/wip/ - Works In Progress - "You know you guys can make this thread yourselves, right?" EditionPost your work-in-progress projects, recently finished projects, or things you'd like critiqued here.Previous thread: >>980444List of free resources: https://pastebin.com/cZLVnNtB (embed) (embed)/3/ Discord: https://discord.gg/gbYCEBPuK2
>>982474yeah I'll probably make it thinner and make it just black for now. Have never really messed with grease pencil before now so just trying out whatever random thing comes to mind. long term plan with this model requires simplicity i think. idk yet.
Spent all day figuring out how to redo the "crack".Forgot to UV before I rendered, so my procedural shader that breaks up the spec didn't work.
Started putting the full scene together with the car. Which has some preliminary animation on it.It's extremely early stages. I'm hoping to have a bunch of canals, some bridges across the water to fly through/under, flying traffic in the distance, some highways, and probably some holograms and shit too.Still, it's nice to finally get this shit in the scene.It was a fucking nightmare trying to get it all to work though. Turns out my "solution" of randomly generated buildings wasn't conducive to an entire city (who knew). Verts were around 70m (had to array the buildings to make the animation loop), and RAM usage skyrocketed to like 60gigs on render. I had to go back in and make low poly versions of each of the buildings, which didn't fix the problem. So I had to say "fuck it" for generating a random building in place, and just use the parts I had to make buildings manually (really just turning on the array modifier), and just instancing those with GN instead of generating. RAM use is under 9gigs now. I think I didn't need to make low poly versions of the buildings if I just did that in the first place, but I guess they're nice to have.In hindsight, I think the main culprit was the "Realize instances", which I was trying to avoid using in the first place (for this exact reason), but with the way I set up materials for the random neon and accents I had to use it because without it they apparently count as separate objects. Blender really fucking needs a "real" randomness shader node, not the object based or island based one.Still, no better way to figure out if something is actually usable in a project besides actually using it.And that's it for my blogpost.
>>982484I still don't understand what are you trying to achieve?
>>982484Is this morbid obesity cellulitis fetishism?
>>982484Are 2 chicken legs fused together?
>>982505>I still don't understand what are you trying to achieve?FEM and vellum simulation of characters I design doing animations I keyframe, not cop-outs in blender. No compromises. Right now, I am working on the stomach and limbs
>>982484you don't need to go to all this work to get a nut anon, just visit >>>/fit/fph
>>982510it doesn't feel like work, going through the steps lets me do it for any character faster later
>>982484Turn it into assy mcgee
Still doing exercises with the animation system. I'm totally a noob at animating manually. But the technical stuff is working and I wanted to have a taste of what a longer animation themed like this would look like.
>>982563are you even making use of easing, anon?
>>982585No. For now I'm just interpolating poses, still looking for bugs in the C-side of things. I really really have no idea how this art thing works.
>>982589easing is like the bread and butter of animation, not only in 3d but in all animation in general, practice it a bit, first exercise of 2d animation is a ball moving on the x and y axis and bouncing, look up some 2d animation theory on the subject and you'll see some tricks there, like the deformation of the ball, keeping its overall space through transformation, acceleration, deceleration, exagirating, etc.
>>982594I see you're trying to give him helpful advice, but this dumbass is completely resistant to taking it.He's hellbent on his weird ass "solution" that looks like trash to shortcut learning animation entirely (his own words).
>>982476first character, can a noob get some feedback? around 20k tris rn looking to polish it up and paint it in blender then port to UE because substance painter scares me and im not sure I want to spend the time baking normals when im going for a low-mid poly look.
>>982636You can get up and running with SP in under an hour anon. There's nothing to be scared of.Meanwhile painting in Blender will take you hours to fumble together any kind of "working" solution to approach even a fraction of what SP does.I can't speak for this exact playlist, but the official quickstart tuts used to be really good to get started with SP.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB0wXHrWAmCwnqWfKdGEmbtSKN2EzvLrYThere's a few things you pick up with experience, like workflows and stuff, and you get a bit more comfortable with the software, but it really is intuitive and easy to use.
