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¿Hay más gente del sector 3D y motion graphics que esté pensando en dejarlo?
Llevo más de 10 años trabajando como artista de motion graphics y generalista 3D y, desde hace un tiempo, me estoy planteando seriamente cambiar de profesión. Me gustaría saber si a alguien más le está pasando lo mismo y cómo lo está llevando.
Siempre me ha gustado mucho mi trabajo. Cuando empecé con After Effects y el 3D me lo pasaba como un niño. Aprender cosas nuevas era como jugar a un videojuego, me podía pasar horas probando cosas y disfrutaba muchísimo con ello. Además, tenía la suerte de poder trabajar desde casa, ganar un sueldo decente y dedicarme a algo que realmente me gustaba. Para mí era el trabajo ideal.
Pero las cosas han ido cambiando y últimamente estoy bastante quemado.
Cada vez me salen menos proyectos freelance. He intentado mover mi reel y mi portfolio por LinkedIn, mandar emails a responsables de departamentos y contactar con empresas, pero apenas consigo nada. Al final, para poder seguir pagando las facturas, tengo que volver a trabajar en empresas, normalmente en proyectos de unos pocos meses y muchas veces teniendo que ir a la oficina. Cuando termina un proyecto, vuelta a empezar y a preguntarme de dónde va a salir el siguiente trabajo.
Estoy bastante cansado de esa incertidumbre. No tener estabilidad y estar siempre pendiente de conseguir el siguiente proyecto acaba desgastándote.
Luego está todo lo demás: plazos de entrega absurdos, estrés, clientes que te regatean los presupuestos como si estuvieras vendiendo en un mercadillo y otros a los que tienes que perseguir para que te paguen. También me ha pasado tener clientes con los que llevaba tiempo trabajando y que, por intentar poner las cosas fáciles y ser flexible, acabaran aprovechándose de ello. Hasta que llega un momento en el que tienes que plantarte y mandar la relación a paseo.
Y ahora también está el tema de la IA. No sé si a vosotros os pasa, pero a mí me está quitando bastante las ganas. No es que me niegue a aprender cosas nuevas, pero no me despierta el mismo interés. Aprender 3D o After Effects me encantaba; aprender a utilizar herramientas de IA se me hace más una obligación que algo que realmente me apetezca. Y me preocupa tener que estar constantemente adaptándome a herramientas nuevas para no quedarme atrás, cuando cada vez tengo menos motivación para seguir en esto.
Lo que me da rabia es que no siento que haya dejado de gustarme crear cosas. Lo que ya no me gusta tanto es todo lo que rodea al trabajo.
El problema es que, después de más de 10 años, cambiar de profesión tampoco es tan sencillo. Tendría que empezar prácticamente desde cero, con un sueldo bastante más bajo y unas condiciones que ahora mismo no me puedo permitir. No es tan fácil como dejarlo todo y probar otra cosa.
En el fondo, lo que quiero es bastante sencillo: tener un trabajo estable, trabajar desde casa y dejar de vivir con la incertidumbre de no saber qué va a pasar dentro de unos meses. Me gustaría tener clientes recurrentes o encontrar un puesto fijo en remoto, pero no estoy consiguiendo ninguna de las dos cosas.
Por eso quería preguntaros a los que seguís trabajando en el sector:
¿Os habéis sentido así en algún momento? ¿Habéis notado que cada vez cuesta más conseguir proyectos freelance?
A los que trabajáis por vuestra cuenta, ¿cómo conseguís clientes actualmente? ¿Hay alguna forma de conseguir trabajo recurrente que realmente os haya funcionado?
Y a los que habéis decidido cambiar de profesión después de muchos años en esto, ¿cómo os ha ido? ¿Habéis conseguido aprovechar vuestra experiencia en otro sector o habéis tenido que empezar desde cero?
La verdad es que estoy bastante perdido con todo esto y me vendría bien conocer otras experiencias. No sé si estoy pasando por una mala racha, si el sector está cambiando demasiado o si simplemente ha llegado el momento de buscar otra cosa.
¿Cómo lo estáis viviendo vosotros?
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Trying to get a Maxon Student License has been a nightmare
I’m a college student currently learning Zbrush for a class, and decided I’d buy the Zbrush student license so I could work on my iPad.
This has been a nightmare. First, I kept getting an error saying “Oops, something went wrong!” when starting the verification process. Then I got locked out for 24 hours.
