Cypress Digital Sculpt Update! 🐮 (Moodity warning)
Added 2025-01-28 21:18:24 +0000 UTCHey guys! Here's another update on the sculpt. (Once again, just a heads up that there is noodity in the following image set)
So after refining the anatomy a bit more and also adding in the vascularity, it was time to add colour. Luckily Dave Reed also had some tutorials geared towards that as well. This is the one that I watched before starting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88Oq_kFv0c&list=LL&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB
Fortunately, it seems that colouring is very much set up in a layering system, like with drawing apps, so it was more simple of a task than I was expecting 😂
After getting the colouring down on the different body part, keeping in mind to vary up the tones so that things wouldn't seem too flat, it was time to add in the last bits of detail in terms of scars. This was also pretty straight forward, since it was just the sculpting tools from before, with the difference of symmetry being turned off for this part.
Lastly, was just setting up the lighting and post processing, which is where things really started to pull together. There was lots of good advice for that here in this other video by Dave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVnSjSCGR8&list=LL&index=2
Like with colouring, a lot of the settings were similar to what would be in drawing apps too, so again there was a lot of familiarity, and it just came down to playing around with them to see what looked the best lol.
Next part would just be to give him clothing, but I think I'll wait on that until I finalized the designs on his 2d ref. If you wanna go back and see those in case you missed them, they can be found here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cypress-clothing-116931486
And since I know i'm gonna get those comments, yes he now has bits. 😂 It was kind of a spur of the moment thing, and I felt like since all the anatomy was getting detail work, it would look better if EVERYTHING got that treatment. I will say that he does look more complete now lol👍
So that's it for now in terms of updates! Gonna get back to 2D for a bit now, but I'll keep this one in the back of my mind and maybe explore different venues and ideas for what to do with him in the future. If I plan to pose him, that's gonna be more work to re-sculpt the anatomy to work with the new pose, and buliding a skeleton and rigging him is pretty far from my field of expertise atm... 😅 (I imagine my skills are a lot less transferrable in that area too 😂) So regardless of what I do, there's gonna be a bit of a grace period for me to learn more. If any of you guys have questions or suggestions, I'm always open to hearing those as well, and advice is always welcome too! 🙏
*Turntable animation of the sculpt is in the attachments 👍
Thanks again! Hope everyone has a great week!
Enjoy! 😊
Comments
Omg I really hope you give us the chance to download him. I’m a 3D artist and would love to work on Cypress.
Eren Yanno
2025-01-31 15:34:49 +0000 UTCNow I know why some people call him blueberry 🫐, I always thought Cypress' skin was shades of gray 🤔. Great work Taran as always, It's amazing how quickly you learned how to use 3D modeling.
Jezz
2025-01-29 23:33:00 +0000 UTCdetail on the hair is amazingggg
Bubsrug
2025-01-29 17:58:36 +0000 UTCBeautiful!! His intense stare and his eyes are just incredible. I don't get what you mean about him being cross-eyed, he looks just fine to me! Good job on his musculature too, though he could use some more definition IMHO - muscles always look tight and sharp in your drawings, so I am used to seeing your moos like that. 🙂 I am happy to see that you chose to give him his bits, characters without them always look incomplete to me, like children's toys; adding intimate parts makes them real in my eyes, as if carrying them to adulthood.
hirumono
2025-01-29 08:04:39 +0000 UTCI'm more fond of the mask + rotation brush, it's easier to control and adjust but blender way to handle the rotation origin is terrible (have to setup a shortcut because the menu to set it will use the position of the mouse, which is in the menu the moment you click so ...)
kuroson
2025-01-29 07:58:27 +0000 UTCTHIS IS SO GOOD 😭! I am all for the 3d taran fiddler arc! Cypress looks so handsome! I look forward to see more. Excellent work, dude!! 🔥
Pseudo Leopard
2025-01-29 01:57:38 +0000 UTCGosh this is just amazing! I do hope to see him turned poseable at some point, he has a lot of fun potential now 👌
Koushiro
2025-01-29 01:33:39 +0000 UTCThis is the bright spot i needed today. Thank you. Cypress is adorable, and the moodity is just fine. Appreciated even. It's great seeing the evolution in your style as you move to a new art form. I see what you mean about him looking a little cross-eyed dead on due to his face structure. It's not unusual; I made an Argonian in ESO the other day, and they have some of the same issues.
