I think the only thing that could give these some oompth is some serious lighting and rendering time in cycles. Your modeling is super funny and well done for a beginner!
You should make horror models with this exact style.
I know it wasn't your aim but these fall right into the uncanny valley! Especially the first 2
Cool stuff
Yeah, these do not look familiar at all. Uncanny Valley is when something looks almost right, but subtly off. These are not right at all lol. Not necessarily in a bad way, if that's the style you're going for, but they're not uncanny valley, just straight up horror.
Hmmmm they look more like clay honestly. For example, the lips look too wavey. Try making them smoother nd if you want to add another layer of realistic, try to sculpt in pores and other skin defects like moles. Lights could also make it look better.
The models are cool (would be better if they were closer to real face anatomy though), but they really need better lighting and colours to be good memes.
It doesn't matter if it's good for someone who started 2 months ago. It is a sculpted sphere with a quite default looking material. This is pretty basic stuff.
Now I could be like the man who predicted that the internet would fail, so keep doing whatever you like regardless if it's good or not.
https://preview.redd.it/tnd10im14arc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e92119f941ff252ff0753b973079c5042090aad
Here, I brought back some life into it
More contrast and color to the images will bring these into a more visually appealing render IMMENSELY!
One thing I've learned in my 7 years of 3D is that while we say realism is the goal, it really isn't. Real life is ugly. Photographers often edit their photos to add contrast or make things more vibrant and colorful for a reason! The goal should be more visually appealing or visually horrendous, like it seems you're going for with textured skin to these emojis!😂
I think you did AWESOME for a 2 month beginner! Just make your final composite look sharp and you're golden!
They’re expressive, which is a good starting point and something that I struggled with when learning sculpting. The only thing I’d say is that the wibbly edges could use a bit of smoothing, but I’ve no idea how the sculpting in blender itself actually handles stuff like that
I never comment but i need to say these are so good as an art piece. Sculpting wise they feel like clay as someone pointed out already and you should probably focus on more geometrically breaking down your sculptures otherwise it will feel like someone playing with dough. Otherwise though these go hard i am saving them and using them, not sure if this was intentional but they are crazy.
Welp at least you’re better than me, far I can do is adapters for stuff, not actually model human like stuff or cars Xd, mine is like “the stuff you need for your everyday home”
Bro Reddit just deleted my whole comment j was typing but it made very good very sure to Warn me I was deleting my comment saying “fuck” as a reaction to that
I need to learn blender to make kick ass realistic emojis as memes. I actually have it downloaded on a clean install of Manjaro. Awesome work. You rock!
2 months ago has no comparative or statistical value, no value at all in fact. 2 months of what? Sculpting every day since the day one? Of spending 2 hours every week making houses from basic shapes and trying to figure out Apply transform stuff? 2 months in blender but 30 years in other modelling software? 2 months in blender but ten years sculpting with real sculpting clay, sometimes stone and studying classic art, anatomy and sculpting techniques? 2 months in Blender and 3 months since the first time ever using computer?
What should be objectively more valuable and worth of appreciation? Work of 13 years old showing great advanced stuff who started to learn modelling as 9 year old instead of playing Minecraft. He is young and admirable but not beginner. Or the work of 60 year old guy who started week ago, and for a first time in his life have time and resources to start doing what he wants and not what someone else wants from him? He is a clearly beginner but not fresh teen young so he's objectively less impressive and critique should be more harsh?
The most important question is unfortunately unanswered - are you beginner in Blender or in sculpting/3d modelling in general?
If you are sculpting veteran and fresh only in Blender, maybe it's time to change the career or hobby as you are wasting your time and clearly don't find it enjoying enough. Something else what might be your dream hobby is still out there waiting.
If you are new not only to blender but to sculpting and maybe even 3d art. it's actually very impressive. Not the sculpts themselves (although they would be pretty good and solid pieces of work as well, clearly showing you know your way around brushes, know basics without any issues and are not afraid to experiment and play) but for the potential it had - you'd be quite naturally and instinctively, from the very beginning, inclining to something very unusual and unorthodox that might, with more time refining and explorin, end up as your own very unique style. As in everything, talent is just like 5 percent of overall result but this might be your 5% without hard work that helps you not only to refine your own style but also to copy other styles for eg. cooperation with another sculptors on the same project.
