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Fallout 4 - TechBikini - exclusive access - March

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Anna Beanie WIP

- I haven't posted a WIP in some time so you've been probably wondering what I've been working on this past few days. Well it's a ... beanie ? Yeah, a damn beanie is sucking up all my time ...

- So I played Metro Exodus earlier this year and I liked Anna's character/model/look so I wanted to do something from it at some point in time. Flash forward to a couple of days ago and I decided that maybe now's the best time to do it. Went on some youtube/google reference hunt to find reference...

Project Poll 6

After much consideration I decided to put this concept up. 

Realistically the only thing that caught my eye here is the leather jacket and normally I'd just make that as a single thing, put it out and that'd be that, but since I JUST released a leather top, I decided to let you vote on it rather than repeating myself or make something people are not interested in at the moment.

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Fallout 4 - Leather Hoodie

2020-03-19 14:06:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Fallout 4 - Leather Hoodie - early access - March

- Poll 5 now complete. Not sure if I'll put a new one this month, I'm not sure what to replace it with yet. Kinda want to try my hand at a new hairstyle but it might be too soon.

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Hoodie game model

- Lowpoly game mesh + baked normal maps.

- This was a real pain and time sink to achieve, but I really wanted a fully 3d hood in the model that wasn't reliant on normal maps, which is what this now has.

- Model polycount at 21k tris. This is honestly much more optimized than I thought I could get it considering the double sided hood and the small fold detail in the model.

- Texturing left and this is done. That should take around 1-2 days and game import/testing packaging ...

Leather Hoodie - highpoly model

- finished highpoly model. I think it has enough detail :P

- looking at reference, I realized I forgot to model the hood tightening string thingy ( what's that called btw  lol ? ) so added that too.

- this model is pretty complex, making a game mesh out of this is going to be very challenging due to layers overlapping. Not entirely sure how I'm going to approach this to be honest, guess I'll see as I'm doing it.

poll5 wip1

- Shelved the other wip I had started to finish this first.

- I tried something new for this that was supposed to make it take less time. Unfortunately it backfired horribly and resulted in an unusable model so I had to redo large pieces of this. 

- Kinda went off the original concept quite a bit. The model has more volume, asymmetric arms and some different stitching. I will also not be adding the tears in the arm region. It's just way too busy and would just not match that...

Fallout 4 - Wearable Band Aids

2020-03-05 16:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Fallout 4 - Wearable Band Aids - exclusive access - March

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TechBikini - preview

- done set. I separated each piece ( choker/top/bottom) so you can wear whatever you want from this set and mix&match with other colors.

- should be coming out sometime this month (probably more towards the end)

- added all the requested colors that were made on the last post (6 total, I won't be taking any more requests from this point on). This is the default (as originally intended) version so it has some unique text/damage detail (scratches etc.). The colored versions are...

bikini wip

- this might be the "I never did this" month considering what I'm working on. I have never done bikinis and there aren't any on my library here on Patreon, so... might as well.

- made from some concept art I found while searching for poll 5 concept art. I intended to do just the bikinis and that pretty much all that the character was wearing except some very bulky mecha/tech leg armor (yes, bikinis are adequate protection for the torso in comparison, it is known) aside from a choker, so...

Project Poll 5

This isn't exactly what I wanted for this, but I just couldn't find any concepts that were similar to what I was looking for and didn't take an insane amount of effort to create, so I guess I'll keep looking. In the meantime, this will suffice.

Option 1: Converse Sneakers

- This is an old suggestion made by zelos some time ago in the discord channel
-...

Fallout 4 - Jmenaru Hair

2020-02-21 13:52:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Fallout 4 - JmenaruHair - early access - February

- Poll 4 now complete. There's going to be a new one to replace it later, however for the first time ever, I haven't pre-planned this, so I have no ideea what to replace it with. I'll have to look into it. Unless I find something that catches my eye, I'll probably pull a patron suggestion. If you have any, now would be the best time to dump those in the suggestions channel. The more to choose from, t...

poll 4 wip5 - final model

- This has certainly been an experience but, yeah ... done ... the model at least.