Treeknocker
2025-01-29 00:40:11 +0000 UTChttps://nomadsculpt.com/manual/material Switch material type to "Opaque" or "Subsurface", set "Roughness" to about 60% (0.6). Roughness is, well, how rough the surface is. 0.0 is mirror-polish, 1.0 is very porous (think canvas or fabric). https://nomadsculpt.com/manual/painting Since you lack high-frequency details, it will always look a bit plastic-y. Those will add the visual interest to the reflections needed to improve the look. The gist is that 3d is too perfect and we need to dirty it up to make it look interesting and believable and "realistic" ;)
Nicolò Piccinini
2025-01-29 00:14:48 +0000 UTC👀!!!
Blackheat
2025-01-29 00:10:08 +0000 UTCThere is an intermediate step required before it makes sense to build a skeleton to pose him with. It's really not advisable to do it on the raw sculpt geometry, especially since you still have disconnected pieces, like the tail and... other bits. If you just want to have fun and get him into a pose straight away without too much of a hassle, Blender has an easy way to pose your raw sculpt geometry. You can then sculpt further, but keep in mind that after that, going back to a clean t-pose is not really going to be possible, that's the gotcha. It all depends on what you want to do. It's called the sculpt pose brush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfbx3JmugHc
Nicolò Piccinini
2025-01-28 23:44:45 +0000 UTCThis is absolutely amazing, mannn!! I knew he’d turn out incredible from day one! I can only imagine the effort you put in, starting from scratch and delivering such a high-level sculpture in such a short time. You’re putting so many of us to shame 😭👍👍👍 I can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next >///<”
Po
2025-01-28 23:38:50 +0000 UTCGreat job ! I would be moo-re than happy to rig it for you. You could also make it a vseeface avatar and be a moo-tuber :D Only feedback I would do for the next time is: the render feels quite plastic-ish, I don't know what can and cannot do NomadSculpt for the rendering, but if it support roughness and/or subsurface scattering, play with high roughness, make some light noise and make the cavity rougher + add subsurface scattering over the skin to breaks the plastic looks and have more skin or clay-ish aesthetic. Also you can also paint shadow/highlight to improve the volume perception. Now, time to see what will be your next drawing
kuroson
2025-01-28 23:21:22 +0000 UTCThank you for sharing your experience with 3d sculpting, it’s been a real treat seeing you get familiar with a new medium. Your anatomy work is always deserving of praise and I think it’s great that you seem to be more comfortable with making your characters “more complete” now 😄 I’m keen to see you surpass your own expectations with rigging and posing when you choose to focus on that further down the line 😌
Budge
2025-01-28 23:04:34 +0000 UTCone qustion thou. is he a shower or a grower? XD anyway, great model. impressive how quick you managed to learn all that. bets are open when your model starts running :p (2 month max)
Julian Becker
2025-01-28 22:19:37 +0000 UTCA bakery and sausage factory? Cypress is the whole package! Great work!
VeeBee
2025-01-28 22:13:44 +0000 UTCSeems like you're getting a feel for the 3D modeling just fine! Really digging the details of the scars. Keep it up. ^^
Eddie Santiago
2025-01-28 21:32:46 +0000 UTCHES FINALLY A TRUE MODEL
zankies87
2025-01-28 21:29:59 +0000 UTCLove to see the progress you've made on him. Crazy what a difference color makes! Really cool to see details taking shape like the veins in his legs, nice little additions. I didn't realize Cypress had so many scars!
Soul
2025-01-28 21:26:57 +0000 UTCHe is beautiful taran! Derpy is proud! Now have cypress stand there as Arkees gives him a hug.
DerpyDrake
2025-01-28 21:25:25 +0000 UTCWOOOOOO AHH TARAN HE LOOKS FANTASTIC!!! YOURE SERIOUSLY KILLING IT IN THE 3D DEPARTMENT HE LOOKS SO AMAZING!!! 😭🤎🤎🤎 THE MUSCLES AND EVERYTHING ARE SO WELL DETAILED AND THE ANATOMY IS SO SPOT ON I LOVE IT KEEP IT UP BUD! IM ROOTIN FOR U🤎🙏
Hash
2025-01-28 21:21:46 +0000 UTCIt's so uncanny seeing color on him without your usual sketchy/painty brush strokes haha. He looks fantastic! I really look forward to seeing what more you'll do with him, and modeling in general!
Hakawne
2025-01-28 21:21:24 +0000 UTCDear God, it finally happened. Taran Fiddler actually portrayed the male reproductive organ in one of his art pieces. A new dawn is upon us!
The Littlest Pitbull
2025-01-28 21:21:12 +0000 UTCGlad to see you branching out into different media! Killer job!
Halkyov
2025-01-28 21:20:58 +0000 UTCI see you made him anatomically correct heehee. Amazing work hun for reals
Dragore Skywing
2025-01-28 21:19:59 +0000 UTC