>>982594>>982620Try to think of it this way. Suppose I have a little storyboard where Character goes from point A to point B, then performs action C, pauses and goes to point D and so on.What happens between checkpoints is not very important so long as I hit those checkpoints. Because that's what tells the story.Machine-interpolated motions made with 20 years old algorithms are not going to look great, but that's ok to me because I'm not a AAA industry standard compliant studio in my bedroom.The iTaSC thing has been part of Blender since 2.5x. It's poorly documented but as I'm researching into it, it seems to be the only readily available tool which could be useful in terms of what I've just described.
started this shit yesterday my first time ever making a car
>>982642thanks for the tuts anon, ill check em out. perhaps I will pause after cleaning up the topology and UV unwrap the guy and do some tutorials with SP and some project files for practice - baking normals from high poly to low poly and rough/metallic maps is my next challengeIs there anything I can do better in terms of 3d modelling? I know the verts aren't shown so its hard to make out any topo mistakes but im always looking for feedback where i fucked up and can do better
I got a mesh to stay within the boundaries of an edge. Conceptually, both endpoints of the edge have a sort of "plane" attached. Those two planes are infinite in scale. The angle of the planes are perpendicular to the angle of the edge. So I manipulate the edge using bones. Which in turn moves the planes. And the cylinder between the planes can't escape. The cylinder can move freely between the two planes, but when its tries to go outside the bounds, it squashes against the plane instead.
Is it possible to get so good at 3d art that girls will want to suck your dick
>>982707kys weirdo
>>982707It would be better to be a painter. 3dcg may have the opposite effect.
>>982708No.
>>982707Yeah. I mean girls like artist in general. If you're actually good that is.(sometimes if you're not good)It helps if you actually make good money off your art. Every girl is attracted to a successful man.>>982709If you're good enough, then your 3D work will compare to the artistry of a painting.
>>982710please?
>>982705Liminal
>>982711It doesnt impress women though. Sketching and acoustic guitar are the bj magnet art forms.
>>982723You have no idea. Women dig 3D. Just not the gun and survival gear autism you create. But a well sculpted fantasy character? Or a cute cartoon? Impressive.
>>982712Cope.
>>982707Nah, gotta do photography for that.Free excuse to take photos of women in the nude, and get a bj on top.Used to do it right after HS all the time.Women like to look good, and they like looking at themselves. Photos are perfect for that.
The upper skeleton is mostly here...now to make the muscles
>>982774no s-curve in the spine.
>>982789wow anon, your eye for anatomical inaccuracies is 20-20.
>>982774are the legs meant to be as long as the arms?
>>982636Painting in blender is the worst thing you can do, it's literally a caveman experience
>>982797the guide im following says that for this head ratio (6 heads) this is correct, but if it looks off, i will change it
>>982774It's the skeleton of a Duende
The problem I think is that the people who wrote the iTaSC stuff intended it to be used to drive KUKA robots and I'm trying to use it off-label.There should also be support for skeletal collision avoidance or something. I'll try it at some point.
>>982774It could just be the angle or something, but the torso seems too long in comparison to the legs. I'm not an anatomy expert though so I could just be talking out my tuchus.
>>982774This is so funny, you made my day anon
>>982812Anon, it's way off Are you trying to make a lord of the rings dwarf?
>>982824I assumed yhis was the skeleton for some short stack coom character. Hence, its gonna need a major s-cirve to the spine more than it needs a better leg/torso ratio.>>982812For the record, on any normal human the pubic triangle points to the exsct midpoint of the human body. So the legs ought to be as ling as the torso and head combined. 3 heads on a 6 head figure. Very tall and very short people have legs that violate this proprotion and they look funny because of it.
does this look like a good starting armor set for a game character? im still in the process of making it but how is it coming along?
>>982842It looks nice, like an old mortal Kombat character
I call it a Chi Warahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiwara
>>982850I will giver her clothes eventually.
>>982851I also made this fish (carp).I wanted to practice animating and giving it a pixel texture so that I can incorporate those skills into my unique indie workflow and maybe compete with cris one day.
>>982851I don't know why but I really dig this.
