Quick retopo. The plan is to check if how my rigging deforms it compared to the blockout. It's a turnaround cause I'm such a sucker for them. #B3D

This looks pretty very rough (cause it is). But the current rig, including the quick rigging I did for the pectoral muscles, shows promise. I'm especially happy how the pectoral muscles wrap around the arm when the arms are above the head, just like in my reference images.

Burnt out hard in the second half of last year. Getting back into it and want to start posting more this year. So here is a before and after where I reworked the chest and shoulder area by more accurately modeling the muscles. #B3d #Blender3D

I hate this spot on the shoulder where the pectoralis muscles inserts into the arm/under the deltoid. It moves so much when you move your arms around. Been trying to rig it in a way that works with Unity's humanoid muscle system and it's been an ongoing struggle.

My booth at #FuralitySomna is up and ready to go, stop by if you have a chance!

Why the shoulders got to be so complicated. Especially when the arm is raised above shoulder level. Stupid acromion process getting in the way and making the clavicle and scapula rotate out of the way. And all the muscles are doing muscle things making the forms of the shoulder even more dynamic.

Had to search for this site again. Great resource for understanding how the shoulder bones move. Now to figure out how to combine this with how unity's humanoid rig handles the shoulder area. pearsetoomey.com/shoulder_par...

Moved my focus up to the shoulder joint. Reposed, Resculpted the high poly and redid the topology of the low-poly in the shoulder and arm.

I think the hip rig is about as good as it is going to get for now. Still not happy with the deformation when the leg rotates to edges of human ROM, but I've been on this for well over a month. This setup "should" be compatible with VRChat's constraint system. #Unity3d #B3d #VRChat

In VRChat's current open beta, PC desktop users can try out the "Selfie Expression" feature, which adds webcam based head, mouth, eye, hand and finger tracking, so you can move around like this without needing VR (all you need is a webcam)

The node graph equivalent of premature optimization is premature node organization. You have your graph doing roughly what you want, start cleaning things up, and then go "huh, I wonder what'd happen if I change this..." and a few minutes later you're looking at this:

Rigging a model to fully use the capabilities of FBT in VRChat has been an ongoing and exhausting struggle. Anyways, I made an IK rig in blender that should recreate how Unity's humanoid muscles work for the legs. Mainly the twist settings set during rig import. #Unity3d #B3d #VRChat

Came up with a really dumb Idea. Using VRChat's constraints to do more complex math. Here's approximations of x^2 and x^3. They break down the further from zero you get, but I'm mostly using them between [-1,1] where they are still very accurate. #VRChat #Unity3d

My avatar base the RoverCat is out! This is a modular feline base that includes 12 premade species, 4 tails, 3 sets of ears and 3 pieces of clothing! designed to be performant with the avatar being sub 40K Tris and medium quality rating out of the box! youtu.be/wdYYvIARnPA?...

These hips don't lie, but they sure do fight every attempt I make at rigging them. Probably gonna be stuck learning and experimenting with rigging for a couple weeks.

Wasn't perfectly happy with the body so I did a very dirty retopo and spent some time in multi-res sculpting a bunch of small changes. Here is an updated turnaround of what I currently have.

Using hair from my older avatar to do a quick test on the new model to see what it might look like with hair.

Joined and re-meshed the head into one object. Might still work on it some more. I want it to be more creature, but I need to leave more forehead/scalp for the eventual hair I want to add. Adding some cheek fluff should also help.

Currently working on sculpting a big cat head for the body I've been working on. Trying to find a balance of features that I like. It's fun seeing how each iteration differs from the last one.

Spent several hours last night remeshing and sculpting the blockout. I think I did ok on this first sculpt refining pass. The blockout took a lot of time to set up but it really helped cut down on the time I spent with this refining pass. #b3d

Progress update on the base mesh I'm messing with. Switched the legs over to digitigrade legs since I want the end result to be an anthro and re-blocked out the arms with a focus on muscle anatomy. I think it is about time I remesh everything into a single object and start refining the sculpt.

More pictures of old practice projects while I get distracted by other things. This time it's from when I spent a couple days learning and improving my ability to sculpt feline heads. Later sculpts were focused on trying to nail down what features I really like and which ones I need to rework.

Another thing I've been working on is a setup in blender for getting the correct UV location when sampling in 2D.

Also for anyone listening, see if your email allows you to set up an address to forward your emails to. If I had set up my email to forward to a backup address I probably wouldn't have to go through all this effort making a new account.

Current projects right now include learning anatomy and sculpting in blender. Here's my most recent attempt at a making a base body mesh.

This picture of my avatar in a swimsuit is still one of my favorite pictures, so I'm reposting it. Have a bonus sweater as well.