Attempting a new way to share high-res stuff. People have been wanting them all gathered up in one spot so I'm trying this out: Lemme know if it works!
https://ln.sync.com/dl/96f79c150/iqht4b4a-g9iwcsxq-9hj9cj8z-pjxqemhm
Password should be: bananapants
First time I've ever tried one of these file storage/sharing sites, so let me know if things go smoothly or if ...
I'll start by repeating what I said for the inks for my lovely $1 supporters, new stuff at bottom.
"It hasn't been too long yet, but the vote to see some of my favourite fantasies is pretty well in the lead ( Y'all are a bunch of sweeties) so I figured I'd get started on it.
It was mentioned in the original suggestion that this could be made into a YCH with a bunch of patreon folks tending to whatever whims I want, and initially I thought that would be a fun idea, but as I s...
2019-07-02 02:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It hasn't been too long yet, but the vote to see some of my favourite fantasies is pretty well in the lead ( Y'all are a bunch of sweeties) so I figured I'd get started on it.
It was mentioned in the original suggestion that this could be made into a YCH with a bunch of patreon folks tending to whatever whims I want, and initially I thought that would be a fun idea, but as I sat down to think about it that didn't seem like the way to go. If this suggestion is supposed to be about what ...
Blah, I let this one go too late, sorry guys! Been distracted with stuff. The Patreon fiasco didn't help things much either. Speaking of which, until I find a better solution, and depending on what wins this month, the painting might just get posted directly to FA instead of here, but you still get to vote for what wins so hopefully that's not too big an issue!
As always, text entry areas in polls are quite small so I can't necessarily post exactly what was suggested, but I'll t...
I've been a touch quiet on the making stuff front lately. I have a good reason though! A while back I held an auction to make a 3D model, so I've been busy working on that. The way my model making process works, they don't really look good enough to share until they're pretty much done usually. So I tend to be pretty quiet during the creation process, but now that she's nearing completion, I can show her off!
I'm still tweaking and adjusting things, but I hope y'all like what you ...
2019-06-22 05:02:05 +0000 UTC View PostI'm a little unsure about where this'll be posted at the moment, but it's still gotta be done! Don't hold back on your ideas, if I've gotta post off-site and link back here so be it. I'd rather do that than force you guys to censor your ideas.
So let me know what you wanna see and let's make it happen!
Unfortunately, looks like someone at the steering wheel of this sight caught wind of my little corner and didn't like what they saw.
I awoke this morning to an email telling me that some of my posts could be potentially seen as non-consensual, and had to go. You'll notice many old posts are now missing.
Now I have to give the folks credit they were pretty nice and respectful about the whole situation, but as far as I can what it boils down to is, if anyone could look at someth...
Animation is attached! I wanted to make a quick walk-cycle to test out the mechanics of the legs on the bluejay girl, and get a feel for how she looks in motion. It was supposed to be a quick test, but then I got carried away thinking it might be fun if she was actually walking down a prison hallway, and then I had to figure out how to loop a background, and etc... got a bit out of hand.
Seeing the final render, it's got some issues I hadn't noticed in tests- the shadows are doing...
2019-06-13 16:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A little something I'm currently working on. I wanted to make an avian character to learn and test out ideas for how to make a feathered character. I've got a pretty decent handle on fur, and basic scales were pretty easy, so if I can also comfortably make feathers I'll have the vast majority of the furry fandom covered and will be able to make most anything asked of me. Beyond that, my only real major hurdle is figuring out how to animate long hair. But, one thing at a time!
I'm posti...
It was asked for me to post there here too- shoulda done that from the start really. Better late than never I suppose!
2019-06-06 19:46:20 +0000 UTC View Post
More screwing around with Eevee, and just playing with my new Gale model. This isn't meant to be a particularly artistic picture, and it has some issues, like one of Runo's eyes being almost entirely in shadow, so I'm putting it up here instead of on FA. I'll make something polished at some point so I can show everyone else, but for now this was mostly just me having some fun and wanting to see these two interact.
Runo's not really set up for eevee yet so his fur is doing some weird t...
What have we here?
So here's the story. During the voting for last month's painting, there was a pretty big stretch of time where it looked like a 3D model of Gale was going to win, or at least tie. I knew if I wanted to get it done on time I had to get an early start on it, so that's what I did. Then the tentacle picture pulled ahead, and looked like it was going to stay there... but I didn't have much else to do what with my other animation right in the middle of rendering, and it fe...
After something like two weeks of 24/7 rendering, this bitch is finally finished! Unfortunately I ran into a lot of problems along the way, and some of them I only noticed in the final render, so it's not quite as nice a result as I would have liked. The worst offender- as usual- is the fluids. They ended up having a weird speckled effect that I didn't notice in individual render tests, and it's far too late to do much about it now. I'll just try to improve that down the road. Ther...
2019-05-30 00:11:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember this? Still working on it! Actually I've been working on it pretty much full time, though most of that was just fighting with fluid-simulation. That shit really sucks. It's not perfect but it's as good as it's getting, I think.
I also built them a little set, fought with lighting for a while and generally touched a few things up. It's pretty much ready for rendering I think. That's going to take me probably the better part of a week to do, but in the meantime, here's a little...