>>982851>>982850Really good abstraction of forms. On the side view, I kinda wish her horns had one more loop in the center to form more of an arc than a straight vertical (to tie together with the swooping curves of the body), but other than that, I think it looks really neat. It's kinda like an anime girl Kaminoan.
>>982489Some more work on the city. I added some highways in the background, and a bridge.I know the bridge isn't too structurally sound, but the dude who wanted the project done, his logo is AYL, and I thought it'd be cool to take the design of the AY from his logo and use it as the supports for the bridge as kind of an Easter egg.On the bright side, I've gotten a bit more comfortable with geo nodes. I was able to do the cables and structures in GN all by myself without help. The bridge still needs materials and stuff, and I'm planning on adding some neon lights to it to accentuate the shapes of the logo a bit more. After that, it's onto some traffic, and finishing up the animation of the car so I can focus on building out the environment without fear of missing the deadline. Like as long as the animation is solid, if I'm still working on adding extra stuff to the environment until the last minute, I can just stop adding shit and render. That's the hope anyway.
>>978944I think the face looks better like this. also, some more texture work done
>>982680progress
>>982822>>982839made some adjustments to the ratios of the bones. Also, here is my ref. Now, I adjust the bindpose so the tets don't get stuck together and then start building the muscles
>>982851so this is the power of smooth shading
>>982905Miles ahead of my first car.
>>982906I'm not sure what you're trying to do here but rest assured I am following this with bafflement and awe.
>>982884Finished up the bridge, and I started working on some of the animations.https://files.catbox.moe/ls3c1g.mp4I've already got a regular anim of just cruising close to the water, so now I'm playing around with some extra bits. Got a little hop over the bridge, and a zero-g roll. For some reason I couldn't do the zero-g roll using just bezier curves and tilting them, so I just had to rotate the car with keyframes.Even when you turn the resolution up on the curve and use as little points as possible, they're still jerky as fuck when you transition from one point to another. I've got no clue what Blender's problem is with curves but it's driving me up the wall.I've tried smoothing them out as much as I can, but it's still somewhat visible at the top of the arcs. I'm using 3 points to make the arcs and it's still jerky. I guess I could try doing it with just 2 points so there's no midpoint to transition, but then you're just moving the issue to the points where it enters/exits the maneuvers.I'll probably figure something out though.
using a signed distance field to generate the inner fat and outer fat (pictured is inner). Next up is to get a breathing loop going with the abs / chest only with a subtissue
>>983076This is your brain when you don't just get a subdivided cube and sculpt from your mind and fix stuff that looks bad
>>983076Concerning.
So... The good news is that the iTaSC + Softbody system works as advertised. The bad news is that I really don't have the patience to make animations by hand and I want to find another way.
>>983091Yes ma'am
>>982815>>983091are these really supposed to be mocap, i've never once seen any human being ever make any movement even remotely similar to this
>>983107They are in space That's why the lack of gravity
>>983091>I really don't have the patience to make animations by handBased on those results it's really not 'patience' that is your limiting factor here.
How's my topology?
>>983076>sdfAha thats why the butt cheeks are fusing
>>983091>really don't have the patience to make animations by hand and I want to find another wayYou find a collaborator that wants to make animations but doesnt want to make rigs
>>983112decent spacing and edgeflow but the marked 'double pole' you have here is one that can fuck you and create pinching in the shading if you do facial animation.You will have to have poles somewhere (vertex where more than 4 edges meet) but having multiple poles on the same face is generally not a god idea as the edge flow around that spot hill have tension in every direction.Relocating poles to places where you have a natural break in how the shape flows is the more optimal approach.I like to drop that pole that breaks how the eye loop and mouth loop lines up so it sits in the area where you get a depression on your cheek if you suck it in.
>>983116Oh, so that's why I had shading issues near that area. Thanks! I still have trouble with moving poles around. I think if I tried to move the pole to the point you described I would fuck the whole geometry over.