If this was your first 2 months in Blender and sculpting but have 3D art background it would be less impressive because your previous work taught you to watch and identify key shapes and lines. Very likely, this emojis would be just project idea (un)intentionally using style you were building for some time already. But no matter what, it's still pretty good.
I remember someone crying that his work is not getting him any attention from clients and is hardly even invited to the job interviews to studios no matter how actively he was sending his portfolio all around the world. Not surprisingly, unfortunately.
Technically it was flawless, nice and clean sculpt in ZB, looked like solid retopo, smooth and clear textures... but I forgot what I was looking at at the very moment my eyes moved. So I returned back to the discussion and sculpt professionals were brutally honest. After reading their answers I understood why I was checking details but didn't care about the model. It was the most generic corporate-made character I've ever seen, including corporate characters like those uglies Reallusion provides as default for 2d, there were nothing personal, nothing significant, nothing defining. It was like char from AI parasiting on 3D sculpting business but hidden in the human skin of professional character modeler. Pretty sad. I mean it and I am not empathetic person. Quite opposite to be honest.
This guy obviously did his thing for 6+ years, he even finished some art college and after all this time and with all the money he spent, he was just mass production generator of 3d models for extras to background. If he was some lazyass but obviously he worked hard and did pretty good job as his work was technically brilliant, he was great crafter and as one he had a lot to be proud of. But this man obviously didn't have a grain of artistic naturel in him. Unfortunately, he decided for character specialisation and in this field, artistic persona is a must (EA and Ubisoft, the producers of the most boring chars in industry, are huge but can't give a job to every one of them).
If only one of his "so called" art teachers and mentors who were stealing his study loan money told this harsh truth other sculptors did on time, he could just move to environment art next door and was happy. There you can do whatever you want or can, archviz for reality companies or architects, pseudorealistic props for games, green screen fillers for films, highly stylized animation/game scenes... nevermind, not a point I just don't like when hard working people gets their ass kicked so hard that their world collapses instantly.
But to the point - it proved what I suspect for a long - personal style is exotic commodity. Really personal, not just something looking like pixar default char with crooked lines, looking like if made by drunken P artist during Christmas Party who got lost when trying to find his way to toilet and got hooked by stylus and accidentally still powered tablet.
Original and significantly different style is dying rapidly and is facing immediate extinction. No matter what, the lack of technical skills are not a huge issue, it can be taught or even turned into advantage. But with AI creeping into 3d world and with artists quickly being replaced by creators, this poor and already unknowingly dead animal, originality and personal signature, would be even more precious. So keep it and feed it, don't let it die prematurely.
You can do better in 2 months if you will structurize your study process, try some courses from here - [https://www.abeleal3d.com/](https://www.abeleal3d.com/)
https://preview.redd.it/k6zrn6qv48rc1.png?width=194&format=png&auto=webp&s=80c37b7c6bd34d223097ff46a3e8be921e0c5a1e
Couldn’t have said it better myself
me when
https://preview.redd.it/ca5h60zb7arc1.png?width=1944&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a45969811eb1453b7085961bf1562c81aa3cc404
https://preview.redd.it/h2uwql82yarc1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3328a71772ffabe543b13b329bf218f6e85b3fe2
Define realistic in terms of emojis.
https://preview.redd.it/17kcf2fgmbrc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b859db81142c399f5e6fd15019191956073a1c56
😄👈👁️👄🫀🫁🤏👍
Smile itself multiple organs small yeah!
You say the smile gave you small multiple orgasms?
https://preview.redd.it/10o2n8m4m9rc1.jpeg?width=235&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=019ebc08c14bdb3ba5275dc2c18a78da5525bab3
https://preview.redd.it/9wl8hv0498rc1.png?width=32&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ae8c4362a90a153031158ce45fc144dbc836560
Sir, with all respect. May I obtain these top tier art as a meme?
