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[Darkmere]

Yeah Krita has managed to yet again fail to fix one of the most annoying bugs that makes using it for me a pain in the ass. unimpressed.gif

[Parsely]

His arms are pretty small and look like they bend in a weird place. His pose is pretty odd for riding a horse. It looks like he's sitting on its neck or something.

Also, his armour is generally pretty weird. It's quite big, and the way it's depicted he wouldn't really be able to walk, bend, or move his arms properly.

Yeah his arms are weird and too small, considering they're armored. I drew them like three times over one another (this is in pen, in case it wasn't obvious) because I was concentrating on getting that rifle in the right place. He's standing in the saddle in order to shoot over his shoulder, which is why he looks so high up, and why he looks so tall.

Spoiler: If this guy stood up, his crotch would be approximately at the same height as the horse's head. (click to show/hide)

But his horse is also large, for a horse. If anything, the stirrups I drew are in the wrong place, but there was no changing the legs once I'd drawn them.

Armor tends to make people look big, since it's layered on top of a person body. He's got knee joints, and I drew like three arms over one another until I finally settled on a position of the arm so there was no space left to draw anything else, but other than elbow and shoulder joints I'm not sure what else you expected to see.

I think the forelegs of the horse should be bigger, as they're only sight bigger than the hind legs. Horses are pretty long, y'know?

They're neck is also pretty long, so etc.

My proportions according to this image aren't that far off.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

But that horse's legs are closer together since it's mid-gait, I think, so fair enough.

[Arx]

If he's standing, it's okay. He still looks a little odd, like he might just go over when he fires, but that might just be me.

As for the armour: it looks like if he tries to lift his legs or bend over, the cuisses will lock against his breastplate. Also, his breastplate is all one piece down to the hips, so he can't bend at the waist. Similarly, if he tries to raise his arms above flat, his breastplate will catch his arms.

In large part, you've drawn it all as being pretty chunky, where armour generally fits pretty tightly. The breastplate and greaves, for instance, should track the body shape very closely. I won't quibble too much about precise armour shapes, since I'm pretty neurotic about those but most people don't care.

That's a pretty good horse, though.

Edit: while I'm going on about armour and anatomy:

Spoiler: Shoulders, meh. And knee cop practicality? Pah! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: No comment. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: He doesn't believe in leg day (click to show/hide)

[Parsely]

Oh I see. Cuisses need to end lower on the thigh, and breastplates need to end higher on the belly. You know I was staring at an armored skirt before I started drawing, intending to draw that, and then... Didn't. Fair enough. I accept the criticism.

[vastaghen12]

Same character from my last post

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

so did anyone ever tell you about how great you are at making cool outfits

because you're pretty great at that

My characters are lucky if they even have a single piece of headwear. :I
Also i don't really have anything worth showing but it's not like that ever stopped me!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

so deep

Thanks Shook!

But to be honest, google image search does wonders when it comes to designing outfits.
You only got to mix and match.

[Parsely]

Swordstar found a 50kg Staryu. Cue jokes about laying off the hamburgers and stuff. My response: https://www.dropbox.com/s/te1plnkhq5i6sop/I%27M%20STARYU.mp4?dl=0

[WillowLuman]

The end of D&D last night

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[Shook]

oh god that is fantastic

Part of me kind of wants to see a "SOULLESS HORSE" health bar, but maybe that only shows up when the boss fight starts. :U
It has also inspired me to try my hand at making a COMPLETELY NORMAL horse.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the lack of eyelids may cause severe pain and cataracts maybe

COMPLETELY

NORMAL

Nevermind that i have no idea how horse ears work. Also my lines seem to be thinner than usual. I blame Krita for taking all my brush settings with it. :v

[GiglameshDespair]

The neighgative consequences of injecting caffeine straight into the eyeballs.

[Amperzand]

I can only imagine that, internally, that horse is going I FEEL SO ALIIIIVE!

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler: Stupid reference that I already made like three times in this very thread. (click to show/hide)

Metal Gear?!

[Solifuge]

Been getting into Low-Fi 3D lately, and decided to develop it into a visual style for a game I'm prototyping. Here's some experiments:

Spoiler: A super simple Adobe structure, and it's texture. (click to show/hide)

Boxy things like this are relatively easy to texture, since all the surfaces are nice and square. It still took several hours!

Spoiler: This is a WIP of the texturing process on a low-poly Dog Face (click to show/hide)

Texture Mapping that mimics the look of sprites is pretty tedious, especially on irregular shapes. Basically, each corner of the 3D surface needs to map to a coordinate on a 2D image.

Note the impossibility of mapping square pixels onto triangular faces; hiding the seams takes some fancy juju.

Spoiler: First attempt at a Low-Poly character. (click to show/hide)

Pardon the holes and the weird pointy bits; those are the bones that the mesh is rigged to, so they can be animated.

When I'm done, they're going to get a low-res Pixel-esque texture like the Adobe structure, but I did a quick paint-over for the time being.

[Parsely]

That looks really fucking cool. How do you even go about making textures for 3D models? It's something I've been interesting in learning about for a while.

[Nirur Torir]

Aighuh! The all the triangles! They kill me!

Not sure how relevant this is on minimal-poly models: best practice is to use squares as much as possible. They bend nicer on animations, allow loop cuts (Ctrl-R) which are actually pretty useful, and work better with the subdivsurface modifier.

The Mark Seams button. Use it before unwrapping and learn to love it. Ctrl-E > Mark Seam along the selected edges.

Play around with having two or three loops on each joint, instead of just one. Especially at those shoulders. Those are going to deform the entire torso when animated.

Finally, you probably already noticed, but the animal's ears aren't going to be textured right unless you double their faces. Most things don't like double-faced faces and leave one completely transparent.

If have any Blender questions, feel free to PM me. I'm not an expert or anything, but I've played with it enough that I can generally make it do what I want.

That looks really fucking cool. How do you even go about making textures for 3D models? It's something I've been interesting in learning about for a while.

Are you trying to retexture an existing model, or texture your own?

[Solifuge]

Thanks, Guninanrunin! I'm not sure what specifically you want to do with texturing, but if you want to get into 3D modeling, try Blender. It's what I've always used; it's free, cross-platform, fairly well-documented, and powerful.

Textures are just regular 2D images in any 2D format, generally made in a paint program. When you're doing the actual 3D model, you set texture coordinates for each vertex called UVs, which match bits of that 2D image to different faces of the mesh. If you're retexturing an existing mesh, like you might when making a mod for something, it's as simple as painting over the old texture. Think Minecraft Skins.


Nirur Torir, I tried to stick to Quads in my later models, but I still use 3 Tris to interface between quads of 2 different resolutions (like going from torso to leg on the character model). Also, using Envelope-Based Mesh Deformation is producing some ugly results with Low Poly, but I'm going to try weighting each vert manually, to hopefully keep stuff from deforming badly.

Thanks for the offer too; I might hit you up with procedural questions some time!