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August ProgBlog #3: fingers
There has been some hilarity with some of my previous progblogs as I’ve shared the dodgy looking things that usually end up happening whenever I’m building (at least characters, I haven’t done much else recently x_x) The above screenie is not that dodgy, it’s just highlighting those irritating bumps. All I want is a perfectly smooth mesh but pparently there are vertices that just jut out for no apparent reason regardless of what I’m doing with autosmooth and the smooth brush settings.
August ProgBlog #2: back to the grind
This is a really boring phase where things are super slow going but they need to be done to keep me happy. Other people obsess about mesh smoothness and stuff in obscure places like the soles of feet right? Yes I’m aware the tail is still a bit of a mess, seems like I’m going to have to edit the normal map for that one -_- I’m kind of mostly trying to repair shapes but also seem to create a hell of a lot of dents before it will smooth out.
July ProgBlog #2: minified progblog
I’m severely out of it. I’m currently struggling (and mostly failing) to not revert to my owlish ways. I don’t even remember why I didn’t post the progblog on Friday. Oh yes, I had an extra child (11yo had a friend sleeping over for the weekend). I also hadn’t finished the tail at the time and I was sick of posting pictures of the unfinished tail. Then I stayed up way too late last night because I finally finished it.
July ProgBlog #1: guess who's stuck, stuck again
If you are new to 3d, getting stuck and having to rework things using better techniques that you figure out later is perfectly normal (unless you’re a prodigy). And if you went to some fancy school to learn stuff, experiment anyway because the stuff taught in schools is one way to do things, not the only or necessarily best way to do things. I originally held off progblog on Friday because I got cool things from @bearone which I wanted to write about instead, but my computer and phone don’t want to interact properly (I can plug the phone in, tell it to trust the computer, the computer can see the phone and see all the photos and videos on the phone, but importing is flakey.
June ProgBlog #4: and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids and your darned dog!
And by “gotten away with it” I mean “finished” and by “dog” I mean “dogs and cats” XD I’ve spent this entire week ironing the tail. Also found this helpful setting and turned it on after actually reading the tooltip while wondering what it did. I’d been thinking it would be helpful in high poly situations like this if stuff could just be rendered when it was actually in the viewport and smarter people than me obviously thought it would be a good idea too XD
June ProgBlog #3: I don't know either
I decided to go in a different direction and after getting past the face I reduced some polygons down the back and went onto the tail. I’d kind of moved the base part down the back in 3dC so it was pretty much attached to the butt like it would be in a quadruped which looks more awkward in a biped but that’s what they’re all going to be like and their body structures are somewhat unlikely anyway.June ProgBlog #2: buttery
That’s what Blender sculpt mode feels like at the moment. I don’t know whether it’s because I found some settings that make me happy or whether I finally got the polycount down to something Blender is happier with (got it down to 3.5M from 3.7M after I decided to reduce the polycount in the wing membranes using super light dabs with the clay brush and it’s been jumping mostly down as I continue reworking things and Blender remeshes everything I touch) or whether something has been going on under the hood as I swear every time Manjaro does a system update there’s a new version of Blender in there somewhere (this may or may not be a slight exaggeration).
June ProgBlog #1: textual feeling
What do you mean that’s reminding you of a song? XD I’ve been bouncing between working on the sculpt to try to have something interesting and visual for the progblog because people in general seem to prefer pretty pictures (guess it’s much easier to glance, upvote and keep scrolling than actually have to read? XD), but sadly there is still a metric boatload of work nobody is ever going to see or even realise exists to get done as well.
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).