24 hours passed, and I tried again. Was able to get to the document uploading screen. Unfortunately, the popup to allow the camera wouldn’t appear, even when I went into my settings and allowed popups and camera access. Had to switch to Google to fix that.
So, I uploaded my documents. Thought I was done. Well, Maxon couldn’t verify me as a student. I tried going through the verification process again and now I’m getting the “Oops, something went wrong!” error again. I wouldn’t be surprised if I get locked out. Again.
I just want to be able to work on my projects from my iPad 😭 I’ve raised a support ticket, but haven’t gotten a response yet.
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where to share scripts and tools?
Not a coder here, and I know the hate for vibe coding at this point and while I get it, I've been able to make some neat scripts to help streamline some stuff. I recently made a python script that helps with a problem in both adobe and maxon apps that's been a pain for years- it scans your apps and will help migrate preferences and settings to new versions without having to do it manually. I know that in cinema you can identify extra plugin folders and such, but not with layouts and shortcut stuff. It jus seems that's stupid for the app to not migrate that stuff as part of the install or at least give an option. You can also pair additional folders that you want to migrate from and to as well for anything else you have setup.
So, ChatGPT enterprise helped me with it. Can I post a zip here or do I need to dive into git to post stuff like this correctly?
https://preview.redd.it/i6uj44fx29xh1.png?width=1138&format=png&auto=webp&s=f0a6d2417791fbe50de41f56195205023aa6d7c0
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C4D for iPad , Vaporware ?
has anybody who signed in the beta-tester form on Maxon’s website earlier this year been able to test it, or is it just vaporware at this stage ?
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Thank you Maxon for making CAD, especially Inventor import so easy
The new CAD import functionalities seem to be a great workflow enhancement in my daily routine!
For me, this is a very big thing.
The first test with a bigger assembly was a bit annoying as only the textures but no geometry was loaded.
On the second try everything worked as expected. File names, good UVs, hierarchies, and even materials, everything was there.
Great job, thank you Maxon!
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Viewport issues (R26)
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Fake gold help
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Hermès - Birkin
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I like the new fur. Here's a tut looking into it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQBlHhj9rv0
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Sculpting issues with one object, separate meshes.
https://redd.it/1x9rp8b
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Plastic Dream — my Cinema 4D / V-Ray personal project from 2017
https://www.behance.net/gallery/47668253/Plastic-Dream
https://redd.it/1x9a1hr
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Trying out some Interior shots in Shuaa Renderer
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Weekly 'No Stupid Questions' & Free-For-All Thread : October 18, 2026
In this weekly post you can ask any question or talk about any topic that you don't feel needs its own post. Share that render you're still working on, ask a question you're not quite sure about or talk about something that caught your attention.
https://redd.it/1x8tpid
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Help plz. 2 hours trying to figure out how to do this angle bar across my cubes
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Looking for advice on a muscle simulation tool for Cinema 4D
I’m prototyping a muscle tool for Cinema 4D and could use some advice. The goal is believable, reasonably fast deformation, not medical accuracy.
Our current custom solver uses:
Linear tetrahedral FEM-style discretization: 525 nodes / 1,920 tets for one simplified biceps belly.
Custom strain, shear, volume-preservation and fiber-length energies. Activation changes the preferred fiber length. It’s not a calibrated tissue or Hill-type muscle model.
Implicit time stepping solved with exact-Hessian trust-region Newton and truncated conjugate gradients.
Python/Numba, currently single-threaded CPU. A separate higher-resolution surface follows the simulated tets.
The problem: six seconds of motion takes roughly 30.7 minutes, using 12 substeps per frame at 30 fps. Profiling found 68% of the bake goes into Python Decimal energy-change checks, triggered on every solver proposal. Even removing that cost entirely would leave about 10 minutes.
Attachments are prescribed, the tendon isn’t physically solved, and there’s no collision handling yet. Numerical checks pass, but the visual result still isn’t convincing.
Would you simplify this into a coarse XPBD approach for authoring, or improve the existing solver first? What would you prioritize for speed and believable muscle behavior?
https://redd.it/1xf1xo7
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Weekly 'No Stupid Questions' & Free-For-All Thread : October 25, 2026
In this weekly post you can ask any question or talk about any topic that you don't feel needs its own post. Share that render you're still working on, ask a question you're not quite sure about or talk about something that caught your attention.
https://redd.it/1xeskwh
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𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 (C4D/Octane/AE)
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How can I take this further?