>>983107That's not mocap. I've set up a number of poses by hand and I'm trying to interpolate between them. Like so >>982589 I've posted mocap based clips in previous threads.>>983110Because iTaSC does not support physics unfortunately. I wish they'd implemented a Bullet based ragdoll system instead, but that's what available. To add a Bullet based IK solver to Blender would be interesting, but it's too much work for me alone and the devs are busy with Geography Nodes and Grease Pencil.>>983111I've spent an hour or two on it and, for me, it's even too much. The point is to have something to fill in the gaps between mocap clips.>>983115That's not easy because 95% of people online seem to be stuck in the hell of the PUZZLE OF ALL QUADS RETOPOGUN TOPOLOGY and as such, they are completely useless.I was planning to ask somebody I know IRL but then again, I don't think there's any money to be made and so I'll probably just continue to make experiments until I find something really good.Specifically I would like to get out of Blender entirely and get into Unreal Engine because looking at the new features in 5.4, they may already have what I'm looking for.
>it's not mocap, but it's mocapmore evidence of your retardation. let's say you somehow get this to work absolutely perfectly. it's still gonna look like absolute shit compared to a real animation
>>983118>That's not easyOh i know. Ive been looking for collaborators too.
>>983122https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjhOFXyscZ0is what it looks like when I use mocap. Obviously in that case the movements are pre-recorded. I'm trying to find some sort of middle ground, if that makes sense to you.
>>983116I think I fixed it? I've had to sacrifice the backup mouth loop and a lot of the nose's geometry but from what I can see the shape hasn't been lost. It just feels so weird to remove so much geometry.
Got basic breathing to work in simulation. Once I add the rest of the muscles on top of this they should all expand and contract nicely.
>>982905listen...in the nicest way possible, it is worse thanmy first car..and i started using blender when i was 10...but at least you can handle fancy textures and materials.this is not exatly wip anymore as i thinki ts complete..but my first time making an animes and i was only called the p-word by my friends. does it look like a decent animes character? i used the blue archive character as reference. i used automatic rig with rigify for it and it worked good enough
>>982900Hey that's a pretty nice Ashe, do you have anywhere i can follow your progress?
>>983142Looks like a pretty good chibi style model. Maybe more work on the ear since the head is the biggest part so it attracts attention but then i'm just nitpicking
>>983142I did this without any tutorial or even a reference After watching some videos I realized my way of doing it is way wrong Admittedly initially I was trying to test my texturing and lighting
>>983142>i was only called the p-word by my friendsIt's probably because it looks like a child.Of course there's nothing wrong with making art of children as long as it's not meant to be erotic, but I've seen many people on the internet with a "non-erotic" interest in children turn put to be pedos all along.They could also just be projecting. It could be because they themselves are pedos, or because they watch to many of Turkey Tom's "Losers. Creeps. Pedos." videos and have pedophiles on the mind constantly.
>>983148>I did this without any tutorial or even a referenceCool but why
>>983151*turn out*too many
>>983152That's how I always learned try it the caveman way then watch someone do it the right way
>>983146thank you, it feels good to have some actual feedback for a change.. personally i think the ears look fine, but that may be a question of taste. i dont know what to change in that regard..>>983148>I did this without any tutorial or even a referenceand it shows. but at the same time, i can appreciate that. i did learn many things doing things that way., but i suggest you start over, using a reference. use a chrysler LeBaron, it is boxy but has a distinct shape to get down, which is a nice starter piece to chew on.. alternatively, a lincoln mark 5>>983151i think you may be reading too much into it, my friends are morans who dont know how much work goes into creating a 3D model so their feedback is "looks good" or "looks not good".
Oh god how did I fuck up this bad....
>>983164I've had the same problem in the past. I think this whole region in unsalvageable - in order to fix this you have to retopo the whole leg because it's a one big twisting spiral.You should also be using the smooth and slide relax tools to make your quads more uniform.
>>983140
>>983173She looks depressed beyond comprehension
>>983164i don't know if this will help or if this is even a good topology for deformation yet as i need to get better at rigging first, but if it will help you what i find is that its easiest to create a loop that goes around the crease where the legs connect to the torso and goes around the butt, and another that goes around the upper thigh below the butt and then connect the areas in a way where the horizontal edges in between end going in perpendicular directions one towards the torso and the other towards the back and meets in the middleagain im no expert in this im kind of noob myself
>>983174I mean... she kinda is in the anime
>>983177I didn't notice it was lain without the hatThe cheekbones are too exaggerated
>>983177I'm a fan of the anime and I didn't see that was her, maybe the strand of hair only.there's a lot of references for animation you can use
>>983179>>983180Because all anime characters look exactly the same you delusional weebs
>>983181>seconded
>>983179I won't beat around the bush: I don't know what the fuck I'm doing with the hair. It looks like a bunch of blobs compared to the anime. I will, however, stand by those cheek bones - they shouldn't be as visible in the front with cel shading, but they should provide proper shape when looking from the side.
