Sunday, March 20, 2016

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Today is March 8th. I'm wondering when I'll actually get around to finishing this post.
Hmm.

March 20th, 2016.

I finished a sketchbook over the weekend and decided to post what I have. I'm trying to paint a  character in Blender but it's been an insane week. I got him all UV'd, I just have to finish the dang thing. But since I'm starting a new sketchbook I thought I'd post the completed character (FOR REALS) with my next collection of sketch pages. I will not post again until that point!

Also, Blender just updated from 2.76 to 2.77 and reset all my preferences. I don't like that.








8 comments:

  1. I'm sorry blender reset your preferences. Setting everything up the way you like it all over again is super buggin. But I love that you get to paint next! Nice work, Zachary, can't wait for your next post.

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    1. Thanks! I have the perfect video I'm going to use as reference. There's this 5 year old video of Tyson Murphy painting a Dominance War submission in 3D Coat that will guide me to stardom! I'm hoping I can steal his skills. I guess using a 5-year-old video to do something technological might not seem rational, but it's pretty freakin' sweet.

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    2. 5 years ago? That's like watching technological dinosaurs! Is this going to be like Jurassic Park? Can I watch too?! Only joking, of course. But hopefully it proves helpful. Oddly enough, I have found that even some of the old Adobe tutorials that people have created from back on Creative Suite 4 (which is officially like three and a half complete versions old, not counting iterative patches) have proven extraordinarily helpful to me with some of my Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop projects during the past year... For what it's worth.

      And bummer on losing your settings. Those are the worst sorts of updates. Maybe it's paranoia, but I take images or screenshots of my settings for anything lately, so that when a firmware or software update rolls around, I'm okay (BIOS, router, monitor, Adobe, browser, DAWs, TV, etc.).

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    3. That does make me feel better. Sometimes there are key components to programs that don't change much and they're still applicable, you just didn't know they existed! Here I'm mostly stealing his painting technique, which is something timeless and great!

      I'm getting good on resetting my Blender settings. There's a handful of things I change and plugins I enable, and it's getting to be pretty slick (so much so that I don't really even save them as my default factory settings anymore).

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  2. Oh, and I really like the figure in the top right, as well as the individual head near the center of the page, from the 6 March sketches (pink/coral/salmon-ish background).
    :)

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  3. Nice! I like that head too. I thought it was simple but effective. And I like how the pose for the top-right guy turned out! I want more cool poses. And more legs, there's an alarming lack of leg.

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  4. If we had too much leg, I would scream "scandalous!", but as it is, I would prolly just have to agree with you - Definite lack. And anyhow, I'm not really that into this sort of stylised leg, myself. Good for animation, but different strokes for different folks ;)

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    1. Leg connoisseur, eh? Perhaps one day I may post a leg that you prefer! In other words, make sure you look at my blog all the time and get me hits so I rank higher in Google's search engine so I develop a massive following and make tens of dollars.

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