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happy spider sunday

been modeling stuff based on things im finding in this game design book, this has the same textures i made for the dragon thing, just with some hue changes and different mapping

breakthrough!!

at this point in my journey in blender its kind of rare to have a major discovery. Vertex coloring is something ive known about for a while, but in the last couple weeks teaching myself texture painting i had a moment where i realized its actual potential. ill make a video breaking down all the new texturing stuff ive been working on, and i have a lil texture pack download im getting ready for yall as well!

lil update on the character, w some new aseprite backback textures. more soon!<...

cool lil hair tech

and eyeball

something you can do with hair textures sometimes is just leave a little alpha at the bottom, then use planes and have the root come from where the hair roots would be. use a color ramp inbetween the image texture and shader to control the edges a little more.

for modeling just fiddle around with 1 plane at a time, it should take at least 5 or 6 total planes to get a full head of hair like this. was just messing around with this technique for a new npc ty...

website!!!!

so hyped to announce my website, its been a long time coming!

feel free to browse around, some of the stuff might b a little jank but its a work in progress.
i plan on doing a little blog on here, and making little flash games n fun HTML stuff (theres already a little page with some buttons that put tiled textures onto a cube lol.

i know i been a little absent on here ! needed to step away from all social media for a sec in order to get into the mindset to get something like...

Some camera work

theres a million ways to use the camera, heres some basics that i feel a lot of people miss when starting out.

the biggest take away here, is that less is more! With control comes complexity. same with modeling and anything else, study the basics and then the more advanced stuff will come naturally. 

fishy gif

lil test

i luv animation

how’s everyone in here doing! been getting a lot of positive messages from new people here about how much there is to look through on this page.

sometimes I think the tutorial collection is too dense, I think it’s time I at least remade the “beginner modeling tutorial” with some updated info! More on that soon

got a video about camera movement and stuff uploading today as well! stay tuned hope yall having a good week

VAN UPDATE

finished this sequence and added way more to the interior than the last time i showed this i think, still storyboarding the whole intro to this but yeah i thought id share the progress :)

lil preview

modeled a new character from that guide in the moodboard and one thing led to another now im making this scene

gonna break this down in a tutorial type video just explaining whats going on cause i used a lot of different things that i havent really covered before on for this one shot.

super high poly face compared to what im used to! shape keying the expressions was incredibly satisfying though, im gonna do so much more with this lil base mode :)

refrence board from today

super random images in here but the modeling diagrams are insanely helpful! made a whole new face and body following these loop cuts, gonna try to animate a little bit tomorrow and mess with mouth shape keys for the first time!

aseprite animations

made these all messin around the other day they probably wont end up anywhere else lol

>;p

gonna work on the cloth a little more, morgots drip has a little bit more of a crumpled look and some rope around the neck. also gotta maybe rig them so they swing around!

i was tryna figure out how to not make the sword clip into the hat, but thats straight up how it is in the game lmao i always love how fromsoft just doesnt care about stuff clipping at all

back on my fromsoft inspo

beating elden ring finally to get ready for dlc, had to make my build in blender

i think ill finish this up on twitch soon! gonna do some sword swinging animations and classic gesture stuff :)

some plant downloads

made these during a twitch stream a while back! feel free to use these in ur projects or to study the topo/texutres
the textures should be packed into the file! lmk if not

textures used in the uv tutorial

UV tutorial part 1

this video is for people who have never used UVs, or wanna know a few things about my workflow in particular involving UVs.

covers basic controls for the uv editor, how to unwrap using different projection, and a few other tips involving texture sheets and stuff.

pt 2 comin soon!

finally animating some of this scene

ima break this down, first gotta finish up the UV tutorial that im doing at the same time as this.


notice the window rolling thing actually works ;) ill go into simple ways to use drivers and stuff soon

updated blender theme!

to use, navigate here in your files vvvv

%APPDATA%\Blender Foundation\Blender\[YOUR VERSION]\scripts\presets\interface_theme\

then drop the XML file in that folder, and it should show up in the presets menu.

unfortunately i cant include the font on here since i paid for it, but it should be easy to find a good pixel style font! you can change blenders font in the preferences as well, its not in themes tho you scroll down to "file paths" and do it at the top of ...

working on a UV tutorial

gonna cover everything i know about uvs from unwrapping, all projection methods, different ways to select you maps, everything!

ill probably post in the next couple days, but let me know if theres anything specifically you guys are struggling with regarding UVs, and ill make sure to cover it in the video!

these lil guys are from some old project i never completed but they cute so ill leave them here

some van progress :)

it’s rlly coming together, wait till u show yall the stick shift animation 😂 im so excited

Working on the same thing for weeks at a time really pays off!

twitch stream 5-6-24

im just yappin for most of this stream hahah but i made some more progress on the van, and talked hella shit on the donut tutorial

ill start putting my future twitch streams on here

alpha plant breakdown

responding to a comment about the tree + plant asset pack"

this is basically just a video of breaking down how transparency and alpha channels work in blender to make low poly image plane plants

hopefully this helps understand the asset pack more if you downloaded it and were lost!

messy weapon file

here are the models of those weapons i made the other day, im still in the process of texturing them but feel free to check these out and use them for whatever!

for the hammer, i rendered the front, top, side with compositing on (make sure to hit that viewport composy) , and projected that back onto the original mesh.

apologies the file itself is a little messy, but yeah try tinkering around with the composite nodes!

3am animation practice

messin around more with that add on that I was showin off in the stream today

tune in on Monday ima do some more shit like this next time!

trying out a new add on

I finally caved and bought a dithering add on, I’ll make a video breaking this down today!

pressing spacebar while using color picker

just discovered a huge time saver

the title says it all lol, using spacebar while having the color picker out will pick that color but you will stay in color pick mode. meaning you can just spam the spacebar while moving the mouse around to test a bunch of colors!

cannot wait to use this for lighting and stuff

also a tiny bit of tech in here about making water drop effect w wave modifier

WEAPON SESH

did the whole "laptop in the coffee spot" thing the other day and knocked these out which was actually pretty nice and relaxing. the texture is mostly compositing, trying to figure out a way to bake this onto an actual model! or if anything animate with planes

giphyyyss

some cool loops from a commission for a homie out here :)

ill be breaking down a ton of stuff at the same time in one big video soon and i just finished editing a new plant walkthru thatll be up tomorrow!

glare > chroma key

doin some weird stuff in compositor rn for a friends song

just made a rly long walk thru video making another plant that I’ll post shortly :)

plant download

all textures should be packed in here, ill make a breakdown of how i actually applied them but you can go ahead and study it in the meantime! :)