Monday #WIP 24 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") Daring today, even more daring than yesterday when my evening got spiced up with power outage due to strong wind outside. regardless mostly iterations on Nika's hair texture, none that i ended up liking. fun

Thursday #WIP 23 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Face looks a lot more lively with freckles and more polygonal mouth, that was the easy part, hair won't be easy -_-|||

feeling myself under the weather, no wip progress this time :(

Thursday #WIP 22 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Texturing won't be easy for me, i have to catch up with Nradiowave's skills Made eyes more prominent with lines and unbaked glints into meshes This model is getting out of hands. i planned to end in June

Sunday #WIP 21 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") lost progress on hair (thankfully had old backup) and saw none in texturing :) and my search of good PaintNet alternative ended with my failure I suppose i made too much big forward steps recently

Thursday #WIP 19 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Body rig is complete: fingers, arms and legs now has IK to FK switches, also adjusted deform hair to not peek as much That leaves Shape Keys and texturing. And animations

reconstruct... what?

Todays mech: Crusader IV

Sunday #WIP 19 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social i skipped thursday am i? Anyway got basic rig ready since i'm still looking for drawing program to use and Hair is responding (ignore balding) To Do: Arm IK, FK/IK switch, textures, face shape keys.

the glorpening

Linux software devs should focus on productive software side imo, bringing progs like: Paint.net, and Adobe stuff. Bottles and Lutris are good but native ports just run better, i also know that Adobe scumbags patented some shit Crazy Taxi arrow style. Not even mentioning funding, we all need to eat.

Sunday #WIP 18 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Minimal work on front bangs transparency for brows. Why so little progress? Before switching to Mint i were using Paint.net. Closest and surprising alternative is PixiEditor. details in Image 2

My gpu and cpu seem to like it's new minty taste though it still ended up stopping any kind of progress, i got most alternatives but my Drawing tablet has no official drivers for linux and i'm too dumb to figure out how to install unofficial ones. i need smaller one with longer cable anyway

another comic to play with and adjust this style some more

motivated

Thirsday #WIP 17 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social FInally Something fun to look at, for better details go to text in images. Important note, i decided to upgrade my pc and planning to try linux (otherwise i will be stuck with gtx1650 for rest of my life)

Todays mech: 002-B

Hmm

Sunday #WIP 16 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Blender earns to be punched in the face like, YOUR JOB IS TO RENDER MODEL AND NOT TOUCH UV I even removed material entirely to re do it, checked render AND GUESS WHAT? HAIR REFUSED TO BECOME SOLID COLOUR

mech creature concepting

Thirstday #WIP 15 mostly trying out PaintTool SAI (previous mech sketch was made in it), textures are dead simple and not interesting, regardless, here they are. i also compressed hair UV's more

Mech sketch2 "Rough Purge" trying new program Gen5 inspirted AC with Grind Blade (didn't bothered to get refference so everything is from memory) #mech

Sunday #WIP 14 nothing fun, just UV optimization

Thirstday #WIP 13 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social UV's, yeah, look at them, do you see how exited i am? Only dirty and boring UV work left. 2048x2048 resolution still gives very pixelated look, hair will be nightmare to optimize

also few backgrounds & misc

Sunday WIP 11 We hate UV Editing in this household. A bit less because i found align Vertically/horisontally so i have nothing fun Nika related to show (Unrelated image attached: "MY ACVD Build"). I might have head textures ready for Thirstday

Thirstday Jumpscare WIP 11 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Finalised ears, small changes to hair and a bit resculpted eye sockets. I will try doing updates bi weekly to accelerate progress.

quick dumb comic of these two to test out a style

Sunday WIP 10 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Changed face but lines are necessary to complete face. Hair done. Mouth shape key adjusted for jaw rotation and cheek streching Thanks Motorslice, i barely have anything to show, so, fav Shots so far

NEXT's Quickturn is slow comparing to me making this choice #motorslice

less than an hour left before the release of Motorslice

at last. my primaty todent is fixed

Felt sad (guess why) so i sketched "No turning Back" It will take time to get used to your new changeable core, and if unlucky, your coffin #sketch #mech

Sunday WIP 9 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Made head sculpt a bit better with shape keys for this face Adhesion on my printer demands to be kicked. IT UNSTUCK PETG MODEL FROM BED THREE TIMES THIS DAY ALREADY NO MATTER HOW MUCH I USE IPA ON BED

Fun week of resolving pc rodent issues have ended now i have to deal with AC4A obsession. I just need to complete Attack on sattelites and old king route to have normal mode completed

Failure after Failure after Failure after Failure... result doesn't change. but my mistakes are apparent, progress is imminent i forgrot to dryt filmaent :)

Sunday WIP 8. Nothing to see, mostly spiteful spirit of my 3d printer demanding attention from me. by failing prints

WIP 7 Planning in near days to have first prototype just to see if it's possble to string her It's fun trying to use mouse when wheel commiting harakiri, not the mechanism THE CILLYNDER PART, hexagonal pattern became circle! And my secondary mouse's mouswheel didn't worked, had to replace button

Sunday WIP 6 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Finally made Joints in freecad i'm thinking about giving 3d model strings for insides Head is mostly complete remade ears though might change them later (4 more info see text inside images)

Todays mech: 00-ARETHA

Sunday WIP 5 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Multiple things were done 1) Finalised hands best part so far 2) Finalised feet (i might change them later to make them more like hands) 3) hollowed out model for rubberbands to pass through Head is next

Birthda y

Sunday WIP 4 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Not much were done but i started modeling fingers

WIP 3 "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Body is done with head and arms to be made i set my mind on making her primarily as stringed BJD, i'm still going to use cad for joints though I Also made some arbitrary rig to see her poseability better

WIP "Balljoint Nika" ("Шарнирная Ника") original design by @nradiowave.bsky.social Currently i have Left leg and a bit of body, i will start do joints in cad after the shell is complete i'd like to work on model more but i'm on 3rd playthrough in Beyond Citadel

had idea of Haley (og character by @mecha-bunny.bsky.social) having evil counterpart like sonic/metal sonic, and decided to scribble concept into compuiter. Main equipment laser cannon with pulse shield on the side embedded into right hand. I did looked at nightfall head and the enforcerer from ac6