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Five Tips to Starting FreelancingSo, you're tired of being unemployed. You've been stuck at home for the umpteenth month in a row, a new season of The Legend of Korra is still a year off, and your government support checks (should you be lucky to still be getting them) won't even come close to affording you a bus ticket to Everfree Northwest. Your evaluation of life is the same dissertation of tedium and monotony as Helen Keller's review of Chinese Democracy.
You know, pretty much on par with every other review of Chinese Democracy.
But know what? If you can't find a job, you'll make a job! Screw finding work, and screw the employers who keep dismissing your applications for being "over qualified" like that Bachelors of Science in Graphic Design is as detrimental to your character as being a registered felon. Screw them and that stupid help wanted sign at Quiznos. Now you're freelancing, baby.
While I'm assuming you're alread

Why Your Renders Suck (Part 2)This article is so long, it's been split up into 2 parts, you can find part 1 here
Don't forget to check the =3D Week Announcement= regularly for updates on events and contests, we've got a lot on this week!
Why Your Renders Suck and What you Can Do About It! (Part 2)
You can find Part 1 Here
Lighting and Texturing
The light seems to come from everywhere at once
In many 3D packages, under the lighting toolset, there is a button called "Ambient Light". Every time you use this light, a little part of you dies inside. There is no example in the real world of anything that is lit from all sides at once. This is a cheap trick that used to be used back before lighting was accessible and able to be used realistically, and looks something like this:

What you're effectively doing by using

Spotlight Features - Vol. 15A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during October 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit

Why Your Renders Suck (Part 1)This article is so long, it's been split up into 2 parts, you can find Part 2 here
Don't forget to check the =3D Week Announcement= regularly for updates on events and contests, we've got a lot on this week!
Thank you to ~Nanaki-Murasaki for his efforts in helping write this!
Why Your Renders Suck and What you Can Do About It! (Part 1)
You can find Part 2 Here
Planning Stage
This is the most important phase of your production and often the most neglected. Most of the worst renders completely skip this step and dive straight into disaster.
You are lacking a purpose and intended audience
Before even coming up with an idea, it's good to think to yourself "Who is the story for? Why am I doing this? What do I really want to do?". A lot of people skip this step, thinking it's unimportant, this usua

Spotlight Features - Volume 11A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during August 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit

3D Printing: An Overview and Interview3D Printing – An Interview with Professor Olaf Diegel
Don't forget to check the =3D Week Announcement= regularly for upcoming events and contests this week, we've got a lot on!
3D Printing is a way of converting your 3D models into physical real-world objects. It's exciting because most of a 3D artist's life is spent working on things that are never tangible and traditionally haven't existed in the real world, until recently.

Previously, a process called milling has been used to create models of computer objects, This is somewhat like sculpting done by the computer, where you start with a solid mass and cut bits away until you're left with your model! This process is called subtractive printing, because you start with a lot of material, and get rid of bits of it until you're left with your 3D object.

3D printing is an additive process. This mea

Spotlight Features - Vol. 16A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during November 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit

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That's right ladies and gentlemen, the sun is high in the sky, the days are long, the ground is dry, the breeze is hot and it's Summer Downunder! And what better way to celebrate than with a spot of heated competition that's sure to set fire to the HaRPG world? Yes, get that tack oiled, those horses fit and your boots polished, it's time for #Yawarda to host it's first ANNUAL THREE DAY EVENT!
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About sxc.hu stockGreetings!
A few of you have been really worried lately about using stock from sxc.hu here because of the change in their ownership. Basically, you were concerned that their license says that you cannot redistribute their stock in whole or in part, by itself or combined with other elements, without the written approval of the original photographer.
As we all know by now, creating a photomanipulation is considered "making a derivative image." And we know we can't make premade backgrounds without permission from the photographers, as doing so is redistributing their work.
I advised a couple of you to check with the Help Desk and sxc.hu to find out the whole truth before making rash decisions about your group that could potentially make everyone panic.
Using my own personal account, I wrote to sxc.hu to find out what the story was. Here's what I said:
I was just wondering whether creating phot

Spotlight Features - Volume 14A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Poll Features
It is widely known that many famous artists, composer, and authors have had the frustration of having a work they felt was sub-par gain huge popularity while pieces they worked harder on and adore sat un-noticed. This is the same for everyday deviants. I recently ran a poll asking for deviants to share with me their thoughts on this and share their own art. Here is Part 2 of the answers--the first piece being the most faved and the second being the one they wished had more love. To see the original poll, click here.

