#Lumpy's Blender Gallery
chilly yarrow
I can't guarantee I'll update this very often, but I may as well make one of these finally
First off, Midday Mew's been wanting me to upload this one. It's the PFP I made for him
an old Spamton
Hey, The Noise update! Even though I'm in the middle of going back and re-doing all of these old Pizza Tower models, I'm still pretty proud of how this render turned out
This one too, he's actually probably the only one I don't need to go back and de-shittify.
O'Chunks, Super Paper Mario. Underrated character
Klaymen and Willie, The Neverhood. I do not endorse Doug Tennapel
An old Wilson, Don't Starve. Should go back and update this one too
Asterix and Obelix. I was going to upload these to the Resource, but I remember needing to fix something with Asterix's hair and never getting around to it
Dimentio, Super Paper Mario. This one is my lowest polycount model to date
Unknown, original work. Evidently not finished. Not sure where I was going with it, only that it was supposed to be a Jerboa?
Renders I did for the thumbnail of Saberspark's Joshua Reanimated collab
Amazing gamedev placeholder textures, wow
A test render I did as a concept for DDGHS's attic stage. Done with Eevee if i recall
Fortune-teller Frog promo render for DDGHS
More concept art. I don't remember if this was for DDGHS, or some other project
I don't know.
Dragon fossil boss fight, concept art vs final model
Various DDGHS promo renders.
Some of you might remember this guy...
For some reason, there were no renders of Hell's Chef in his folder except for this one
Another unfinished model, something to do with DDGHS. Labeled as "Cactusmachine"
Pizzahead, Pizza Tower. Also a test of Blender's scene grease pencil
This is in the textures folder for some reason
Current WIP. I said I was going to fix these models eventually! (Left is new, right is old)
eager swift
YO! Your Obelix! He's PERFECT
chilly yarrow
Texturing upgrade (Left is new)
chilly yarrow
The Vigilante is complete! Here's the stats:
New: 38,842 tris, 87 bones
Old: 87,072 tris, 101 bones
The only thing that's gotten worse is the amount of textures and the space they take up. Way less complicated for others to use now
Next up on the kill list projects-to-tackle... I'm thinking Pepperman.
The Noise I'm probably going to save for last, that big dumbass mouth of his is going to cause a lot of problems
open cairn
popping into here to say that I ADORE your GHS renders
chilly yarrow
Beginning work on Pepperman. I know he's an ugly son of a gun who doesn't translate very well into 3D, but I have NO idea what I was thinking with his old model.
chilly yarrow
cool dude
chilly yarrow
Aaaand with that, Pepperman V2 is done! Here's the stats:
New: 49,464 tris (with all accessories), 68 Bones
Old: 77,112 Tris, 77 Bones
He's not much prettier, but now he actually LOOKS like how he's supposed to! (Frankly, there's not a lot you could do to make this ugly mug prettier)
Now I've gotta figure out who to do next. I think Gerome would be a fun one.
chilly yarrow
I love gary!!!!! My favorite pizza character
eager swift
I hate that I can't model like this D:
chilly yarrow
Don't sweat it. It's taken me 3, going on 4 years to get to this point and still got a lot to learn. If you've got the time, and patience (ESPECIALLY patience) it shouldn't be intimidating! That initial learning curve will beat the hell out of you, but once you make it over you're smooth sailing! Especially if you have prior experience doing 2D illustrations, which will speed up learning quite a bit
open cairn
*starts ascending from the ground
PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN 2D ILLUSTRATION
(/j I already model and have been at it for 2 years now)
chilly yarrow
It's not a necessity, but I can't understate how much it helps
It'll just take a lot longer to find your footing, that's all
Methinks I may have gotten a bit too excited to use my rock-carving sculpt brushes I've had laying around since forever
open cairn
Methinks I may have gotten a bit too excited to use my rock-carving sculpt brush...
IT LOOKS SO GOOD THOUGH HDBSJS
chilly yarrow
I knowww... But then it doesn't really fit in with the other characters
I'll probably bake it into a normal map and inculde it as a bonus or something
open cairn
how do you bake stuff like this into a normal map? I usually draw mine by hand with a normal map color pallete
chilly yarrow
Respectfully, ARE YOU INSANE
open cairn
I couldn't think of amy other way to do normals 💀
also I was too lazy to look up tutorials so I've spent hours of my life hand-drawing normals whoops
chilly yarrow
Handpainting is a really good way to make stylized normals but god it is so ridiculously hard
open cairn
so many fish... so much fabric...
I may or may not draw fabrics by hand by cross-hatching
open cairn
Methinks I may have gotten a bit too excited to use my rock-carving sculpt brush...
he looks like a middle school eraser /pos
deep flicker
Do you have a model of that weird lil drill thing
chilly yarrow
Drill thing?
chilly yarrow
Yeah
I don’t have a model of it yet though, but I’m working on it
Eventually
When I don’t have a backlog of 12 things i need to do
eager swift
Don't sweat it. It's taken me 3, going on 4 years to get to this point and still...
I am intimidated, especially because I can't get topology right when I low-poly model D:
chilly yarrow
Low poly, like retopology? Or like making a blockout? Or like n64 kind of low poly
eager swift
Making a blockout. I've never done retopo because I can't scupt worth a good goddamn.
chilly yarrow
It's basically like making an underlying sketch, but for 3D models. Think about the complex shapes you want to make later down the road and then try and break it down into simple shapes
Like Gerome for example, who is basically nothing but simple shapes
eager swift
I have trouble especially making arms and fingers. Legs are easy enough.
open cairn
hands
chilly yarrow
Ah, hands...
eager swift
Like, I don't have a good eye for that stuff.
I know they say that making T-posed 2D drawings helps, but for me it doesn't seem to.
chilly yarrow
It's a bit crude since I did it so quickly, but here's a breakdown of how I'd personally do a hand blockout
chilly yarrow
And it posted the images in the wrong order, cool
eager swift
Oh, like, a whole bunch of objects and not extruded?
open cairn
I just get a block and slice it =
chilly yarrow
Yeah
eager swift
I just idolize your modeling work. (: You're amazing
chilly yarrow
And here's a little trick I've been using so that I don't have to re-do hands for every character
I've just been copying over the hands from the Pizzahead model I made for all of my new pizza tower models and tweaking them a bit
open cairn
Real lol
chilly yarrow
It's not lazy if you made the assets yourself!
eager swift
How did you do that? I mean, make them 1 model? You laid out a few spheres and capsules, but this looks clean af
chilly yarrow
Blockout > join meshes and use remesh tool > sculpt > retopologize
If you use this method though I would recommend making the fingers spread out like how they are here bc the remesh tool tends to make horrible little webs in between the fingers if they get too close
eager swift
Ah, yeah. Kinda like Vertex Weld will do in Max. I've had that happen.
chilly yarrow
You could also do this method, which is significantly faster but a a bit clumsy I find
open cairn
I like to low poly model a lot so a lot of my fingers remaon merged
chilly yarrow
Not so good for game dev models, but very efficient for animation
It's also the method I mentioned being used for the Jimmy Neutron and Foodfight models
eager swift
Not so good for game dev models, but very efficient for animation
Mhmm. I'd try that, but Idek how to even do that. And it looks too square/blocky for my liking. I wanna do game models
eager swift
Mhmm. I'd try that, but Idek how to even do that. And it looks too square/blocky...
*I would
Damn typos lol...
chilly yarrow
If you don't want it to look blocky you just gotta tweak the placement of vertices. But it takes a lot of finagling to get looking good, which is why I tend not to use it
eager swift
Mhmm. Only once I've managed to extrude decent looking hands from a box model. It's tough
FUCK! I can't type tonight 😛
chilly yarrow
There was actually the one model I made where I only used the subdivision method for the whole model
eager swift
I tried subdividing once, it made the model look really weird. I wanted to turn SSB Ultimate Mario into a high-poly render model.
chilly yarrow
I just realized I forgot to take the files for it off of my old computer... oops
eager swift
Uh oh, are they lost forever now??
open cairn
I actually forget that people can make high poly models that dont explode everything
I'm so used to game modelling
chilly yarrow
I included an unsubdivided version in the ZIP in case people wanted to make their own tweaks to the mesh
eager swift
I wish I knew how to make a RIGGED/SKINNED lowpoly game mesh into a high-poly render-quality model.
chilly yarrow
Without heavy alterations to the mesh, it's probably impossible and more efficient to make a new model from scratch
eager swift
I see. I just wanted to be able to do it to make 2D UI elements/posing
chilly yarrow
It's always better to start with a high poly mesh and then work down
eager swift
Hmm. So I'd be better off sculpting a new highpoly mesh and then subdividing it. Which would entail my remaking all SSBF fighter models. gulp
I don't have much of a steady hand but I'd love to sculpt. I use Blender like you do in my experiments.
chilly yarrow
Hmm. So I'd be better off sculpting a new highpoly mesh and then subdividing it....
