MovingOldArtHere

Posted to Tumblr on 2019-12-24
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Welp, guess who spent all too long on this trying to absolutely blow my decade of art challenge out of the park? Holy, do I love the results though.
The Decade of Art collage is in a separate post here, because I don’t want to muddle this one’s formatting.

I spent ages in Blender playing with smoke simulations to make my own reference, and then I proceeded to use exactly none of it and do my own thing. At least I know how smoke sims work now…

It might be ‘cheating’ that I did a bunch of Franken-modeling, smoke, and lighting to use as a reference before my pen even touched my tablet, but honestly the planning and setup of that blend file took like 12 hours, not including the time I’ve spent modeling refs of her in the past, so I’d say I earned it, hah.

Here’s hoping the 2020s will be less of a hot mess! o/

2024 BlueBead thinks that last sentence aged horribly. At least this painting is aging well, however.

Posted to Tumblr on 2019-10-12
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I don’t think my neck could have handled a physical ink Inktober (my desk set up is much better for my tablet vs my sketchbook), so I settled for trying to push some comfort zones with lighting and coloring digitally instead. I expected it to be a bit of a shitshow since I haven’t done 2D art since the end of July, but it… came out really cool in my opinion?? I had a fun time with this one. :D

Copper’s canon abilities are loosely based off the whole ‘gorgon’s gaze can turn you to stone’ thing, so for my species shuffle AU I made that more literal and turned them into a void gorgon, haha. I STILL need to write out descriptions and strengths & weaknesses of their canon anomalies someday..

They DO have a face, but they can do weird chameleon stuff where, instead of just the color of their skin changing, they can pull some eldritch BS and become a visually incomprehensible void. I can get away with that because species shuffle is more fantasy and paranormal-angled while canon is sci-fi and quasi-science-angled. :p

Posted to Tumblr on 2019-09-25
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Shenanigans Time: Facial Features Gone Wrong Edition!

The first gif was me first experimenting with the whole “anime eyebrows always show through the hair” thing in viewport. It works really well with backface culling! …as long as there’s nothing else in your scene, because they don’t just show through the hair, they show through everything.

Second image was when I was making smile shape keys, I used the wrong pivot and made a :> face by accident. It looked cute in flat shading, but then I switched to rendered and… yeah… Please don’t.

Last image was me just goofing around because I can’t be trusted with shape keys. Like… y’know, nyah~ :3

Posted to Tumblr on 2019-09-25
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Happy 2 year and 1 month anniversary to my hobby 3D modeling career! The timing wasn’t planned, but it’s fitting that the first model I made was a sculpt of Linnet, and now here she is again with her twin brother and many, many improvements. (Technically, I’ve modeled Kobi once before too, but he got banished to WIP hell.)

This is my first project that solely used Blender’s new render engine EEVEE. I have a… complicated relationship with EEVEE. It’s cool having a real time renderer and more nodes and all, but I miss Blender Internal for stylized cell shaders. They exaggerate EEVEE’s biggest flaw in my opinion: cast shadows and contact shadows. You can probably see it easiest on Kobi’s stray tufts of hair, where instead of properly tracing where the shadow would land, it just… fills in everything in between in screenspace.

Long live Blender Internal. Your code may have been nearly as old as I am and made of spaghetti, but you worked damn well for cartoons.