acuteferal

I don't want to take a break from rigging my Live2D because I want it to be done, but taking a break for a trip let me have fresh eyes in a way that even a weekend doesn't. 🌄

I am scared of things I have probably done wrong and don't even know I will have to fix, but I am moving forward. 🌅

inktober drawing of a winged girl with a star in her eye

inktober drawing of a female knight removing her helmet

inktober drawing of a knight in ornate armor.

inktober drawing of a circular parking mirror reflecting a convenience store

some of my favorite inktobers this year

No Live2D updates because I went on my first vacation in like five years - to Toronto! 🍁

Met with friends and many nice people 👋, ate many good foods 🥟, went to the aquarium 🦈, museum ⚱️, many small cute shops 🔮, cheered for the Blue Jays ⚾🍻, survived being lost in union station 🚇.

animation is hard 🥲

I still have some eye movement details and the mouth open/close to deal with and then I can FINALLY HAVE HAIR AGAIN 😱

#Live2D

I'm working on Live2D Head XY and just finishing up some details. I'm hoping to have it done and make a preview before I go on a small trip. ^^

(I will still have to do mouth open/close on the angles when I get back)

Ok, I disappeared because I got called to jury duty. 🏛️✨

It was physically and mentally tiring and emotionally exhausting, but in the end restored a little of my faith in my local humanity. ❤️‍🩹

drawing of a smiling calico cat with the caption "i am happy because everyone loves me"

redraw of my favorite louis wain illustration, feat. my catsona

I honestly thought I would be done rigging by now. I feel humbled and great respect and awe for how much work animation is.

Still tweaking the eyes and brows but happy with mouth. 👄

ready to have hair again but really need to set up draw order. 😅

Screenshot of Borderlands 4 showing a purple glowy exploded moon-like thingy in the night sky above an ominous citadel with a tall tower.

Screenshot of Borderlands 4 showing an ominous citadel with a tall tower to the left connecting to the edge of another compound at the right with a valley scattered with trees and lil houses in-between and mountains in the background. It is dark out and a triangular spaceship is flying in the sky to the upper right.

great place to end a weekend that exceeded my expectations

Turned some settings down and it's been good, but feeling the pressure and wondering if I'll be able to hold out for AM6.

I guess I'll be happy if I'm alive to have that problem, but I get why people are mad.

Me and My Jakobs Sniper Rifle: A Love Story Part 4 - still more functional than my country's government. 🤷‍♀️

So BL4 uses 50% CPU just sitting at the main menu screen (wtf) 💀

but somehow did not crash on me once while playing even if fps did shit the bed at times 🐌💩🤎

1440p with a Ryzen 9 3900X (6yo) and 3070 (5yo) on unadjusted Medium settings.

just a crusty no production WIP of Live2D Head XY.

All elements have only been adjusted in a very "flat" way, so I will be giving the eyes more depth and fixing them glitching off the face in future iterations.

I appreciate that if I want to do commissions that budget will dictate level of detail.

but right now (for my own model, the start of my portfolio) I cannot help but operate under the principles of The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants and SHOW ME WHAT U GOT.

Also, for all my crying about being so slow for spending a month on eyes I guess I made about 72 main forms that are made from the layering of about 288 forms that break down to about 450 forms if you go by individual texture.

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Live2D 高可動域モデルの顔の角度XYのすすめ①｜乾物ひもの はじめに 皆さんこんにちは。乾物ひものと申します。 この度、Live2D社から公式にご依頼いただき、「Live2D LAB」にて記事を書かせていただくことになりました。お話を頂いた時は飛び上がって喜びました。本当にありがとうございます！ 今回は、私が普段Live2Dモデルを作る上で特にこだわっている、「顔の角度X」「顔の角度Y」の動きに焦点をあてた解説をしようと思います。 ※斜め向きの顔に...

My next Live2D challenge will be Head XY. I started with some deformer setup.

Reading again Himono's face angle guide: note.com/himono_vtube...

Pokémon Champion of Sinnoh, Cynthia, in black yoga pants and sports bra. She has her hair tied up in a ponytail and is holding a cellphone with a Togekiss inspired phone case. On the left side she is taking a selfie of her flexing her bicep in a full body pose. Behind her are two of her own Pokémon, Lucario and Garchomp. On the right side she is taking a selfie of her back side, showing off some of that progress. Cynthia has learned the move Bulk Up and rose both her defense and attack! If you're gonna be the strongest, you must also look the part 💪

Work Out Cynthia 💪✨

Image displaying Live2D rigging WIPs showing 8 different smiles made using various combinations of VBridger forms with the words "smile variety" in the middle. Model art by altwork, animation by acuteferal.

the variety of lil faces I can make with the VBridger mouth is really stunning. 👄💖 I've done all the shapes except Mouth X (and possibly some lil physics).

(I did VBriger with NVidia Beta, not iPhone, so no tongue out or cheek puff for now)

It took me 4 days to do the first 15 mouth forms.

2 days to do the next 15.

and 2 days to do the final 24.

... so I do seem to be getting faster. 🐇

Still need to finish the Shrug and Pucker forms (mostly done) and do Mouth X (not started).

VBridger Funnel mouth forms done pretty quickly!

Spent so much time experimenting with the default VBridger model that my face hurt. 😵

I will probably transfer the 1.5 Mouth Open shapes I made to be Press shapes instead since they represent pulling the lips back from a fully opened jaw position.

the void gazes back and demands tribute

Image showing two framed portraits of Live2D WIPs. The top one has the model making an excited, sweet face with the words "felt cute" overlaid. The bottom one has the model making an evil toothy grin with the words "might delete later" overlaid, but with "delete" written over to read "eat you" ("might eat you later"). Model art by altwork, animation by acuteferal.

Yesterday I did the 2/3 bodyweight RDLs for 3 sets of 10 !! 🫠

Also took me an hour to figure out tariff rates that may or may not be applicable at any given point in the future. 😵‍💫

I've thought I might like to pursue rigging commissions, but I worry I won't be able to provide value.

Trying not to despair, but to meet the challenge and think about how I can adjust the process to meet a budget.

I also need to work more on graphics portfolio things.

Read a comment on a video about Live2D mouth forms from someone saying they were intimidated, but that it only took them an hour to make the forms.

I know I'll get faster with experience - it's already happening - but it has taken me an hour or more to make each form. X___X

omg and i still managed to forget to active the overlapping tooth for the smile form. 😭 whatever, it will be there.

I must have forgot when messing around the the alternate pointy tooth set (which I gotta learn how to make an animated toggle for). 🦈

Also, I gave in and got the #Live2D 5.3 beta to make use of new advanced blend modes.

1. eye inner iris lights now better match the original art plus have a nicer shadow color using Color Dodge.

2. face shadows better match original art and blend more nicely using Darken.

PS, yes I modified the teeth from original art 🙏 I hope they do not look too bad.

I've seen a lot of vtubers do "one peeking fang" design element, but I am actually missing one IRL so I just felt a personal connection with it. ^^