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abteilung hässlich, kantig, schlecht gemacht.

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translated: "category ugly, edgy, sloppy made."

This is art!!!
Nobody gets its true value!

Honestly, not that I wanna start a rant, it is just an opinion, it is my taste:
there are a lot of very well made models around the world and in the modern games, and although I like some of them very much and I enjoy their beauty, I think they are not art, and they don't carry anything, no message, no meaning, no life.

I know that this model is at least at a border where the viewer can't bear its sloppyness. And, I as the modeler and painter look at it with the proudness of a creator and forget about the smearing of the texture and things like that.

I have a friend who is a magnificent drawer, but he loves perfectness and can't bear sketches, while his sketches are wonderful and the very few finished masterpieces of him that he accept as of at least quite good quality.
I like his sketches, but I don't like the finished pieces, because they are IMO lifeless in their color, lines and expression.

Maybe, it is simply this, I don't like perfectness, because it is an incarnation of a lie? Maybe.
But, I know that as a result of my work, perfectness is expected, and people need perfectness because it symbolizes health and happiness, often it even symbolizes invulnerability.
That's okay. But, in my free time, I sometimes can't resist to make and present something like a pope model that looks as if made of paper from the paper basket.

EDIT:
Actually, IMO it has been a good lowpoly model, originally build as a zombie.
Later, I changed it into the old man, and unfortunately added some unwelcome distortions...

EDIT2: Danke, Loopix! Es gibt doch noch Menschen, die Dinge ähnlich erleben wie ich! Erleichterung! Der Tag ist gerettet! Puuh!!!

so you used md2 on purpose to achieve this effect?

i agree with you and this is why i don't like the term 3d-artist. what 3d-artists do usually has nothing to do with art at all. i find his look more scary than some perfect kitschy zombie model.

scary it is indeed, but long your way to become an artist still is, my young jedi. may the tris be with you.

i`d reccomend export from med as .3ds import into ultimate unwrap (i believe there is still the free version called liteunwrap to be had) export as obj then import into blacksmith.

really? I always got it to work myself, i think.... if i remeber right the issue i had was with meshes being open, and that there was not animation support.

tried recently with a6.6. at least this med cannot export 3ds files with their 3ds uv coords, although 3ds can definitely handle uv coors, i use to export models from wings3d in 3ds, and i get textures and uv's just fine int MED.

ok, maybe i was thinking of import.. idk