Freelancing 3D Designer
Joined October 2022
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Erman Malak retweeted
Closing in on a year of full-time freelancing as a 3D designer.
Everyone sells the solo dream. Be your own boss, build your own thing, answer to no one.
What I actually want is the opposite. Fewer clients, longer relationships. Maybe even join a team full-time, spend time with passion projects on the side.
Working with good people beats working alone, every time.
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Jun 13
A year and a half later, this is still my most referenced piece in client calls.
People show up with it already in their mood boards, before we’ve spoken a word.
It was a personal project I made for fun. Nothing else.
Unsupervised work has a longer shelf life than you’d think.
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Jun 13
Work with me to elevate your brand with 3D.
→ DM: @ermanmalak
→ E-mail: hey@ermanmalak.com
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Jun 12
Hot take: 3D designers probably have above-average attention spans.
Modeling is tedious as fuck. So is texturing and literally any other part of 3D. Anyone who survives past the donut tutorial has already proven they can sit with something boring until it isn't.
That's probably why I still get the urge to start one.
Jun 11
Am I the only one who still gets the urge to start a blog?
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Jun 12
Six hours on a train to Stockholm.
Uninterrupted Claude Code time. Finally.
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Jun 11
Am I the only one who still gets the urge to start a blog?
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Jun 11
Freelancing on X has introduced me to clients and friends from corners of the world I’d never have reached otherwise.
Still kind of can’t believe that’s a real thing that happens.
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Jun 10
Clay render with proper lighting.
This is the last stop before materials go on. Everything you're seeing here, from the form and silhouette to the shadows, is just geometry doing its job.
The color and detail hasn't arrived yet. It's going to change everything.
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Jun 10
Plasticity → Blender
The hard part is done. Now it gets interesting.
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Jun 9
Modeling done ✓ Detailing done ✓
→ Materials and lighting next
The colors in this are going to pop so good :)
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Jun 4
Started blocking out a new device this week.
I usually rush the details and materials before the form is actually right.
But now I model the base shape first. Get the proportions locked. Then I add bevels, chamfers, lighting and materials before thinking about rendering.
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Jun 1
Here's a quick viewport orbit around the latest model we're working on.
Stay tuned for a much better-looking version of this somewhere in the near future.
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Erman Malak retweeted
May 28
some beautiful renders made in collaboration with the very talented @ermanmalak
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May 28
Recently started collaborating on a really cool project with some really cool people.
Here's an early 3D blockout I've made of a historical piece of hardware we're working on.
This is what it looks like before it starts looking like anything.
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May 12
blender 3d
Designers name one thing more valuable than Figma.
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May 12
adding new parts to the model, step by step
3d modeling for an hour a day keeps my inner demons away
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Apr 30
Messing around with my infrared camera model today.
10 seconds. 360 degrees.
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