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Lost in the head-universe
Saturday, 12 May 2018 @ 9:58pm
Shimmer by Fuel came up on my Spotify playlist:
These lyrics stuck out as something I figured JJ probably constantly thinks about me:
She dreams a champagne dream
Strawberry surprise
Pink linen on white paper
Lavender and cream
Fields of butterflies
Reality escapes her
– Fuel: Shimmer
May ProgBlog #1
Friday, 11 May 2018 @ 8:43pm
Blender’s viewport is massively outdated and exceedingly laggy. This has made trying to correct the weights on the ~300k poly model of Red agonisingly painful and take way, way longer than it should be. I still have plans to do a proxy for animating with, but that doesn’t remove the need for the actual model to work. Apparently this will be fixed and updated later this year and from the sounds of the people who are braving it in its current bug-infested state, it will be wonderful. I’m not waiting around for it, I’ll just let it catch up to me which is highly likely.
Tubcat
Tuesday, 24 April 2018 @ 10:46pm
TubCat goes around giving unwashed humans a hard time for being not as intelligent as a tubcat, as far as I can tell. It’s generally amusing.
What was less amusing was finally getting a good result on a jpb export (had to fiddle with Krita settings again) only for my blog to do something weird with it on upload, making the colours darker. Seeing as this was
I went with the png which worked out much better at the cost of being four times bigger. Sigh.
Upbokki
Friday, 20 April 2018 @ 2:48pm
BMJ requested a springbok holding a shot glass and a rugby ball for a mascot for one of the communities he’s in. He got a bonus two because I had some fun ideas. I wasn’t going to do any shading but felt that they needed that something extra. Haven’t done cel shading for a while but it worked out better than expected, partially helped by learning how to handle the new Krita brushes.
Blender notes: curve guides for particle hair and bonus hair colour without making separate emitter geometry
Wednesday, 18 April 2018 @ 8:13pm
Add the hair in the usual fashion.
By default the hair will just sprout wherever. To restrict it to a certain part of the mesh, create a vertex group in vertex paint mode, and then use the group you created as a density map (found at the bottom of the particle panel).
April ProgBlog #1
Tuesday, 17 April 2018 @ 4:57pm
I still haven’t worked out whether it’s better to keep a regular update even if it’s “I’m an idiot and got stuck again” or just not say anything if I’m that stuck.
So after combing the hair into the right shape, I found out a few things.
while the collision detection works really nicely in particle edit mode, it completely fails when actual physics is applied, because for whatever reason the emitter collision is completely ignored I can’t work out for the life of me how the hell to rig particle hair I’ve done spline IK for the tail rig so was trying to do something similar with the hair but don’t understand how particle weights work. Wasn’t the biggest leap to find out about curve guides, and then took me the better part of forever to work out that curve guides had to be on the same layer as the particle emitter to work. Once that was sorted out, I then spent way too long playing around with the different curve types to work out which one would be the best for the job. Seems that nurbs animates quickest so that’s what I’m using.
March ProgBlog #3
Saturday, 24 March 2018 @ 7:07pm
Last week was working on pants and boots (and getting to use some fabric normals and a leather material some kind souls made available on Blendswap):
trying to wrangle the hair into several hair ties (it was supposed to be tied with a cord but I finally got it through my thick skull that it wouldn’t stay, even when I did have long hair I didn’t do anything interesting with it, so I’m going to claim total stupidity ignorance and too much anime on my part there!):
85% beaver - phelimint
Tuesday, 21 November 2017 @ 10:50pm
So @phelimint once posted an old Tinder photo and it went a little bit viral in the #teamaustralia community. From memory he had spiky hair and was wearing suspenders and holding a chainsaw.
Chainsaw -> lumberjack -> beavers -> this.
I swear it was perfectly logical at the time.
Foreshortening is forever my sworn nemesis. This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Come on in, the water's fine! :D
Tuesday, 14 November 2017 @ 5:18pm
Special request for @kubbyelizabeth! And a reminder of what happens when fyn gets carried away with ideas ;D
I’ve done progblogs for this one so just included detail shots, though can do the whole shebang in one if that’s what people want. Additionally there was supposed to be a process video for this but my computer crashed while I was recording one of the sessions which corrupted that video so I spat it and gave up on that one.
Water's Fine progblog #3
Saturday, 11 November 2017 @ 1:15pm
Last progblog I’d finished light and shadow 1. I hoped I could get light and shadow 2 done in one session. I did get there eventually XD
Light and shadow 3 should theoretically go a little bit quicker as they’re kind of emphasis layers. I’ll decide then whether they’re high enough to do caustics, at this stage I’m likely to bail as doing caustics on this many characters feels a little bit daunting. Hoping to knock this one off tomorrow, but that will depend on what else is happening tomorrow.