understanding the usage of a model is key. If you spend a day retopologizing a head to make the topo 'nice', but the model is a statue, you probably wasted a day.
50% OFF 🤯 You can now get this absolute gem of a tutorial at HALF PRICE! Learn to make stunning stylized dioramas with Ian Worrel himself
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Check out this fascinating collection of head sculpts by Steffen Hartmann. Notice how he manages to inject character and personality into every single inch of his sculptures 🔥
One Blender brushback to rule them all 🙌 Includes 550+ stylized Blender brushes such as buttons, bolts, fur, cracks, wood, rocks, wrinkles, and many more!
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Learn to bake maps for AAA games in this new tutorial by Jesse Sandifer 🤩
A complete guide to creating Normal maps, Ambient Occlusion, Curvature maps, Cavity, Position, Thickness, World Space Normal, and many other maps for your game characters!
Creating ornaments has never been easier! The Ornament Freedom Brush Pack for Substance Painter by det-of-field lets you draw ornaments straight on to your models 👉
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3/11 What's good topo for one need is bad for another.
Left: Great for deformation. Bad for preserving details.
Mid: Great for preserving details. Bad for deformation.
Right: Great for quick concept sculpts. Bad for specific deformation.
We're proud to present the FlippedNormals Face VDMs!
With more than 50 unique brushes, you can now create interesting character designs in minutes instead of hours - go check it out 💪
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Learn to create high-quality outfits using Marvelous Designer and ZBrush. With over 3.5 hours of content, Vadim Meshcherekov teaches you all the steps involved in making a professional jacket.
6/11 This topo looks awful, but luckily we don't judge topo based on what it looks like. The character will never deform, and instead of worrying about displacement maps when rendering, simply decimating the model works well.
This topo allows us to get to the final result faster
Achieve stunning realistic results in Substance 3D Painter and Blender - our Character Masterclass dives deeper into the subject than any other course on the market
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We know we keep shilling Pierrick's new Blender animation course, but it's really THAT good! And it's 25% OFF for a short while still, so now is the time to get it 👀
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