The 3deefication process is at Vanilla's final texturing touches, in the meantime here is a test simulation / render for a side project i'm working on in parallel. Was going to be just a short loop of tentacles squeezing Cream holding her slightly out of the water, but it looks there will be a little beginning and an end to it as well. One of the 3d printable models joined together, still not a true versatile 3d character model, but does the job in this very specific situation. Using an old demo of the fluid plugin plagued with watermark logos, and still not having the rendering capacity for animation full of liquids. Wink-wink.

  So, back to texture painting the second sequence's models. All the black areas are out-of-boundary regions from the book's original graphics. Plus there are a number of places where forms are on top of each other, these contain some silly results now, it's just a dumb starting projection thingy from upwards. At least a half good AI fill thing would be nice for these segments of the work... some people may even know such tools out there... but it's all manual for me. For the first sequence's model i really screwed myself with setting a single 8K texture, and my video card is not quite up to the task of real time manipulation of such a big image, so it was quite the teeth grinder to retouch the missing information. This time i optimize the workflow with a number of separate 4K textures, still great for those future close-up renders, and that's one quarter of the processing stress, more or less let's me paint in Blender, as if i was working in Photoshop.

  I know it seems a little sleepy around here, i sorta experienced an artist's block thing finishing a book page that grew way out of the originally proposed proportions... A comprehensive promo pack is now up on my blog of said page, and now officially, i'm back at animating!

Just a quick note, i vowed to use the lazier times of the Holidays to finish all still rough pages of 'The Vault / Aim At Amy' into a pre-shading stage. I was holding back on much work on almost 20 pages so possible guest artists can develop them in their own style, but i gave up on finding guest artists who actually answer my letters. I'm finally just days away from seeing this entire project as a colorful complete-ish thing. The return of animation efforts follow right after...

I'm finishing the crazy '3d printables / luvable huggables' detour from texture painting the second Cream & Vanilla animated scene, here is the promo / demo video for the 3d printable sculpture part!

Go to the 3D PRINTING menu on my blog to learn more!

A lil' update on the 3deeification side of things for the new page. The original art piece had to be changed / upgraded because many aspects proved to be wrong in perspective / proportion. I was never satisfied by the look on Vanilla's hand and breasts, they are the primary areas that got fixed. I'm onto the 3d printing and sexdoll edition models, those will be going up on my 3d webshop, and then i'll be turning back to texture painting the model's areas originally not visible from the camera's angle, so animation and looking around becomes possible.