Probably more worth it to do a lot of shader and texture tweaking to make it look good when rendered
You'd be shocked at how much work a good texture job can do
eager swift
Yeah. Another struggle I have is making half-decent textures D:
chilly yarrow
I too actually find it extremely time consuming to do good textures. That's why most of my models barely have any
eager swift
UV mapping is also a total nightmare. D:
chilly yarrow
Aaaand with that, Pepperman V2 is done! Here's the stats:
New: 49,464 tris (with...
Remember this guy? These are his main textures
eager swift
I used to cheat by making a base colour map, and combining it to an AO and normal map and just mixing them.
But then the UVs are always looking like shit. D:
chilly yarrow
Textures and UVs i find to be the most boring and tedious part of the process, next to Rigging and weight paints
eager swift
I like to rig, that part is fine. 🙂
But I'm a little freaked out. I wonder if there's a way I can work with existing rigs/boneset trees so I can keep the proportions the same?
chilly yarrow
Mmm, probably. I don't know shit about that though so I wouldn't be much use
Again, I'd focus on textures and shaders over redoing everything from scratch
eager swift
I see. Probably a tessellation shader or something. No way do the SSBU models, for instance, use the same textures as the game models.
Thanks Lumpy. You really are super cool 🥺
I think you're talented, basically ^^
chilly yarrow
Friends always look out for friends
Ooh, I still need to teach Aqua about baking normals when I'm far enough ahead with Gerome
open cairn
eager swift
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/991880183097331743/1051514069116538961/...
That's a new one lol
eager swift
Friends always look out for friends
I try to do the same for you! Although I don't think I've done anywhere near enough.
chilly yarrow
getting somewhere
Retopology is the next step... but I'm kinda dreading it bc I'm not used to doing asymmetrical things
eager swift
Yeah, I can imagine. Asymmetrical is even harder.
chilly yarrow
I'm wondering what I should do about characters that exist in the lore, but don't make a single appearance in-game
chilly yarrow
like this middle guy
eager swift
I'm always for seeing characters who don't have official models getting one ^^
chilly yarrow
Here’s the thing though: this middle guy doesn’t have any official models, and sprites and doodles of him were pretty much exclusively on the former Pizza Tower discord
But he does exist in lore. Specifically since Peppino and Gustavo are expies of Wario and Mario respectively, Snick is an expy of Sonic, and this guy is an expy of Eggman
And the Noise update kinda confirmed the canonicity of a lot of characters that were formerly just one-off jokes or server characters like Pizza Maniac, Tail, Doise and Peddito
eager swift
Unusual. I think I worded my sentence wrong though. Even if it's a fanmade model like yours, it's still a model, and that pleases me.
chilly yarrow
WOW! Time to learn how to bake normal maps! @open cairn
So you see here how I've got these two meshes? one is the high-poly sculpt and the other is a lower-poly retopologization of the sculpt
So the first thing to do, is make sure both of these meshes are occupying the same space. And set the render mode from Eevee to Cycles. Turn off denoising after switching to Cycles as that can cause some mess-ups when baking
On your low-poly mesh, make a material. Create a new texture, and make it at least twice as big as you need it. When you bake it tends to cause some jagged pixelly edges, so baking at double res and then scaling down afterwards buffs out those rough edges and makes it look better
Make sure you save the image because for some reason blender doesn't like it when you do things with textures that aren't saved
Add a normal map node to your material. Make SURE you have the normal map's texture selected or else you may end up baking the normals onto another texture unintentionally
Next, click your sculpt. Then shift-right click on your low-poly mesh. You should have them both selected with the lowpoly as the active one
Next, with everything selected head here in your sidebar
Make sure you have at least a little extrusion (around 0.08 or so tends to do the trick, but it varies. you may need to fiddle with this)
Add a margin if you think you might have issues with UV seams showing up
If you have multiple separate pieces being baked onto one texture sheet, disable "clear image" as it totally wipes everything for each new bake
Next, hit "bake"
This might take a while depending on your computer's specs. Once it's done you should see the results pop up on the image you selected earlier! Save the image.
Now, if you see green/yellow spots like these, it likely means you haven't extruded enough and need to re-bake
open cairn
:O Nice
I don't have to draw individual scales anymore <3
chilly yarrow
Next, plug the texture into the normal map node, and the node into the normals section of the BDSF
If it looks weird, make sure you set the color space to non-color. I've made that mistake a lot of times thinking it was messed up.
You can see, the green/yellow spots on the normal map show up as black when viewed
And if it all ends up working right, voila! You've baked your normals.
There's still some black buggy spots on the bottom there, but they won't be visible when I'm all finished, so it's not a big deal
You can also bake lots of other cool stuff too, like Ambient Occlusion maps and environments for skyboxes, but Normals is probably what you'll mostly be using it for the most
Also make sure to disconnect the image from the material before you do each bake, as it can cause bugs (but most importanly it stops blender from whining at you about circular dependencies)
A good UV map will go a LONG ways here as well. Clean straight edges and as little distortion as you can manage to squeeze out
For example, the nose here on the UV map is very distorted and shrunken compared to the model. Not great but I was running out of space for everything else on the texture sheet so I had to make do
And that should be the basics, I think
Oh, make sure both of your meshes are Manifold (no holes) and don't have the normals turned inside-out
chilly yarrow
I find it very helpful for baking bump maps into normal maps for ease of use
chilly yarrow
Thankfully all this info is correct cause i was very sleep deprived when i wrote allllll of that
eager swift
Hey Lumpy! How's you doin'? 😄
chilly yarrow
Textures are looking great
chilly yarrow
what the fuck am i doing
open cairn
Art
eager swift
Sick! 😮
chilly yarrow
kiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllllllllllll mmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
deep flicker
is that the dude from funky bowling
chilly yarrow
He's supposed to be Lark from PilotWings 64, who may as well be Nester design-wise
But I accidentally turned him into Friday Night Funkin whike doing some color tests and I thought it was kinda funny
(for the record, I do not like FNF)
open cairn
(for the record, I do not like FNF)
the worst rhythm game fanbase I have ever seen
Revert to Taiko
chilly yarrow
Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh
I'm especially proud of the leather texture I used for the boots and gloves... And usually I'm not proud of much! Even if it looks a bit like an orange peel due to the color...
chilly yarrow
Also, Gerome's normal and not excessive textures
Doing all of that was great texture practice! Would I do it again anytime soon? hell to the NO
chilly yarrow
Remember when I was questioning the validity of uploading a model of Dr. Bad Breakfast because he doesn't appar anywhere in the game itself (pizza tower)? Turns out I was wrong about that
He makes exactly one appearance in the entire game, as a cameo in the FNAF expy stage. I completely forgot about this. Probably because it's right in the middle of a section where you have to run away from the thing that's trying to kill you
That reminds me, I've got to start keeping a list of todos for this project, remakes and new ones...
chilly yarrow
Here's a good roadmap, I think
chilly yarrow
Completed commissions for @meager tendon!
In order: Lark (pilotwings) Mr. Sys (We Are Nintendo) Pit (Myths and Monsters) Sukapon (Joy Mech Fight) and Takamaru (Murasame Castle)
all done to match the style of Smash Bros 64
meager tendon
All based on this comm!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4rjx-bNRps/?hl=en
chilly yarrow
(except sukapon)
meager tendon
Sukapon and Lip didn’t have artwork and models respectively because someone else already did them.
eager swift
Lip had a model?
chilly yarrow
Yeah. It's on the resource
eager swift
Do you mean the Captain Rainbow one?
eager swift
Ah, customs! Okay gotcha, thanks
chilly yarrow
intense
eager swift
Dem teeth.
chilly yarrow
Gerome is done. No render this time. I'm very tired
chilly yarrow
Who's the prickly purple porcupine? It's... it's... certainly not sonic!!!
chilly yarrow
I'm not sure if this is better or not
eager swift
Oops!
chilly yarrow
Huh?
eager swift
This is exactly the reason why I did Gerome and Snick back-to-back
I meant this lol Looks funny
chilly yarrow
Fun fact! Snick has a mouth I guess
unique sonnet
He does?
deep flicker
eat
unique sonnet
Oh, cool! I never realized Snick had a mouth until now.
