Hourigan

I was never able to find a good texture painter fit for my resources, so I decided to bite the bullet and just try texture painting for myself, and after maybe 50-100 hours of practice, I've improved dramatically and am actually really glad that I decided to do it myself. #b3d #texturing #blender

lowkey obsessed with normal decals

Working on an upcoming Shoddcast show.

Painting normals feels like cheating, ngl, I love it so much. #B3D #3DModeling #Texturing

While the method I showed is a neat one for reducing faces/edges, I did figure out a better edge flow a bit after that, and it just goes to show you why manual retopology is still really important. #Blender #3D

I have to retoplogize my characters' shirt because its geometry is just totally out of control, and after doing the collar I had too many faces to easily do the rest of it, so I figured I'd show off how to reduce the number of edges you have in 3D using topology magic, enjoy. #blender #3dmodeling

Here's an example of how I use AO and Pointiness nodes (baked) to create painterly textures despite not coming from an art background and being largely self-taught. #Blender #3DModeling #3DTexturing

Probably out of any media I've worked on so far, 3D work is the least friendly to taking shortcuts. Every time I try to skip ahead, I regret it. Hours of my life gone every single time.

You can get more or less granular shading using multires/subdivision modifiers, I don't actually need those since I'm blending them later. Lots of applications here.

This was a breakthrough shader node setup I figured out in Blender, combining AO and Pointiness nodes to do a lot of the baseline legwork of highlights and shadows for me that I can then bake and later paint over, it's such a huge game changer and I think more folk should use it. #blender #shaders

I use a few retopology things for static assets, but models that need to animate have really insane requirements that are very difficult to automate.

There might be some insane stuff I haven't heard of in enterprise situations, but when you watch shows like Arcane, ultimately the pros are actually just really good at doing this and do it manually lol. Static models are different tho.

There's basically no auto-retypology that works for humanoid models that require full animation that give the proper edge loop flow you need, it will always make sense to do it yourself. There are shortcuts, but they're project-dependent.

I've always hated retopologizing fingers, easily my least favorite part of the job, and I JUST came up with a great method today using low-poly cylinders, and I had to share #blender #topology #3dmodeling

I got that Robin Williams DNA, I think under the right (wrong) conditions I could Velcro tights to death.

Electric razor and careful photo editing saving my ass atm

I'm sleepy already okay.

I need to join her legion of evil

VENUS
a mini comic about girls night uniting us all
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Ya like what do you need those swords for, penetrating women? Cutting clothes off so you can see boobs????

Only slightly related, but I got stomped in this fight the first time because I was so distracted by how good the boss music was, it came out of left field is and is like the best track in Elden Ring.

Me busting out all of my English Class powers: you see, the moon is the symbol of the divine feminine and fertility, and since there's two moons, that clearly pairs woman with woman and--

The greatest lie they ever tried to sell you was that this woman liked men. Girl's the TWIN MOON Knight, that's lesbian coded I'm so sorry 😔

Too much time [redacted].

Kris Statlander

Kris, again, gayly

Sorry, Kris Statlander just posted these and my brain bluescreened and I forget what I was doing

I can't tell if someone just imagined a scenario that's not happening/is quite rare just to get clapping seal approval or if AI brainrot actually has infected people this deeply.

Wild stuff happening on LinkedIn

To be fair, time signatures are mostly made up.

Regretfully, I grabbed them on Amazon because I was in a panic before a wedding and was trying to get clothes for it. Didn't end up wearing them, didn't work with the fit I wore, but I guess I have them now lol

The head of our studio has the patience of a saint, I just monologue in his DMs sometimes and he tolerates it