3D Character Designing

[LOTS_OF_PYRO]

So I spoke a while back to a Support rep regarding the fact that the Adobe Fuse Software was no longer going to be a thing and I'd have to use Photoshop for Designing a 3D Human Figure.

Meanwhile, Fuse is still a Downloadable Program on Steam. It's Limited, yes. but you can still make Characters.

My Issue with this though is I'd love to start designing 3D Models and I was told the 3D Character Section was availablke in Photoshop. But I cannot find it at all.

Q. Why do I want to do 3D Characters?

A. I want to get into the art of 3D Characters so I may be able to Rig them up and make some fun animated characters for my Art Files/Documents

One sort of 3D Character Concept I'm trying to push for designing is Characters from the Music Scene. Mainly the 80's Hair/Glam Metal. With Bands Like Motley Crue/KISS/Twitsted Sistrer and those types of Glam Wardrobs with all the "Big Hair" Sequnces/Sudded Leather/Animal Hide Patch Clothing. All that Sleaze Rock N Roll Vibe.

It would be nice to see a spot within Photoshop for a 3D Human Figure as an OBJ File that can be played around with.

I've had numerous people recommend I use Blender or ZBrush for this Idea. But at the end of the day. I already have Adobe and I'd like to keep it like that.

Also on a Side Note. I've Imported my Characeter's from Fuse into Photoshop and the 3D Model loses a large chunk of details. from the wrinkles in the clothing to the hair being 1 Solid Mesh with WhiteUV Particles coming off of the ends of the hair. It's just not the same.

[Myra Ferguson]

If you're wanting to stay within what is available within your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to make more detailed 3D figures, you might want to check out Cinema 4D Lite that comes with After Effects. It is a lite version, but it's possibly a better option if you're wanting to do more detailed 3D models.

[jane-e]

"I've had numerous people recommend I use Blender"

Blender is free and quite powerful. You might want to give it a try. 

~ Jane

[davescm]

I know you mention being told this before, but if you are serious about 3D modelling you really need to use a 3D application. Photoshop has some limited, and currently buggy, 3D functionality bolted on to its main 2D functions.

Blender is free and very powerful and my preferred 3D application. I use Blender, along with Adobe Substance suite (which is subscription software).

If you want industry standard then Autodesk now offer Indie licences (subject to revenue restrictions on your work) for Maya and 3ds Max for a fraction of the price of the normal license subscription.

Dave

[Ussnorway]

the cake is a lie!

[Ussnorway]

1 Adobe Fuse is NOT on Steam... thats the old Fuse before Adobe got their hands on it and the characters are more cartoon like but they have the same UV maps so you can load them into Adobe Fuse

2 Adobe killed Fuse and ripped the workflow out so if you didn't make backups then its too late now i.e, if you allowed Creative cloud to update after the end date then it killed Fuse on your system... yes I know Adobe staff said Fuse would keep working but what Adobe says and what they actually do is different because they are different teams which don't talk to each other

3. Adobe Fuse had the option to upload to creative clould and then you could use Photoshop to animate your Fuse characters... for now this system still works because again the Photoshop team knows nothing about the Fuse team but sooner or later they will kill this workflow as well

4 Adobe has nothing in 3D animation anymore and you are waisting your time with them... the bottom line is Adobe builds for Mac and 3[4]D is a Windows only system

5 yes Adobe Fuse was great software, you could build your own models, kids, wings, tails or just yourself they had tutorials, animations and lots more but its all in the bin now

[Semaphoric]

I have an executable of Fuse ( which I haven't used much) which I can still run (Windows). Uploading to CC gives "Unknown Error", but I can save .OBJ files and load them into Photoshop.

I am woefully ignorant about 3D, but hope to teach myself Blender over the depths of Winter. Are any of those Fuse resources available anywhere?

[Ussnorway]

"Unknown Error" = Adobe turned the server off

yes you can export as Obj but that means there is no bone rig so all you have is a model in T pose but yes Photoshop will load that and you normally have to tell it where the Png textures are... you could upload that T pose to Mixamo in order to rig it [with out face animations] and then download as Fbx or Dae if that helps?

Fuse resources? Adobe took the forum down so [unlike Muse or all the other end of life software] everything is now in the bin... I assume Adobe staff can still see backups but who knows... there are still some people making tutorials like how to get it running in Unity for Mac users or how to bring your models into Iclone or Unreal for Windows users and you can still buy 3rd party outfits etc just not from Adobe

[Semaphoric]

Just like all resources for Pixem Bender were removed.

What about that "Send to Mixamo" button? I was looking at that briefly last night. I'm not signed up for it, and when I clicked the button in fuse, the error I got sounds like that may be the reason..

[Ussnorway]

you can not send to Mixamo from within Fuse because again Adobe turned the server off so there is nothing at the other end... people that already sent models to Mixamo or creative cloud before the end day will still have models {with face animations} but you can't send any more

Mixamo was moved to another dev team and uses the same username and password as your Adobe account so there is nothing else to set up; to be clear, send from Fuse is gone but you can still log into Mixamo website with your Adobe id and send a model manually... it will rig your model one at a time [without face animation]

https://www.mixamo.com/