Ah thank you :]

It's always nice to hear that my work has got others interested in pursuing 3d stuff. And ofc they'll be plenty of orcs (and other monster-men) stuff to come ;)

Always happy to inspire more giant orc stuff ;)💚

Yep, that's him ;P

I will never deprive myself of the simple pleasures of animating a dude's massive hog bouncing off his thighs

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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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 💤

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