chilly yarrow
Snick, It's Him. And here's his stats:
Old: 8,480 tris, 62 bones
New: 18,200 tris, 62 bones
New one sacrifices mesh optimization for greater useability. He's also slimmed down considerably since his last model
Trying to nail down modeling and rigging his spiky butt took forever
By the request of my friend Ruby, Brick the Rat will be next up on my todos
chilly yarrow
Rotta
chilly yarrow
Rotta
chilly yarrow
Ratatouille
chilly yarrow
timid vortex
Rotta rotat e?
chilly yarrow
open cairn
That's some hella nice rigging
chilly yarrow
Still needs a bit of tweaking but it's almost there
It's not at all that complicated actually
chilly yarrow
With Brick out of the way now, it's time I get to another animal friend...
eager swift
It's not at all that complicated actually
Wow! Love the shapes on this one! 🙂
chilly yarrow
open cairn
How much for a model comm 🥺
chilly yarrow
50$ USD
chilly yarrow
Yeah that's okay, I have a backlog I need to take care of anyways
chilly yarrow
mortus
open cairn
damn you are fast af
chilly yarrow
Not really. Mort and Brick were just really easy characters to whip out since they're so simple
I am going to be in a WORLD of hurt trying to finally deal with like, Peppino and Noise
eager swift
Do you box model, too?
chilly yarrow
Box model?
eager swift
Yeah, you create a box mesh, and shape/extrude parts from it.
chilly yarrow
And then use subdivision?
eager swift
Well, I think so? It's mainly for low-poly modeling.
chilly yarrow
Sometimes. I don’t do a whole lot of low-poly
eager swift
I see.. Thanks. It might explain why I'm so shit 😦
chilly yarrow
When i do low poly, i do tend to do that in combination with spheres and cylinders tweaked to be low. Plus some textured planes for fine details
eager swift
Ooh, that's actually a really cool technique. You inspire me.
chilly yarrow
mortus
Some of the details on Mort here were made with subdivided shapes, like the comb, wattle and beak
Really good for quick-modeling simpler shapes like that, but not so much worth it for more detailed stuff since it can get really complicated and time consuming
The Jimmy Neutron and Foodfight models I’ve studied used this method for the whole character
eager swift
I just wish I had the patience
chilly yarrow
Unfortunately it’s a lot of patience. And patience, and patience. And frustration
eager swift
I feel frustrated enough in life, but I would love to master this 🙂 I admire you for being so tough.
eager swift
What's point modelling?
chilly yarrow
Good question, i’d like to know too
eager swift
Anyway I'm really sorry to hear you got knocked off your PC. That SUCKS, geez. D:
deep flicker
What's point modelling?
When you start with a plane and build off from it
Basically imagine doing retopology
But there’s no sculpt to use
eager swift
Ouch. I am intimidated by and useless at sculpting D:
eager swift
I know I do! It's even good for normal mapping, etc. But it's damn hard, and I'd rather try to avoid getting a tablet.
chilly yarrow
Yeah you don’t need a tablet for that
eager swift
@deep flicker For me it's UV mapping
eager swift
Yeah you don’t need a tablet for that
Relieved to hear that. So I just gotta keep at it
deep flicker
<@148800714385129472> For me it's UV mapping
How so?
eager swift
I always manage to fuck up how they unwrap
deep flicker
I always manage to fuck up how they unwrap
trouble with seams?
eager swift
Seams, and placing geometry properly.
chilly yarrow
Good UVs and good rigging all come down to how good the final topology is
eager swift
And I struggle with that bigtime
chilly yarrow
It’s definitely a thing you have to kinda learn on your own, even with tutorials and stuff. But the main gist of it is:
Avoid tris unless you absolutely HAVE to.
Put more topology in parts that will inevitably bend a lot, like knees and hands and elbows
Shrinkwrap, Edge Loop, Face Grid Fill and Knife are your best friends
eager swift
I knew about the second one, and edge loops, but tris I heard are better. It's polys with more than 4 faces I heard were a problem
chilly yarrow
You’ll want to avoid tris and ngons while you’re making it. Tris come afterwards since it tends to screw up the flow of quads
Most things tends to triangulate faces automatically on import anyways (like unity)
eager swift
🤔 .... I just thought. I can make a lowpoly mesh, subdivide it, etc. and sculpt THAT 😮
chilly yarrow
Although sometimes manually triangulating stuff is a necessity when it screws up shading and corners. But I don’t usually have problems with it
eager swift
Yeah, I imagine.
deep flicker
Seams, and placing geometry properly.
as lumpy said, if your topology is good then seams shoudltn be that hard
jsut gotta visualize how you would skin it
like, literally skin it
chilly yarrow
Curves aren't something I get to use a whole lot when I do models
eager swift
I need to learn Blender to model lol. D:
unique sonnet
Fun and sometimes challenging - especially if you're a beginner.
open cairn
After you get past being a beginner it's smooth sailing
chilly yarrow
If you don’t have any prior experience doing art (like 2D illustration or clay sculpture) the learning curve can kick your ass
And even if you do, the learning curve still kicks your ass (just less so)
chilly yarrow
I’ve been trying to teach both my sister and her friend how to do blender lately. My sister does 2D art but her friend doesn’t. The difference in how easy they are to teach is astounding
My sister was able to knock out a good-looking sculpt on one of her first attempts. The non-artistic friend struggles to mirror a cube
I’m not sure how far either of them has made it at this point though. The non-artistic friend keeps getting frustrated and quitting and my sister hated the idea of having to retopologise
chilly yarrow
Face parts
chilly yarrow
the prophecy
eager swift
Ooooo 🙂 Lookin' good!
chilly yarrow
Pizzaface is done! (he was done a while ago actually. I kinda had a nap and forgot to post him earlier oooooops)
chilly yarrow
Taking a break from PT for a more personal project this time
open cairn
:O what's that character cause it's the post image
chilly yarrow
My other online persona that I should be using more often
open cairn
It makes me think of Viva Pinata without textures /pos
chilly yarrow
Preliminary texturework
open cairn
sheeny
eager swift
Wow, really slick!
chilly yarrow
We've come a far way
chilly yarrow
That model on the left was the very first one I ever made, back on August 29 2020. Almost 4 years ago now
Although the character itself is a bit older than that, but how much older I don't really remember... around 2018-ish? It's lying around in an old sketchbook somewhere
deep flicker
Kaino?
i find it interesting how she went from a 90s fever dream to a nintendo enemy
chilly yarrow
One of my friends really likes this Brick avatar I found
open cairn
HE OMG
chilly yarrow
Also I'm finally getting started on a new one, Mr. Stick.
I let my friends choose again and the amount of disappointment in their voices when I told them that Mr. Stick is just a bald white guy was incredible (I don't show them the characters, they only go off of names)
chilly yarrow
Sleep then
open cairn
sleep is for the weak D:<
chilly yarrow
Mr. Stick is probably the first of the complicated models I'll have to do, several heads to fit different sized mouths and stuff.... I do not enjoy doing that
eager swift
Mr Stick? lol
eager swift
Oh. Bald Waluigi in a business suit almost, basically.
chilly yarrow
All those pointy parts are going to piss me off too. It is very hard to rig a character with pointy joints
The only other character in PT who has those are Pizzahead and sometimes Peppino
eager swift
It's hard to MODEL them as well! I'm usually tempted to hack making pointed parts (select vertices, collapse lol)
chilly yarrow
Here's how I did the knees for Pizzahead... it's not a great solution, there's probably a better way to do this, but it works
The bone on the knee independently rotates the angle of that little tightly-packed bunch of vertices so that the upper and lower leg bones don't stretch them and make them rounded
eager swift
Like a helper bone, kinda?
chilly yarrow
Yeah. It's not uncommon to have a little rotator bone on the knees and elbows to help with smoothing it out. But I try to avoid them where I can to make it easier for others to use
eager swift
Eh. I struggle with rigging helpers. I look at them in the Smash Ultimate models since I'm working with them in SSBF, but Idk how to even approach that.
chilly yarrow
I think the first time I used helper bones was on.... my Obelix model, for the elbows
eager swift
About Obelix: I LOVE the Asterix cartoons. Your Obelix is like, PERFECTLY SPOT-ON on the looks.
chilly yarrow
jesus
eager swift
LOL even Obelix himself is like "Wuh??"
chilly yarrow
They way I did it on the asterix models was so incredibly janky
When I eventually (maybe) go back to fix these I'm definitely changing this
eager swift
Oof. Is it supposed to clip that much? I know it will when you bend it excessively?
chilly yarrow
Oh yeah, clipping is pretty much guaranteed when doing joints
It's just very prominent with Obelix since his arms are so thick
eager swift
Mhmm. Kinda like the King Cold model I have from DBZ Kakarot. He's extremely buff and bulky so it's inevitable.
chilly yarrow
I remember a quote from a Pixar guy, he was talking about his time working on Ratatouille. He had to do the rigging work for Gusteau (the chef guy who dies before the movie begins) and he said it was the absolute hardest job he had to do, ever. I understand what he meant now.