Tinkering with a custom PBR shader, the reflection vector visualized looks pretty trippy. Custom bent edited normals to fake internal refraction realtime on sparkly stone.
Different breathing rates and diaphragm expansion sizes in the simulation. I can have it only affect certain areas with masking. I feel like I went too deep and big on the final breath.Went for the double implant because I've heard about that before, in certain situations.>>983114yes, but I can adjust it with poly editing tools.. Here I didn't bother to make a crack because i will just have to do it all over again when I complete the rest of the arm.Now, on to completing the arm.
>>983181>>983183Show me a character that looks like Lain right now you filthy plebeian normies
>>983187is that some kind of tumor monster?
>>983187Anon, I'm scared
>>983187pritty fkkn cool
>>983184I have the Yoshitoshi Abe art book, you should try to download a pdf or something because it's full of illustrations you can follow.Visual experiment lain and omnipresence in wired.Thank me later >>983181Happens with almost every base mesh anon, it's like saying that every Pixar character base mesh looks the same. No shit Sherlock
>>983210Holy shit
>>983187pretty cool stuff ngl
>>983210I mean he is right that all anime characters looks the same, but art does imitate life so I think that outcome was probably unavoidable
>>983218You are wrong, grab any JoJo character and any sailor moon character, do they look the same?What about berserk and lucky star?Pokémon and ergo proxy?Admit you had a shit take
>>983145I have posted my more recent models on Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/users/45000168Probably not the best website to set up a portfolio, but it'll do for now.
>>983164Don't panic. Spirals are easily solveable. In edit mode, toggle on face selection. Then, select a column of faces from one end of the spiral to the other. In this case, it's from knee to hip. You only need to select a straight column, as in a line of face.Delete your selection. Now, select the loops of what remains. Because you broke all the loops in the spiral, the your loop selection should stop at your newly formed gap. Making it very easy to see which end should connect to which end.Now that you can see it, swap to edge selection, and, and select 2 edges that are supposed to connect and fill with a new face. Then, just fill up the remaining gap. Which should be as simple as holding the F key down.It probably sounds a little confusing when read out like that. But when you figure it out, you'll see it's a simple 3 step process.
>>983219RightAnd meanwhile western animation is dominated by bean mouths, and wherever it isnt its dominated by disney 3 point eyes.
>>983241>westernJewish*
>>983246Go back to /pol/, your Palestinian friends need you there
>>983187This is interesting, what are you using to do the FE solving and how are you integrating it into Blender?
I don't know if anyone in /wip/ does them, but where do you get images for packaging from (for material usage)? For instance something like a Coke battle label.I've seen people say>Just google "[product] label"Or>Just google "[product] wrapper"and they come up with them no problem. Even for things like metal cans that can't be easily photographed or scanned. I try that and get literally fuck all apart from the product itself or some fake blank template shit that is only barely related to the product.I think I spend more time looking for this kind of thing than I do actually modeling.Is there some kind of database or something? I know >pinterest does have things like that on there, but they're really hit and miss depending on what you're looking for.
>>983263well you can always remake the lebels yourself in photoshop or gimp. They're mostly text and logo. You can definetely get a product logo in isolation, copy the background which is probably a gradient at its most complex. generic or actually product accurate nutrition facts and ingredient lists.If you're really hellbent on an accurate high quality label texture remaking it from scratch could take less time than trying to find it.
>>983239Omg, thank you so much, I wasn't looking forward to redoing the whole region...
>>983266Nice, glad you found the advice useful. I remember going crosseyed the first time I had to fix a spiral. I didn't mention how to clean up any excess geometry that may have been left behind after the fix. But I trust you can figure that out on your own.
