edit: The recording is up, if you missed it. Unfortunately, the connection got interrupted during the stream and since Picarto only saves the last recording, only the last hour of the stream is there :|
Hey!
The Patreon-exclusive stream is starting in half an hour. Here's the invite link.
See you there =)
2016-12-26 18:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
Sorry guys, but I'll have to cancel today's stream. I'll make it up somewhat by streaming tomorrow at 8pm CET instead.
My baby brother is staying at my place over the holidays and was supposed to meet with friends tonight, but his plans fell through. There's absolutely nothing else to do for him now and he'd be pretty much staring at his phone...
2016-12-25 16:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
Here's the current progress. I focused on the hip first to establish the general motion and will animate the rest around that.
2016-12-23 21:14:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
I began working on the cowgirl pose, which is going to be a shorter animation. Here's what I currently have.
It's very rough and I'm still trying to figure out where to go with this. I'll probably add another thrust at the end, which will make this roughly 4 seconds long.
If you want, you can watch this come together in the recordin...
2016-12-22 19:54:34 +0000 UTC View PostGot muh new interwebs and what better way to test it than broadcasting lewds?
Getting started on that short animation.
Hey!
Here's an album! I'll get to those pics in the wall of text below.
I did not expect this big a response to the last WiP post. At all!
I posted the alternative angles to give you guys a peak behind the scenes, but it ended up in some kind of poll with people commenting on which one they liked the most and why. I loved it!
I REALLY appreciate your feedback, thanks a lot for that! It makes me more critical about...
2016-12-21 18:13:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the watermark-free versions of the two versions of December's version of Miss Month.
2016-12-21 17:28:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
just throwing this in here real quick!
A guy on Reddit requested a version with just the Mech. Weird, I know! Saw no problem with it so why the heck not.
I'm also releasing the Maya scene file of the Mech itself, complete with rig and materials for Redshift. I've also included the panoramic pseudo-HDRI of Hanamura, I made. It's attached to this post, but you can also get it 2016-12-21 17:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
before animating, I obviously need to decide on a pose. I always dread this step, cause it's just trial and error and you don't really feel like you're getting anything done and then you're afraid to commit, cause you'll be stuck animating this for quite a while and it's all just ugh ...
Maybe you never realized it, but stylized characters like these can be quite restrictive. Poses that work fine in real life, don't necessarily work very well with these characters, cause the proport...
2016-12-20 16:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
Here are the pics without the watermark.
You can get all watermark-free versions here. This link changes monthly, so be sure to check for the current month's post, if it doesn't work. You can use the tags to the left to quickly filter posts.
2016-12-19 16:06:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
Here's the next wallpaper, this time featuring DVa.
I've rendered a second angle as well with DVa filling out more of the frame. But I think the wide shot is the better picture, since everything was put together with that angle in mind.
Wide Shot:
NSFW: 16:9, 21:9
SFW:
2016-12-19 15:52:20 +0000 UTC
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Hey!
The Patreon exclusive stream will go live in 30 minutes. Here's the link!
See you there, hopefully =)
2016-12-18 18:28:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a quick render of the current state after today's stream. If you've missed it, you can watch the recording of it. The next stream is on Sunday and Patreon exclusive. I'll drop the invite link here, one hour before the stream starts.
I didn't work on this pic for a couple of days, cause I ported DVa to my new rig. I wanted to wait with that until I had to animate her, but since I had to do that some time anyway, I thought...
2016-12-16 22:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Decided to go with a spotlight look. Spotlights are not necessarily known for flattering lighting, so it's a bit tricky to get this to work. I've aimed them so that they don't illuminate too much of the characters, but still cast those signature circles on the ground. I'll use softer lights to flesh out the rest.
2016-12-13 20:24:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey again!
Think I'm good to go to assemble everything and then work on lighting. I'll polish the pose as I go.
The pic above shows the 3d element, Dva and her Mech will be lying on. I'll then use a screenshot from the game as a background and dump a truckload of lights into the scene ... pretty much the same setup as with the last pic.
