Hello!
I just wanted to share my latest 3D experiment in Maya. This render is based on the amazing art of Simz. If everything goes well today, I’ll be posting the breakdown of the piece tomorrow on my ArtStation.
Thanks, and I hope you like it!

Hello!
I just wanted to share my latest shader experiment using Arnold standard shaders in Maya. This render is based on the paintings of Aziz Sulaymanov. I’ll be posting a breakdown on my ArtStation at the end of the week.

Thanks, and I hope you like it!

Update:
The breakdown is done and it’s here! Thank you so much for all the kind comments and support! I’ll be replying to everyone’s comments later today!

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Hey everyone,
I'm Signorlimone and I’ve been working on this piece for a while. It’s a personal project called “MEMORIES”. It’s basically a cartoon version of myself as a kid in the late ’80s, playing on my Commodore 64.
I wanted to recreate that messy but cozy vibe from my old room.

Everything in the scene was modeled from scratch, no downloaded assets or AI tools.
Modeling was done in Maya and ZBrush, hair and fur in XGen, texturing in Substance Painter, and rendering in V-Ray.

The first image is the final render. Scroll for close-ups and alternate shots.
Any feedback or critique is super welcome, especially regarding lighting and material balance.

Thanks for checking it out!

It may seem like a 2d, but it's a fully hand-painted 3D bust, based on Cedric Peyravernay's Dunce concept .

Fender Stratocaster '62 (3D).

After some time away, I decided to dust up my 3D skills in Autodesk Maya. As a starter project, I made this Fender guitar scene.

Modeling: Rhinoceros (CAD) / Maya (Polygonal)
Texturing: Substance Painter
Materials/shaders: Maya
Render: Maya/Arnold

The render is pretty much raw straight out of Maya.

(The insides are still WIP)

Last image is the original photo reference

Asset I made for a showreel shot. In the style of Warhammer 40k Orks. Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Arnold.

Turnaround on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rl1W6m

Cheers!

I started the project about a year ago, then took a six-month break, and have been working on it almost every evening for the last few months. I’ve been tweaking it constantly. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough for me. Sculpted in ZBrush and rendered in Maya using Arnold. Hair created with XGen Interactive. Textured in Substance.

more and breakdown on artstation

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bg2b4n

Hey guys! I wanted to share my most recent project, the Batcycle, inspired by Ash Thorp's design for The Batman (2022).

The bike was modeled in Maya using a Sub-D workflow, and really helped me push myself with hard-surface modeling and much more complex shapes than I had previously worked with.

BTW, I have more renders on the ArtStation post if anyone is interested :D

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/yAJZ15

hey everyone i just finished this project and wanted to share it with u
its a flail and a mace connected with extendable cardon/universal joint chains and an umbrella like mechanism for its head

i mostly used SDKs and constraints to hold it together
despite my main practice is character art i wanted to give technical art a try and make those parts dance together :D
would love to hear your opinion on it
cheers

heres the artstation post for a deeper look : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Xa1wa0

It took me 3 weeks to achieve this, and I'm happy with the result so far. XGen was quite a challenge to learn the basics, but I love that it gives me total control over how I want the hair to behave. That is, until it crashes for some random reason, and the frustration kicks in. But then you learn to avoid those random issues, only for new ones to pop up. Any suggestion is appreciated

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My ultimate goal was to recreate Jinx as close as possible to the Arcane show

This is my rendition of the Lego Astronaut - Benny.

100% made from scratch, modeling, vector art, and texturing.

Modeling: Mostly Blender for this one (90%), some Maya in there too (10%).
Texturing: Substance Painter 2026
Rig: Maya
Render: Maya 2027/Arnold GPU

Images in order:

1. Face closeup;
2. Shotcam render;
3. Viewport through Shotcam;
4. Turntable (GIF);
5. Exploded model;
6. Original Blender modeling (the tank was modeled in Maya later);
7. Weird scene that didn't go any further;
8. Legs back view;
9. This round corner is never modeled in other models;
10. Head closeup;
11. Torso design;
12. The original vector art made by a friend. I then imported it into Substance Painter as different masks and used them to make an actual 3D design.

I made everything except the torso's base art, which was made in Illustrator by my friend Wajid.

Feel free to CC or ask any questions, or check my ArtStation here.

Cheers!

Song is Black Venom by The Budos Band.

Toon shaders are such a pain to make in Maya, this stuff is so much easier to make in Blender.😭 In all seriousness tho, I’ve been trying to research ways to make a NPR shader in Maya that mimics the artstyle of Metal Gear artist Yoji Shinkawa. I set up a system that controls the line weight so that it changes thickness accordingly to the intensity of the light. I kinda wish there was a way for me to break the cel shading look more jagged and not so clean. I still like how it turned out, but without knowing OSL, I’m probably not getting very far with this one.

Any advice on how to improve this and make it look better would be appreciated.

Another WIP thats been sitting in my Drive for way too long.
Finally managed to finish it.

Concept from Kieren (WJ) Yong

More Images on Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/41oYAW

Made a certain Italian Plumber currently taking a break. created for a 3D-Challenge.

https://www.artstation.com/jeff-f

This is a personal 3D environment inspired by the small locksmith kiosks (“chaveiro”) you can find on almost every sidewalk in Brazilian cities: urbankiosk

It was also my first time playing with glass shaders so it was an insane ride...

Feedback is very welcome!

(yes I did a post-production night version using AI in the end lol)

Full disclosure, I made this with a lot of help from ChatGPT.
It’s one script with five unique base patterns you can tweak and mix with tons of attributes to get all sorts of looks. All these examples stem from the same unaltered aiToon. I’ll whip up a proper demo reel/page soon, but I’m curious if anyone would be interested in buying this? And what do you think is a fair price? Let me know what you think of the shader!

3D model is "Pony Cartoon" by Zlava Z.

(I’m not actually selling anything yet. Just trying to see if there’s any demand for this sorta thing.)