>>983265I have tried making them in the past, but they always come out shitty. Like I can't get the measurements quite right. Even when I "trace" it they seem off. Maybe I just haven't had enough practice at it. The real problem is when there's some kind of pattern or graphic that's hard to replicate.Obviously it's time consuming and I'd rather have somewhere I could just download them from, but if that's not feasible I guess making them is the only way to go.My alternative idea (at least for this) is I found a can label while I'm doing the bottle version. The two labels are really similar and it's only like the ml amount and a slight color difference on a small part of it. My guess is I'll be able to edit those and turn it into the bottle version without too much hassle.Thanks.
>doing retopology in mirror mode>starts to affect me IRL>wash only one hand thinking the other will be affected the same
>>983256>what are you using to do the FE solvingunfortunately, the only thing that I can tell you is that there are far too few users using what i am using so i feel like i am in a very very very VERY small pond and that its not available for purchase>how are you integrating it into Blender?>sim>export ABC>import multiple instances and spread out>offset start times>export ABC>open in blender>render with cycles / AGX
>>983301Anon... your lead is on the phone, they're wondering why you've created so many simulations recently without submitting anything for approval?
>>983308i'm not in the industry, i work a regular job, i just happen to have access to this solver
Nothing special. Still doing exercises with the iTaSC solver.
>>983365Can you explain to me how animation like this happens? I understand people who can't make smooth animationwith good transitions etc because that is legit hard but how do you end up with animation that flows like this without even having key-poses that look legit anywhere thru-out the animation. It suggest to me you're not doing 'pose to pose' but animate using 'straight ahead action' like claymationbut then if that is the case how does this happen? How do you look at what you've done and go "ok this looks fair so far, onwards!"
>>983373This >>983365 in particular happened because I was trying to fix a performance issue. I've just started to read the code and I don't know yet what parameter does what exactly.>How do you look at what you've done and go "ok this looks fair so far, onwards!"Software development doesn't happen all at once. There are stages to it and you're looking at the first stage where the system is expected to hit certain targets but doesn't care how. Every other additional behavior is disabled because I was trying to debug something in that stage.
>>983373He's not an animator or an artist, he's a programmer. They work differently to us.>>983187Let me guess, your dad makes car crashes simulations and you sneak out to his pc to make your weird Coomer simulations. I've done some fun shit with Radioss but not this schizo
>>983379So this is animated via script? You're trying to do something akin to 'robotics' via a manually composed traditional AI type state machine?
>>983383It's not a script. I'm trying to make the iTaSC solver work. It's in Blender but was abandoned long ago. It's an IK solver but different from the default one, it supports cyclic dependencies and other fancy stuff. You can do things like pull on a hand controller and the legs and shoulders may shift position automatically.In the previous clip >>983365 I had disabled a parameter because reasons. Now I'm trying to re-enable it. I think it looks a little better but it's the same thing, just different interpolation.Will it look good in the end? Research papers say I should be able to achieve Skibidi levels of animation eventually. Will I succeed? We'll see.
Is there an easy way to flatten unwrapped uvs when the mesh isn't made up (almost) perfect squares? There's too much stretching when they get flattened but I don't like adding lots of cuts to make it more uniform because it increases the poly count massively when it's unnecessary other than for texturing. Is there no trick to this I can use?
So, the robotic motion thing was my fault apparently for not knowing anything about animation in Blender. To avoid it, the keyframes for the control armature (the blue segments) have to be set to Bezier interpolation with automatic handles and it goes away.
>>983382>Let me guess, your dad makes car crashes simulations and you sneak out to his pc to make your weird Coomer simulations. >I've done some fun shit with Radioss but not this schizolol You're way off and out of line and now just typing buzz words like schizo when your own hypothetical scenario is absurd and ridiculous. ----Somebody brought it to my attention that my previous approach to the skeleton bones driving the muscles in a absolute relationship where the skeleton bones don't move beyond their initial keyframes and cant react to gravity is not being used anymore and that you in fact want to duplicate the skeleton and turn it into a tissue that is relatively quite stiff and does react to gravity and other tissues and attach it to the input skeleton so you in effect get a simulated bone result that your real tissues then attach to, making the animation rig truly procedural. So, its very important that I implement this as soon as possible after I finish my modelling and simple skeleton rigging.
