Nikie Monteleone
@iLoveTexture
Senior Creative 3D Evangelist & Community Advocate @Adobe Previously Laika | DreamWorks | Nickelodeon She/her | My opinions are my own BLM
There's nothing I love more then hand painting in #Substance3DPainter and then using the smudge brush to mix the paint. What's everyone's favorite Painter brush? Mine is a toss up between a simple square brush I made and the Dirt 3 brush for skin! #handmade
New video up! 2 ways to fix those smoothing splits in Painter (pink lines in the bake view) Hope it helps✌️ #madewithSubstance #Maya #SubstancePainter youtu.be/GO2ifXsIYKo?si…
A new residency is launching in Annecy to support women feature animation directors. "We need more female voices and visions incarnated, and women shaping the future of animation film,” said @annecyfestival chief Mickaël Marin. Details: cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/a…
They say one should layer textures in one’s interior design… Am I being too literal? 🤣😛
Here's a UV quick tip to help optimize your Substance 3D Painter scene. Who knew laying out UV islands, gathered close together would matter?! I'm honestly excited to learn this and start implementing into my bigger UDIM scenes. #madeWithSubstance #substancepainter
This is the greatest uv checker creator I've used. Absolutely brilliant. Link below
New updates including a new renderer in Substance 3D Designer! 😍 Along with a beautiful new splash screen from the very talented @troglodette youtube.com/watch?v=6EkXxu…
🎭✨ Pre-production exploration for Viktor’s mask transformation! One of the most exciting parts of animation for me is pre-production—it’s where we get to experiment, push the craft, and really shape who the character is.
Working on a new character blockin :D And I'm today years old learning I can load a reference image into Maya's color picker

Hi #PortfolioDay !! I really really love modeling characters based on the art of amazing artist💕🥹🫶 ⭐️Red Sonja by El Gunto ⭐️Coraline by Will Baxter ⭐️Black Dress by Serge Birault ⭐️Debbi Thornberry by Maca
I love drawing characters (especially witches) #PortfolioDay
Hey ! New 3D personal project, it's a mix between PBR and handpaint technique, hope you like it ! all render here : artstation.com/artwork/RKV2Vm concept : Kirill Svetlakov
Excuse me while I go cry in a tiny corner
Oh. Nickelodeon BROKE this man....
Bookmark this one for your next Painter project that uses lots of paint strokes! Super useful 🔥
Five brush tips for Substance Painter 🎨 Here's a quick look at five essential brush tips for Substance Painter! 🖌️ From brush alignment to utilizing quick masks and the lazy mouse tool. #substancepainter
Couple of new assets I'm working on in Substance Painter! #stylized #madeWithSubstance @Substance3D

This looks FIRE. I'm unappologetically looking forward to a birthday weekend treat.
Exclusive clip from ‘KPOP DEMON HUNTERS’, a new film from Sony Pictures Animation Releasing June 20 on Netflix.
We are hosting the very amazing @IR_Sculpts for a livestream over on our Creative 3D Discord This Friday 12pm PST / 3pm EST Come hang out! #madeWithSubstance #ZBrush discord.gg/EdTdtKqG?event…

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Couldn't agree more. There are too many shiny buttons out there! Learning while having the goal of creating something specific has been, for me, the best way to retain information and provides much needed focus.
One of the hardest loops to break for me as a 3D artist: learning for the sake of learning. I love discovering new techniques, but real growth comes when you use what you learn. Knowledge means nothing if it just sits there, turn it into something.
OH MY that is gorgeous metal paint
by Aleksandrs "True0men" Tjasins artstation.com/artwork/y44D8J
Excited to share“Eastern Town”, my most recent piece 🌸🍃 Check out more here: artstation.com/artwork/dyB9WX