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A Note about Copyright and CreditingHello lovely people.
I'd just like to give you guys a reminder about three points of copyright that come up quite often and I think people are confused about. I don't want to see any of you get in trouble, so here's some things that you should remember:
Characters Ripped out of Games and Screenshots
Ripping models out of games and using them in your art is absolutely 100% not allowed on DA. This is considered a copyright infringement. Passing these around to others just makes things even worse. Please make sure you don't do this and don't use resources that have been taken from games.
I can't stress this enough, make sure any stock models you use are from people who either made them or have express permission to supply them to you.
Screenshots are a bit more of a grey area. Some game companies let you post them some don't. If you MUST post screenshots, please make sure they are correctly labeled and credited, and put in the Fan Art gallery.
Game screenshots don't belon

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Know your Basics - PerspectivePerspective comes in different forms, the most obvious & basic of which is the use of the word in relation to the appearance of relative orientation in a three dimensional space. At first, it may seem irrelevant to photomanipulators, (because, hey, the photographs already are perspectively sound,) but putting more than one photograph in context requires that you learn to see what makes sense and what doesn't.
The Technical Stuff

Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are that objects are drawn:
Smaller as their distance from the observer increasesForeshortened: the size of an object's dimensions along the line of
sight are relatively shorter than dimensions acro

Spotlight Features - Volume 5A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during April 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit t

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The Third Dimension - Issue 12

by ~third-dimension, Apr 7, 2007, 7:04:34 PM
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~10am here, just checking in to let you know about some up and coming changes to TTD before we kick into this weeks artworks.

Some of you may have noticed that it has become a Fortnightly magazine, rather than weekly as previously done, this is temporary as I am looking for another writer who can do the issue in the off weeks for me.

Apart from that keep up the support - it's well appreciated and is more than enough to keep us going!

Let's try and spread the word and get the average Fav level up to 50+ an issue yeh?

Anyways - now for the art!

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Anger Management by ~swordfish96
Such detail and attention to creating a realistic model, wonderful use of Zbrush to work at the details, and a fantastic piece of artwork.

Audi LOCUS Wallpaper V1 by ~ugursahin1234
When I saw this I thought that Audi had just brought advertising space on dA, such beautiful rendering and postwork to meld the car into the background makes this piece well worthy of it's spot in this issue.

ZERO by ~1ALPHA1
This guy is going for the most features by a single artist in TTD award with no doubt, once again managing to create the most inspirational and unique piece of artwork yet again. This piece reminds me of the killer artwork of the graffiti master, Daim.

SC-001 by *damnengine
Once I saw this I thought CD cover! Heh reading the description proved my hunch, but to my disbelief this artwork wasn't selected!
It is the existence of little gems like this that make doing TTD magazine all worthwhile, and make my browsing on dA that much more enjoyable. Wonderful use of texture and colour in this image set it well apart from the rest!

Karafuru by ~ouwEnz
Now everyone knows my weakness for a good abstract, and this bright and colourful mix of both rounded, natural abstract and the cold hard edges of the sqaures and rectangles provide dramatic juxtaposition of moods. Excellent execution of a lovely idea earn this artwork its rightful place in this weeks features.

Mclaren F1 by ~TonyHarris
Now, everyone has gotta agree with me when I say, TEH SEX!
I can't really think of much more to say apart from wonderful modelling and use of materials to get what looks like an extremely close to completely photorealistic finish!

The Mighty V3 by ~XxWarbladexX
Ahhh im not usually a fan of character renders, but the detail in place in this one grabbed my attention in an instant, lovely pose and a very atmospheric background make this a piece well worthy of desktop love I think..

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Well that wraps it up for this week, keep up the support and check back next week (hopefully) or fortnight (More likely) for the next issue!

Love,
~10am

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The Third Dimension - Issue 12by ~third-dimension

Journals / Art News / Digital Art

~sandrodcpereira Apr 10, 2007 Professional Digital Artist

Nice idea. I've always thought 3D modeling was somewhat underappreciated on deviantART, so it's really nice that someone is actually trying to do something about it.

~sandrodcpereira Apr 10, 2007 Professional Digital Artist

Nice idea. I've always thought 3D modeling was somewhat underappreciated on deviantART, so it's really nice that someone is actually trying to do something about it.