And you can see the difference with the default IK solver here >>983442 because there are no pole targets. A limb tries to match the position and orientation of its control bone, you can specify priorities, limits, there's a rudimentary self-collision avoidance thing. You can specify multiple targets within the same chain and the effects can propagate to other chains. All sorts of stuff.But like with the Softbody simulator, there are bugs and the quality of the documentation ranges from nonsensical to misleading, so the only way to know what a parameter really does is to read the source code.I don't know why they where abandoned and vandalized over time. I don't know the story behind it, but for myself, when I'll put it all together it should come out quite nice.
>>983187Fucking disgusting, get some help
>>983445Dude, you are beyond retarded, it's because what you do looks like an amputee a car crash victim.
>>983187This looks like someone squeezing meat through a toothpaste tube.
>>983457A creature made of chicken thighs and processed meat for cats
>>983442Can you show me how to do this?I know a bit of html and CSS, probably it's the same thing programming in the language of blender some anon told me about a pithon but I'm a bit scared of snakes.
>>983454>Dude, you are beyond retarded, it's because what you do looks like an amputee a car crash victim.you cant even comprehend that you are in the WIP thread where I build my animation bit by bit and make a skin each time with a procedural signed distance field. Hell, I bet you don't even know what that means.
Today's exercise. I'm surprised it worked at all and I've got an idea of something I could program into iTaSC, that is a collider constraint.What it would do is let a joint avoid meshes in the same way that the Softbody simulator does. But that's just an idea for now.
fucking shite
>>982867Thanks, I’m glad that you do dig it, even though you don’t know why.At least for me, I’ve developed a bit of a thing for “abstract” looking women. It’s hard to say what flicked that switch, but the queen from the 1967 animation of The Golden Cockerel comes to mind. It’s not exactly the hottest character design, but I find something attractive about how her proportions are exaggerated, her cloudy hair, and the way she moves around. For my character, I like to do worldbuilding for the game/series I will try to make eventually, and wanted to have a sort of an “ancient aliens” thing in it.>>982871I’ll try to play around with the horns a little and see what I can do. My goal was for them to look like the horns from the sculptures in the Wikipedia article I linked (though those are just a few examples). I also wanted to give her a pair of swords that would match the curvature of her horns, so I’ll try to get all of those things to have some harmony with each other.>>982913I learned of the power of smooth shading recently after playing games like FFVII and LSD: Dream Emulator for the first time at the age of 23. Most people my age associate the retro game look with pixel texturing because many of us had never played genuine old games and are mostly exposed to faux retro styles. I was surprised to see how many old games used smooth shading, flat shading, and vertex painting. I’m unsure if modern smooth shading and old smooth shading work the same way, but I thought it was an interesting design choice to take inspiration from.
>>982852Here it is, babby’s first animation
>>983462OMG! everyone lets call the news, the government, the president! this anon knows the magical ancient secret of SDFWhat a retard, do you think that voxels with stored oriented distance its not a concept 90% of anons understand here?
>>983187i want to fuck it for some reason
>>983507Nice
Another point of view of >>983501
>>983507That's a fine fish
I sculpted Julius Belmont mid-grand cross from this fight (at around 2:15 here) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjyku6HuUIg>>982900Really cool Ashe, it does look better than it did before.
>>983518Now I see what you are doing. I just needed another point of view.
>>983545lol that's cool.Have you tried inverting the normals and making the aura mesh envelope the character? It could allow you to have the same effect but from any angle.
>>983518So what's going on under the hood? Did you just rotate a controller to make the character turn 90 degrees and the iks moved on their own to accommodate?
>>983577>the iks moved on their own to accommodateThe purpose of the system is to fill-in the blanks of an incomplete specification of a pose. It tries to figure it out based on a number of parameters such a rotation limits, velocity, stiffness and so on.
>>983582it looks really unnatural, no one would move like that.Also, the hand is clipping through the chair
>>983576Hey, that's a neat idea. I didn't think of that. Thanks!
