Against my better judgement, over the past two weeks I'd been working on a nude model of Overwatch's Zarya. She's almost finished, but has also given me a case of art-block. All week I've been telling myself to start drawing the next comic page, or ANYTHING, but couldn't.
Today, Aimee's helping me to break through the block. The fun thing about her, is having one arm and two different hair styles makes her interesting on both sides!
Short on ideas for my tall busty lady, I figured I'd focus first on her name, then try to decide who she is...
This past weekend, SleepyDave offered an idea that not only sounds fun, but also gave me another name to add to the list. Basically, she's the principal at Violet's middle school. To keep the boys' (and maybe some girls) budding hormones in check, she disguises herself - binding her breasts and wearing a muumuu to appear obese. Because of this, the...
2017-05-30 22:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post
She's been away for a while - pretty much since her debut - but Candice is back! And not amused...
2017-05-25 02:52:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I was hoping to get some drawing done these few days, but Daisy's model has demanded my full attention. But the plus side to that is I've made quite a bit of progress on her face rig! It's still rough, but v0.2 of her rig is very close to being complete!
For v0.3, the current plan is to finish the rest of her face - rigging her brows, adding & rigging her teeth and tongue, ears, additional face-shapers, etc.
OR - I could swap v0.3 & v0.4, and start rigging her breasts...
2017-05-22 00:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd hoped to get some more drawing done this week, but so far my brain hasn't been cooperative. On the bright side, I've made progress towards the next version of Daisy's rig!
The major new feature for Daisy v0.2 might be her lips. The code to rig them was already in place, it just needed to be re-enabled, and the results hooked up to the rest of the rig. The next step will be to add skin weights, since it's difficult to tell how well the rig works just by look at the joints ...
2017-05-19 00:51:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This might be a fun image to recreate in 3D, whenever her boobs are rigged...
2017-05-17 12:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If only her clothes could shrink with her...
2017-05-15 02:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Food for thought - they say that when you're blind, your other senses are stronger in order to compensate...
Lizzie © up2knowgood
2017-05-01 20:27:14 +0000 UTC View Post
So I thought I'd have today and tomorrow before I'd have anything more on this contract, but that ended up not being the case - while we're waiting for the next model, we're pressing ahead with its animations. And good God are these animations bad. I thought the other ones were terrible, but some of these are worse...
On the bright side, page 2 of Mo & Liz's encounter is fully inked, those inks are colored and organized, so now all that's left is to color it. Whether ther...
2017-04-25 02:21:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This might be my first actual non-holiday weekend in the past month, so on one hand I'm trying to enjoy some time off, but on the other hand I want to make the most of it and get this Monique & Liz comic finished. Only one more panel to go, as I type this!
If all goes well, this contract will be wrapped up within the next couple of weeks - there's only one more character left to skin, and after that roughly a dozen animations for me to clean up and/or re-do.
...and just in time...
2017-04-22 16:14:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Unless I hear otherwise, my latest batch of animations is done, and I may not have any other work until Monday! Methinks I have some smut to catch up on this weekend...
This past weekend ended up being too hectic for drawing, but on a plane I don't have many excuses, especially when there's no one seated next to me. Something I'd been thinking about all weekend - what Rose might wear when she's tiny. A baggy t-shirt could be fun!
The girl on the right... I started...
2017-04-20 01:38:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I finally have an extended weekend off! Whether I can get anything drawn is the question, though... My youngest niece's burthday is today, there's a big family get-together tomorrow (mainly my brother's in-laws, so I'm hoping to duck out), then on Monday I fly back home. If I can't do any comic work, I can at least scribble a Daisy pic or two... or work on the modeling guides for Aeolus's Davey & Daisy! Once I'm back in Florida, it's back to animation, and this latest batch contains som...
2017-04-15 12:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Some progress on the next Monique & Lizzie page, to tide y'all over! It's doubtful that I'll have the rest of the page complete within the next week or so, so I may just upload the image packs & Illustrator files for last month, and then post this page separately whenever it's finished.