Using screenshots in a render is not as straightforward as snapping a pic and calling it a day, though. There's two types of images I need to get f...
2016-12-12 22:07:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
Sans the polish, this is the pose I'm going to go with DVa. You can check out the recording of last night's stream to watch it come together.
I've scouted out the background as well. I'll make a floor, similar to the first floor in the background, place her and the mech on it and then arrange everything so that the "DVa live in Hanamura" poster in...
2016-12-12 15:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: Stream is over, but you can watch the recording.
In the future, the Patreon-exclusive stream will be on Sundays. Today will be public though, cause I forgot to announce it as a private stream and don't want to disappoint anyone who may have planned to stop by tonight.
On the last stream I didn't have the recording feature enabled. Again, sorry about that! This time it's on though, so if you...
2016-12-11 19:03:32 +0000 UTC View Postedit: Didn't know I had to enable recordings after switching to Picarto Premium so there's no recording of this stream. Big slipup on my part, sorry about that :<
2016-12-09 17:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey,
DVa won! The good thing about letting these polls run for a week is that it gives me time to react and prepare. I've already started work on DVa's mech, cause it obviously needs to be in the pic as well. I think it'll be done in one or two days. If you didn't know, here's where I post these sort of updates semi-regularly.
I'm running out of girls! Symmetra and Tracer have been requested multiple times, so I'll...
2016-12-08 16:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
There hasn't been a huge response to this poll so far, but it looks like people favor the weekends. I'll let it run for a bit longer cause why not!
So let's just start with setting two dates and see how it goes:
Hey!
My Patreon reached the 500$ goal a couple days back, yay! This caught me off guard a bit, cause I received an unexpectedly huge pledge. Talk about first world problems ^^ Thank you all so very much!
So I guess I'll stream more often in the future then. Before deciding on which days to stream, I'd like to know which days you guys would prefer. I've 2016-12-01 19:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
Here's the poll for this month's wallpaper. Since Widowmaker already got her turn, she won't be an option this time around. The poll will will run for a week and end on Dec 8th.
If you've missed it, here's last month's pic. Don't know how you could, since I only posted it yes...
2016-12-01 15:46:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey,
here's this month's link!
Thank you guys!
How this works: I will upload all watermark-free versions to that folder, I linked. On the first of every month I'll change the link and post the new one here. The old link won't work anymore then.
2016-12-01 15:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Attached are the watermark-free versions of the Miss November pics.
They can also be found in this folder , along with other watermark-free works. This link changes monthly, so if it doesn't work anymore, check for the current month's watermark post.
Thank you!
2016-11-30 22:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Well it's still November for about twenty minutes for me ... made it! :D
There's a clothed and an ultrawide version of this. If the attachments don't work for whatever reason, you can alternative links here.
After going through my backlog (e-mails, poll, patreon posts etc), I'll start working on porting Reaper. I'll probably repurose this background for the ...
2016-11-30 22:41:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Liking where the lighting is going now, so thought I should post another update.
Still far from final. The key light is missing here, cause it's not playing nice with this setup and needs to be replaced. Extra lights for eyes and hair and bounce are missing as well. Background still incomplete and pretty much unlit so far. Buuut it's coming together :D
2016-11-28 20:08:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Wanted to post this yesterday, but internet went kaputt.
So this is the current look I'm going for. Nothing's fixed, I'm pretty much still experimenting with lights. The background image is just there for reflections and is going to be replaced. The floor and wall are too dull and could go with some props. I'm also going to change Widow's expression a bit.
Made some tweaks to Widowmaker's shaders too. Skin is now shinier, suit is less shiny and the subsurface scattering is prettier. Th...
Hey!
The image above is the pose I'm going to go with - it's still missing the polish though. Here's another pose that was a close contender.
I'm not quite sure how to tackle the background yet. Might go with a screenshot, maybe full 3d, maybe hybrid. Gonna scurry through the Overwatch maps now for inspiration.
2016-11-25 22:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
