sculpting
May ProgBlog #4: sculpting and scripting
I have no real excuse for the late progblog this time. I just forgot it was Friday yesterday and was merrily sculpting away til late. Fixing sculpts isn’t quite as fun as just making them but I definitely find it more fun than trying to work out retopo or rigging or cloth sim shenanigans. On the hand the denser bits are the bits I haven’t touched yet, though on the thumb there are just denser bits as I moved in closer (I have both dynatopo and remesh on, controlled by brush detail which seems to be based off however big the brush is).
To some value of working
Please excuse the slight headache that is the abrupt camera movement towards the end (and maybe don’t watch it if you get motion sick easily ^_^;), I only half-arsed fixed a lot of things after changing the framerate from 24 to 60. There are so many things I need to fix. Including I forgot to turn the arm socks collection back on (I could have sworn I had) but I’m not rerendering this just for that, so you can instead see why she usually wears arm socks.
February ProgBlog #4: making a thing
The sculpt repairs are coming along slowly and painfully but otherwise looking all right. The areas I’ve cleaned up have got bigger triangles/more grey area, black bits are super dense mesh. I did actually do part of the face but from quite close, it was a lot darker than that before. The blotchy spots are the bits that were giving me grief in 3d Coat. Sometimes if I go over them enough times with the clean clay brush (doesn’t seem to matter what the setting is) they sometimes will eventually separate from the main mesh which will then let me objectify them and delete them when they go to their own layers.
FFebruary ProgBlog #3: rinse repeat ad nauseum
I’ve spent an accumulation of 2-5 years redoing various swathes of work (mostly in the 3d department, but there was nearly a year worth of solid script fixing as well) for this project so to say that I am well and truly over it and desperately want a massive chunk of progress is an understatement of truly epic proportions. But guess what I’m doing again because this happened in 3d Coat and after failing to sort it out (there were some holes that 3d Coat would fill and otherwise it simply did not know what to do with) I sent the model to Blender to patch the holes.
February ProgBlog #2: look at this beautiful thing!
LOOK AT IT. THE RAINBOW MOVES. I LOVE IT. The default setting where it’s just gently scrolling left to right is my favourite though it can also spiral and “rain” (where keys randomly light up in a rain hitting the ground kind of pattern). My old keyboard had a few issues but otherwise still worked perfectly fine (the biggest issues I had were it was a lot harder than I like so my typing speed was greatly reduced as I had to pound the keys, I like just touching them and getting a response, and the right side of the spacebar had popped off so I had to switch to using my left thumb which is the off side for space) but J somehow got the idea that it was well on the way out and bought me that as a wide margin birthday present (no I’m not telling you when that is but it’s definitely not yet XP).
February ProgBlog #1: pingpong
On Tuesday I posted this screenie of Zara in showoff pose on ko-fi and that’s where I’m still currently stuck while the next few moves work themselves out in my head. It was a good excuse to jump back to Red and redo the retopo. My edge loops are probably not the best right now but they were a lot worse on my original retopo, no wonder I was having so much trouble with deformations.
September ProgBlog #1
Small victory for having made all the progblogs last month! We’ve had awesome fun times with everyone in the house except me (so far touch wood aargh) succumbing to this rather awful gastro over the course of the week, so in fairness not quite as much done as I would have liked to do (even though I whined about my glacial speed at the time), but slow progress is better than no progress!
August ProgBlog #4: Rollin rollin rollin
I needed a break from technical stuff, so I started sculpting Zara. I don’t know why I always start with eyebrows, I just do, so I did the eyebrows, but then deviated from my usual of going down the nose and doing the face and bounced over to doing the ears. Probably because hers are a bit pointy. The point is tricky as the Avians have an obvious point but their ears aren’t nearly as big as the Dragonkin ears.Very late Thursday streaming!
This one is from last Thursday! A lot of stuff happened that prevented solid work on it so it ended up getting dragged out for the entire week! And then I didn’t stream this Thursday because other stuff had to happen. But we got there eventually! In this one I finish off High and continue working on Red. Digits are my nemesis (yes I have several of them). Track list Third Eye Blind: Semi-Charmed Life Savage Garden: Affirmation Secret Garden: You Raise Me Up Mark Mancina: Toe Feiloa’i Collective Soul: Run Walk the Moon: Shut Up and Dance Thomas Bergersen: Dragonland Fun ft Janelle Monae: We Are Young Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Tell Me Baby REM: Shiny Happy People Thomas Bergersen: Promise Thomas Bergersen: Soulseeker David Arkenstone: Starlight Inception Main Theme Thomas Bergersen: Aura Cat Empire: The Chariot Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Scar Tissue Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa’i: We Know The Way (from Moana) Thomas Bergersen: Starvation The Wallflowers: One Headlight Mark Mancina: Navigating Home (from Moana) Imagine Dragons: Radioactive Jason Raize and The Lion King Ensemble: Endless Night (from The Lion King Broadway Musical) Bon Jovi: You Give Love a Bad Name The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: The Impression That I Get Youth Group: Forever Young Globus: The Promise Guns n Roses: Civil War Paul Cardall: Our Love Scott Irby-Ranniar, Geoff Hoyle, Kajuana Shuford and The Lion King Ensemble: I Just Can’t Wait to be King Eric Whitacre, Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson: What If Andrew McMahon: Synesthesia Thomas Bergersen: A Place in Heaven Thomas Bergersen: Remember Me Eskimo Joe: Just Don’t Feel Piano Guys ft Megan Nicole & Alex Goot covering Begin Again (original by Taylor Swift) Alex Goot and ATC covering Good Time (original by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen) Thomas Bergersen: Soulseeker Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foa’i, Te Vaka and Pasifika Voices Choir: Te Ka Attacks Vai Mahina, Sulata Foai-Amiatu and Matthew Ineleo: An Innocent Warrior (from Moana) Jebediah: Harpoon Mummer’s Dance cover (original by Loreena McKennit which is what’s linked because I still can’t find my version) Ramin Djawadi: The Children (from Game of Thrones) Lindsey Stirling: Shadows Coldplay: Clocks Mr Mister: Kyrie The Smart: City Lights Everclear: Wonderful Creed: My Sacrifice Eskimo Joe: New York Spin Doctors: Two Princes REM: Bad Day Samuel E Wright and The Lion King Ensemble: They Live in You (from The Lion King Broadway) Phil Collins: Another Day in Paradise Thomas Bergersen: Age of Gods Yanni: Looking Glass The Piano Guys ft Shweta Subram: Don’t You Worry Child (original by Swedish House Mafia) Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Otherside City of the Fallen: Immortality Starship: We Built This City Fall Out Boy: Young Volcanoes (explicit warning) Black Eyed Peas: Where is the Love?