August Winner! Bakura.

Finally here it is!!

I still want to learn how to do nice renders [or at least bigger viewport renders!] But that is going to take a long time.. I think to make my models look good I'd have to learn about toon shaders? [also shadows are not as forgiving as using flat colors, which hide A LOT of imperfections]. So screenshots will have to do for now!

Some more thoughts on this piece and it's process:

As I mentioned before, during the sculpting process I can't be sure that things will work as I envision, so there's aspects I worry about until I'm ready to color, but that also makes getting to the coloring part very exciting! And for this sculpt my worry was the eyelashes! [I also started to worry about the folds being unnecessary, but at the end they still showed up!]

The Millenium Ring was a lot easier than I thought, very straightforward! I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but it was simple for the purpose of this sculpt.

I wish I had more time to properly attach the top of the head to the hair locks, so I could have left the outline. Or time to have unwrapped the model, and painted using image textures instead of vertex painting, it didn't matter most of the time except for the shirt with the very low resolution that made the stripes look ugly and pixelated.

I was surprised with how well the rigged hands turned out! It can almost make a fist very easily, only the thumb wasn't bending correctly.

Adding hands and legs really made things take a lot longer. The hands are always complicated and time consuming, but I don't think the legs will always add too much time, here the folds made things more complicated, but with simpler characters they might not be an issue. Still, it is a big plus having both, maybe for this character it wouldn't have been necessary, but even with him it really opens up possibilities and makes the screenshots look way nicer. [of course the part that was the most complicated and took the longest was the hair though].

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Tier 2 - Compilation of all files from August, including process pictures for this sculpt, as well as the previously shared Tekki process screenshots [and a few screens I took of an older model attempt of Karkat Vantas]

Tier 3 - For now Tier 3 are getting the [.Blend] file. But I also want to upload the timelapse, since I recorded pretty much the whole process!! It's just going to take me some time to render it [it's going to be 1 hour I think]. Also with my terrible internet I worry about how long it will take to upload;; I think my best bet will be uploading to Youtube and Providing a link for Tier 3.