...or a dobbie, I cannot decide. In any case, it seems like I'm getting the hang of it with the sculpting. The whole thing took just a couple of afternoons. It's not like I'm in a position to go to a furry con (as ever...) but it would have been a fun stunt to be able to make such things on the spot. It's probably doable with enough experience.
The hair here is my "regular" particle strands instead of sculpted. I choose that for speed as I'm simply much more familiar with this technique. As a result, the model is not immediately 3D-printing-friendly. But it should be possible to sculpt the solid strands along the shape of the current ones. This might be actually a good way to approach it, use particles for achieving the desired hair style quickly and then just sculpt the printing-friendly version on top of that.
The actual reference image: https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com...../seed39783.jpg
The hair here is my "regular" particle strands instead of sculpted. I choose that for speed as I'm simply much more familiar with this technique. As a result, the model is not immediately 3D-printing-friendly. But it should be possible to sculpt the solid strands along the shape of the current ones. This might be actually a good way to approach it, use particles for achieving the desired hair style quickly and then just sculpt the printing-friendly version on top of that.
The actual reference image: https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com...../seed39783.jpg
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Canine (Other)
Gender Female
Size 935 x 1024px
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Thank you! I wish I was comfortable with more... expansive, epic scenes in my art, then I wouldn't need to limit myself to just the makeup.
Great to hear! True to reference was most important. If I only figure something out about retopo, I may be able to crank such things out in 3 to 4 afternoons, together with printable version. I never cared about commissions because of the effort involved, but If I ever manage to make such things effortlessly, that may be a different talk...
Retopo may look like an overkill for such a simple project, but without it it's very hard to apply even such simple textures in any controlled way. And there are residual irregularities from sculpting on the rendered surface. The Bsurfaces add-on bundled with Blender is great help with speeding up retopo but it still takes a while.
Retopo may look like an overkill for such a simple project, but without it it's very hard to apply even such simple textures in any controlled way. And there are residual irregularities from sculpting on the rendered surface. The Bsurfaces add-on bundled with Blender is great help with speeding up retopo but it still takes a while.
It's all in the eyes, they say. ;) These sculpts are much more cartoony than my regular art but I'm still looking for a happy medium there when it comes to the eyes. Some people keep complaining about "uncanny valley" occasionally and it seems like a controlled cartoonization, as I did with the antelopes, is the answer.
some people seem to fall into that valley easily. I have it gotten explained to me multiple times, but I still don't understand "Uncanny Valley". how can somethign look too real to be real?
I have talked to someone who hates to see fursuit masks/heads with use-your-own-eyes, because uncanny valley... for me it can't look real enough.
I have talked to someone who hates to see fursuit masks/heads with use-your-own-eyes, because uncanny valley... for me it can't look real enough.
You're right. This "uncanny valley" is something people overuse, often as a synonym to "I don't like this". I also don't quite have understanding of it, I mean, I get the logical explanations that something can be unsettling by looking almost real but still missing the mark. But I also hardly perceive this effect myself.
maybe this is a mark of creative people? aside the tendency for mental illnesses and such, and seeing something in everything.
Yeah, maybe. Also we as artists in the furry fandom are used to seeing all manners of not-exactly-human characters. While other people may not be so used to it, and then they overreact more easily when seeing such a thing. Sometimes it gets comical. I put some of my animations on YouTube, and one of them received the longest, profanity-filled rant of some poor "normie" who apparently got so shocked at seeing my "sexy animal hybrids" that he wrote about a half page worth of angry text. Just reading this took longer time than playing the animations themselves! Admittedly I got pretty furious in turn and deleted the thing, but now it feels pretty humorous.
can't you delete comments, too? I'd have done that, rather. if they don't like it, say so, but profanities? fuck no.
Should have been more specific, I didn't delete the animation, but the comment (and then disabled them altogether). But now I'm wary about putting anything more there, appears as if folks cannot handle this even if it's still well within SFW territory...
Thanks! The choice of makeup was very deliberate. The town I'm coming from is only some 80 km from the Ukrainian border, we always had much contact with people from there and I'm taking the whole current situation very personally.
It's worth taking personally, whether yer from right near by, or far away.
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