Fat/bulky characters are HARD AS FUCK TO WORK WITH
Oh nice embed discord
This guy
eager swift
Shit, look at that flab. That must have been an absolute BITCH to rig...
I can't even imagine how annoying those high poly af models are to rig...
chilly yarrow
Their models are actually not that high poly to begin with, they just subdivide it when rendering
eager swift
You can't tell me those realistic clothing folds aren't extra polys? 😮 I wonder about Remy's fur, too?
chilly yarrow
Oh, the clothes are definitely a high poly fabric sim, and the fur too is probably some kind of particle
They got whole crews dedicated to working on every single element of everything, it's nuts
But it really proves simplicity is best
eager swift
3D modelling is just ridiculous. And I get fuckin' discouraged working on a BASE HUMAN MESH
Carl kinda looks like he could be a Wii game-ready model
chilly yarrow
Just don't hold yourself to Pixar standards
eager swift
Lumpy. I want to make characters for my Smash fangame that are similar in quality to the official ones. Am I aiming too high?
chilly yarrow
That's doable, but aiming a bit high for starting out
chilly yarrow
We've come a far way
Remember, beginnings aren't supposed to be pretty
eager swift
I actually managed to make a semi-decent looking custom Mario model a while back. Let me see if I can dig up a pic. Wouldn't be surprised if I nuked it D:
Can't find it. I just wish I knew better how subdivision worked D:
chilly yarrow
The only reason I have all of my old stuff still is because I am a very bad digital hoarder
deep flicker
same
i save ike
20+ versions of my models
incase i need to pull a corbin blue and "run it back again"
(which i have had to do as well)
eager swift
The only reason I have all of my old stuff still is because I am a very bad digi...
Oh my same here. I just backed up a ton of old stuff on spare storage and put them aside.
chilly yarrow
This is what the folder where my early models are kept looks like. Most of this is trash or too low quality for me to really contribute anywhere
open cairn
Here's how I did the knees for Pizzahead... it's not a great solution, there's p...
Correction bones
eager swift
Still looks better than the shit I've "produced" lol
YO! that Deadman model SLAPS, Lump.
chilly yarrow
Thankfully I've smartened up a lot since then and now keep my models neatly tucked in their own folders (the new Pizza Tower models are not being kept here though, those are the old ones)
open cairn
Thankfully I've smartened up a lot since then and now keep my models neatly tuck...
'greg'
OH SPEKONG OF
chilly yarrow
YO! that Deadman model SLAPS, Lump.
Not really. It's just a bunch of models from like, sketchfab that I kitbashed together really quickly lol
eager swift
LOL!
open cairn
LUMPY DID YOU SEE THE GHS KICKSTARTER
chilly yarrow
I DID
eager swift
Thankfully I've smartened up a lot since then and now keep my models neatly tuck...
Yeah the old folder is a mess, I gotta admit XD
open cairn
WHAT NO WAYYY
eager swift
GHS?
deep flicker
66 dollars for a gregory model?
chilly yarrow
It's the model they're going to be using in the actual show
open cairn
$66 dollar tier that includes his model from the show
You bet I'm gonna be on that 3D model grab SO FAST
eager swift
DAMN AQUA you send messages fuckin' fast. I feel kinda redundant here lmao
chilly yarrow
is it the og?
The models from the original series are in an ancient lightwave format that's pretty much unusable by modern standards
open cairn
DAMN AQUA you send messages fuckin' fast. I feel kinda redundant here lmao
Sleep deprivation go brrrrr
deep flicker
The models from the original series are in an ancient lightwave format that's pr...
this implies they still exist in soem form
open cairn
The models from the original series are in an ancient lightwave format that's pr...
.lwo?
chilly yarrow
You see... remember my "japanese friend" who had been giving me info about this reboot long before it was revealed?
It was Mr. Iwata Naomi himself
eager swift
The models from the original series are in an ancient lightwave format that's pr...
Yeah, I wish the old ReBoot models made by Mainframe were salvaged. Apparently, they were purged..
open cairn
HUJ DUDE TELL HIM IM A HUGE FAN GODAYUM
OH MY GOD I WOULD KILL TO WORK ALONGSIDE MY FAVORITE ARTISTS
LUMPY LORE PLOTTWIST
deep flicker
whos the dude that did popee again?
chilly yarrow
I have no idea
eager swift
Lumpy is just that awesome 😇
open cairn
Lumpy try not to be the coolest person ever challenge
(failed cause Lumpy was too cool)
chilly yarrow
My work on the Gregory Horror Show Dark Deception fangame ended up attracting the attention of Mr. Iwata on Twitter, and that's how we ended up meeting
eager swift
God I'd DIE for that level of exposure. D:
chilly yarrow
Turns out he fully owns the rights to the GHS series and not milkyCartoon, which is a rarity
open cairn
Someday I wish that I can have this power of extreme autism
eager swift
I feel left out. Like I'm not autism enough 😭
open cairn
I work on stuff but I get lazy...
deep flicker
lucky!
open cairn
I will do like one super cool thing and then die for a month or two
I gotta learn to model like Lumpy 😭
eager swift
At least when you come back from the dead, people care 😦
deep flicker
tell him ill die for neko zombie
open cairn
Currently I'm like "Game optimized model go brrr"
eager swift
Goddamn..... I feel like, almost worthless now compared to you guys
open cairn
My first playthrough of GHS I got horror showed by Lost Doll as my first horror show cause I just wanted to talk to her :(
open cairn
Goddamn..... I feel like, almost worthless now compared to you guys
NOOOOOOO BE NICE TO URSELF
eager swift
How can I be?
deep flicker
Goddamn..... I feel like, almost worthless now compared to you guys
dont be like that chef
open cairn
also this is Lumpy's thread
deep flicker
you dont have aphantasia do you kold
eager swift
~~also this is Lumpy's thread~~
I started one and it got buried nearly immediately
open cairn
I started one and it got buried nearly immediately
Yeah same 😔
eager swift
"Aphantasia?"
I'm just the guy nobody's ever really cared about. Not just here, but in general.
chilly yarrow
"Aphantasia?"
I'm just the guy nobody's ever really cared about. Not just here,...
Aphantasia is like... can you imagine images in your eyes? Aphantasia is being completely unable to do that
open cairn
PEOPLE CANT?!?
eager swift
I can! I even picture how my game will look finished.
deep flicker
PEOPLE CANT?!?
people cant which is whack
chilly yarrow
Like if you had aphantasia, your brain would be a 5 on this chart
eager swift
Nah, I'm definitely not a 5 on there.
deep flicker
maybe having an overly vived and almsot nightmarish head thats constantly spews vivid images and extreme hypotheticals is a weird autism thing
thats or i learned how to do it through shcool
open cairn
Me when I imagine myself getting shit done
(I fell asleep in class today and dreamed I was 3D modelling)
deep flicker
we were taught to visualize stuff which may have planted that seed
open cairn
maybe having an overly vived and almsot nightmarish head thats constantly spews ...
Ohhh a lot of my images are... intrusive and unpleasant
eager swift
But yeah, my attitude didn't ALWAYS suck. Just, years of just being overlooked, ignored and treated like I don't matter have really fucked my mind up beyond repair.
eager swift
Ohhh a lot of my images are... intrusive and unpleasant
VERY MUCH SAME
chilly yarrow
Complete aphantasia is pretty uncommon from what I understand. Though about half the population lacks an inner voice believe it or not
open cairn
But yeah, my attitude didn't ALWAYS suck. Just, years of just being overlooked, ...
Oh I feel that
~~ might wanna go to #1027487025781280800 not to clog Lumpy's stuff unless she's fine with it~~
open cairn
Complete aphantasia is pretty uncommon from what I understand. Though about half...
THEY DON'T HAVE A BRAIN NARRATOR?!?!
eager swift
Yeah I feel bad about clogging this place up D:
chilly yarrow
I don't get bad thoughts (not very often anyways) But I definitely have maladaptive daydreaming... If I don't seem to pay attention to you I am probably busy watching a whole nonexistent movie in my brain
eager swift
Oh, I've been there. Sometimes I even write down ideas from them!
open cairn
I don't get bad thoughts (not very often anyways) But I definitely have maladapt...
