August ProgBlog #2: One step forward

in #aer6 years ago

And hopefully I'm not going to have any more backwards steps as I'm thoroughly over them!

Our club is hosting regionals so weekend just gone has been extremely busy (hence why progblog is late) and there is another one is coming up next weekend which will hopefully be not quite as busy. With luck I'll have this week's progblog done on time, but it depends on whether we need to help set up on Friday night (as I tend to make progblogs on Friday nights, I do try to post them then as well but it can end up being sometime on the weekend if I don't finish on time).

So not a whole lot of progress this week. Red got some eyebrows:

They look slightly better in the preview render:

Don't mind the wispy head hair, the viewport display is set to display 10 children so I can actually move around the viewport without everything exploding. There's 100 children in the render which makes for some nice thick hair. I'm currently progressing the expression test and also working on weight maps. I still haven't done the retracting claws either, but I just want to animate right now so I figure I'll deal with them as I go. Dealing with props and scenes in pretty much the same way.

I got a chunk of shadow2 done on @f3nix's avatar but haven't finished it yet.

I'm going to have to try and rejig schedules again as stuff has changed/stopped working/etc so that will be yet another work in progress for this week (because I don't have enough stuff on! XD)

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Cool @ryivhnn! Can't wait to see it in motion.

Thanks :D I'm very slowly getting there XD

Eyebrows! Yay! Now I’m not so disappointed I missed out on the toe nails...

As for the ‘wispy hair’, well, it’s almost 2 am here, I just woke up from my ‘quick nap’ after work (lol), had to rub my eyes and stick the iPad to my face to know what you mean. I don’t know if I’m just too tired here and got the cold, but Red looks very blue and looking like s/he got some serious balding issues thanks to 10 children vs 100 children...

Anyway, you got a croaky chuckle out of me from this. Can’t wait for the next update!
XD

LoL! Perhaps rolling over and going back to sleep might have been a better option than coming on steem if you have a cold XD

Red kind of fell victim to Australian larrikinism (which I don't fully understand either). The children remark was for the particle hair samples. When rendering, each strand spawns 100 children, whereas for the display I've got it to spawn 10 so I can see what the shape of the hair is without my computer deciding to overheat and shut down or run out of ram and shut down or both.

Glad it made you chuckle anyway XD Hopefully I'll have some better progress next update and hope you're over that cold soon!

The preview render looks awesome!! The shadows really made the emotions pop out! The wispy head hair actually looks great to me. Did you not intentionally make it look that way?

Thanks ^_^ I was pretty impressed with it too, it's been a while since I used it, which was...2 years ago eep! :O while working on my realistic vaporeon model:


the texturing is so awful I need to redo it...and the retopo wasn't brilliant either but I was in a hurry...if I ever have some of that mythological spare time I'm so redoing it

The first image shows how thick his hair is though it's only showing the guides (there's a lot of them) which don't have a texture hence appearing silvery. I can render the hair fully in the viewport but that would make my computer really unhappy XD And also while the viewport gives a nice preview of how textures are going, currently it differs slightly from the actual render result.

That Vaporeon is terrifying!! In a good way, of course! To think, that was my Eevolution of choice, well at least until Espeon came along!

My "realistic" pokemon do tend to be rather terrifying XD Pixie was somewhat disgusted when i decided that Sylveon's ribbons were actually tentacles. One of these days I'll redo this one and finish the set of them.

Sylveon? What the heck is a Sylveon!?

Hold on. Searching.

Ach!!

Eevee comes in Fairy type now?? Also... fairy type!? I mean, I shouldn't be surprised that Eevee has extended its variant. I've often wondered why they haven't come up with a Grass type Eevee, but now I could see that they have. My knowledge is stuck mostly in Gen 2 (which I've mastered), and some of them Mudkipz. I remember a time when memorizing all of the Pokemon up to Celebii was a feat, but now I think that's damn near impossible if you include them all!

Realistic Pokemon should be terrifying. Unlike rabid dogs who would bite you, these creatures would summon down lightning or even thunderstorms if you piss them off. That's scary.

Last I checked there was over 600 of them. The last one I played was Platinum and a bit of Black and White when I was helping the bigs out. I kind of want Sun/Moon and Pokemon Let's Go (Eevee version of course XD) but don't want to get the 3DS or Switch, and to be perfectly honest I'm not sure if I want to relive the formula (even if the stories are different to some value of different). Also, time.

Sometimes when we're talking about pokemon it makes me want to do that pokemon fancomic I have roughly planned out (I wrote an outline for it). But it's something that will have to wait til I don't know when XD

That's interesting. I played the revised Red version when I had an emulator on my phone and didn't mind playing through the Kanto and Johto regions. The nostalgia helped a lot. I've seen the Let's Go ones and I wonder how long they can rely on people's nostalgia for sales haha!

I had a Pokemon fanfic as well when I was playing Silver! Haha! I played the story in my head as I played my party of Typhlosions. Lots of ninjutsu involved haha!

Woahahahah that preview render though! Tch tch, looking pretty good ryi ;;v;;)b keep it up!!

Also I like how you said "children" instead of samples LOL

Thanks XD I'm keeping as best I can :D

And I said children because it says children!

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See :D

OMGG!! You're right!! And it even has virtual parents 0.o

LoL XD maybe they used different words to help with visualisation/association and also because samples is used in the rendering tab and it might be confusing. I don't know, I'm guessing!

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Does this progress mean that you are done with the teeth? Hopefully? XDDD
You are such a perfectionist perfectionist fyn. Yes I said it twice because you deserve it :3.

Yeh teeth are pretty much done. They're actually in this character (and modified because the Dragonkin have got bigger canines) but you can't see them as he doesn't really open his mouth at any stage XD

Haha thanks, I'm still not sure if that's a good thing or not, I'm kind of hoping it will make a worthwhile thing for people to look at in the end, that's what I keep telling myself anyway as most of the time it just kind of really slows me down a lot XD

If you don't make them open their mouth, then how would you expect people to look at your hard works, let alone appreciate it!!! You are crazy.... thankfully the fun kind of crazy lol.

You'll see them when he talks and stuff just not in this test I'm doing XD

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