#a dude i know 3d printed it for me don't worry about it ;)

[silvergifting]

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe accidentally attaching a snapchat image of me holding a real dental bridge with the caption 'i finally found john wayne's plastic teeth' to a real academic email and only noticing after i sent it wasn't my smartest move

[hidden-among-stars]

Buying a set of wearable claws would fix me I think

ok but for real i desperately need a set of claws lmao my lack of claws is one of the worst points of dysphoria I have that I could actually do something about and i had a set that i had ordered that looked really good and were super cheap but then it turned out the guy who sold them is like the most transphobic mf dude ever and also like a literal n*zi???? anyways apparently some people in the furry fandom hacked his computer about it and deleted all of the 3d printing files for his products off of it literally a day before i bought the claws or something lmfao. which like. honestly thank you to them, dodged a bullet there. got a refund and everything, glad i didn't end up supporting that guy (though it still makes me nervous af that he has my name and address - also, don't worry, right now this person isn't selling anything and it looks like they don't plan to start up again any time soon - and if you already bought from them it's ok, you didn't know, just like I didn't know when I initially made the purchase. if they do pop up again though their etsy is/was xyzcostume). but like. anyways. i need some claws. and the best equivalent i can find is A. from a f*tish shop which like... ok whatever but also feels weird to buy them from a f*tish shop as someone who isn't using them for that purpose. and B. like over $100 for a full set of ten. cries.

Anyways if anyone knows of a good place to get wearable claws from that wouldn't cost me like over $100 for a whole set please do link them to me

[puttlesculpts]

Step 2: Sourcing & Blender pt 1

I don't know shit about 3D modeling!!! So I am applying my most essential skill: organically and ethically sourcing the things I cannot provide for myself.

I do actually have a fairly extensive background in hand building with clay, which is something I plan on incorporating at later steps, but I knew I wanted the base of this to be a 3D model since that would afford great flexibility and consistency. I bring this up cus I never dabbled much in CG (I tried off and on in the past, but to little success) but always wanted to be good at it. I realize it's an entirely new skill set, but thankfully there are elements to it that aren't too unfamiliar to me! You'd be surprised how much you can get away with by making subtle changes, and that is what I am banking on with the Sculpt mode in Blender.

So the first thing I sourced was this (royalty free) male body from hiflow3d on CGTrader. It's got the perfect amount of detail and a similar enough body type to my boy:

I am not shy when it comes to learning new programs and stuff, so the idea of rigging this from scratch ain't even a big deal (I actually did exactly that not too long ago, but it was on a different bodymesh and therefor not applicable to this project lmaoo).

But I say that knowing I'll be able to pull a lot of my own weight once this reaches the printing stage, which is comforting. For now it just needs to be good enough!

Here are the before and afters of his head:

Eyes are more shaped, brows furrowed, bigger schnoz, some changes to the chin & cheek bones, more shape to the skull/forehead

It's not perfect since my knowledge of Blender and how to really and truly work with it is so shallow, but again: it's good enough. Besides which, my dude has his entire head and most of his face covered, so it doesn't have to be perfect.

At this point I was ready to start rigging and intended to do everything else in post, but then I thought about how much easier it would be to NOT sculpt boots + gloves + everything else by hand (while being symmetrical) so I am instead gonna attempt to do as much of Layer 1 as I can in Blender.

Here's my first attempt as a cube-extruded boot:

And here's the second version after I decided to try harder and to scrap the first one for being too messy and anykine:

This is obviously still a WIP since I mainly just worked on the foot part, but it's not so bad. It's repetitive but fun once you get into the grove. IDK anything about efficiency in Blender yet, but I am trying my best to look out for future Devan by keeping these faces as neat and clean as possible.

I've started to get carried away with the smoothing, but I'm not too worried about it or the clipping since I'm just gonna chop off the legs underneath anyway & subdivide + smooth the boots. I could prolly even leave the feet as big blocks and just dremmel them down once it's printed, but hey, it's good to practice new things