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Concept art to finished 3D: a modern indie workflow

Twelve enemy designs and three weeks for one artist: the stage-by-stage pipeline that gets a character into the engine in ten hours instead of forty.

24 Jul 2026 7 min read

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Notes for people who ship 3D

Prompt technique, topology, PBR materials, engine-ready exports — what actually changes the result, written from real generations.

15 entries

17 Jul 2026 6 min read

Making 3D fast enough for the browser and for AR

A 34 MB GLB takes 14 seconds to appear on a phone. The same model, correctly compressed, takes under one — and the pipeline…

10 Jul 2026 7 min read

The prompt vocabulary that changes the mesh, not just the texture

Half the words in a typical 3D prompt only paint the surface. Here is the vocabulary that actually moves vertices, with the geometric effect…

3 Jul 2026 7 min read

Image-to-3D: how to shoot reference photos that actually reconstruct

Most failed image-to-3D results are photography problems, not model problems. Focal length, four angles and a grey sweep fix about 80% of them.

26 Jun 2026 7 min read

Building a game-ready asset library without a studio budget

Three hundred props at marketplace rates costs $12,000. Here is how small teams get the same coverage for a tenth, without it looking assembled…

19 Jun 2026 7 min read

Standard or extended: how 3D asset licensing really works

One question decides which licence you need, and it is not how many projects you have. It is whether anyone downstream can extract the…

12 Jun 2026 7 min read

Unreal 5 and Nanite: do polycounts still matter?

Nanite makes triangle count nearly free to render and expensive to store. Here is what still costs you, with real budgets for generated and…

5 Jun 2026 6 min read

Importing a generated model into Unity: the checklist I actually use

Twelve settings, one texture channel swap, and a scale check. Get these right and a generated asset drops into URP looking the way it…

29 May 2026 6 min read

GLB, FBX, OBJ, USDZ: picking the right format for the engine you actually use

The same 38k-triangle model ships at 22.3 MB or 1.8 MB depending on the container. Here is what each format carries, what it drops,…

22 May 2026 6 min read

UV maps: why AI-generated models sometimes need a second pass

The mesh is fine and the texture is fine, but your decal still smears across the cheek guard. Here is what automatic unwrapping gets…