the enigma of the mountain

I super duper don't like/ am awful at environments, so I'm attempting to remedy that by studying cool environment photos.

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some sketches I did a long time ago and are currently my twitter background because yes.

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She was cute so color! I kinda want to do a whole thing with this pallette

oh hay there

So here's this thing from the WIP I posted eons ago, I finished this also eons ago and looking at it now there's something about her eyes that look a bit wonky but I'm just gonna say it's a comment on realism. We can't all be symmetrical. Legit.

This lady was inspired by a Mount Everest documentary, the climbers had red faces and this really white zinc/sunscreen streak on their noses and I thought it would be cool markings on some fantasy snow mountain village people or something. YES.

I have some other stuff over on my tumblr that I'll be posting here, keeping it all alive and whatnot.

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Another tiny Lola drawing, my dog is so cute it hurts to look at her.

so this is done

So here's the final video from that project I've been posting about, this is probably my first time actually animating in 3D so all things considered it turned out pretty all right. 

For this first one you should probably actually view it on youtube, in 720p, it's not as fuzzy.  In fact all of them would probably be better viewed in 720p, haha.

Turntable

Really short walk cycle

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A WIP of Mabel & Dipper from Gravity Falls that I may never finish but maybe I will.

how this happened

So I noticed I had a billion versions of the kukri thing all over my computer and dropbox, and because of that I could kind of make this really..........involved process thing of this painting.

So we start with what I posted a few weeks ago, a sad attempt at skin color over the pink value sketch. Just an overlay layer or something.

I thought that was too pink so I tried to make it more brown, I initially was trying to make her darker skinned, but it wasn't working. :/

 Here is where I started trying to paint over more aggressively and the skin lightened up, mostly because I couldn't get the values right and I just went with pale as the driven snow, haha. The next skips some steps but I just painted over everything, I just kind of picked at it for a few days. I realized her face wasn't working for the 'third dimension' so I had to redo it. I didn't follow my initial value sketch at all as I have a hard time with that process for some reason and tend to just jump right into using color. Even though I really tried not to do that here. :C

Here's pretty close to final, I spent most of my time on the face.

After some texture stuff and some layer effects, HERE WE GO.

and that's how you probably shouldn't do things.

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a little bird I found in an old psd

sketchtime

Here's some sketches I posted on tumblr a bit ago.  I usually post my sketchbook stuff there.

I've messed around with these in photoshop a bit to make them more presentable. These are from the past few weeks or so.

a lady

inspired by the description of Angeline in the Barbed Coil by J.V. Jones

a robot lady with some blue stuff on her

a BUNCH of stuff in one long image, wreaks havoc on pop up image viewers >8D (open it in a new window/tab to see it better)

SUPA DOUBLE BONASSSUUU

A current render from my animation project that I'm ALMOST done with, and am also looking very much forward to finishing (I'm not the..uh..best animator it gives me pains to say, so it's been hard.) yay.

wip wop

A screenshot of some of the junk I've been trying to paint/draw lately D: D: D: I want to finish these but with school starting again next week it maaaay not happen yet. It sucks because I really need to learn how to refine more.

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A little sketch of my puppy Lola, who I've been attempting to draw in some sort of cartoony style forever.

Pictured here in both real and adorable painted version (by tinykittenteeth)

the zuz

More on this deal. FUN TIMES

I've changed the Zuzu model a bit to be more appealing, due to some feedback that mentioned she looked like a 'tiny adult'. I rounded her face, made her less 'curvy', brought her nose up, and enlarged her eyes a bit.
I've included the and older (blue lines) and current (black lines) versions, in her sass pose. you can definitely see a difference I think.

Here's also some texture passes, the first one was halfway between the old geometry, and the new one, so she's got some major chin stuff going on, haha.

I decided since this character is a girl and people keep thinking she's a boy, I'd get some eyelash enhancements all up in this. Here's a before and after on that:

It's definitely Maybeline

This is also experimenting with some skin shader settings (Maya SSS Fast Skin with pretty much default settings, haha) I liked how it looked here, but unfortunately found out too late my model was flippin' huge  and unless I wanted to rename my short 'Attack of the 40 Foot Tall Baby', I had to fix that. But scaling her down messed up the lighting and skin shader settings so I had to start from scratch. :c

This is where she's at now, I need to do a bit more on the onesie texture, particularly that tree needs to be a dark green and not so blurry. I want the lighting on her face to be a bit warmer and less dark brown/red but I'm having a hard time getting there.

So next was the environment, here's my first pass, which kind of ended up as my final pass, haha, guess the first time was the charm. This is definitely with subdivision preview on, I would show you the one without it but it's too hilarious, you'd die.

Some rough lighting here.

Here's my lighting concept/color key/what have you

I have a screenshot of my model with an attempt at this lighting but again, its hilarity is too much. Instead you can have the one with the box in it and also some ornaments on the tree (some of them are currently attempting to escape or absorb into the tree)

This does have textures but it is an assault on the eyes at it's current stage.

AND THAT'S IT.

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nothing :c