3D Artists Workshop

Server structure

Overview

3D is a pipeline, and a server that ignores that gets modelling questions answered by lighting people. The Pipeline is one channel per stage: #modelling for hard-surface and blockout, #sculpting for organic work, #retopology-and-uvs where the unglamorous half lives, #texturing-and-materials, #rigging-and-weights, #lighting-and-rendering and #simulation for cloth, hair and physics. A member deep in UVs and a member deep in lighting are doing different jobs, and the split is what lets both get useful answers. #critique-requests requires a wireframe or a clay render with the beauty shot, because a render hides everything a critique should address — the topology, the density, the shading errors — and without it the feedback becomes a discussion of the lighting. The Gallery keeps #finished-renders with a slowmode, #turntables-and-breakdowns, which is where 3D artists actually learn from each other, and #work-in-progress. Tools splits by application: #blender, #maya-and-max, #zbrush-and-sculpting-apps and #substance-and-texturing-tools, since the answer to a workflow question is entirely software-specific. Career holds #for-hire, #studio-jobs and #portfolio-review, because 3D is one of the most employment-oriented art disciplines. Voice has a Modelling Session and a Render Farm room for the long grind.

When to use it

A single 3D channel means a retopology question, a shader problem and a rigging bug share one scroll and get answered by whoever is around rather than by whoever does that job. This layout follows the pipeline, requires a wireframe on critique requests so feedback can reach the geometry instead of stopping at the lighting, and splits tool questions by application because the answers do not transfer.

What makes it different

• One channel per pipeline stage, so a UV question is not answered by a lighting artist.
• Critique requests require a wireframe or clay render, or feedback stops at the lighting.
• Tool channels are split by application, because workflow answers are software-specific.
• Turntables and breakdowns get their own channel, which is how 3D artists learn from each other.

Recommended Vetox setup

• Self-Roles

  Post a Self-Roles panel in #your-discipline so a rigging question pings riggers rather than everyone.

• Starboard

  Point Starboard at #turntables-and-breakdowns so the most instructive breakdowns become a teaching archive.

• Tickets

  Point Tickets at #for-hire so a hiring conversation becomes a private thread instead of a public negotiation.

• Auto-Mod

  Run Auto-Mod on the gallery so uncredited reposts of other artists' renders are caught early.