In other news, it looks like there's going to be an extra week's worth of work for me on this contract. Mainly just very minor cleanup work, to make sure the rest of the client's animations ...
2017-04-04 13:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Today was a bit of a reprieve from yesterday's frustration. I've done all that I could to make the game character's skeleton fit the model, now we have to hope that we get a response tomorrow on whether we can fix the rig as well.
Might as well make the most of the time I have, and draw some Monique! (and up2knowgood's Lizzie)
2017-03-26 20:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Some overdue progress on this one! As long as nothing comes up, this should be ready for inks tomorrow!
2017-03-21 02:49:17 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're unfamiliar with Theycallhimcake's Cassie, one of her quirks is that her head is not only detachable, but often gets swapped for that of her sentient bunny doll, Humphrey. So if I'm going to model Cassie and do her justice, Humphrey will need to be modeled as well! Since she's the much simpler of the two, it might even be fun to model Humphrey first...
but before that, I've got some drawing to do! These comics won't draw themselves, especially with how my time ...
2017-03-20 19:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As some of you may know, every so often I need to take a break or change directions, as far as my 3d work is concerned. In Daisy's case, I can only spend so many months in a row working on but not finishing her. Last year I spent a couple of months modifying some WoW models, and that at least allowed to test and improve my rigging tools.
One of my latest side projects? Theycallhimcake's Cassie Torbjornson!
Realistically, I don't know yet when this might actually happen....
2017-03-19 12:49:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a couple of character ideas in the back of my head for a little while now... if I can't focus on anything else while waiting for client feedback, I might as well tinker with these and see where it goes...
2017-03-15 15:23:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhether I like it or not, this week is shaping up to be technical-oriented. Over the past few days I've had to update my character rigging script to support the skeleton I'd been given, in case the client didn't also provide the rig. Today they finally provided the rig, so now I need to get familiar with it and its tools, and figure out the best workflow for re-using it with our models.
...on the bright side, that skeleton helped to identify some bugs in my script that I didn't eve...
2017-03-14 20:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The next comic page now has a rough layout, and it might be my most dense page yet! Photo reference has been a huge help with some panels, though I should probably double-check that the text will fit...
2017-03-02 23:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
So much for drawing, this past weekend... family was in town for the Daytona race, and I got stuck watching my aunt's dog. That would've been frustrating enough, but my aunt can also be a very condescending know-it-all, particularly if she starts talking politics and you try to fact-check one of the latest conspiracy theories she believes in. She can never be wrong...
This week I've started on my new contract, although the workload is pretty light at the moment - my first tas...
2017-03-01 02:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post...my brain hurts, but at least another script is working - the 'sticky lips' script I'd started earlier this month. But while it works in a simple test scene, I haven't had a chance to test it on Daisy yet, as that will require a few more pieces. For now, I think it's best to make a note of what's needed, and take a break.
The timing of finishing this script couldn't be better - I have family visiting this weekend for the Daytona race, and I'll be starting on part of my new contra...
2017-02-25 03:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I tested out my lips function, and more of ngSkinTools' features. So far I'm loving ngSkinTools, although I've kept things fairly easy...
To test out the lips' deformation, I first created a new layer. That's the first thing to love about ngSkinTools - its layers work much like Photoshop's, allowing artists to edit skin weights non-destructively. Much like her eyelids, Daisy's lips have a bone for every edgeloop - 36 total! Each edgeloop gets weighted 100% to its ...
2017-02-22 22:27:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Daisy's face rig is going to use multiple layers - most of the bones that drive her face will be attached to ribbons, and the controls for the ribbons will be attached to a low-polygon 'mask', which can then be driven by a few bones and/or morphs. The mask is just a copy of Daisy's face with a lot of detail removed.
I'd also started writing a function to rig her lips, which is where I ran into trouble. Last month I wrote a function that allows objects to slide across a ribbon so th...
2017-02-22 01:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Meanwhile, here's Monique and Superscrub's Teddi, making a mess!
It's a little late for Valentine's Day, but I don't think anyone will mind!
2017-02-20 23:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post
