Renderotica

Same problem here - though from a different direction: after 95% of a project is finished, I often lack inspiration for good promo images ... and sometimes just for the accompanying manual texts. Arrgghhh!

Since this creative block sometimes stretches over days - if not weeks - I usually start working on a new project and hope that at some point inspiration will come for the (almost) finished package ...

However, as a 3D artist, such a change is a bit more difficult (at least I could imagine).

Now this is just my personal taste - but have you ever looked into the basic idea of shibari? It's not about torture, violence or humiliation, but about sensuality and the interaction of the female body with artfully draped ropes. Via such a detour - i.e. dealing with a topic that is actually not mine - I came to my XHUDZ thing, for example.

I hope your creative block is over soon, because I really like your artwork.

At Pushee, I feel your pain. After trying to get inspired to 3d model a project, I gotta convert it to a mesh, export. Uvmap, rig, texture, morph, do poser poses, covert to daz studio, do ds poses, package, beta test, fix, then think about promo images and text layup. By that point my eyes are bleeding and I have little inspiration to do a good promo art piece. I'd love to get back into.comics but my art style isn't really popular here and promoting my art at other websites is just another layer of work. Sigh....

@ wurger:

It's really great to see you inspired again. I saw your latest works in the gallery: Fantastic!
Sometimes it really helps to write something down, to take a step back, or to think of Francis Picabia (from whom comes one of my favorite mottos):
"Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction"

@ davo and SnarltheWerewolf:

Possibly this is a more profound and parallel meaning of "hard core": it's really hard to get images, projects, etc. to the point ;-)

Have a great day!

I suppose I'm a little late to the party but... oh well....

I know it sounds cliche but... "something else" ;)  maybe not even something related to 3D/rendering but just something I enjoy doing.

This evening I was mucking around wondering about 'finishing' a mini series of mine or at least coming up with a more "tentacled" scenery but it just didn't click. So the next moment I'm in another scenery (also involving a man-eating plant) when I suddenly figure that... "I want a more realistic look 'between her legs' but just for realism, not sex scenery"; so the next moment I added a basic Daz3D female genitalia prop and before you know I'm messing around in Substance Painter to get this to look right'ish.

Now I'm looking at 2 young-adult figures with a sorta realistic look and what do you know?  I may now also have an idea for my pose.

Seriously... my motto is not to try and force things, do something else to take your mind off and inspiration (and/or motivation) may just pop back into your head.

 

Well done - my hard drive is overflowing with botched projects, hard to do projects (slipped tights) and tons of pre versions (e.g. 5 for "theBriefs") before I finished the final version .... but the problem is more about my expectations ;-)

However, I think that blocking for content creators cannot be compared to blocking for 3D artists: as a CC, for example, you can switch to socks, hats or whatever if trousers don't work. You can even start a completely different theme like poses, props, etc.

The choices you have as a CC are unfortunately not given to a 3D artist - like wurger: a rendering is a rendering is a rendering ....

And if you have a certain style and want to keep it (like wurger), the possibilities become even smaller. I can imagine how annoyed - and yes: sometimes bored - you can be as a 3D artist in this situation.

Have a great day - and an even better weekend!

 

Part of my frustration came from the death of my 12gb RTX 3060, forcing me back to my 8gb 2070 Super. I constantly run out of GPU memory on the 2070 with all but the simplest scenes. That card will barely render two G9 characters, let alone adding an entire scene. My 3060 has been out on RMA for almost two months now, with no indication of a return date, so last week I took the plunge and grabbed a 4070 on sale. Back in business now...