For first time voters: The poll will run for 72h. You can change your vote afterwards if you wish.
edit: Great, looks like the comment section of polls is still buggy and blocks people out for no reason :X
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I've decided to not hold off on new Overwatch characters until I've finished my new nude base model. I'd have to skip a month's picture in order to find the time to get it done.
I'll continue working on it every now and again, but will use my curren...
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The first half is coming together nicely, I think. The second half still looks lolwtf, but waddayugonnado amirite?
Seriously though, I haven't decided yet what to do with the second half. Unless I come up with something better, she'll just kinda spread out like that and take it.
I was considering moving her arms around, maybe grabbing her boobs or legs or rubbing her...
2017-03-07 21:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
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Less bloodelfs, more DVa, is what my grandma always said.
Started adding more layers of animation. I'll work through the first half of the animation first and worry about the second half later.
2017-03-05 22:31:10 +0000 UTC View Postedit: Stream is over, but you can watch the recording here.
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Attached are the files without the watermark.
You can get these and other 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.
2017-03-04 23:13:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Finally done with this and ready to move on \o/
Here's an imgur album with all the pics and here's a tumblr post where you can find more download links and/or read about what I've been busy with last month.
Thank you guys!
2017-03-04 23:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
Forgot to post the poll today, but thinking about it, delaying it makes more sense, seeing how I'm still working on last month's pic. It should be finished tomorrow, I think.
I'll get to work on my new body in that time and maybe have a new Overwatch character ready for the poll. Otherwise it'd be only WoW characters again.
2017-03-02 17:13:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Worked on the lighting, added grass and finalized the poses.
I rendered a full quality shot last night to check my settings and look for errors ... that's what the Preview-post, earlier today, was about.
I'll render another one tonight and then hopefully be able to finally wrap this up tomorrow or the day after.
So last chance to critique stuff! :D
2017-03-01 22:23:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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Started work on the lighting today even though some elements of the scene are still unfinished. Grass is still missing, not liking the water and the poses need a bit more work.
This was (and still is) really tricky to light. I actually have two completely separate sets of lights for the background and the characters. It just wasn't possible to light everything with the same lights and have it look good ... either the background lied in complete shadow or the characters looked very f...
2017-02-28 20:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Closing in on the final poses. Lenina's character (redhead on the far right) will probably change the most ... not too happy with her expression.
Sorry this is taking so long and that February has been a slow month in general.
I'll make a post some time next week going into more detail about what's been going on. The gist of it is though that February was a month dedicated to learning stuff. That...
edit: Stream is over now, but you can watch the recording of it here!
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The Patreon exclusive stream will start in half an hour. Here's the link!
See you there =)
2017-02-26 18:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Painted textures for the background and started refining the poses.
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Dealing with all these assets has been a pain in the butt. At some point my scene got corrupted, so Maya would crash whenever I tried to save it. But I've learned a lot from this so far!
I don't import these models straight into the scene and just copy them. That's a terrible way of dealing with this. I want these objects to exist in a clean scene, where I can edit them if I need to and then have ...
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Today I've spent most of my time writing a script to handle the materials of imported WoW assets. As you might imagine, most of these use the same textures, so after importing a bunch of models, you end up with lots of duplicate materials. Also, they use Maya's default shaders, which render slower than my renderer's own shaders and are very basic.
My script converts these materials into Redshift materia...
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For the longest time I was very unsure about what to do for this one and how it should look.
The plan was to use the bloodelf character selection screen, but literally in the last minute before it was time to stream, I had the idea of putting them on boats.
I think going with that idea was the right call. The ima...
2017-02-19 23:04:06 +0000 UTC View Postedit2: Picarto updated their site today. Good news: in the future up to twelve recordings will be stored. Bad news: yesterday's recording is gone :|
edit: Stream is over. You can watch the recording here if you missed it!
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2017-02-19 18:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
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Not much in the way of progress for this one, unfortunately.
I spent most of my time getting the bloodelf picture rolling and looking into ways of beefing up the fidelity of the assets.
I've decided to toss all the fancy mambo jambo and just go with a prettier version of the game's style. I don't think it would be practical to essentially replace all textures and touch up ...
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Base loop is done and I've started stringing them together and adjusting the intensity to the beat. Works quite well I think.
I can now start layering more animation on top of this to make it actually look interesting :D
2017-02-12 22:31:39 +0000 UTC View Postedit: stream is over and recording is up!
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the Patreon exclusive stream will start soon. Here's the link!
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2017-02-12 18:37:40 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
Haven't worked on this for a while. Base loop is almost done now. I've looped it a couple of times here to demonstrate what I have in mind for this. Everything's very rough obviously, but you get the idea, I hope =)
2017-02-10 22:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post
edit: Only one character per person please. No high elfs, death knights or demonhunters. No male characters either.
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Thanks to you lot, I now have a few ideas for possible themes. Before deciding, it'd be useful to know how many characters will come together, hence this post.
I can't very well make a picture of 50 characters or something like that, so if too many submissions come in, I'll have to cut it off somewhere.
For identical or very similar characters, I'll only use o...
edit: You can watch the recording here. Mostly modeling stuffs today.
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The Patreon exclusive stream will start in around 20 minutes. Here's the link.
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2017-02-05 18:39:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey,
so bloodelfs won the poll!
I just had an interesting idea to make this month's picture a little bit different. Instead of making a picture of some random bloodelf, why not make a picture of lots of bloodelfs? And why not use your characters for that?
I just need to think of a scenario where you'd find lots of female bloodelfs and that would be suitable for both SFW and NSFW versions.
I'll give this some more thought and wander around ingame to get some ideas.
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lots of text below ... just read the bold stuff for the important bits.
As you can tell, this month's poll is using Patreon's new poll feature. Unfortunately it doesn't have an "Other" option but I think the benefits outweigh that downside.
You'll also note that there are no Overwatch girls this time.
The reason for that is that I'm currently reworking my base model yet again. I made that model more than a year ago for Widowmaker and since ...
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Here's this month's link.
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This screenshot looks mostly the same as the last one, but I wanted to inform you guys about the changes I've planned for this one.
I'll just paste what I wrote in the Animations-post:
Slight change of plans for this one.
I had a bit of a rough start, not really knowing where to go with this, but after the initial idea of having one of Lucio's tracks in the clip, things kinda fell into place.
This animation is now going to be 15 seconds long, but will be fairly re...
Slight change of plans for this one.
I had a bit of a rough start, not really knowing where to go with this, but after the initial idea of having one of Lucio's tracks in the clip, things kinda fell into place.
This animation is now going to be 15 seconds long, but will be fairly repetitive. The idea is for them to go at it at the rhythm of the song, so their tempo is going to be const...
edit: Stream is over, but you can watch the recording here.
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The Patreon exclusive stream will start in about half an hour.
Here's the link!
See you there =)
Not much to see here, unfortunately, but I finally started animating this.
It's going to be a shorter animation. I just started it and am already struggling with some things ... oh well :X
2017-01-27 20:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post
