March ProgBlog #3

in aer •  7 years ago 

Last week was working on pants and boots (and getting to use some fabric normals and a leather material some kind souls made available on Blendswap):

trying to wrangle the hair into several hair ties (it was supposed to be tied with a cord but I finally got it through my thick skull that it wouldn't stay, even when I did have long hair I didn't do anything interesting with it, so I'm going to claim total stupidity ignorance and too much anime on my part there!):

and finally started Cae's psychedelic upgoats:

which here is shown with partial blending. Thezebra stripes were giving me a bit of a headache so I decided to try incorporating the flowers I was going to garland around it into the pattern. It worked out slightly better.

Haven't done the tail or the other two yet. Now I need to find out if this is okay or if I should do a simpler goat pattern with a much more mildly psychedelic aura :S The purples also managed to look violently different across both my monitors (my primary screen has it more towards the red and the Cintiq has it more towards the blue, the actual colour I picked was the purple part of the colour wheel smack bang in between both).

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Oh wow! That psychedelic upgoat looks so great! I can't even look like the normal upgoat the same way now!

Thanks lol XD You want them all to be psychedelic now? That could be interesting XD

goatsig

At least make the blue funky? Try it out!

I will if a design calls for it XD

goatsig

Those upgoats are going to look great. I can tell already.

I hope so! The pattern is entertaining, think this one is the longest-time-spent upgoat yet XD

goatsig

Following, reading, excited! Upgoats on the way for me!

Yep they're coming :D Sorry they're taking so long, that's why I warn about the wait ;D

goatsig

I like the one with the flowers. It does seem to make it easier on the eyes. Maybe because it gives something to focus on.

Maybe, didn't think about it that way :D Does definitely have less of that Magic Eye effect. The flower one is easier to pattern around, otherwise I'm just trying to go around the goat x_x

goatsig

I know it probably doesn't seem like it to you, but you're so organised! I just bounce around with vague notions of what I want to accomplish, but you are chipping away at your to-do list. These upgoats look amazing already. The details on the shoes looks great and the hair just seems so hard and so time-consuming.

I'm usually pretty vague too, that's why there's a list XD

The hair is a bit of a pain to style because I completely don't know how to manage hair x_x and in the case of this character didn't really help myself by having seven obstacles to work through XD (aka hair ties) I'll get there :)

goatsig

Thank you so much for remembering my request

The list helps me to remember ;D

goatsig

Always fun and interesting to read your prog blocks! :>)

I don't know what it is with particled / animated hair but it really fascinates me. It makes me think of the Final Fantasy movie that came out at the start of this century. I remember reading how far a'head' they were in animation back then, being able to animate (single?) strands of hair.

Anyhow, nice work. Keep it coming!

Hasta la vista,

Vicente

It's come quite a long way (with reduced rendering times and better/easier settings) since those days :D Now apparently the next step is making it indistinguishable from live action :O

My thing however will be very distinguishable from live action as realism is not my style ;D

goatsig

realism is not my style

I figured that out by now :>)
Love your style though!

As a filmmaker, I discovered that realism is kind of my style, even though I was trying to make fiction films all the time. I am a big fan of absurdism and surrealism too though. Just, as a filmmaker, I tend a lot towards realism, even in fiction.

This is so foreign to me, but I'd love to have the skill! Great job!

In 3d? You could give it a go if you have time in between paintings ;D Thanks ^_^

goatsig

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