drac0rex

Summer 2021 collection 4, cafe

join us for some icecream?

(full disclosure, i had trouble with these images. The original, unedited ones are even darker than these due to the shade of the umbrellas. I re-rendered them with the umbrella's shadows turned off and overlaid the original over the ones with no shadows and tweaked the opacity. I am still not quite happy, but they are under umbrellas, so there has to be some shadows present.

credits:

Auno: character by A1 - model by digitalfurbelow

Behemelon...

Summer 2021 collection 2, keller

GOTTA GO FAST WHEN A GIANT ROLLING BALL OF ROO DOOM IS CLOSING IN ON YOUR TAIL FEATHERS!

Keller here is one of the oldest, and best, models i have ever made. I made a few new tweaks to this, edited his mesh's flow, added a few shape keys and a cast modifier to make him look nice and round. 

I don't know what caused him to get so big and round, or what sent him rolling down the island's road, but he seems happy enough with his situation.

(20 images) 

Summer collection 2021_1 Boat and jetski

this is not a sequence, more of a collection

here we see  Jose enjoying jetting along on his jetski while Jay reinacts titanic on the bow of a sail ship

credits:

bystander owls - character by draco rex - model by draco rexsquirrellyjay: character by 

jetski by  cm21 - texture edits by draco rex

jose- character by jose - model by draco rex

sailboat - f...

I should probably stop announcing things in advance...

yet one more delay. I wanted to post the kelion model's progress, the spyro day render series and the bubble/glow test series before the summer one, but seeing as there's still plenty to do on kelion, I'll just post summer first tomorrow. sorry to keep delaying things.

Another delay

I had finished rendering the summer project, but as i worked on kelion's model, i got to thinking that the lighting at the cafe is a bit garbage. So i decided i would quickly try to fix it. WELP. instead it decided to freaze my pc and crash. even if i use the original scene with shadows turned off for the umbrellas. boom, frozen

this is going to be another delay. I am sorry. I do have some two render batches to share, though, but i am trying to get farther on kelion so i can bundle that...

ah dam it

and i have to redo the renders. AGAIN. I showed a few friends the images so far, and one pointed out the shoulder was weird on his character, so i had to fix that. That set me back a bit. Then i noticed another character's texture was all wrong, so that set me back even farther. And while, there, I decided to tweak the wake/waves around the swimming due and adjust his leg so it'd cause less spray from swimming so i wouldn't have to add as much spray there. and that adjustment set me back ALL ...

Late summer fun

I really  hope you like what i got to share soon.

I had some help with it, as a model didn't want to be rigged. I also upgraded a few of the models, updated another, learned a few more new tricks, and well, put my all into it!

Just to be clear

I do plan on animating more in the future, I am just taking a break from it right now. Currently I am working on the following:

1. summer picture render with many alt angles

2. kelion model

4. render for XXXX

5. render sequence (not animation) for YYYY

3. lexal model

4. more drawing

5. WRITING THAT BOOK.

This does not mean i don't have things i want to animate. I have like a dozen of ideas. Some you guys know of, some you don't.

All big th...

summer time stream

working away on the big summer time image. It will be one scene with a lot going on!

Kelion work in progress

this model has taken me a year to get to, and work on. As i worked on it, i tweaked the ref with the intention to make the ref easier for me to use. Last night i realized how far i had drifted from the original ref... so today i spent most of my time rebuilding his body based on the original ref. turns out it was useable and i was overthinking it. As such, i'll be making not one, but two models for artichoker. woof, but fun. Also, i had made the other body have more defined muscles last night...

modeling stream

working on artichoker. might be slow going as i'm feeling a bit tired out of nowhere

pokemon 2021 end bonus pics group 2

here's the rest, i hope you enjoyed the show x3

poke drive 2021 end bonus group 1

I have to break it up into sections due to how many bonus images there are. sorry there aren't many alt poses

part 15 bonus pics 3

more here, but also the last batch

part 15 bonus scene 2

here, have scene 2

pokemon 2021 growth drive bonus part 15 group 1

i really want to know, do you like me dividing up the scenes of the bonus images like this? OR do you prefer a huge bulk upload?

Other things coming

What would you like to see more from me? Here are a few things I've been planning to do

part 14 bonus images prt 2

here are the rest! I wonder what gritania is up to?

part 14 bonus images 1/2

i did a LOT of bonus renders for this one. Expect a part 2 of an alt scene soon

round 13 bonus images

sorry there aren't more this round, couldn't think of fun alt poses to put them in

Sketches from 2021's first half

we got a birthday present to my snake friend, Jaccob, a belated sketch commission for Kenji, three sketches from banjo day last week, and a off the cuff in the moment sketch of funirir woulfe at anthro con with a little bird buddy. Pardon the bad backdrop on that, i'm used to using measuring sticks, rulers, and diagraming when setting up a background. drawing it from "life" is actually hard for me.

Characters are:

Snake = jaccob

inflated patch-covered elephant = p...

part 12 bonus pics

Here are the next batch of bonus pics for the drive! 

Mega macro june part 11 bonus pics

here are the next batch of bonus pictures. as always, i will only post a few of these to fa/da as i don't want to flood my galleries

part 10 bonus images

will only post the bonus ones to my scraps

Goodbye, Ronsemberg, my old friend.

These images are public. It would be very poor taste to make this pateron only. This are all the renders and alt angles i did for the memorial for my departed friend, Ronsemberg, who died June 4th. I wish i could have talked to him more this past year, and that i could have done more to these scenes.

models are: 

Big yellow: ronsenberg

Grrek(for me):ronsenberg

Reshina(for aleron): ronsenberg

Veles(for veles):ronsenberg

Bismuth(for bismuth):ronsenberg 2021-06-16 02:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post

mega macro may drive 9 bonus images

only one set of poses this time due to how much was going on with the chucnks of earth, and the time crunch

mega macro may poke growth drive 8 bonus renders

yet more alt angles and poses!

update, noticed roco was missing his eyes. now fixed.

part 7 alt angles and bonus pics

here we go, mixing it up a little by showing the characters in a few different poses

mega macro may gd bonus images 6

got some nice zoom ins and alt angles here. Poor luster went squish

part 5 bonus angles

do you all really like these? i hope so :)

update, noticed i messed up and left some artifacts in the render. i will upload the fixes soon

okay got the fixed images here. one image didn't want to be uploaded, though...