- I'm considering this as the final presentation shots/look of the asset, most likely, however I may have mentioned something about screw-ups in the previous post, as I recall :P. Well it turns out I screwed up with the textures too, I forgot to smooth the high-poly hairs so the resulting baked textures are blocky because of it. There's also no anti-aliasing, so the textures need rebaking. I might also r...

poll 4 wip4

- 85-90% complete

- you know how I said in the original poll post that there's a lot of potential for screw-ups, due to my practical inexperience with building hair? Well, I messed up and that became increasingly noticeable as I was stacking up detail.

- I was forced to go back and remake some parts and do major shape tweaking, so for a lot of time, I was basically spinning my wheels trying to fix things. Unfortunately similarly to a house built on a bad foundation, you can't rea...

Fallout 4 - Bunny Shirt

2020-02-08 20:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Fallout 4 - Bunny Shirt - exclusive access - February

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poll 4 wip3

- 60% -ish complete

- this is ... grueling to work on, if I was to use a single word to describe it. It's extremely slow to model and very challenging to make it look realistic. Kinda lost count on the hours spent, probably pushing 60-70. At this point I would've felt heavy burnout on any other normal project, but somehow, I'm still excited and interested to work on this even at this stage. Maybe because it's such a new thing/experience for me.

- Mostly worked on the back portion...

poll 4 wip2

- modelling, around 30h of work, getting there. Mostly done with the base for the hair.

- This is actually way more time consuming than I originally thought. It's also pretty difficult to model and tweak thanks to the interlocking geometry, but I'm still mostly enjoying the process, it's about the right ratio of fun and frustration for me.

 - wanted to just post the whole thing when it was done for the wow factor, but it's simply too long a process for that to have with no u...

poll 4 wip1

- Poll passed so I started working on it a couple of days ago. After about 20-30 hours of work, here's the alpha cards/planes with a basic color texture applied.

- I've baked a lot of texture maps for this, a lot more than usually. Not everything will be used in FO4, since it doesn't support some of those. Some of those are mostly for other engines or future proofing.

- Ready to start modeling the hair now. Will probably take some (and by that, I mean a LOT) time, so if I go real...

Skyrim - Royal Tempest Armor

2020-01-28 03:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Skyrim - Royal Tempest Armor - exclusive access - January

- As I mentioned in the poll that contained this, it is old work. Do not expect anywhere near the same quality and attention to detail in this piece that some of my more recent work has.

- This was made in late summer 2015. Around that time, PBR texturing was becoming the new hot thing that every game had, so this armor was my first experiment with those, where I completely abandoned last-gen style texturing that games like Skyrim were using. While the render itself is using those PBR ...

Wearable Band Aids - preview

 - This is another one of those leftover things that was not completed in one go. I believe this dates back to September. Was meant to be a smaller scale thing. 

- This image itself doesn't actually show much in terms of where they're gonna be equipped, it's just the model, but there's actually a variety of places where you'll be able to put these on the body including the head (I think 6 places total + some combinations)

- Release for these is next month along with the ...

Red Bunny Shirt - preview

- Completed asset.

- As I said in the previous post, I sacrificed model quality for a faster completion time. The model is quite flat in some areas with only bigger details being part of the topology. Polycount is much lower because of it though, sitting at 5k, so it's a lot more optimized/performance friendly. This is probably more in the ballpark for a current AAA game, rather than what I'd normally do.

- Might also make/include a clean texture version, the default is quite di...

Bunny Shirt wip

- Experimenting with more microsurface detail in this shirt, hand made.

- The reason it's called the bunny shirt will become apparent later, when I texture this. 

- The game model will most likely be more on the flat side and will rely more on the normal map for this. Quality is going to take a hit compared to usual stuff, but the reason for that is that I want to get this done faster to have time to complete 2 other things, before starting on the "main" poll project which is...

Fallout 4 - GGX Grenade Holster

2020-01-19 01:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Fallout 4 - GGX Grenade Holster - exclusive access - January

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Grenade holster - low poly

- complete lowpoly/textures

- low poly isn't exactly right in a sense for this. The polycount for this is quite significant for what it is thanks to the 4 grenades on it. The grenade low poly model was made to hold up as a standalone item (it's a bit heavy even for that) so duplicating it 4 times as what is supposed to be a small character accessory, definitely isn't the best of ideeas. 

- that is part of the reason there are none on the left side, though it's also because I ...