very impressive texture work

thank you

TIME IS YOUR ALLY

well not really, as i don't pull the popular party line of "hate human men with anthro women but love the reverse" like almost all the popular crowd does i have to put out a LOT just to keep afloat. and no i won't just go pull the party line as that would be giving in to bullies

well then i just learned something

She's absolutely a vision. Beautiful work Hatton

thank you

Looking great

It's obvious you're much better than me in zbrush. I'm too lazy to learn it :P

just do what i do and keep hammering at it, also try using daz free stuff as base models

Nah I prefer to work with a 2d texture look as you can see to focus on other stuff ;3

Chuckle.

The shoulder(s) rig for that should be quite the adventure :D


How many hours / day do you think you spend in Z / Blender ?

ohh that is a tough one because this was made in sections from different models

so first there was the head morph from the DAZ gen 3 model (which is a bad idea in hind site because i will have to delete the mouth and teeth and rework the inner mouth because it was all one selection and won't rig very well) so the morph was about 1 hour

then there was the deleting of extra verts and stitching the gens, tail and arms together of both the 2 and 4 arm version THEN re-UV-unwraping and tweaking all the islands plus getting a base texture ontop somy guess is around ten hours in total

Chuckle.

Dr. Frankenstein would be proud :D Ten hours is ten hours though, lots of folks don't understand the time commitment for a lot of this stuff.
I'm still playing in Blender and I think I've got the blendshapes thing down. Next on the list is building drivers to animate the BS with.

The way they work the camera definitely has a lot to be desired though. I miss Max and its easy " put target on what you want to see and done " setup. . .

click on what you want to be the center of you camera and then pres the period/del key on your num pad. the camera will then center around what you have selected

Cool.

One thing Blender ( and all the 3D apps for that matter ) aren't short on is shortcut keys. . . . .


I did find the " Lock Camera to View " option and it's quite nice. I'm playing around with a test render at the moment to see how this Cycles thing works out. It looks similar in setup to how Mental Ray works via nodes, so I don't foresee too many learning issues there.

if you ever figure out SSS and why normal maps don;t work let me know please

Your normal map oddity, are you referring to creating them ( probably not since coming from Z ) or applying them in Blender ?

applying them they just don't seem to have any affect