Me when I make animatics in my head of my favorite characters
(I can't 2D animate for shit)
I tried once cause I suddenly was like "YOOO THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA I GOTTA MAKE THIS" and then I didn't know how to put it together so I used images on planes in Blender
chilly yarrow
No that's fair enough
Unlike what animators on twitter would have you believe, storyboards and animatics are NOT supposed to be fancy
eager swift
I think a lot of people try to make storyboards too "good", if you get my drift. That's supposed to be for the production
open cairn
Yeah I realized that when looking at Adventure Time and a moment of claroty hit me
it all felt so clear
eager swift
Anyway! To get back to models! @chilly yarrow Do you sometimes find it helpful to do planes with 2D drawings to help you model?
chilly yarrow
I once attempted to make a storyboard in Blender using the grease pencil
The problem is that I didn't (and still don't) know how to get the grease pencil to actually animate, so I just drew one giant mural of panels and keyframed the camera moving over each one of them
chilly yarrow
Anyway! To get back to models! <@498241195747704844> Do you sometimes find it he...
Using character turnarounds? I never make any myself but I do use them plentifully when folks give them to me
Most of the time I'm just going off of reference images and winging it
open cairn
Using character turnarounds? I never make any myself but I do use them plentiful...
I make my own turnarounds painstakingly
Actually I have some for even just Skylanders ocs
eager swift
Using character turnarounds? I never make any myself but I do use them plentiful...
Yeah, but sometimes I struggle with getting edge flow right
Shapes
open cairn
Me when pointy polygonal shapes <3
eager swift
It's like when I model, the topology just goes wherever the fuck it wants.
open cairn
I'm way too particular about topology 😭
Never done retopo once in my life
If it ain't good I start over-
eager swift
If it ain't good I start over-
omg I feel that
chilly yarrow
It's something you gotta kinda learn on your own, but there's plenty of ways to do it and none of them are really "wrong"
Except using raw sculpts and decimating them as your final topology, like I used to do. Don't do that
open cairn
Except using raw sculpts and decimating them as your final topology, like I used...
AUOOHGHHHHHH *dies at the mere thought of this
eager swift
i will stable kittens to a wall
No you won't. >:)
open cairn
i will stable kittens to a wall
NOOO I WILL SAVE T- *The kittens are decimated sculpt topology
NEVERMIND-
chilly yarrow
I'm gonna sleep on it for tonight, but how does this blockout look? I can't help but feel like there's something wrong with the proportions and I can't nail down what it is. This guy is only ever seen at 3/4 angles + constantly going off-model and it's a pain in the ass to come up with a turnaround
open cairn
I'm gonna sleep on it for tonight, but how does this blockout look? I can't help...
Taller glasses, more exaggerated torso, slight curve up on the nose?
chilly yarrow
Oh of COURSE there was an important angle I needed on the steam page.
(I completely forgot he was there)
eager swift
lol.
chilly yarrow
getting somewhere
chilly yarrow
"Oooh, a new tool. wonder what it does"
open cairn
"Oooh, a new tool. wonder what it does"
WH IS THAT
chilly yarrow
A brush that makes your mesh explode
open cairn
a brush? >:)
chilly yarrow
Something I've been doing lately instead of painting on the textures directly, is painting onto the vertexes and baking that to a texture
Also made an alternate sculpt to bake to normals in case people don't want him looking like he's wearing a business onesie and instead a proper suit
Does painting the vertices make it easier? No it doesn't. I just like baking things
chilly yarrow
I've also been baking AO maps and then putting them directly into the color textures to make certain details pop more
eager swift
Well damn. Vertex painting actually makes a shitload of sense
chilly yarrow
There's just one issue with doing it that way: The colors end up becoming just a teensy titch different than what you actually used to paint it with, so if you're working off of a color palette you need to adjust accordingly
eager swift
Weird. 😛 It's just hard to texture these damn things Istg
chilly yarrow
I have come to the sudden realization that I need more blender sculpt brushes
eager swift
Can you download more? Idk, I never tried
chilly yarrow
It’s really easy. You can even make your own if you have the knowhow
I don’t because I’m lazy and also i dont know how
eager swift
Holy crap, is that app ever customizable
eager swift
@chilly yarrow Just saw your N64 Pit. I'm very impressed with that, great job! 👍
chilly yarrow
... well that's new
eager swift
What is that?? Was that supposed to be a torus?
chilly yarrow
It’s supposed to be a convex lens shape. I fucked up by making that one vertex in the middle merged for both sides causing Blender to have a mini-freakout over how to calculate normals
eager swift
Uh oh!
chilly yarrow
Mmmmm, 4 million polys of pure z-fighting
eager swift
4 million? Damn
chilly yarrow
Degreebling
open cairn
He got lost in the sauce
eager swift
What happened to it?
open cairn
Lost in the sauce 😔
chilly yarrow
What happened to it?
After and before proper UV unwrapping. The pictures uploaded in the wrong order for some reason
eager swift
That is weird.
chilly yarrow
Taking a detour to work on something else for the fiftieth time
chilly yarrow
Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeth
open cairn
crunch
chilly yarrow
The hard part... I've gotta figure out how to deal with these multiple mouths
One's a small mouth like what you see in-game, the other one is a wider mouth like in McPig's doodles
The question though; Do I rig them separately? Or should they share the same armature?
Because eventually, I'll have to do the same thing for Peppino and Noise. Figuring out the best and most useable workflow now will save me a ton of trouble later
eager swift
DAMN that's a creepy critter 😮
chilly yarrow
Not really
In the game you punt him around during the golf stage. He's the golf ball
eager swift
Ok I got a good laugh outta that
chilly yarrow
I keep thinking "God this armature sucks, nobody will want to use this"
And then I remember this
open cairn
And then I remember this
what the HELLLL
PARACELCUS HUH
chilly yarrow
Oh that's his name
I kept forgetting what this dude's name was, All I remembered was Para___us, so when I kept trying to look him up all I got was pictures of dinosaurs and some birth conditions
As you can see I do not actually know anything about anything Guilty Gear
Parasaurolophus
chilly yarrow
VERY hastily done lip sync test that switches between the two different mouth models
Trying to see if it's too noticeable or not and if I need to go back and re-paint the weights to make it look good
eager swift
Looks pretty bloody good to me!
chilly yarrow
I asked some others and they couldn't spot when the model switches (I absolutely can but that's probably because I made it. Artist's curse of seeing all the flaws)
So I think That means it's complete
Which means I should get back to working on Mr. Stick since that thing I was waiting for never came up
But also, I need to redo Gerome because that asymmetrical mesh ended up being a BAD decision, and fix Pizzahead because when I was working on Gerome I accidentally overwrote some of his textures, yay!
chilly yarrow
progress
open cairn
:OOO
deep flicker
👺
chilly yarrow
I guess not having a controller means I gotta get off my keister and get back to work on this, huh...
eager swift
Hey, I'm liking the mouth!
open cairn
Sorry to bother but what version of Blender do you use Lumpy?
eager swift
Probably a newer version than mine lol mine's 2.93.18.
open cairn
Cause rigging seems to work for Lumpy lol
eager swift
I don't even know how to rig period hahah
chilly yarrow
4.1.1
eager swift
Whoa! I'm WAY the fuck behind if I wanna get into Blender models/rigs.
chilly yarrow
It's not much progress but it works
The plan is that he's gonna have a bone in the top of his head that you can use to make his face longer (because McPig is very inconsistent with the way everything is drawn and I've seen some folks prefer the long-faced version of his design)
eager swift
I'm envious of your topo skills
chilly yarrow
Honestly, this is far from my best work
Th head has way more faces on the backside than it should have, and look at those shoulders. egregious
eager swift
Better then the horseshit I produce D:
I'll show ya
Is that set for rigging, btw? Just curious.
Anyway, this is the mesh. (subdivided then TurboSmoothed)
deep flicker
Is that set for rigging, btw? Just curious.
Anyway, this is the mesh. (subdivid...
this arguably isnt even terrible
stupidly high poly yeah
eager swift
Well, I'm gonna use it to teach myself retopo.
chilly yarrow
Here's what one of the face models look like with and without the subdivision applied to it
Subdivision + shrinkwrap modifier does a lot of heavy lifting
eager swift
ShrinkWrap, you say? I woner if 3DS Max has an equivalent...
chilly yarrow
3ds max?! Is that what you've been using?
eager swift
Yea why?
chilly yarrow
I had assumed you were using Blender this whole time
eager swift
I wish! lol
Can I use more than one version though, Lumps? I use my version for Ultimate animations -> fbx
chilly yarrow
I mean, yeah. Just any advice I give might not apply
I pretty much just use the latest version
chilly yarrow
All that's left to do now is the rigging, I believe
chilly yarrow
I expect people to go nuts with rig abuse when i eventually release these to the public, so you gotta be prepared for the extreme...
