Substance Painter: It is a texturing program that is currently free for students/individual non-professional. It can do all that Maya can minus some key features. With that being said, there is no support structure available besides forums (No real customer support) because its free. or B: perpetually renew the student license ever 4 years.īlender: A FREE 3D modelling software that with the most recent update is actually more capable than Maya in a lot of areas. It is expensive but you can just use the student license so long as A: you dont get caught or are not selling stuff. It can also UV, create 3D Motion Graphics, Rig, Animate, has Xgen for alpha cards/Hair cards, and do much more. It is what I use and has over 27,000 tools you can use when modeling in 3D. Maya: 3D Modelling software and the industry standard across Game, Film, and Commercial (That arnt still using Max). Just learn on your own free time and have fun.Ī list of programs and what they are will be below: This matters more with resin printing but the point remains. If you're looking to just make 3dPrints then you should learn to properly fill your mesh so you have the least amount of airpockets possible. And Substance Painter/3d Coat for baking/texturing. You should also look at Maya or Blender for basically everything else that isnt sculpting-modeling.
Ill give you a list of classes or videos to look at after I kinda give you a good bit of info to read.įirst things first, are you a hobbyist or someone looking to get into this before college or for a profession?Įach is treated differently, if you want to do this for a profession you should also learn how to retop and bake normals/textures. So you can piece this stuff together or reply and Ill list more stuff for you. I am not sure if you want to make characters, or environments, or props, or hardsurface stuff, or organic, or. Okay, if you want info beyond classes goto BREAKDOWN, otherwise just skip to CLASSES.