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@Nahtanis TRT is amazing, but I'd like to know more about peptides. Any good resources you can share that really helped out/were informative?

I know most of you follow me for my art content. Don’t worry, that is why I am here. But I made a discovery in the last year that I just have to share with anyone who cares about their health. I have always been into fitness, running, lifting, trying out any diet that exists. I started intermittent fasting, I own a peloton, you name it I have done it. A few years ago my son caught the gym bug, and we started going all the time, like we were hitting it hard. Protein shakes, tracking macros, just living the life. I felt like I was getting in great shape until I did my yearly doctor visit where the facts sort of hit me in the face. I was almost 200lbs, they said my BMI meant that I was technically obese. I had gained a lot of muscle but my cholesterol was bad, and a lot of my bloodwork sucked. The doctors response was hey this is just how it goes. Getting old sucks. “If you want some anti-depressants we can give you those.” I asked if maybe my testosterone was low and he said as long as I can get out of bed they don’t really look into it. I left totally bummed out. Fasting, exercising, everything I was doing wasn’t working. So I said fuck this. This is not how it is going to go. I took the next step and figured out what I was missing. And as silly as this sounds I learned how to hack my body to do what I want. A buddy of mine pointed me in the right direction of a TRT clinic, and that led me to discovery after discovery about using compounds and peptides to totally reverse my health. I went down the rabbit hole, and for the last year learned everything I could about performance enhancing my body. To date I am down 45lbs. I discovered peptides, and actually got involved with a peptide company. I exercise about the same, but now get the results that I expect from proper diet, cardio, and lifting. On my last blood test my cholesterol is fixed. My body fat is approaching single digits, and the kicker is that this hasn’t been that hard to achieve. That is why I am boring you with this sort of pathetic post. You don’t have to be out of shape. Not anymore when you can now command your body to use its resources correctly. You can heal injuries faster, improve your skin, whatever you want using peptides to tell your body what to do. I know it might seem risky or radical, but for me it has been worth it with nothing but positives. Again sorry… I will get back to the art content now. I just felt like I discovered something so fantastic I wanted to share it in case there is anyone else stuck and depressed about their health like I was. #weightlossjourney

@Nahtanis That's incredible. The sheer amount of variation and detail is off the charts 🤩

Some more action for you rock enthusiasts.

Environment art rock heaven! Iceland is amazing, and after working on the last two God of War games seeing lots of our rock reference in real life was super cool. Didn’t expect to see any Star Wars there, but Yoda made a surprise appearance if you can find him…and me in the pic. #gamedev #gameart #iceland #yoda

@celitose Your watercolor paintings are beautiful 🤩 looking forward to many more in the future

Over the past few weeks, I spent a lot of time with watercolors. Of all the mediums I’ve tried so far, it may be the one that requires the most cooperation from the artist — but the reward is all the more unique 🌫️ ⛰️ The Old Man of Storr, Scotland 日本語はコメントまで↓

@celitose Incredible work 🤩

⚔️ The Knight and the Thistlewood Unicorn | 騎士とアザミ森のユニコーン

@henningsanden @Nahtanis I got you, fam natestephens.gumroad.com/l/oupfyh?layou…

@Nahtanis Link please!

In games how do you work with texel density? Is there a brief per asset? What are some Best Practices?

@ArtOfPilgrim How did you go about sculpting the obsidian, and which brush(es) did you use? Been trying to create obsidian for some time now, but it just looks very clunky 😢

I made this one awhile ago. I mixed themes from the Aztec and Rust to create the grip. Pattern created in Substance Designer (which I'm not all that familiar with). Sculpted the obsidian blade in Zbrush. Yes he's holding a mini rock and wearing frogboots 😅

@JaneLysa911 That's some next-level special kind of mod 😂

Update2: I got a permanent ban. That's what you get for asking them to show the unreal engine scene and video proofs that my work is not AI🙃

Well... I was banned from posting to Sailor Moon reddit because my 3d art "reeks of AI".I even have all the proof videos of hundreds of hours put into manual work of sculpting those statues and architecture and I can't even write to mods to clarify that. Can I even fix it?

@badboi3d Looks pretty sweet. How do you find sculpting in Blender vs. ZBrush for organic environment models (rocks, wood planks, etc)? Is there any functionality (or lack thereof) holding you back, or pretty much on-par now?