(Don't worry, most of those bones are going to be merged into their parents when I'm done. Trying a new method for rigging multiple faces so I can hopefully avoid a lot of the troubles I had when doing greaseball.)
open cairn
pouyghjghrh
chilly yarrow
Character modeling has a lot of weird shit like this. And getting up close in angles no human should ever rightfully go
Next course of action here is rigging the teeth properly so they don't do... that
chilly yarrow
there's that horrible smile of his!
fair moat
Gerome is done. No render this time. I'm very tired
This material is terribly georgeous, how did you make it? (or should I just try substance painter...)
chilly yarrow
Uhhhh, a lot of trial and error tbh
Mostly, using PBR textures as brushes and fiddling with the settings to make it black/white and then comping it on top of a plain-color texture in photoshop (I don not have Substance painter)
That's if I'm remembering correctly
I actually need to re-do Gerome here in a bit, so I'll try and recreate the process step-by-step...
Hey kid, wanna buy some "N.F.Ts" They're this hot new thing for collectors, it's like a trading card but DIGITAL!
Huh? What do you mean those already fell out of popularity?! I'M the one who got scammed? (God damn it!)
I was a bit worried the bot would nuke my post for mentioning NFTs lol
chilly yarrow
Looks like I'd already gotten started on fixing Gerome a while ago but forgot about it... hm.
This reminds me of something, but I can't quite place my finger on it...
eager swift
Why do those bones look like a stache on their own?
chilly yarrow
Already looking miles better with a re-sculpting
Now I've got to retopologise it, then I'll use that retopology as the base for ANOTHER sculpt, for normals
chilly yarrow
@open cairn I know you're having trouble with topology rn, so here's a really quick tutorial I whipped up about face mask retopology
deep flicker
chilly yarrow
Hard surface modeling is not my specialty
chilly yarrow
Trying to test the "dpi" or such with the new UVs is... messy
I don't know why it took me so long to learn about UV pinning, but it's really been a big help
Fuck around with it too much though, and you just end up making your job harder
chilly yarrow
Well, the regular textures are done!
eager swift
Oh look, it's Thwomp with a stache lol
fair moat
It went from clay to plastic
wait...the shadows make it look like if he was made of milk-based ice cream
chilly yarrow
McPig draws Gerome very shiny, despite him being made of rock
The purple/pink color throws a lot of people off too. I’ve seen him mistaken for a block of ham/spam and a piece of candy before
chilly yarrow
I mean, I guess it's not like rocks can't be shiny
chilly yarrow
Got the first part of retexturing done, baking normals and some quick albedo work
(left is old, right is new)
I learnt something about sculpting in Blender that I feel is important to share
When you're going in to do subdivision for your sculpting mesh, DON'T subdivide it by hand. That'll tank your performance
By hand, I mean don't do right-click > subdivide or using the subdivision modifier
Rather, what you want to do is use a multiresolution modifier, and that'll let you subdivide the mesh way more times while maintaining computer performance.
With the multires modifier, I was able to squeeze a whopping 21 million tris into my scene for sculpting, with way better performance than if I had done it manually.
And no, that's not even an exaggeration!
But yeah, that's the first part of doing that kind of texturework without needing substance painter... sculpting and baking normals
open cairn
Oh I use dynotopo-
chilly yarrow
what's a dynotopo
open cairn
Sculpting but tools like, you don't need to subdivide beforehand
Idk how to describe it
chilly yarrow
Albedo and normals are finished. (just need to actually combine them in photoshop now)
For this step, first I created a new, blank white texture sheet. Then, I downloaded some PBR rock materials and used their AO maps as textures for brushes. Usually using "darken" as the blending mode.
Also used the PBR's normal maps and painted them on top of the ones I baked yesterday using "overlay" as the blending mode to give it a bit more noise detail
like this
chilly yarrow
And suddenly- woah, the textures are all complete!
So for the specular and roughness maps, I took that black/white detail map from earlier and adjusted the brightness and contrast levels until it matched the smoothness I wanted.
Then in Blender I did a little bit of painting to add extra shine to certain spots (namely the nose and edges where it looks flat on the normal map)
chilly yarrow
Alright, Gerome is officially done (now that I bothered to rig it)
...I'm looking at my list of characters to try and pick which one I want to do next and there's a bunch of shit in here that I don't remember adding. Half of it is incomprehensible
"Ninja" is written twice
chilly yarrow
from earlier tonight, me threatening to throw a roblox toddler in the oven while dressed as Peppino
open cairn
THAT LITTLE BITCH LILY
eager swift
LUMPYYYY! I can totally see someone doing that lol
open cairn
LUMPYYYY! I can totally see someone doing that lol
We were in VC last night playing roblox with other people too lol, this freaking roblox toddler lol
eager swift
Was Lumpy talking at all on VC?
open cairn
Yeah :D
eager swift
I would LOVE a simple walkthrough of how you make a simple model.
chilly yarrow
I'd love to, but there's a LOT of irl shit happening right now that's been wearing me down and keeping me from doing blender work
That's why I haven't been posting in here as frequently as I used to
eager swift
Oh dear..... Hey Lumpy, take a break and sort it out, ok? You've got my support. Please don't wear yourself down too much.
chilly yarrow
It's not anything bad, actually. Everything is good and beneficial, the problem is that it's happening very suddenly and all at once
I haven't mentioned any of it, since it's very personal. But rest assured it'll all turn out good
eager swift
If you need someone to DM and talk it out, I'm here for you ok?
deep flicker
I would LOVE a simple walkthrough of how you make a simple model.
I have like, a bunch of models showing that
eager swift
I have like, a bunch of models showing that
All righty!
deep flicker
I cvsn show when I get home
eager swift
You have prerecorded vids?
eager swift
I see. I was hoping for a walkthrough.
deep flicker
chilly yarrow
A while ago I tried recording a video of me doing a model from beginning to end, but I kept either forgetting to turn OBS on or turn it off, so I would end up either missing a huge chunk of the process or capturing huge spaces of inactivity or completely unrelated things
deep flicker
Also @eager swift watch darrin like
eager swift
Who?
eager swift
A while ago I tried recording a video of me doing a model from beginning to end,...
Lol yeah. I'm not much the streaming type either.
chilly yarrow
This is one of those videos. Completely unedited
one second long
absolutely scintillating
eager swift
Sounds like something I'd do all right!
chilly yarrow
There's not even any music. and I even had foobar open to play music
open cairn
*there's* that horrible smile of his!
Any advice for facial rigging like this?
Planning on modelling Sissel and I wanna somehow make sure his face can warp into his multiple expressions
eager swift
Who is this guy?
timid vortex
Sissel, from ghost trick, at least initially
chilly yarrow
Planning on modelling Sissel and I wanna somehow make sure his face can warp int...
Hmmm... have you ever tried low-poly modelling?
Not only would it fit the angular artstyle (at least from what I see of these images) but it would also afford you a lot of facial flexibility
tired cedar
open cairn
Hmmm... have you ever tried low-poly modelling?
Oh yeah good idea :O
eager swift
Hmmm... have you ever tried low-poly modelling?
I've done this to make Brawl styled lowpoly!
chilly yarrow
open cairn
waiT IT'S BACK?!?!?
chilly yarrow
Yep! And I had a scene in this
chilly yarrow
They had to post it to twitter because youtube kept nuking it
open cairn
Yeag :(
GOnan watch this until I see your scene
Actually gonna watch the whole thing
SAW UR SCENE
MADE MY LITTLE SISTER WATCH IT WITH ME "THAT'S MY FRIEND!"
eager swift
Yep! And I had a scene in this
You..... what? Whoa!
chilly yarrow
Trying to do a little practice so I don't get rusty. What is this for? I have no idea
unique sonnet
Monke.
timid vortex
monke
open cairn
monke
eager swift
Trying to do a little practice so I don't get rusty. What is this for? I have no...