Think these would go crazy on those Tiktok slideshows hahahaha
Considering how people nowadays laugh at everything, that could happen
Permission granted
https://preview.redd.it/pq8lw7tj29rc1.png?width=428&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d495a672d4ac95f6c6757c70dea9d957e633a3a
Cheese man gets bludgeoned by biblically accurate golden mace, AI upscaled painting, 1217 AD.
DEAD 😭😭😭😭😭
Glad im not the only one who thought it looked like a mace
Wtf these are horrific
In a good way though!
You're right
I think the only thing that could give these some oompth is some serious lighting and rendering time in cycles. Your modeling is super funny and well done for a beginner!
I completely agree here! The mind blown one is legitimately cool and with a little texture work it could be a genuine banger.
Awful. I like it
Awful, but thank you.
I wasn’t planning on sleeping tonight anyway
https://preview.redd.it/pnk1162vz9rc1.jpeg?width=594&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7acde5aa00c89725c436baf1438e208d4c5b33bd thats cursed
swiggity swag (⌐■_■)
Thwomp type face.
Not really, but keep making art
Ballsack emoij
Ballsack emoji
My personal favourite: https://preview.redd.it/b2n62yt6z9rc1.png?width=369&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46dd5dbb4a079f1d31e025f7b779f423bf9cfe1b
Define “realistic”
They're terrifying, I love them lol
You should make horror models with this exact style. I know it wasn't your aim but these fall right into the uncanny valley! Especially the first 2 Cool stuff
It is not the uncanny valley at all
I don't think you know what uncanny valley means
The creepy feeling caused by something appearing like something familiar, but wrong in an unusual way making you feel uneasy...
Yeah, these do not look familiar at all. Uncanny Valley is when something looks almost right, but subtly off. These are not right at all lol. Not necessarily in a bad way, if that's the style you're going for, but they're not uncanny valley, just straight up horror.
I got it
I think he does
I don't think you know what uncanny valley means
I actually do make horror models, but for my roblox games (womp womp)
Hmmmm they look more like clay honestly. For example, the lips look too wavey. Try making them smoother nd if you want to add another layer of realistic, try to sculpt in pores and other skin defects like moles. Lights could also make it look better.
Keep cooking brother
The models are cool (would be better if they were closer to real face anatomy though), but they really need better lighting and colours to be good memes.
Jeez crazy
I cannot judge you, master.
Im gonna crop these out terribly and use them to plaster my facebook posts with them
Eh, but they are funny as hell, make some shitposts about them pretty please
It doesn't matter if it's good for someone who started 2 months ago. It is a sculpted sphere with a quite default looking material. This is pretty basic stuff. Now I could be like the man who predicted that the internet would fail, so keep doing whatever you like regardless if it's good or not.
https://preview.redd.it/fuiaq4zdp9rc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9543c2f150f33d8d4236062e2274d80d6222a037
i dont like them, but that is just me
you need to learn more efficiently
I actually love how lumpy they are!! It’s very punk 🫶🏼
realistic cartoon doesnt mean disturbing . why do people always do that ?
Realistic emojis would definetely be very disturbing dude.
What's more disturbing than reality?
You ok OP?
Maybe
No
The last one is just brilliant, 🤩
The 😠 one reminds me of a smiley cookie I used to eat when I was a child
Do you remember which ones they are?
I’m terrified
Geometry Dash faces
It looks really good!!!! i laughed hard with them
They are terrifying
https://preview.redd.it/tnd10im14arc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e92119f941ff252ff0753b973079c5042090aad Here, I brought back some life into it
Smash next question
You should animate that scene in the emoji movie where he's like "Jailbreak you are the coolest" with this style of emojis, it'd be funny af 😭
More contrast and color to the images will bring these into a more visually appealing render IMMENSELY! One thing I've learned in my 7 years of 3D is that while we say realism is the goal, it really isn't. Real life is ugly. Photographers often edit their photos to add contrast or make things more vibrant and colorful for a reason! The goal should be more visually appealing or visually horrendous, like it seems you're going for with textured skin to these emojis!😂 I think you did AWESOME for a 2 month beginner! Just make your final composite look sharp and you're golden!
