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Bluez Vignus
@bluezvignus.bsky.social
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#doodle #arttrade #OC #Eriskalie

Art trade with Eriskalie, who says she likes Overwatch, D&D, Pokemon, Mario, small cats, and tea. I wasn't able to fit it all in, but I'm glad she liked it anyway.
#OC #BluezVignus

Creating emojis for my eventual streaming debut. This one makes me giggle.
#UnrealEngine #ControlRig #gamedev

Got the materials and rig set up in Unreal. It's a whole different way of thinking of things, and it doesn't help that the documentation for Unreal's control rig is esoteric at best, but it is satisfying to see it all coming together.
#blender #3dmodeling #Unreal #gamedev

Future reference to any aspiring UE devs out there, Blender models do not transfer shaders, custom properties, nor bone constraints to Unreal 1:1. Most of the materials are easy to fix, especially raw matte, shinies, or textures, but fun stuff takes rewiring.
#blender #3dmodeling #animation #gamedev ?

Up until now, all of my automation was shown with keyframes, but this one needs to be shown raw. With a single custom property, I can slide Bluez's hand seamlessly to its sheathed weapon, pull it out, then hold it freely, no matter how contorted the body.
#doodle #GarticPhone #OC #Munchypony

I tried to be more detail-oriented with this doodle, and didn't even get close to finishing. But it was fun drawing @munchypony.bsky.social ! Since we were given permission, I'm going to consider this an entry into #artfight , as a non-affiliated free agent!
#doodle #GarticPhone #OC #Kindled

It's good to have Gartic friends. You learn fun new tricks, like using complementary colors to make other colors pop. Basic color theory that everyone knows but no one really heeds until someone shows us how it's done. Who knew dark blue can be darker than black?
#art #animation #OC #BluezVignus

I made an animated profile image for Gartic. I wanted to do so much more, but I know if I give myself an unlimited amount of time, I'll never actually finish. This was the result of a month's worth of effort, condensed down to the parts that were hard to animate.
#doodle #GarticPhone #OC #BluezVignus

Got a fun extension that allows me to download the history of a Gartic doodle.
#blender #3dmodeling

Textured the gloves. Looking way better than I'd expected. Unfortunately, applying Solidify to be able to texture it properly broke the weights, so I can't currently animate it without getting clipping issues. I'll worry about weights when I finish texturing everything, though.
#doodle #GarticPhone #OC #BluezVignus #Portal

SillyV seems to be back into regular streaming, just as I was trying to return to being productive. But I'll forgive him this time.
#blender #3dmodeling

I've been working on optimizing my model so that it can animate in real time, a necessary but time-consuming step toward becoming a game or vtube asset. The biggest performance hit was the fishnets, so I've reduced them into a 2d image in a shader with a Fresnel effect.
#blender #3dmodeling #animation

Rigged the eyebrows and eyelashes to be driven by the facial shape keys. @fray-myste.bsky.social loves when I do this eyebrow wave in real life.
#blender #3dmodeling #animation

Been going hard at my 3d model lately. Rigged the eyeballs to switch between manual and automatic tracking.
I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about.

Haven't yet figured out how to get around burnout, but there are certainly worse games to hyperfocus on in the interim. Motivation will come from the weirdest source, and then I'll be back in the saddle for another month or two making up lost time.
#doodle #GarticPhone

It was nice to see SillyV back on Twitch for a bit! My face hurt from smiling so much! I know he's usually busy, so that makes this all the more special of an occasion!