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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is adorable! I love this style so much!

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · Jun 1

Adorable! I love how goopy the hair wax looks!

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 23

I like how the highlights are almost like a skeleton, intended effect or not, it's super cool

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 21

I think that's Fred Flintstone, hope this helps!

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 20

This looks great! I love how the suspension springs look too

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 18

@kokopimento.bsky.social Happy Birthday!!
I typically don't watch Vtubers, let alone Twitch streams in general, but somehow your vibe just works, and I felt like drawing this for you!

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 14

I love rhythm games so much. Hit buttons to songs I enjoy, and unlock silly cosmetics? Yes, please! Gimme that dopamine! Miku and Rin giving me a 👌 when I pass a song does wonders for my morale

David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 9

Working on a Twilight Princess Linkle mod! I'm gonna make more improvements to the model, but I'm just happy to have gotten it working in game!

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 8

This is an edited version of Link's body, so the skeleton and collision should be exactly the same as it was. All of the animations are working fine, at least

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 8

Got the body sorted out, and the face is now in progress, though it's a bit trickier because of all the weird rotations I have to deal with

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 8

Now to make the vertices not scrambled
And, you know, the rest of it lol

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 8

WOOOOOOOOOO

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 8

Even though this *looks* farther from the ideal, I'm actually even closer than before because I've been able to find and join a Discord where people have accomplished similar things! There's... a lot to fix, but I'm working through it, and glad to have the morale boost lol

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 8

I'm reaching out to a couple of other modders who've been able to accomplish model swaps, so hopefully, that leads somewhere. TPHD, as far as I can tell without actually opening up the files, uses the same file structure and types as TPSD. I could be wrong, and it could be easier, but we'll see!

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 7

So I was able to get it into the presumably correct file format, but so far everything I've tried either doesn't work, or crashes Dolphin. I'm kind of running out of clear options, which doesn't feel great. There's still *some* stuff to try, but it's quite tricky.

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 7

I actually have zero idea, I'm decent at modeling, but I've never attempted to swap in a model before. I imagine there's some documentation somewhere that'll help at least

David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 7

Haven't had time to make any custom textures yet, so everything is borrowed from Link or Ilia, but I've got a good amount of the Ordon outfit figured out. I'll also do custom hair later.
It's certainly very interesting seeing how different the official Nintendo models are from what I normally make.

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 6

Also, are you more interested in the original or the HD version of Twilight Princess?

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · May 6

Ooh super tempting
I'll check out the TP Link model and see how easy to edit it'll be

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · Dec 13

I am having so much fun with this! The expressions, the pose, all of it just has so much more personality than I've ever been able to put into a character before! It's awesome!

#oc #animation #blender

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · Dec 11

Expressive expressions on the way! I haven't messed with shape keys much, but I already like using them for the facial expressions way more than bones and weights because it's way less tedious. I'm excited to mess around with it some more!

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · Dec 6

Looks great! Super bouncy and fun!

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · Dec 5

Also, gonna have to keep singing the praises of the PolyQuilt addon, it was so nice and easy to use for retopology

David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · Dec 5

Gotta say, I like this style for Piper a lot more than the more realistic proportions
It just feels more fun and expressive even with just a blank expression, so I'm excited to try messing around with shape keys (or whatever they're called in Maya) for hopefully more dynamic expressions

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David Lewis @kingofdranovis.bsky.social · Dec 4

I found this Blender extension called PolyQuilt today, and it is so so so useful
It's basically the Quad Draw tool from Maya but it's better for me because I don't have to worry about switching to a different program with a high poly model, now I can just do it all in Blender and all for free

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