We're coming in early this month because I'm trying something a bit different this time around. You've got two different types of thing you can vote for this month- we've got some standard 2D ideas you can vote for if they tickle your fancy, but I also opened up the idea of suggesting characters I can try making in 3D to see if there was any interest in that, and a few ideas come in.
If a 3D idea wins, I'll do my best to make the character, render them in a few fun poses and maybe mak...
We're nearing the point where we're finished with animating the characters! A few odds and ends to finish up- wuffboy's hands and tail, some tweaks to wonky bits in a few places, but we're zeroing in. After that I get to figure out how I'm going to animate the fluids, that should be fun.... but progress is coming along alright I think.
Lemme know what you think! :D
Typically I take weekends off as a matter of course, just helps keep me from going insane from 24/7 arting. But today the fella I usually hang out with was doing other stuff, so I found myself with nothing much to do. As often happens when a Ru has idle hands, porn started appearing! A few frames from a little animation I'm working on. It's just a rough viewport render, so it won't look pretty, but it gives an idea of how the motion is going so far. It's early days, but I'm...
2019-05-06 02:27:47 +0000 UTC View PostI want to toss out a new idea this month. I'm curious to see what you guys will want!
You can suggest a watercolour painting of whatever you like as normal, ooorrr....
Maybe there's a character or species you'd like to see me try to bring to life in 3D? I've got some characters I bet some of you would like to see moving around in 3D, or maybe you just want to see me try something new. I haven't tried anything with feathers yet, for example...
Just an idea I had! I know I've ...
2019-05-04 14:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
High-res version of the thing I just posted to FA. After working on the monthly painting for as much as I planned to for the day, I couldn't resist going back to 3D stuff, and decided to give his fur another pass. It's still not done, and like all my models it's not really designed for this kind of super high-res viewing, but you might find it interesting to take a peek at all the close up issues you can't normally see otherwise!
2019-05-01 05:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostUgggh I should have had this up days ago. Sorry guys, I suck. :P Better late than never here we go!
2019-04-28 04:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The new ram arrived today! I thought I'd just do a quick test and see how it holds up against all the characters I've made so far. I've got enough to render all three of them and not even come close to capping out on ram now, so I've got no excuse to not make my characters super fluffy.
This obviously isn't meant to be a pretty or artistic picture- I didn't even bother to pose them (wolf boy is only posed because he was saved that way from my last render of him), and Sy is looking...
2019-04-26 16:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's what I got done today! I wanted to add a feral to my toybox of models to mess around with, should the mood ever strike. It'll also be nice to have something I can show to friends finally. It's definitely going to be 'adult capable', but I feel like it's going to be significantly easier to obstruct the dirty bits so I might be able to make some stuff I can show them, heh.
This is just an early sculpt- you can think of it sort of like the 'rough sketch' for a model. So don't ...
2019-04-25 01:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post
So in the last post where I said I had hit the limits of my ram, I guess that wasn't strictly true... I was in the high-90% range of my ram usage while trying to render him, so I assumed that was about all I would be able to get, but as I kept adding more it kept working. I kept pushing the amount of fur until I started getting 'out of memory' errors, and then dialed the setting back just a tiny bit until I could get it to work. As a result, I can just barely add fur to an entire cha...
2019-04-22 21:22:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Something I did when I was nearing completion of this model. My models aren't really meant for super up-close viewing, they're definitely not movie quality so if you look real closely at places you're going to see some cracks in the facade, so to speak. But perhaps you'll find those cracks interesting, I dunno! Just figured it's about time I tried something like this.
I've also made some tweaks to the model since I made this, I toned down her scale texture a little bit and did som...
2019-04-21 19:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post
So now that I'm relatively satisfied with the lizard character I just made I decided to go back and start finishing up some details on the wolf boy. His hair was still bugging me so I started tweaking it, but no matter what I do I just can't seem to get a satisfying blend between real fur and fake textured 2D fur, so finally after ages of fussing around I gave up in frustration and decided to try full body real fur.
The reason I didn't initially do this is because messing around s...
2019-04-21 18:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since I finished that last animation I've been plucking away on a new model whenever I had some downtime. He's got a very very long way to go- this is some early alpha stuff here and literally no part of this is final, he's missing most of his texture, furry bits are acting weird, etc- but I did a quick render test just now and for the first time since I started working on him my first reaction wasn't "Ugh" so I thought I'd share. He's finally starting to show some potential!
None...
Here's what we got this month! As always, the poll text entering area has pretty limited room so I've had to shorten some suggestions down but tried to get the gist of their suggestion as best I can.
2019-03-26 15:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostWhoops, sorry guys! Been so caught up in 3D stuff I forgot to do this. Didn't mean to leave it so late!
Better late than never though. Leave them suggestions below!
2019-03-18 13:37:24 +0000 UTC View PostSerious question- would anybody here be upset if I took a few weeks off from the comic? We've reached a fairly concluded moment with no major cliffhangers, and I could use a little break. Not so much because the comic has been so strenuous, but more because 3D modelling and animation has been consuming my brain, and it's really hard to pull myself away from it to focus on other things. I've got so much I want to make and do!
I ask because I feel like the comics are a decently larg...
2019-03-12 04:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post