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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

one thing you can do to help "seams" like that: you can have two sets of "uv coordinates" that are rotated or otherwise offset from each other and blend between them as needed

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Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

I watched the visual effects featurette for The Green Knight (2021) and it turns out several of the effects were made in blender. also that movie has far more digital effects shots than I assumed

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

attn. echi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic68q2wWPC8&t=354s
timestamp

FalseNegative
Jul 24, 2007

2>/dev/null


I bought a Wacom tablet (no screen, just an input) and am learning how to texture finally! It's not as hard as I thought it'd be, UV Unwrap is magic.

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

classic subject matter

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

imma have to wait till i’m on pc in a few days but

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
I’m in rigging hell. Pray for me, brothers

edit: OK so I made a bit of a breakthrough even though it doesn't look like much:

https://i.imgur.com/hizSbsP.mp4
I'm trying to get a stop-motion workflow going, and recently purchased FreeIK. FreeIK offers a pretty amazing set of keyable constraints so you can pose the model without building any rigging beyond the deformation bone chain. It's hard to explain but it's the closest thing I've been able to find to Raf Anzovin's "ephemeral rigging" setup--changing the bone hierarchy any time you want, forward/backward/inverse kinematics on any bone at any time.

If I can get the base armature a bit better, it allows for almost perfect stop-motion style animation by just directly grabbing the model.

Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Jan 20, 2022

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

that looks great! nice little wind up, drag, and follow through. kind of ironic you had to pay for something called freeik

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Thanks! FreeIK costs $30 but worth every penny IMO, in fact I'm kind of biased toward paid add-ons because the developers are usually more serious about support and development, that seems to be the case here. The dev is working on the next version which will have visually settable angle constraints.

Also I'm Old and grew up in the days of very expensive software, so to me buying a seriously powerful plug-in for ONLY $30 feels like I'm getting away with something. TVPaint cost like $800 when I bought a license, now the equivalent 2D app for the iPad is $50.

edit: OK starting to get the hang of this.
https://i.imgur.com/wCyLeZX.mp4

Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Jan 20, 2022

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?
I showed my wife Worthikid's Captain Yajima without telling her it was made in Blender and she genuinely thought it was claymation, which isn't unfair because so did I until i got my goddamn mind blown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-TJm7HkzkQ

The nice thing about psuedo claymation is that mistakes don't stand out nearly as much and actually add to the charm. You've made an excellent start

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
https://i.imgur.com/YzgrpNb.mp4
Some more 3D/2D hybrid stuff

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here

Neon Noodle posted:

Thanks! FreeIK costs $30 but worth every penny IMO, in fact I'm kind of biased toward paid add-ons because the developers are usually more serious about support and development, that seems to be the case here. The dev is working on the next version which will have visually settable angle constraints.

Also I'm Old and grew up in the days of very expensive software, so to me buying a seriously powerful plug-in for ONLY $30 feels like I'm getting away with something. TVPaint cost like $800 when I bought a license, now the equivalent 2D app for the iPad is $50.

edit: OK starting to get the hang of this.
https://i.imgur.com/wCyLeZX.mp4

How are you doing the stop motion effect? Are you doing something with the interpolation, or are you setting up individual frames?

EDIT: This is a common enough thing that we should have an interpolation type for it. Like, it snaps the curve to every frame, or ever other frame, or every three frames.

Bluemillion fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jan 23, 2022

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Just keying manually. FYI you can set an f-curve modifier to a discrete stepped value.

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here

Neon Noodle posted:

Just keying manually. FYI you can set an f-curve modifier to a discrete stepped value.

Oh well I'll be damned that was exactly what I was looking for and works perfectly.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
https://giant.gfycat.com/HeartyDemandingDiscus.mp4

happy with how this came out. was kind of an accident. obv need some extreme synth to it.

and a logo. but nothign Ive tried looks any good. for now it'll sit around until I find a good sound to add to it and on tiktok it'll go to get extremely ignored

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

nice job brother

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here

echinopsis posted:

https://giant.gfycat.com/HeartyDemandingDiscus.mp4

happy with how this came out. was kind of an accident. obv need some extreme synth to it.

and a logo. but nothign Ive tried looks any good. for now it'll sit around until I find a good sound to add to it and on tiktok it'll go to get extremely ignored

Would probably be less ignored if you post it in June.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
huh

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

june is pride month so people will be retweeting rainbow anything.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
oh lol. yeah i’ve heard of someone wearing one of my rainbow t-shirts and someone being “nice pride shirt”

I thought the pride rainbow was a specific logo. m rainbow design was based upon colours i got from
an old video game box from the 80s

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
a rainbow is a real-world phenomenon that is literally just the entire visible spectrum ordered by wavelength. full-spectrum light from the sun hits a droplet of water and each wavelength is refracted ever so slightly differently - so when you're looking at distant raindrops, the ones refracting red light directly at you are in a different spot to the ones refracting orange light, and a little further along are the ones refracting yellow, etc.

