Day 6: Distance Directional and Drop Shadow. They seem to have similar functions, adding some separation from the background for the image. #SubstancePainter

Day 5: Mirror. It has a options for a bunch of uv directions, though only at most 4 quadrants.

Filters day 4, Glow. Here its coming out from the edges of the decal alpha. #SubstancePainter

it looks great!

Substance Painter Filters day 3: Pixelate. For that lo-fi look, but using a 4k texture here 😂.

blur image filters

Substance Painter filters Day 2, Blur Directional and Blur Slope. Directional smears at an angle, and Slope gives it some texture.

Substance Painter filters day 1: Blur

Pretty straight forward, a UV based blur. Wrap lets it go over shell borders.

New challenge for myself: a Substance Painter filter a day. SP has seemingly infinite filters for layers, and I have no idea what most of them are.

The generic baseline.

#Dimension20 #TitanTakeover is finally airing! I did a ton of minis for them, which I can share as they debut on the show. These are the main Heroes, which I'll post about individually soon!

Sometimes that character is rad as hell, and someone needs to model it! I'm starting a blockout of Lindsey's character.

I had forgotten just how good some quick zbrush sketching is for the soul.

turns out it goes by word count... So if you remove all the spaces...

I don't even see much of a difference! It's different lighting, and a different expression that people are trying to draw 1:1 comparisons to...

Day 30, the end! I returned to a piece I had to give up on before because I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong: this halter top. It turned out I was approaching the elastic band all wrong. It was a measurable sign of progress learning the tools. #MarvelousDesigner

Day 29. Trying out posing. The MD avatars come with poses, so I tried that out. Toss a little wind in for a photoshoot.

Day 28. I saw a vendor at a faire saying this kind of skirt had 12 yards of fabric. I wanted to see how that would simulate, having the tiers be 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 yards. It definitely took it a moment for that much volume to settle down in the simulation. #marvelousdesigner

If I'm not giving him sufficient cheek scritches, he will take care of it himself.

Day 27. I wanted to try something more tailored, so why not a motorcycle jacket. This started as the basic T-shirt garment, and then was nudged around and cut. Its really cool to see how adjustments in the pattern change the fit of a garment. #MarvelousDesigner

Day 26. Avatars are the models you place the clothing on, and up to this point I've been using a premade Metahuman. My femme base mesh imported pretty cleanly, with some arrangement point adjustments. This old outfit refitted to the new body pretty easily! #marvelousDesigner

Textile, Public domain | The Art Institute of Chicago Discover art by Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol & more in the Art Institute's collection spanning 5,000 years of creativity.

The previous lace pattern is a scan of 17th century Italian bobbin lace. The Art Institute of Chicago put that and other public domain textile scans up on their website for general use: www.artic.edu/collection?classification_ids=textile&is_public_domain=1

Day 25. Opacity in fabric. I wanted to add some lace to fancy things up, which mostly just needs an opacity map to work. #marvelousDesigner

Day 24. Some good men's wear basics: a shirt and slacks. Gotta keep it classy up in here. #marvelousDesigner

Day 23. Trying out some Trim, which are premade objects, like bows, you can add to the scene. Coming off the weekend I was feeling a cozy sweats vibe. #marvelousDesigner

Day 22. Wind! This one is more useful for simulation and posing, but it's neat to play with. It was hypnotic to watch. #marvelousdesigner

Any time! This series of short exercises has been really helpful for me learning it

Day 21, piping! I knew I wanted to try doing a track jacket, and I found this this neat one from Opening Ceremony on Rent the Runway. The shoulder seams are crazy and I kinda love it. #marvelousDesigner

Ohhh, got my first bot today. That was a fun block!

Day 20. I wanted to try making a garment by drawing directly on the avatar. It got me a neat glove pattern!

Day 19, pleats! I started with a simple knife pleat skirt, but it still takes some trial and error. The initial simulation kept getting stuck on itself, so I tried making the folds while it was still flat, which was much cleaner. #marvelousDesigner

So cute!