Sonar animation test

[raven horizon]

Freaky

[shrewd dew]

Impresive, very nice

[dry geode]

What,
How-

God fucking damn...

[cinder turret]

Its not an AI???!?!?!

amazing, ngl

imagine we get Dispatch movie someday

[raven horizon]

Nah blender, its a 3d model

[prime wadi]

I remember seeing your first post awhile back. I'm loving the progress and edits you made since, the likeness is very good.

[raven horizon]

Thanks

[graceful pumice]

I love that you showcased the technical rig and topology, it looks so clean

[jagged flame]

HOH

FLOOF

[raven horizon]

thanks, yah i saw your invisigal post too, your rig looks super clean

[raven horizon]

alt render with rig overlay

some work on the eye drivers +fixed weights and and wrapped eyelid verts to eyeball

[graceful pumice]

I love how natural Sonar looks and animates, this is so beautiful.

[raven horizon]

thanks, programed a small tool that generates a blendshape animation from a video of a face and exports it as a .glb (originally for a browser game 😭)

can then use that as a baseline to drive action constraints (JawOpen, BrowUp, Blink etc.), its not a prefect solution as its very noisy, but its a great foundation to build off of for natural timing

planning to send the tool off to the dev im working with to make a production version, if your interested i could dm you the build im working with, you have to run it in localhost tho

[raven horizon]

jank af

[graceful pumice]

I'll pass since I'm very new to implementing addons to Blender, and I'm still learning the foundations of the tool workspaces, this tool is very cool and innovative, I hope the development goes smoothly.

[raven horizon]

displacement mapping from multires

rip my render time, 1 hour for a 3 second animation

displacement is getting added onto normal map, makeing surface detail a bit to intense, should highpass normal map

[raven horizon]

Optimizing:

• Minimum hair length is no longer 0: GPU hates small geo
• Hair guides use a separate invisible mesh with 0 subdivisions: greatly speeds up hair building and BVH build time
• Resampled hair curves depended on length, 3-8 segments
• Removed a ton of unnecessary vertex data to high-res displacement mesh

Also made some tweaks to normal map, Displacement References vertex weights so I can increase and decrease displacement selectively. Tweaked hair falloff

[raven horizon]

some texture work, gota do suit topology next

[raven horizon]

Rant: Tried making my own video to motion cap tool using vision pose landmarker. Did not work, has terrible depth information. Tried using 2+ angles to capture front and side. Could work but im to dumb to figure out the math for camera offsets etc. Would be easier to hand animate, but I gota do character animations for an entire game, this project has just been me testing out different ways to be lazy 😁

also just figured out you can shape key curves

another beauty render

[raven horizon]

static renders

https://youtu.be/GnktCZdeexs

mf w, i got to lip sync a freaky bat

[graceful pumice]

This is so brilliant.