NUMBER 4!! This is more than i did last year for the #TheClubsRockingNewYear. Blender, 1 hour!

@Nahtanis Fantastic tutorial 🤩 Part 2 when?

natestephens.gumroad.com/l/uliugq In the two CGMA classes that I recently taught this was the most requested in class lecture by the students. So I figured why not get it out there for anyone interested. This covers a lot, and is much more than a brick wall tutorial. You can use this workflow to create any seamless high poly surface, and take advantage of everything that Zbrush has to offer. There will also be a part 2 to this covering the process of turning this into a seamless geometry module, baking and low poly creation, as well as leveraging a layered shader inside of Unreal for material creation. Hopefully I am done with that in a few weeks.

@mkt_sentiment We all need a bit more ALPHA! Love the dedication, would like to read it 😁

Buying and holding the index is the bare minimum. I wrote a 9,000-word guide on how long-term investors can generate alpha. It covers factor investing, family-owned stocks, power of brands, Lindy effect, and much more. Repost or Comment "Alpha" and I will DM you a free copy!

You know what December was missing?! 🎉 An amazing lineup with 3 amazing artists that will be sharing their knowledge with us this month!

A big thank you to @MeshModeler for doing this. That was a really nice, comprehensive in-depth look into organic surface aging 🔥

Our September workshop with Javier Perez, Lead Materials Artist at PlayStation Studios Visual Arts, is now available to all our Workshop Access tier subscribers in early access. The recording is accessible on your personal dashboards at: beyondextent.com/user/login

This is a great opportunity to learn & get some answers to your questions from @MeshModeler, who's one of the top Substance Designer minds out there. Come and join the workshop later today!

@machin3io Personally, something in the range of 20-30€ a year seems reasonable

Curious what people think

What would the convenience of this be worth to you? #b3d #extensions Would involve a custom, per-user access token, and would then include all your BM/GR purchased MACHIN3 addons in a single repo. Does require some backend work, so I won't just offer this for free. Poll >>

@veezen3d The unpredictability, the excitement, the cringe, the joy... E3 was always a love/hate relationship while it was still happening, but now I really miss it so much. Was just rewatching some of Crowbcat's supercuts and got a bit sad reminiscing about it.

Sometimes I dream about E3 to come back again. It was always special time for gaming.

@nik_vili Not sure if this helps, but Zen Sets add-on has a lot of useful vertex groups/color features. Doesn't automate per-se, but saves a lot of time youtu.be/xg14N_pLcIU?si…

@JonArellano3D @Substance3D @maxonzbrush @ArtStationHQ @marmosetco Could be straight out of a museum. Love it! Awesome work, man 🔥

New personal Project artstation.com/artwork/kQJLy2 @maxonzbrush @ArtStationHQ @Substance3D @marmosetco

@Snefer Sad news, truly. Nobody ever asked for this 😢

Simply unforgivable! :((

@boltondynamics Glad to see you back and much respect for taking accountability. Hope to see you continue to grow, both as an artist and as a person.

Hey everyone, about a week ago - in a manic episode and while very distressed - I made about 200 of the worst tweets possible. They were negative, aggressive, incoherent, racist. Pick a bad adjective and it probably fits. I felt horrible about it the next day, and deleted as much as I could, but I was locked out of posting, so I couldn't apologize. I really am sorry to everyone who had to read through my meltdown. I am especially sorry to any younger artists or devs who look up to me for whatever reasons you may have. This isn't behavior to imitate. These episodes have been a recurring, bubbling issue with me for a long time, but this eruption was so much worse in magnitude that I can no longer ignore the problem. When I read this stuff back, there isn't one shred of pride that I take out of it. It's pure shame and guilt. This is simply not who I want to be anymore. Nobody changes overnight in a deep way. I immediately made one major change in the offline part of life to prevent these manias from being triggered, but beyond keeping that up, I'm gonna continue getting help to untangle the underlying problems and worldviews that feed into the content part of what I'm saying. The mania is a problem, but the actual content is a problem too. I am trying to work on both angles. I'm not gonna go vanish for six months or anything like that. I don't think it would help me. I'm coming back to posting, but with the sole focus of being a positive contributing force. No more rants, no more feuds. Time to grow up. I will be working on this in the background for a long time.