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OwO What's this?
🕑 Added 2019-06-01 01:11:01 +0000 UTCWhat 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 felt like kind of a dick move to just not make the model I was half way finished with, so I just sorta kept at it. And in the end, I got it done within the time frame too! It's an encouraging sign that I could finish this one reasonably quickly.
Especially since I spent a few days of that time messing around with new methods of doing fur. One of them didn't work at all- it involved extruding some 2D planes and texturing them like fur and erasing alpha to make the planes look like tufts of fur. Works in games when viewed from a distance, but I couldn't make the fur look 'full' enough that way. Just wasn't looking good.
So I went on to the other thing I wanted to try, which was Blender's Eevee renderer. If he looks a bit different from my other models, that's why. The normal renderer is designed with reaslism in mind and can look very very good, but it's also super slow. Eevee is less reaslistic, uses a lot of tricks to try and emulate the way light behaves so it doesn't look perfect, but it's much faster. This takes about 1:30 to render, where rendering the same model in Cycles would take probably 7-8 minutes. He would look better in cycles, but I'm not sure he look better enough to make that extra time worth it. Take that 6:30 per frame, multiply it by the 1400 frames my last animation was, and that's an additional six -days- of 24/7 rendering... I'm not saying I'll make the switch for sure, but it's definitely worth exploring.
Anyway. He's not fully finished, there are some shape keys to make little details to tweak, but he's reached a good base point to share. I'd love to know what you think so far!
Comments
Psythu
He's beautiful!
Bloudin Ruo
Sorry for the late comment, but coming back from vacation and turning on my phone to see a model of Gale was a giddy moment for sure! I'm super glad you decided to do both, and to be honest I was a little bummed he didn't win by -one- vote, so this just made my month! As for the fur rendering, there are very few times where a marginal sacrifice in quality for speed pays off, and this is definitely one of them. I think the Eevee software you used here did a great job and puts up over 90% of the quality of the raw Cycles, which for the increase in productivity and moreover quickening the learning pace since you can work on many more projects with the reduced render time, is well worth it! Gale himself also looks so stunning! The expression you put on him with his eyeliner... Mmmf! Hard to resist such a boy :) Very much looking forward to seeing what kind of situations you place him in, and fantastic work as always!
Lasse T. Stendan
The fur looks very good, at least in a still image like this. There is always the possibility that something looks good in a static image, and then becomes mind-shatteringly awful in motion, but this looks very good indeed.
Waxwing
Goodness I forgot how much I love Gale<3 Love his little cage x3
Ruaidri
Hah, thanks man! I'll do my best, should hopefully be plenty of cool stuff down the road!
Warren
Not gonna lie, I started being a patron less than 30 minutes ago and this is the first thing I see and I'm not disappointed. x) Keep up the good work and keep being awesome. :3
Rhewlif
I love him so much
Ruaidri
You should! That would be cool to see. He's a cutie and the world needs to see him violated in 3D. xD
Ruaidri
Usually if two tie or are very close together I'll try to combine them somehow, but for this one they were in two entirely different mediums, so I did both. Wouldn't expect it to become a habit though. ;P
Ormur
Ahh, I was secretly hoping you'd do both of the top ones.
Kulza
your really making me have to try my hand in doing kulza in 3d. i havent done an entire character before
Scarlet565
Cutie boi gets ALL the hugs!
DjtHeutii
He looks lovely :)
Eddie SanHusky
WOOO! Green Chastity Gale is awesome in 3D!
Carbine Cat
Gosh what a cutie!
