The Santa Nun
Apparently I'm well over due for doing a post and I've been threatened with death , or at least no supper, if I don’t do a post today. I have also been instructed that it must be a serious photographic post. Ho Hum.
Well in the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with my CGI packages, learning what they do and how they do it. I'm also finding out that’s it’s all too easy to crash these things. I don’t know who writes these but it’s really not acceptable for an app to lock and crash after several hours losing all the work you've done. So now I know to save everything very often.
But I have made some achievements. I know most of the methods used to create skin and make it look good. I'm not at the 100% photorealistic stage yet but I'm getting a book from Santa on how to make photorealistic faces. The techniques should then be applicable to the whole body.
I've been learning about rigging models, sounds kinky doesn’t it! Unfortunately it’s not the process of tying them up and dangling them from the ceiling but the technique of taking the models skin envelope and attaching it to a bone structure so that you can animate the body. This is really tricky to do well as human joints are a pig to get right, and don’t get me started about having your hand go right through your tummy when you move your shoulder!
Hair has also been fun. Hair simulation is getting pretty good and I'm slowly getting better at it. The main problem I have at the moment is with the computer I'm running it on, well one of them anyways. I tried to render some fur and accidently set the number of hair instances too high. I was greeted with a nice error message as the app crashed telling me it had failed to allocate 7GB of ram. Whoops. Maybe I should run it on the XP64 machine I have.
So anyways I spent this morning putting together a piccy for you to show you what I have acheived so far. Today’s WIP. Lin took one look at this and described it as a nun in a Santa hat, so she is now and always shall be the Santa Nun.
I present to you the Santa Nun in all her glory, or at least her head, as I didn’t model the rest.
You'll notice that the Santa Nun doesn’t have real eyes, I could say that this is because she’s really possessed by the devil and thus we should rename this TSNPD - "The Santa Nun Possessed by the Devil", but in reality I just I ran out of time and didn’t have time to add more realistic eyes. I think it’s kind of cool anyway.
The whole poly count of the model needs to go up and I need to add some actual details to the skin beyond colouring and reflection models. But I'm still working on that.
You can also see the fur that caused the problems. As one of my fluffies she was supposed to be fluffier and the fur whiter but at 20mins to render I wasn’t going to spend too long playing around.
The real Christmas fluffy for this post is Clayre McKinnen
Well in the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with my CGI packages, learning what they do and how they do it. I'm also finding out that’s it’s all too easy to crash these things. I don’t know who writes these but it’s really not acceptable for an app to lock and crash after several hours losing all the work you've done. So now I know to save everything very often.
But I have made some achievements. I know most of the methods used to create skin and make it look good. I'm not at the 100% photorealistic stage yet but I'm getting a book from Santa on how to make photorealistic faces. The techniques should then be applicable to the whole body.
I've been learning about rigging models, sounds kinky doesn’t it! Unfortunately it’s not the process of tying them up and dangling them from the ceiling but the technique of taking the models skin envelope and attaching it to a bone structure so that you can animate the body. This is really tricky to do well as human joints are a pig to get right, and don’t get me started about having your hand go right through your tummy when you move your shoulder!
Hair has also been fun. Hair simulation is getting pretty good and I'm slowly getting better at it. The main problem I have at the moment is with the computer I'm running it on, well one of them anyways. I tried to render some fur and accidently set the number of hair instances too high. I was greeted with a nice error message as the app crashed telling me it had failed to allocate 7GB of ram. Whoops. Maybe I should run it on the XP64 machine I have.
So anyways I spent this morning putting together a piccy for you to show you what I have acheived so far. Today’s WIP. Lin took one look at this and described it as a nun in a Santa hat, so she is now and always shall be the Santa Nun.
I present to you the Santa Nun in all her glory, or at least her head, as I didn’t model the rest.
You'll notice that the Santa Nun doesn’t have real eyes, I could say that this is because she’s really possessed by the devil and thus we should rename this TSNPD - "The Santa Nun Possessed by the Devil", but in reality I just I ran out of time and didn’t have time to add more realistic eyes. I think it’s kind of cool anyway.
The whole poly count of the model needs to go up and I need to add some actual details to the skin beyond colouring and reflection models. But I'm still working on that.
You can also see the fur that caused the problems. As one of my fluffies she was supposed to be fluffier and the fur whiter but at 20mins to render I wasn’t going to spend too long playing around.
The real Christmas fluffy for this post is Clayre McKinnen
Labels: CGI, Christmas, Clayre McKinnen
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