I may be going through swelled tonsils right now, but Blender 5.0 hella cool. Too bad I'm still switching to CAST format soon, but the new FBX importer's pretty great. No more metallic madness.

Me trying to not die in 34ºC weather

My internet is stuttering and it's making my background music stutter and it's pissing me off /nm

Of course the solution was a misconception due to an earlier restriction. I didn't consider joining the models because I *WAS* on Random Walk, which hates geometry intersections, but Christensen-Burley lives for a single unified model, so I was supposed to— Ah, goddamnit #SplatBlend

If anyone ever asks "Oh, how do you preview your lighting for the entire animation" I don't

I'm so locked out, I just cleaned up over 100GB of my storage space because in an attempt to play PvZ GOTY on my VM, it just bricked itself, so I'm reinstalling the whole thing I got 3 weeks of Physics homework

Yeah, so, the compositing solution definitely works But it's super aggressive, so I lose some nice sss shadows Cryptomatte's looking a bit rough, but that's another problem that can be solved, I'll get to that later But damn, sucks

I have only two possible solutions left, both are the most likely to work, but are the largest amount of effort. That means for the tutorial series, I absolutely cannot use Christensen-Burley. So, it'll be Random Walk, instead, and with a Rec.709 working space. Compromises

I guess I can still send some wips, as long as I get to complain about my current situation Ahem Callie has a very severe headache possibly a migraine Yeah, I'm struggling to fix this SSS issue, none of the methods work, I'm gonna go play Plants Vs Zombies #SplatBlend

Another day, another time I'm glad I didn't make the tutorial series sooner because WOW Okay, 5.0's working space thing is a little finicky, and I think I might have to ignore it if it's causing way too much problems with my current setups. Rec.709 -> Rec.2020 is not easy :P

Haven't been active because I've been busy and I've been literally doing small lighting value changes I am obsessing over the tiny light differences, I wanna grab the image in my mind, but it's not easy

I wanted to try out a physical mindset with the lighting in this scene But I'm sorry, if I gotta go beyond 5 f-stops for Exposure, then I don't believe it's valid for this type of render Guess I'm going back to BS'ing light strength values Also, this is -6.5 Exposure

[WIP] Alright, poses are about done Got some tiny things to fix here and there, and then I'll get to lighting, and then spend maybe a few more hours, or a few more days, perfecting over every tiny detail because this is not where I want to leave it at. See y'all some time #SplatBlend

[WIP] For only an hour, I think I'm doing good so far Still a lot of things to fix, and I don't think I'll be prepared for the pain that is Marie's kimono when I'm done with this 2 characters left, but I'mma go eat breakfast first #SplatBlend

Alright, I got the pose ideas finished, and I'll get to posing the characters first thing tomorrow morning Kinda rushed a bit, but I can't spent too long sitting here and looking at a blank page, so I'll just run with what I got Trust the process

Not only did I spent an entire day setting up a rig for someone I still haven't yet decided on a pose for one out of five characters This is gonna take a really long while But I do wanna take my time with this

Opened up my sketchbook, and I forgot I actually had sketches for some of these renders! Well, I'll share it anyway because why not?

Now for my 2nd least favourite part of making a render Deciding on what poses to have for each character :P

A mistake may have been made But it's certain that I don't care

OK, I can actually start working on the render soon Will have to upscale Marie's textures and fix her Bluetooth, but like, ehhh, it's working enough now, and I'm already feeling exhausted, again.

Nevermind, subdividing the kimono was pretty fun

I got REALLY bored So I tried naming the different parts of Marie's kimono

I like how some of their expressions are mirrored

I think it's really funny how different it feels When I did Callie, I was mainly messing around But when I get to Marie, the problem is, I have to do the exact same thing, which means instead of having fun experimenting, I'm slowly copying my results And it feels like sandpaper

Nevermind we are not back just yet My brain doesn't feel like continuing working on this, so I guess it'll wait for another day. I got a math exam in 2 days, I think that's a little important.

Alright, we are back

All of this pain, just to fix this stupid neck No amount of Minecraft music helped me recover from this. Alright, NOW I think I can move on to set up Marie. Sigh.

It's back to Blender pissing me off WHY can't you remember the UVs, it's literally THE SAME UV MAP, are you KIDDING ME

Continuing from a previous yap, I swear lighting is such a crazy concept to me. I know interesting stuff with the theory, and the huge toolset. The question is, how do I utilise these to get the image in my head. And rare cases I end up with extreme small details I think a lot

I have this random thought of wanting to make an animation But aaaa, I can't, I'm too busy with so much stuff Okay, okay, put it on the list, remind me later. If it comes to mind, I'll sketch it out, and I'll get to it around.... March, I don't know, give me time

Y'all, as much as I wanna be happy about making this, my head does not feel okay. Literally do y'all even remember I was kitbashing Callie together before this mess started, and I was gonna work on Marie? No? Me too. And now I wake up at 4AM for no reason. I'm the BOB gif

I'm going through some colour delusions again Not unexpected Gonna be grading in DaVinci Wide Gamut Intermediate, and I got this camera effect setup that I wanna try out Looks alright, I guess But man I need a new scene to test this on

Barely been a day, and already needed an update Fixed inconsistent knee assist formula on the right leg for Callie and Marie. Simpler words: Bending the right leg made the knee bend the opposite way it was supposed to bend in.

Looked at old images I sent on Discord, and like I forget this was an actual thing I wrote And I still don't know how to write

Alright, guys. I spent 2 weeks making 46 IK Rigs of the idols because my ADHD didn't want to disappoint ONE PERSON. I hope you guys enjoy it more than I did. file.garden/ZcbFkhItAVk3... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The IK Rigs for the idols will be released a bit later because I really really need to update this one script to remove the compromises And I'll write up a documentation on what limitations there are, things I could've missed, and how to use my rig I'm also busy today lol

Even Desmos is giving up

I'm literally going insane, what in the fresh hell is happening here I'm actually in math hell

Goddamnit Fryeeeeee Everything was going well! What kinda relationship is this!?

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I can't get it done by tonight, I'm just too tired I did at least got some important progress, so it's not all bad. I'll take any progress over nothing.

I'm internally screaming at myself I can get this done by today I can get this done by today I can get this done by today Final stretch is literally in sight, I cannot stop here Well, I have to, I got a class to go to, and a whole event But I can get this done by today

This might be another ADHD thing, I'm feeling the same level of exhaustion while I'm working on Frye. And at almost the SAME situation when I was with Shiver, the time when I have to combine armature bones. It's all simple stuff, but I think the repetition is doing something

There's so many bones 😭

FFHGJHJJHGJG Okay, I have - Finished Shiver - Fixed Eye bones on Pearl and Marina - Fixed Arm IKs on Marina Literally all I have left is Frye 39/46 Rigs finished. Pleaseeeee, can I finish this tomorrow, my goddamn eyes are so tired, it's 10PM and I'm 2AM tired.

Do you guys even wanna know how I fixed the knees with the formula of 0.255401 * sin( 0.98083 * var + 1.50168) - 0.252093

Yeah, it's been a while, but, GEEZ Shiver is really not pulling any punches to my head while I try to make sure nothing's broken and works just as fine And on top of that, I have to do statistics again because the assist bones probably work differently from the player... Great!

IS THAT SWITCH NODE IN THE SHADER EDITOR BLENDER 5.0 IS HAVING SWITCHES????? UHH HELL YEAH??

Y'know, someone could probably do a better job than I did, but I'm seeing potential here