#wipsnpractice

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@oncassetteandfortyfive, if u don't mind @niuniente @hanzopresentingtiddies @alittledragon @afvisende

🙈 the only reason I wasn't sure about this one spreading is the heavy referencing lol

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my dumb ass always forgets something

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a quick little thing trying to draw with shape (which I'm terrible at doing)

My OC Lazarus, or Lazer if you want

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some more progress I guess?

kept editing and styling the hair (might need a few more flyaways maybe) and sculpted and joined all the parts (like yay he has legs now idk if I'd shown him with legs yet) The reason it looks a little flat is it's just some low res vertex paint that I think I'll bake to the retopologized model when it's done as a starting point, though I kind of want his uniform in a different material maybe??

and if you're curious, the studio shading and density of the mesh in the last img.

Uhh he doesn't have a body under the uniform right now but I might make one so parts of the uniform can be changed/removed, though I'll probably leave the uniform pant as his legs haha

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pspsps hey Invisible Kid anon? Since I couldn't resist the urge to try something out I started Lyle. Dude just can't escape being a test subject.

There's method to the madness I promise lmao

I sketched him out a while ago (and intended to make the jacket, might still do that)

I thought I was gonna model him orthographically but just jumped to sculpting. Idk if I'll give him feet under the boots yet so I just ignored the lower legs for now. (and I really wanna try that hair)

Ended up using Mekt's head since it was in my library. I also used and edited Mekt's arms, slimming them down to fit Lyle, who I imagine has a slighter build.

custom head WIP then Mekt's edited head to the right.

For fun I threw some poly paint on him in Zbrush. like I REALLY wanted to get to the hair and see what that looks like

This is my first attempt at making hair this way.

That blocky hair sculpt? I cut it into the groups of hair I planned on making and did a quick autoretopo to make them into nice grids which I'll use to guide the flow of the hair curves.

^^ I generated strips of hair using Blender's hair curves system, shaded with a node tree to create shine and a slight randomization of color amongst the strands. I rendered the result orthographically to get textures for the hair, didn't bother with normal maps or anything cos I'm not sure how that would look yet

ok let's see what happens when I use these uwu

surprisingly not bad?? even at this point in creating it

The mesh is clean enough and this was actually faster than sculpting the hair

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Gonna work on the high poly models for some of his accessories. I said I was gonna make Lyle's jacket so here it goes :3

The base was duplicated from his low poly mesh, I just I modeled the collar and joined it to the main body of the jacket

Moved it over to Zbrush and split it up into the different groups.

I used simulation to create preliminary wrinkles and the piping and zippers are objects following paths.

Here's how all the accessories are coming~

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hope it doesn't jinx the whole project but here's a little thing I've been working on