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A low poly model of a head with exaggerated proportions and hard edges in some spots to help define the form

Spent an hour and a half goofing around with a head for that knight model I've been working on

God, I really wanna make a game at these specs

A 3D model of a skeleton with a par of outlined lungs within the ribcage.

Finally got a bit of time on my hands this weekend so I've started working on some breathers for my skelly-person :D

Managed to get the low poly muscle mesh and skelly each down to about 3.4K triangles.

The outer layer will sit at ~4K and then I'll use ~2K or so for the internal stuff which should put the total at ~15K tris, leaving some room for clothes and hair before I hit 20K 🤔 #blender #gamedev #indiedev

Slowly making progress on my personal project, started rigging the low poly musculature mesh the other day 😤 #Blender #gamedev #indiedev

Hmm... kind of makes it look like the skeleton is wearing flesh mittens 🤔 #Blender #indiedev

After 20+ years of making art for games I find that the most satisfying thing about making something solely for yourself is that no one stops you, and tells you "hey that detail is unnecessary" or "No one in their right mind would notice this". Fuck it, biceps goes brrrr #blender #gamedev #indiegame

Started splitting up my high poly #3D muscle mesh today, arms first 💪 #Blender

Save 70% on Democracy 4 on Steam Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to ret...

I guess it would be silly not to point out, in these turbulent political times, that you can roleplay as president or prime minister in my game Democracy 4, which is in the steam sale right now omg! store.steampowered.com/app/1410710/...

High poly #3D muscle mesh is mostly done, started experimenting with procedural materials based on dynamic thickness, curvature and cavity maps done via Geometry Nodes in #Blender.

Also, looks like we kind of broke the progress bar somehow 😅

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Either you keep what you buy, or you're informed upfront when access to what you buy ends.

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The muscle fiber setup was done via Blender Geometry nodes with two overlapping sine wave deforms at different frequencies.

I ended up doing a simple normal map bake to add some detailing in the form of muscle fibers rather then sculpting the whole thing. #blender #gamedev

The idea is to invest time in a base mesh / character creator that I can use for my game projects over the coming years, fidelity wise I'm aiming for something like late gen PS2 titles, MGS & various fighting games etc. which should give me some performance leeway with all the different layers 😗

Muscle mesh is slowly getting there, after that I just need to setup a layer for fat deposits, possibly a layer for major arteries as well 🤔

Steam store seems to buckling under the summer sale 🤔 In the meanwhile, any plans to release on Good Old Games? 😅

A black and white tattoo design depicting a skull in a typical pirate hat with a black beard tied up by six beard ornaments, underneath the skull, in between the beard segments there are roman numerals spelling out XXIV which translates to 2024, the year that the design was made.

Traditional tattoo design from last year that I cleaned up and detailed a bit on my good old Cintiq 21UX the other day ☠️

A 3D model made in Blender of a unnecessarily detailed anatomical muscles and tendons study, in particular the hands and feet.

Going slightly mad in #Blender

Maybe add UV chunk fill and make sure the 10 or so metal body areas are separate UV islands? 🤔 Looks great overall! ❤ but the way you painted those doors.. 😅

These are freaking lovely!

Once upon a time I designed a concept for my ideal art store.

I then design a series of different shops around this idea and made them available as prints in my online store.

Art Store, Coffee House, Bakery and Pub.

www.dereklaufman.com/shop

Which one would you visit?

Aaand some color, big fan of my new markers ♡ #art