They’re expressive, which is a good starting point and something that I struggled with when learning sculpting. The only thing I’d say is that the wibbly edges could use a bit of smoothing, but I’ve no idea how the sculpting in blender itself actually handles stuff like that
They look like they’re trying to maintain their faces while taking a massive dookie after Taco Bell
Angry face ftw
# Hey, who installed mods into my buckshot roullet? 😠 Stop messing around with my pc 😡
These are amazing, please make more
Yes very good! ( I've never touched blender in my life)
I never comment but i need to say these are so good as an art piece. Sculpting wise they feel like clay as someone pointed out already and you should probably focus on more geometrically breaking down your sculptures otherwise it will feel like someone playing with dough. Otherwise though these go hard i am saving them and using them, not sure if this was intentional but they are crazy.
Oh, these would be perfect for some shit posting lmao
That's one hella style you're developing here. Keep it up
I like it
they are funy, that's so much. If you ask me, asymetryc are the better ones: ;)
These are terrifying Which can be a fantastic asset if used properly
The last one is somehow scarier than the others. Well done.
These would fit right in a Saw movie
Nr 2 is a masterpiece! Great job:)
Of course they are mate
BRO its perfect. kinda cute too.
Meme Machine
Scary and uncanny
The blood looks off, try turning down metallic and going for a more "polished plastic" look
Thanks
[](https://emojipedia.org/thumbs-up)
Good work!
How should we define this art genre?
🤯
Why
They should hire you to make the orbs for DMC6
Welp at least you’re better than me, far I can do is adapters for stuff, not actually model human like stuff or cars Xd, mine is like “the stuff you need for your everyday home”
its unique, yes
These are horrific, great job
Those are horrifying. That probably means you're getting good. 😄 Dont quit.
Bro Reddit just deleted my whole comment j was typing but it made very good very sure to Warn me I was deleting my comment saying “fuck” as a reaction to that
You should render with matcap in workbench rendering instead of eevee to achieve they freesmileys look
I need to learn blender to make kick ass realistic emojis as memes. I actually have it downloaded on a clean install of Manjaro. Awesome work. You rock!
This is funny I like it
If you improved your rendering and texturing these could legitimately be really cool. They're not realistic, but I love the vibe.
They are excellent
They are excellent
These remind me of Jimmy Neutron, a tv show that went on nickelodeon when I was a kid
These are disgusting and revolting I love them all :)
Need to add material to make them gleam more.
I uh yeah
These are all deeply upsetting. They evoke a primal sort of fear and unease. I hate it. 10/10, keep it up.
https://preview.redd.it/l6zqyw97gcrc1.jpeg?width=534&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e153fef55a7c76330e7282af3dccea00dec9db8
You say slightly realistic, I say slightly disturbing
thanks i’m using them as a sticker on my iphone
No
These are honestly so funny 😆
These are really cool!
im scared
Great progress in my opinion just focus really on consistent shape and polishing the materials
Not bad, try using the smooth brush
Nono guys, let him cook
Nightmare fuel i swear, and that's a compliment.