I don't even know how I would go about texturing this
>>983604Procedural textures anon, it's really easy
>>983604Is that a building or a dildo with a building shape?I have to ask because there's some weird anons in this thread
>>983623It's a buildo
Worked on simulated hands today. For this really quick test, I did a two step bone system where I had keyframed bones and then duplicated those bones but made them into stiff tissues that could slide and react with other tissues, meaning they were able to adjust themselves and more importantly not penetrate when I roughly made a fist resulting in a truly dynamic rig. Apparently this approach saves a ton of hand keying and I'm going to be using it a lot more, in all aspects of the rig.
>>983604Nah I'm not into lude shit I saw this pic and wanted to make a similar building
>>983632You really are into disgusting shit
y'all are schtinky
>>983632That's some nice surface interaction, how long roughly was the solve time for this? Also what sort of scheme are using for the element sizing (i.e. are the surface elements fine with coarser elements in the interior)?
Don't you just love spending 12 hours rendering (and suffering countless blue screens due to a CPU clinging to its last vestiges of life), just to find out that your looping animation doesn't loop?https://files.catbox.moe/k4equb.mp4It was an easy fix (just maxing out the probability for buildings to have ads/neons), but I sure wish I would have checked the first and last frames in a render. I figured if they were the same object in an array, they'd use the same properties for the ads and shit since it's re-using the same object/mesh data, but I guess not.On the bright side, the next 12 hours should go by smoothly now that I've found the magical balance point of threads I can use on my CPU to keep it from crashing while rendering. It's 3.... of 8. Poor lad is barely hangin in there. I'm rendering on a 4070ti, but that dying CPU (i7 7700k) is killin me. Hopefully I'll get a new one soon.
Does anyone have experience making synthetic data for computer vision tasks? Pic related is a project I'm working on for image segmentation.
>>98363995 seconds to solve. > Also what sort of scheme are using for the element sizing (i.e. are the surface elements fine with coarser elements in the interior)?my outer surface is fine but my setup overall is not optimal right now. Looking at it i feel like I made things in general too fine and its slowing down my solve which would be a big problem if i had a complete rig ie the rest of the body and not just one hand
One more test on the hand before I continue, showing the tissues of the hand basically solving themselves in response to various movements by the cylinder with the nonlinear wave deformer made possible by the 2 stage bone rig
>>983661>95 seconds to solveTo solve what? One frame?
>>983674You are into degenerate stuff anon
>>982636You show promise, cool guy. To texture your characters you can use either Substance as that other anon suggested or you can use Photoshop or Krita or GIMP or other 2D texturing programs:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N9pMg45OyYkTexturing stuff with 2D image editing software is the old school way of doing things before Substance became the industry standard circa 2014 onwards.With the old school workflow, the way you set up UVs is important. First, UV unwrap your whole character, then, in Blender's UV Editing workspace export the UV Layout (this generates a image of the UV layout your model will use; if you can't find it look it up on Google, I know where it is by muscle memory, I think it's under the "Image" tab somewhere in the left side of the UV Editing workspace). Afterwards, open said UV layout in Photoshop or other and start texturing (on a separate layer, obviously). Refer to the video I linked in regards to how to reload in Blender the image you saved within Photoshop or other 2D software of your choosing. You should really model and texture other lesser props before tackling characters which are relatively complex, but if you're going straight for characters then I suggest you start with, say, that flashlight your cool Stalker guy has on his helmet, so you get a feel on how to texture shit. Good luck bro, I liked Metro and Killzone too if either or both of those games were your inspiration, and if neither have anything to do with your dude, well I still like him anyway (no homo)>>982852>>983507Cool fish anon>>983187Horrifying>>983504Good work, keep it up
>>982699Substance has some nice baking, but there are other programs that also allow you to generate texture maps (height, metallic, roughness, even normal) from an image texture. Look into Materialize if you're interested, it's free too, there are more texture map generation softwares but that's the one I know best
>>98367895 seconds for 43 frames which includes 10 initialization frames which weren't included in the webm
>>983604
>>983736>That dildo looks painful Nice building btw
>>983733Do you last 95 seconds while looking at your tub meat paste waifu?Try kegel exercises