(actually it goes further than just the visible spectrum, but for obvious reasons you can't see the bits outside of that)

every rainbow has the same colours in the same order

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
ok.. then my “rainbow” t-shirt and other things aren’t really a rainbow. just coloured stripes that follow one direction around the colour wheel

my earlier work never had purples for example

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

tried out the grease pencil tool for the first time. seems pretty fun. gotta try to figure out how to connect my ipad up so i can use it as a drawing tablet i guess

https://i.imgur.com/O3oyWdK.mp4

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
I was gonna make a quick spaceship but instead I spent all my time making its turrets mechanically workable

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
I like the mechanic for scale. Looks neat.

Given the relatively small bore I assume it's some sort of particle beam thingy?

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind

Jabor posted:

I like the mechanic for scale. Looks neat.

Given the relatively small bore I assume it's some sort of particle beam thingy?
Yes! It's an electron beam. You'd think electron beams would have poor range because they self-repel aggressively, but someone who works with actual particle accelerators tells me you can make them so relativistic without too much trouble that they just don't experience enough time to repel appreciably even over light seconds.

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here

Elukka posted:

I was gonna make a quick spaceship but instead I spent all my time making its turrets mechanically workable



Making the supports a bit taller would allow that back part to swing underneath and allow it to aim up.

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind

Bluemillion posted:

Making the supports a bit taller would allow that back part to swing underneath and allow it to aim up.
It's got a lil tub for that. Not only can it aim up, it can flip all the way around so that it doesn't lock up at 90 degrees. Excuse the rough geometry.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
https://i.imgur.com/Rb0ZCYt.mp4
Getting a little more control here. What I want to do is combine both pose-to-pose animation and the very rough realtime motion capture that Blender lets you do with mouse input/Autokey. For this one first I used the mouse to get rough timing for a bouncy walk, and then keyed to that up/down motion.

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here

Elukka posted:

It's got a lil tub for that. Not only can it aim up, it can flip all the way around so that it doesn't lock up at 90 degrees. Excuse the rough geometry.



I stand corrected.

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

Neon Noodle posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Rb0ZCYt.mp4
Getting a little more control here. What I want to do is combine both pose-to-pose animation and the very rough realtime motion capture that Blender lets you do with mouse input/Autokey. For this one first I used the mouse to get rough timing for a bouncy walk, and then keyed to that up/down motion.

looks really good! looking forward to seeing where you’re going with this

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here

Neon Noodle posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Rb0ZCYt.mp4
Getting a little more control here. What I want to do is combine both pose-to-pose animation and the very rough realtime motion capture that Blender lets you do with mouse input/Autokey. For this one first I used the mouse to get rough timing for a bouncy walk, and then keyed to that up/down motion.

The lines on this look great. Is that a custom freestyle line set?

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
tyvm, not freestyle — now there is Line Art for Grease Pencil and it whips

edit: oh my god, 3.1 has a Shrink Wrap modifier for GP objects, thank you Jesus

Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Jan 26, 2022

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
I'm making a 40k ship now for some reason and it's a huge trap and I will be stuck doing detail forever

toiletbrush
May 17, 2010
that looks really cool! can you 'cheat' with geometry nodes?

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
Maybe! I'm working on the bigger detail now that I gotta do by hand but there's gotta be a lot of repeating stuff and scattered stuff and whatnot in addition. I don't really know what geo nodes can do yet though.

Corla Plankun
May 8, 2007

improve the lives of everyone
ian hubert did a thing on adding moss that could probably be copied to add greebles to ships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XpNU8GhHq4

i really liked watching the tutorial but my old computer's copy of blender crashed every time i tried to follow the tutorial lol

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

Elukka posted:

Maybe! I'm working on the bigger detail now that I gotta do by hand but there's gotta be a lot of repeating stuff and scattered stuff and whatnot in addition. I don't really know what geo nodes can do yet though.

there's also a built-in addon called discombobulator that is specifically for making spaceship greebles

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
But I need artisanal greeble



Actually that might be very useful, some extra detail to encrust on top of the handmade stuff. I never noticed that one existed.

When I was doing those sensor spires I found there were no good references for them so I made my own concept art by slapping a sensor mast off a naval ship onto a cathedral spire.

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Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009


lol

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