Whoa, this looks pretty much pro!
bronze jackal
Trying to do a little practice so I don't get rusty. What is this for? I have no...
monke
chilly yarrow
gorrrdon freeeman, in the flesh. Or rather, in the, hazard suit
eager swift
I envy your prowess lol
chilly yarrow
I once again have no idea what I'm doing
chilly yarrow
A good sculpting brush can make even a beginner look like an old pro
deep flicker
Oh fr?
timid vortex
You appear to be neither.
timid vortex
Even the original 3D model was based off of concept art, which probably looked better than what you're working with right now.
chilly yarrow
Morrowind definitely has the best stylistic sauce out of all the “main” elder scrolls games, but the limitations of the time means they couldn’t use all of the awesome stuff that was in the concept art…
chilly yarrow
Almost all of sauce was evaporated when they revisited Vvardenfell in ESO
timid vortex
They did alright in 5 at least, if you liked the desolate, sandy bits of it anyway.
chilly yarrow
Not a lot of progress these past few days. Quite fond of how these bumpety back scale things are turning out though
eager swift
Daaaamn. Those are sculpts I can only dream of.
chilly yarrow
Masking is truly a lifesaver
And using the Multires modifier instead of subidividing manually. Because for some reason it's a lot less laggy when you do it that way
chilly yarrow
Crusty and leathery, just like I'm sure Michael Kirkbride intended
eager swift
Dang, that would look good as a 3D printout, ngl
chilly yarrow
Hokay, I think it's about ready for some color.
open cairn
How do you even begin UV unwrapping something like that though?
chilly yarrow
I haven’t done any retopology work on it yet, I’ll need to figure it out
It’s perfectly symmetrical except for the tongue, so that should save a lot of space on a texture sheet
eager swift
I'm blown away by the level of detail.
chilly yarrow
Since I’m not going to have access to my computer for a little while, trying something a bit different than usual
open cairn
Omg nice rubber hose art :D
eager swift
Wow, you're even good at paper drawings??
chilly yarrow
I gotta start busting my ass for this project, so let's start with something simple
Guar is being put on hold. Diverting all my energy for something Pizza Tower related
chilly yarrow
"Can't even walk across the street without getting my ass kicked." - that one npc fron deltarune
eager swift
Lumpy, you are talented. End of story. I love the expression lol
chilly yarrow
he is chuffing back a fat dart and that's all that matters
Glad I was able to make something before I went away for a week
chilly yarrow
I want to work on something so badly but I can’t AGAGGGRGRGGRGDGDGDGFFHGFFF
eager swift
Why? what's wrong
chilly yarrow
No computer access
eager swift
Oof. D: I feel that
chilly yarrow
I'm going to lose my goddamn mind
eager swift
What the fuck kinda filename is that?
chilly yarrow
pizza.
eager swift
I can see that. But looking for one particular song must be a nightmare, damn
chilly yarrow
Oh no, these aren't songs
eager swift
Why the Audacity icons?
chilly yarrow
These are groups of recordings from multiple 30-40 minute long youtube episodes that I've been editing down into 2~ minute clippings for the past few days
Which I will then edit down further so that I can use them in an animation
eager swift
So what IS Aup3, never heard of that format?
eager swift
I've never saved Audacity projects, I didn't know. I usually use Audacity for conversions
chilly yarrow
I will end up exporting these as MP3s later, I just have them saved as aup3s in case I need to edit them more easily later
for convenience and for file size's sake
eager swift
What are you doing with them, out of curiosity?
chilly yarrow
Seriously, some of these aup files are LARGER than the files they originally came from despite being 1/40th the length
eager swift
Uhhh..... How's that make sense?
chilly yarrow
🤷♀️ lack of compression?
eager swift
Or the data for Audacity itself to use added to it? Eh
chilly yarrow
But yeah, once I get to finishing these clippings then comes the fun part, storyboarding
Or animatic
Whatever term you wanna use
eager swift
What are you doing? Some kind of compilation or making them into one long video?
chilly yarrow
An animation using the clips as voice acting
I might need to prod a few users on here for additional voice acting if needed though
eager swift
Hey, if you need any help with that, I can do SOME va work
chilly yarrow
Though I'm not sure how many would be willing to do that since I won't be able to pay them (even if it is just one or two lines)
eager swift
I would do it for you. Not payment 🙂
chilly yarrow
I could probably rope my sister and her friends into it pretty easily
eager swift
My offer still stands 🙂 I'm willing to help.
chilly yarrow
I might be able to take you up on the offer if I don't get sick to death of this project before it takes off!
But for now it's all in the preliminary planning and prep stages
eager swift
Hey, if it doesn't take off? At least you tried 👍
I mean, right? 🙂 But for now, I wish you best of luck!!
chilly yarrow
Probably once I really get the wheels rolling on this project I'm going to make an entire separate thread for it
eager swift
And I will support it.
If ever you still want/need my help and stuff, just ring me up anytime! :3
timid vortex
Seriously, some of these aup files are LARGER than the files they originally cam...
Audacity no longer does destructive editing being a certain version (unless there's a setting for it or something), so the whole track, plus whatever things you added to it.
chilly yarrow
I have the version that's from... just before the update where they said they would be monitoring audio for copyright infringement or something
Er, let me check
3.0.0
timid vortex
I think it got added at that point.
eager swift
Monitoring audio? That sounds sketchy as fuck.
chilly yarrow
Trying to pay attention to video audio I'm trying to clip for important moments and doing research on Naruto characters at the same time is making me question how good i am at multitasking
... both of them are relevant to the video, i swear
I'm gonna be for real Naruto seems to be a bunch of incomprehensible bullshit
I can't even pick a character to include in the section of the video where they talk about anime cosplays
eager swift
Multitasking is hard D:
chilly yarrow
While I'm struggling to find a specific bit of audio from one of the streams, I started another simple one
open cairn
omg hes so eepy...
chilly yarrow
starting another simple one
chilly yarrow
POV: you are peppino
eager swift
wtf
chilly yarrow
i mean
eager swift
lol
blazing scarab
Thank you for uploading the avatar you did for me! ^^ Love the O'Chunks and Dimentio models!
shut warren
Asterix and Obelix. I was going to upload these to the Resource, but I remember ...
I hope you manage to still upload them I love these models.
chilly yarrow
GAHHHHHHHH
Okay, I've watched the entire playlist of videos like, 4 times over now. and I CANNOT find the specific segment im looking for
Did I hallucinate them talking about pokemon, or something?
eager swift
Privated/deleted perhaps?
chilly yarrow
no, none of their videos have been privated or deleted
eager swift
Lumpy. Hear me out. Did you PLAY any Pokemon game while watching?
chilly yarrow
Nope.
eager swift
Blows that theory, shit! That's odd.
chilly yarrow
I specifically the conversation they were having. They were talking about which pokemon games they had played, the lady talks about pokemon scarlet and the man mentions only having played the original red/blue/yellow
eager swift
Maybe you have the wrong series?
chilly yarrow
it's only this series of theirs i've watched
eager swift
Strange.
I've had it happen to me too though. Where I thought I hear shit and I actually didn't.
chilly yarrow
if i could remember which level they were playing, it would narrow it down a lot since i could just skip around the videos to find it
eager swift
Maybe you should do it the long way and watch the whole fucking thing. Tedious, but yea
chilly yarrow
oh, but i have. like four times over
eager swift
Each and every second?
chilly yarrow
yup
eager swift
That's a headscratcher indeed.
blazing scarab
You sure you didn't dream it, or that it was an ad in the middle of a video? Or…wait. Can videos be edited?
My suggestion at this point would probably be to record the voice stuff yourself, using a voice changer if you have one, or barring that, using something like Audacity to alter your voice to match the woman's voice, and a voice changer / Audacity to record the way a man should be saying and rope in a male friend of yours to record themself saying it and using Audacity to change the voice to match what you remember?
chilly yarrow
... that is extremely elaborate and also probably wouldn't work
eager swift
That sounds like more effort than it's worth, too.
eager swift
Do tell. I'm curious
blazing scarab
You change the pitch and add in space between the words.
eager swift
I get weird graininess when I do that.
chilly yarrow
In the meantime while I go through this for the fifth time, I went back and improved Snick's model with a fun trick I learned with normals
eager swift
Snick?
blazing scarab
To make up for what was lost in speed. Or change the pitch and slow it down. For making a low-pitched voice higher pitched.
The reverse for high pitch to low pitch.
eager swift
Oh, some Sonic type-o thing.
blazing scarab
You add space between words (or remove some of the space). The trick is to restore the original length of the recording.
Because pitch change changes the speed, too.
chilly yarrow
a character with so little official material the image search is almost all fan material (inlcuding my old model!)
eager swift
Your model shows up on search results? Wow!
blazing scarab
By pitch change, I'm not referring to changing the bitrate, but rather one of the filters.
eager swift
I wish I knew bitrates too.
But yeah. I know the pitch change filter
blazing scarab
Or whatever Audacity calls them?
I don't know the terms either. Boot up Audacity and I'll show you, since I know where the stuff is generally located.
eager swift
Which version are you on?
blazing scarab
Don't remember.
UI shouldn't be too different, though.
I'll remember when I see the words.
chilly yarrow
It'd be kinda weird to fake a conversation even though there's a real version of the exact same conversation sitting somewhere in here
eager swift
Still weird that you can't find it though.
blazing scarab
If you can't find it, what other option do you have?
chilly yarrow
Your model shows up on search results? Wow!
