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Dragon update - Harness
🕑 Added 2020-02-16 08:30:05 +0000 UTCI had a weekend day to myself today, and as always I force myself not to work on weekends just so I don't spiral into working forever, so I decided to set some commission stuff aside for a bit and work on a personal for-fun thing. I'm building a harness for the derg!
This has actually been a pretty huge project. I started this around noon today, it's now about 4:30 am and I've only just got it basically built and rigged. Building it took a long time but wasn't too hard... rigging it was a damn nightmare though. I only just barely have it working, hah. The materials still need lots of work, it's just sort of flat black right now but I want to give it detail and texture and all that good stuff eventually. Just keep in mind that it's in an alpha sort of state right now, which is why I'm posting it here!
Also you can see some updates I've made to the derg himself, which I don't believe I've shown off yet even though I made those changes quite a while back. I changed the way his wings connect to his body- originally I had the membrane connecting to his body vertically (You can sort of see it here https://www.furaffinity.net/view/34500017/ ), but suddenly one day when I was not even thinking about this model it just popped into my brain that... well that makes no sense and I have to fix it. If the poor fella flapped his wings to try and fly he'd just throw himself backwards that way. It was another fairly long job to fix that, requiring a lot of re-unwrapping and texture painting, but it works much better now.
I've also got a full suite of bondage gear in the works for him, but I can't show that here so you'll just have to wait a bit to see that. :P
Both the derg and the harness are WIP's still, so forgive the wonkiness. But I hope you find it interesting!
Comments
Ruaidri
Thanks man! I do have an idea that I think will be pretty fun... will likely be a lil' while before I can get to it, but I think it's gonna be good stuff!
James Dawes
I have to agree. I love how much detail you put into your models and I can't wait to see what torture you inflict on this guy.
Ruaidri
Thanks man! You know I'm almost never going to make a character without trying them up sooner or later. x3 Definitely looking forward to sharing that once they're all done. I also can't help but try and make appropriate texture on anything I make. It makes such a huge difference, rubbery looking 3D models are always such a turn off, in my eyes it's really the minimum bar for for a model to at least have some texture in there. Definitely always happy to hear it's appreciated though, hah. Thanks man!
Bloudin Ruo
Oh wow I love this so much! Gear in general is a ton of fun to me so this is awesome to see, and to hear that you have a whole set of bondage gear in the works for this guy is also a huge treat! Another thing I'm going to have to work into a monthly suggestion image/small animation for the polls :) I definitely think the more 'traditional' membrane/wing design you have now works better, but I wouldn't have been able to say that without seeing both versions side-by-side. Looks like you needed to do it anyways to get the underarm strapping for this rig to work as well, yeah? So in the end it was a positive change! And I just have to say how -insanely crazy- the details are on the dragon. All the scratches and gouges in his plates, horns and scales, just amazing! Most animators would have stopped far short of the detail level you have on him now, and to think you're still adding to it... Great work and can't wait to see his bondage gear!