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Please don't install the latest 621.01 Game Ready Nvidia drivers, has bugs for Octane Render.
Nvidia drivers legit drove me insaaaane today!!
For past 3-4 hours I was figuring out why adding a displacement material on one object is making the other objects disappear, half of my scene was invisible due to this.
I legit tried 6 different octane version, completely deleted all my c4d octane cache etc, and all possible combinations with nodes and what not.
Problem was Nvidia drivers, had to uninstall the latest one, crazy how a freaking driver can cause such a distant glitch.
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This A Render I made back in 2017 using Arnold
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Looping (repeating) only the last few keyframes
I remember in my AE days I used to use the function loopOut("cycle",numkeyframes) a lot. numkeyframes lets you pick how many keyframes, counting back from the last one, should be included in the loop. It was perfect for keeping repeating animations clean
I find myself needing this a lot in C4D to keep my repeating animations clean. Is there a workaround to achieve something like this, since C4D's Before and After functions can only repeat the entire track?
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Cyberoni 2044
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Blender Addons Inside a Cinema 4D Workflow? MCP Might’ve Just Justified the Subscription
How are y'all using MCP in your own workflows? Have you connected Blender and Cinema 4D yet, or found other ways it’s saving you time?
Cinema 4D with MCP is starting to make the subscription feel worth it to me. A big part of that is being able to take advantage of Blender’s community addons, like Crowds Pro and more, then bring that work into C4D without the usual headaches. Having MCP help connect those workflows makes the combination a lot more appealing.
Blender’s community creates so many useful tools, and being able to use those alongside C4D’s motion graphics tools opens up a lot of possibilities. Add in C4D’s ease of use and the quality Redshift can deliver, greyscale gorilla and that’s a setup I can see myself paying for.
For me, it comes down to time and peace of mind. A smoother process from building a scene to getting a quality render means more time spent creating and fewer hours troubleshooting transfers. That’s where the subscription starts to justify itself. I just hate that it took this long to happen lol
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r2024 Booelean geometry shifts
[apologises: title sp. :-(\]
I am working (again) with Booleans and this is a new weird error I see.
I have not seen it previously.
I wonder if it is MacOS27.x issue?
I very precisely lined up all my objects before Boolean'ing FYI
Looking at this video you can see the resulting objects are not rendering, or being positioned in the correct location...
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cwkzz2dqk2d0zdoqjtrih/AKo0K4ekoebup14wl5LQP04?rlkey=oxazjb8uci665fmc5ekvli73o&dl=0
I've checked all the boolean settings
Booleans overview
Geometry not aligning after Boolean'ing
Loosing my mind :-(
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Particles to fog
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Street using Shuaa Renderer for C4D
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Cinema 4D in Rust
I was a Cinema 4D user for many years, starting with version 17, but I had to switch to Blender (which I don’t like) simply because the price became prohibitive—especially given the exchange rate in Brazil. I’m now seeing a wave of software being cloned—much like what Artcraft did with Adobe’s applications—with many of these new versions written in Rust. I’m eagerly waiting for someone to clone Cinema 4D. It’s not necessarily because I want to use the clone itself, but rather in the hope that it might force a price reduction, making the original software viable for freelance artists once again.
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Rigging?!
Hei guys, so im genuinely frustrated here. I really want to go more deeply into rigging and idk how to aproach this:
When i look into the blender side - u have so many solutions and tools for rigging is crazy cool
When i look into maya side - advance skeleton and other rig solution - also really cool stuff
Then cinema…like i feel like a cave man putting together rocks
………
What you recommend? Should i go to blender for rig? Should i go to maya?
What pluggins? What solutions do you guys use?
In the past i did riggs in maya and/or unreal
I will add - i want to do full body and face riggs + blendshapes
Thanks!!
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Do you think Maxon changes its pricing if c4d gets cloned?
With the Adobe/Artcraft cloned apps (despite their glitches for now), do we suddenly get an indie license rate (you’ve been asking for an indie rate and we listened…).
The no. 1 repository on GitHub today is an add on to ai coding agents to take any software and reverse engineer it. I would imagine it won’t be long before someone takes initiative to reverse engineer C4D/redshift/octane etc. I’m not advocating for it because at the end of the day the people doing the day to day work will lose their jobs.
Just curious to know what people think will happen.
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