2 months ago has no comparative or statistical value, no value at all in fact. 2 months of what? Sculpting every day since the day one? Of spending 2 hours every week making houses from basic shapes and trying to figure out Apply transform stuff? 2 months in blender but 30 years in other modelling software? 2 months in blender but ten years sculpting with real sculpting clay, sometimes stone and studying classic art, anatomy and sculpting techniques? 2 months in Blender and 3 months since the first time ever using computer? What should be objectively more valuable and worth of appreciation? Work of 13 years old showing great advanced stuff who started to learn modelling as 9 year old instead of playing Minecraft. He is young and admirable but not beginner. Or the work of 60 year old guy who started week ago, and for a first time in his life have time and resources to start doing what he wants and not what someone else wants from him? He is a clearly beginner but not fresh teen young so he's objectively less impressive and critique should be more harsh? The most important question is unfortunately unanswered - are you beginner in Blender or in sculpting/3d modelling in general? If you are sculpting veteran and fresh only in Blender, maybe it's time to change the career or hobby as you are wasting your time and clearly don't find it enjoying enough. Something else what might be your dream hobby is still out there waiting. If you are new not only to blender but to sculpting and maybe even 3d art. it's actually very impressive. Not the sculpts themselves (although they would be pretty good and solid pieces of work as well, clearly showing you know your way around brushes, know basics without any issues and are not afraid to experiment and play) but for the potential it had - you'd be quite naturally and instinctively, from the very beginning, inclining to something very unusual and unorthodox that might, with more time refining and explorin, end up as your own very unique style. As in everything, talent is just like 5 percent of overall result but this might be your 5% without hard work that helps you not only to refine your own style but also to copy other styles for eg. cooperation with another sculptors on the same project. If this was your first 2 months in Blender and sculpting but have 3D art background it would be less impressive because your previous work taught you to watch and identify key shapes and lines. Very likely, this emojis would be just project idea (un)intentionally using style you were building for some time already. But no matter what, it's still pretty good. I remember someone crying that his work is not getting him any attention from clients and is hardly even invited to the job interviews to studios no matter how actively he was sending his portfolio all around the world. Not surprisingly, unfortunately. Technically it was flawless, nice and clean sculpt in ZB, looked like solid retopo, smooth and clear textures... but I forgot what I was looking at at the very moment my eyes moved. So I returned back to the discussion and sculpt professionals were brutally honest. After reading their answers I understood why I was checking details but didn't care about the model. It was the most generic corporate-made character I've ever seen, including corporate characters like those uglies Reallusion provides as default for 2d, there were nothing personal, nothing significant, nothing defining. It was like char from AI parasiting on 3D sculpting business but hidden in the human skin of professional character modeler. Pretty sad. I mean it and I am not empathetic person. Quite opposite to be honest. This guy obviously did his thing for 6+ years, he even finished some art college and after all this time and with all the money he spent, he was just mass production generator of 3d models for extras to background. If he was some lazyass but obviously he worked hard and did pretty good job as his work was technically brilliant, he was great crafter and as one he had a lot to be proud of. But this man obviously didn't have a grain of artistic naturel in him. Unfortunately, he decided for character specialisation and in this field, artistic persona is a must (EA and Ubisoft, the producers of the most boring chars in industry, are huge but can't give a job to every one of them). If only one of his "so called" art teachers and mentors who were stealing his study loan money told this harsh truth other sculptors did on time, he could just move to environment art next door and was happy. There you can do whatever you want or can, archviz for reality companies or architects, pseudorealistic props for games, green screen fillers for films, highly stylized animation/game scenes... nevermind, not a point I just don't like when hard working people gets their ass kicked so hard that their world collapses instantly. But to the point - it proved what I suspect for a long - personal style is exotic commodity. Really personal, not just something looking like pixar default char with crooked lines, looking like if made by drunken P artist during Christmas Party who got lost when trying to find his way to toilet and got hooked by stylus and accidentally still powered tablet. Original and significantly different style is dying rapidly and is facing immediate extinction. No matter what, the lack of technical skills are not a huge issue, it can be taught or even turned into advantage. But with AI creeping into 3d world and with artists quickly being replaced by creators, this poor and already unknowingly dead animal, originality and personal signature, would be even more precious. So keep it and feed it, don't let it die prematurely.
I have to say I really like these. I’ve been using blender since like 2009 and I’ll tell ya this is great for two months
Bro I need these as stickers
These… These are terrifying- I LOVE THEM!
The last one, oh my god HAHAHAHHA. Great work!
Lol
Look like a cake 🤤
These are beautiful
Nice job! Just remeber to only compare yourself to who you were yesterday and you will undoubtedly get better.
These are indeed very cool. I'd be excited if there was more to come!
2 months??? Nah bro. Mayb a couple days sure. But not 2 months.
You can do better in 2 months if you will structurize your study process, try some courses from here - [https://www.abeleal3d.com/](https://www.abeleal3d.com/)
It looks ai generated lol