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Lost_Proxy[Orc]

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NSFW/🔞 | 3d artist and animator | Size diff n' Macro/Micro stuff | Humans small, Monster-Men BIG | Orcs, horns and tusks Links: lostproxyorc.carrd.co Patreon: patreon.com/LostProxyOrc SubscribeStar: subscribestar.adult/lost-proxy-orc

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 1d

4 shots to work on for this update (now 5). Hoping to squeeze in some corrections too, but shall see how much I can get done by the end of the month.

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 1d

Working on a new climax shot for the Lug animation atm: bouncin' on it (getting repeated full-body slammed to climax beneath a giant orc's toe).

Screenshot of blender viewport (wip) showing micro human mid-squeeze as a orc's toe press down on him

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 1d

future devil chest vore

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purplebirdman @purplebirdman.com · 13d

gettin those arms moving right! these are some basic shape keys, nothin fancy happening yet

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 14d

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Gråtrunka Moment @swampy.bsky.social · 15d

yeah

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Hoggan @hoggan.bsky.social · 17d

Back from the hunt

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Dinky @badgobbo.bsky.social · 17d

orctober #2

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 18d

If you're having a specific issue that vid tutorials aren't helping with, you can usually find helpful posts on places like stackexchange or blenderartists(.org) (or similar forums sites if you're using other 3d software).

Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 18d

Unfortunately I don't have much in the way of spare time these days, so I can't really teach ppl things one on one.

Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 18d

A lil extra for #orctober to go with a repost: a comparison I posted on FA a bit back between part of the final animation and the old SFM wip that inspired it:

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 23d

So, I was trying out some random things and apparently if you take a point slightly offset from the one used to generate the y coordinates and use that to generate x coordinates it just sorta works?

I'll still need to paint in the whorls, but this is a massive time saver.

X pt. is used to generate a distance map to use as x coordinates. Y pt. is used to generate a distance map to use as y coordinates. X pt. is only slightly offset from the location of Y pt.

Results when both distance maps are used as coordinates for a Gabor texture. In this example X and Y pts have also been assigned for all the other toes (with some blurring in geo-node to smooth the meeting points of each distance map).

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 23d

All good, but without x coordinates I couldn't properly map a 2d texture (like this Gabor texture) on to this, which means I couldn't get the lines merging like in an actual footprint.

A Gabor texture correctly mapped with both x and y coordinates

A Gabor texture mapped with only y coordinates

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 23d

So quick breakdown with one toe: set a pt. in the centre of the underside as a vertex group. Use geo-nodes to get the distance from every vert to that centre pt. Then you can use those values as a y coordinates for a y-aligned wave texture to get a set of (fairly) equal concentric rings.

Vertex on the underside of the big toe which has been weighted to 1 and stored as its own vertex group

That vertex is used to generate a map of the distances from each vertex in the mesh to that stored point.

That distance map is then used as y coordinates for a y-aligned wave texture which produces concentric rings emanating out from the original point.

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 23d

So, I think I've figured this out now :d

Blender screenshot of procedural footprint pattern (wip)

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 24d

Will figure something out or just bare with it I guess, since I enjoy laying out the process for stuff like this, but will save that for later since it's time for 💤

Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 24d

Actual height values are 0-1 but I clamped 'em down for screenshots (+wireframe) just to be safe since it's such a harsh pattern to look at.

Want to do a breakdown of process so far, but the amount of visual interference the 'raw' procedural pattern causes in screenshots is so nasty :v

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 24d

Having a go at making the height map semi-procedural to cut down on the amount of stencilling + hand-painting required (still going to require baking to image and some painting over I think).

Blender screenshot showing a geometry node setup to produce a semi-procedural height map (wip) to make footprints from.

A point at the centre of each toe is marked to act as the centre of the print's 'whorls' in separate vertex groups (one for each toe).

The geo-node then takes every vertex in the mesh and stores the distance from that point to any of the marked whorls.

Those distance values can then be used as a y vector for a y-aligned wave texture, which in turn produces concentric rings emanating from the whorls.

A blur attribute node is used to smooth out the meeting point of the rings, then the unblurred toe prints are masked back in to even out the spacing of the lines.

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 26d

Yep. Seems to be common practice now to juice 'engagement' with a new feature in anything; just turn it on by default and hope nobody notices. Super annoying.

Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 26d

If you're talking about 'autopilot' then yeh, I turned it off the day it got turned on for me back in August.

You should be able to do it too in your Promotion settings once they've turned it on (if the option to do it isn't there yet?).

I have all the auto-promo stuff turned off on mine.

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 28d

Tiling an image texture would work fine for a distant object, but can also cause issues of visible repetition as well.

In the end, the procedural version wasn't complex enough to cause any performance issues (compared to all that hair), so I just stuck with it.

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 28d

Procedural textures will always remain sharp regardless how close you zoom in, while image textures will eventually blur (regardless of how high-res they are).

So that was useful both for close-ups and for having a clean alpha/transmission masks.

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 28d

The fabric pattern came from combining stuff from a few tutorials on making procedural fabric in Blender that I watched back then (I can look 'em up when I've got some time).

As for using a tiling image texture-

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 28d

Uses a procedural texture which I could turn into a bump map and alpha + transmission masks (inner lines are removed). No displacement. All the fluff is from having thousands and thousands of semi-transparent hair particles layered up lol

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Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks, custom one I made for that animation, though unfortunately kind loses a lot of the detail when in motion:

Lost_Proxy[Orc] @lostproxyorc.bsky.social · Sep 20

Making steady progress 🧦

Preview render of a pair of socked feet belonging to my beefy orc Rog. Current iteration of the sock shader I've been working on, among other things, for my latest animation.

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