I've also had my model renders stolen off of the models resource and used in video thumbnails, lol
chilly yarrow
No, they don't
eager swift
I'd credit you. I'd actually prefer to ask your permission first to use your stuff.
chilly yarrow
In fairness, it's almost always the obscure characters with little/no clean official art
eager swift
I wish they'd at least reach out to you, damn.
blazing scarab
In both copyleft and copyright, they agree you should always give credit where credit is due. Their differences lie in whether you can use them.
chilly yarrow
The only time people have reached out to me were people asking me how to port the models to gmod. multiple times
I don't know how to port models to gmod
chilly yarrow
Starting another set of simple ones
eager swift
lol That looks funny!
open cairn
Omg mushoom...
chilly yarrow
Okay, I have a question for y'all
What shape do you think this dude is supposed to be?
chilly yarrow
I MAY have accidentally overwritten the mushroom
Thank god for Blender's auto backups LOL
open cairn
Cube
chilly yarrow
don't you dare talk to me or my son ever again
blazing scarab
Shape? Probably a flat slice of cheese. It would have been drawn differently if it were the other shapes you linked,
Swiss, to be specific.
Because Swiss cheese is white and looks like that when sliced.
Though you could try asking the game dev.
Maybe the game dev will even hire you after seeing your work.
timid vortex
Wedge.
chilly yarrow
It’s a bit late, i already did the cheese 😅
I ended up making it a very uneven cube shape
chilly yarrow
the fun gang
chilly yarrow
Wallpaper render
Something horrible I discovered when making this render: the lighting in my new room flickers when doing high-intensity rendering
eager swift
How does that work?
chilly yarrow
This house probably can't handle the power draw from my computer
eager swift
Sounds like an electrical problem :/
Let me ask a question that's (maybe) personal a bit: id your new house an older construction?
chilly yarrow
The previous house was older, but didn't have this issue
eager swift
I asked because the one I live in is from the 80s, and has a really weak electrical system that's easily overloaded. That's all.
chilly yarrow
This new house is from... I think late 80's/ early 90's?
eager swift
My house's electricals were done directly by my uncle before he moved to Australia: not by a pro electrician, so it needs work.
chilly yarrow
I did notice the lights in my room flickering when the washer/dryer/vacuum were turned on but that seemed more normal to me since those have a high power draw
eager swift
But from a computer, that's just a touch odd, that's why I was wondering.
chilly yarrow
And the lights in the old house also flickered when the vacuum was on. But not my computer
eager swift
Mhmm. I wonder if your set up is weaker like the one in mine is?
chilly yarrow
Might be...
eager swift
Pardon my indiscretion, Lumpy, but do you or your family know any electricians by trade?
chilly yarrow
Not that I know of. My stepdad might, he has a lot of industry connections
I don't think he or my mom would be willing to shell out to get the electrics checked right now, though
eager swift
I wish in my case I could get it fixed, but I'm starting to wonder if it's better to wait and tear the whole fucking thing down and start over afresh, even if more pricey.
Yeah, that's a problem. It's probably kinda expensive to deal with.
This house is going to eventually become a danger zone with how bad my dad has been neglecting it (he was the handyman back when)
chilly yarrow
Thankfully we haven't had any outages yet. even with the laundry room running and my computer this side of the house has held up so far. Just when I do a big blender render does it get a bit screwy
I'll have to keep it in mind for later though, back up my shit before doing anything major
eager swift
That's really weird though, I've never heard of one singular computer doing that.
How recent is your machine, I'm asking because I don't know if newer or older, how that compares power-usage-wise.
chilly yarrow
About a year old
eager swift
Okay, so then it shouldn't make too much difference. Strange case. But like I said. Reminds me a lot of my house's electrical system.
chilly yarrow
I think I'm just going to end up cutting the pokemon scene from the video entirely
chilly yarrow
At least that means I get to start proper work on the video, but I'm still upset because I had such a good gag planned and I won't get to realize it
eager swift
Yeah. That's never fun.
chilly yarrow
It's showtime.
chilly yarrow
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a new thread for my big animation project
It’s where I will be posting updates for it so as to not clog up this thread
chilly yarrow
Cooking up a lil something to keep my modeling skills sharp
Not related to the video, just something I wanted to try. maybe I'll use it in the video? we'll see. Probably uploading this one to the resource when it's done
hazy stratus
This looks great 🍕
blazing scarab
Looks like straight from an N64 Banjo game.
chilly yarrow
Sometimes I question my own sanity
- This is also tangentially related to the Pizza Project but for the most part no I just decided to do this on a whim
chilly yarrow
I don’t know if my anatomy is anatomying properly or if im just overthinking it
chilly yarrow
Got distracted, spent the last 2 days making this thing instead
Don't know what it is, or what I'm going to use it for. Everything is done using vertex colors (even the roughness/specular is done using vertex color data)
Thinking of giving it a hat cause it looks kinda bald
chilly yarrow
Sock the Tsuchinoko
Got a bit crafter with the materials this time, primary color is still provided by vertex colors but needed additional texturework mixed in for the scale detail
Had to add another layer of vertex color data to make sure they went where I wanted, too
chilly yarrow
Can't decide if subdivision or retopology would be better for this one
chilly yarrow
A good blockout beforehand will take you far in sculpting
open cairn
A good blockout beforehand will take you far in sculpting
how do you get it to all merge together so neatly like that?
When I sculpt like that it all cracks apart
chilly yarrow
Join the meshes first, then on the sculpting tab do "remesh" and set the number to something lower than default
open cairn
ouhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
chilly yarrow
Just know it will murderize your computer's memory. Also has a high likelihood of crashing if you crank it too low
chilly yarrow
A better method of doing it would be to start by making a simple model using the subdivision method and then do Multiresolution and sculpt on that while it's active
open cairn
Watching the OTGW reanimated with big autistic eyes
chilly yarrow
Finished retop on the dragon.
I may have gotten sidetracked
Will probably copy the wings over from anchovy since they use the same wing design
I have so many projects to work on right now
chilly yarrow
Finished the Dragon. Felt weird leaving it half-baked on the sidelines despite there being a lot more shit I should be doing right now
Actually pretty proud of how the rigging turned out.
chilly yarrow
shit be feeling like silent hill out here
open cairn
Cooking up a lil something to keep my modeling skills sharp
Oh do you have any advice for making PS1 styled models like this?
I want to make some Skylanders...
chilly yarrow
Depends on what game you're trying to style your models after
Mine is Spyro specifically, but you could go for something like Crash or Final Fantasy
eager swift
What the hell, another one
how do you transform multiple parts into a single mesh in blender?
this is impressive work btw
chilly yarrow
(CTRL+Shift+J) and then doing voxel remeshing, sculpting and then retopology
open cairn
Mine is Spyro specifically, but you could go for something like Crash or Final F...
I was thinking Spyro too
eager swift
(CTRL+Shift+J) and then doing voxel remeshing, sculpting and then retopology
i'll study this tysm!!
chilly yarrow
Finally decided to make some actual progress on my shot. Gave up trying to deal with fabric sims and just rigged the clothes mesh normally.
Now that I have an actual character in my scene, it's clear I might need to readjust the lighting for the envrionment a bit
Prolly won't have another update until after the holidays
open cairn
I was thinking Spyro too
did you have a guide at all or did you just look up references..
chilly yarrow
did you have a guide at all or did you just look up references..
Shit, sorry. I got sidetracked by like 500 different things
No, I just looked uo reference images and then went from there
Using actual textures from the game helps a ton. Usually eye textures, which they reused a lot anyways
E.G. The eyes on that Peppino are ripped from the game, but the teeth and shirt fold texture are both custom
open cairn
Shit, sorry. I got sidetracked by like 500 different things
Sorry 😭
chilly yarrow
Probably should have toned down the teeth tbh, they're very crash-bandicoot esque
The Thief I made for my El Dorado project is entirely custom, even the textures
Eyes, Hat Pattern, Ears, Mouth and then one reused texture for the toes, fingers and cloak wrinkling
open cairn
TYSM this actually helps a lot looking at these
chilly yarrow
Yeah, there's a specific shader setup you gotta use for it to look accurate, which includes making the ones you want to blend with vertex colors b/w
Here. use this
It'll give you an idea of how to do the topology, and you can just copy the shader setup from here bc it's a pain in the ASS to set up manually
chilly yarrow
In other news, I've made slightly more progress with OTGW
And I am also: Back On My Bullshit
open cairn
In other news, I've made *slightly* more progress with OTGW
Can I get that frog drawing I love it 😭
chilly yarrow
go nuts
chilly yarrow
yeyeyayeu
open cairn
this image lives forever in my heart
chilly yarrow
Mesh is done, comes out to roughly 18k tris. Will likely be a bit more since there's still a bit of work needed to be done, but it's pretty good!
Time for texturing!
chilly yarrow
