Today we are finishing our handmade ears and tails with the texturing of the ears itself. After we added fur, textured it, now we are gonna texture the ears, play with the intensity of it and adjust the multi while we check the vanilla textures. showing also a nice and easy approach when you have...
2025-01-23 22:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn this lesson we'll show first part of detailing pass on the boots - creating lacing (using Bezier curves) and sculpting in sole pattern details (using booleans and remesh).
2025-01-17 16:50:06 +0000 UTC View PostToday we want to focus in Scher's course on something very specific following a popular request. Packing your finished modpack in TT with advanced setup. It will be shown the process in detail, how to pack efficiently, how to offer several versions and how you can pack IMC toggles. We will look a...
2025-01-10 13:48:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn this lesson from Shana we'll cover first part of 3d boots model creation, this time focused on poly modeling. On next Shana's lesson we'll continue refining the shape, add lacing and start texturing.
2025-01-04 13:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostToday we are mastering adding fur to our already made ear mesh. The method I am gonna show you is something I researched on my own and am still perfecting. This technique uses the groom technique and also uses their tools, all already included in Blender. I am showing you how to adjust the differ...
2024-12-19 21:38:12 +0000 UTC View PostIn this lesson from Shana we show the process of modeling high heeled shoes by sculpting a base mesh and poly modeling over it.
2024-12-13 23:40:11 +0000 UTC View PostToday we are mastering adding fur to our basic tail mesh. The method I am gonna show you is fool proof and only uses blender board materials, no need for any addons or additional things. We will also constantly check the meshes in game and see how the different methods can vary and create differe...
2024-12-05 21:43:39 +0000 UTC View PostIn the second part of the lace series we cover whole Substance Painter process and optional Ambient Occlusion in Xnormal. We show various types of projections, use of paint along path tool to create lace trims, warp projection for appliques and anchor points for removing overlaps.
2024-11-30 20:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostIn this 2+ part course Dark will cover creating skin-tight meshes and texturing them using alphas, which is technique very useful for creating things like lace underwear or hosiery. In first part we cover the modeling (from scratch), using basic poly modeling and Shrink Wrap modifier.
2024-11-21 21:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostIn this new series I want to show you the mastery and arts of creating ears and tails. In this lesson we are focusing on the form, the model techniques and what things you need to keep in mind to get a clean UVs and also a nice topology so you can weight it well later. I am showing 3 general tech...
2024-11-21 21:10:40 +0000 UTC View PostIn this course part we will look more into editing the vanilla mesh rather than just upscaling. One very interesting technique I found to do that is the blender built in cloth physics which I noted last lesson in a short amount. Today we want to focus on that, showing you guys this time especiall...
2024-11-07 21:22:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn this holiday special lesson we'll few important tools in Marvelous Designer to quickly get interesting shapes - mainly Elastic modifier and folding tools. We'll create few different types of collars and review the "inverse" workflow - creating a mesh in Blender then importing it to MD as an ac...
2024-11-02 10:54:10 +0000 UTC View PostToday we will look into the technique for upscales. We will prepare the mesh, clean it, then subdivide it and do some tips and tricks so you won't have weird smoothed chains, corners, etc. The technique is developed by me over a span of 3 years and allows you to create a first upscale in basicall...
2024-10-24 20:06:52 +0000 UTC View PostIn this lesson from Shana we'll continue showcasing high poly to low poly workflow for hard surface models on example of the belt, starting with high poly made on a previous lesson and optimizing it and preparing for baking, including UV unwrapping and hard edges to get artifact-free sharp edges ...
2024-10-18 18:09:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis lesson we face the king's discipline for hair: texturing.
I am showing you tips and trick on how to create normal maps, how to create, adjust and experiment with highlights and how you can use some "magic" to create split dyes for your hair. We also look in the new channel setup for h...
2024-10-10 22:08:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Using the new improved cloth simulation in Blender has been a blast! I am showing you guys some tricks and tips I found out when I experimented with bishop sleeves which I use in general for my more medieval / phantasy orientated outfits. We will use the cloth simulation tab in Blender and learn ...
2024-10-06 12:22:22 +0000 UTC View PostWould you guys like some halloween themed lessons or should we continue with the estimated projects we are doing right now?
2024-10-06 12:11:25 +0000 UTC View PostIn this lesson Shana showcases subdivision surface modeling techniques creating a high-poly belt (that will get retopo and UVs in next Shana lessons) for a good reminder in tradiditional 3d modeling that is still quite important . We cover things like supporting loops, edge flow, shading and mod...
2024-10-04 21:17:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn this lesson we focus on everything model related. We will not only use the Penumbra Bridge for fast checking of the mesh and adjusting but will also add shapekey to the hair for hat compatibility and also will start with all racial models so the hair is race wide! We will also add and remove m...
2024-09-26 20:34:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn this lesson we continued working on our pants made in Marvelous Designer and retopologised in Blender - we quickly loaded it up in game and did general texturing process, including adding details like pockets straight in Substance Painter. In next lesson from Shana in 2 weeks we'll refine the ...
2024-09-20 23:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostIn this live lesson we start our journey into hair porting. Firstly we are looking at two mesh types from two games, seeing the differences, how we can check them and much more. Next main topic of this lesson is the fitting itself which we do, and the first general weighting. The two meshes with ...
2024-09-12 20:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostDuring the lesson we shown basics of Marvelous Designer and created simple skinny pants then shown the automatic retopology process with Quad Remesher and test bake in Substance Painter. After that we explored bit more of MD showing various variants of a circle skirt.
2024-09-06 18:17:35 +0000 UTC View PostIn this tutorial we will present basics of Marvelous Designer user interface, overview of tools, sewing, simple circle skirt example and importing your own avatar.
It's made in preparation to upcoming live lesson where we create pants for our character in MD, retopology it in Blender...
2024-09-04 22:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, with our first full month coming in this patreon we thought it would be a good idea to show you what we have in mind for this month.
Shana: Marvelous Designer, Workflow, Sewing, Pipeline Blender, Substance painter and TT import
Scherana: Porting Game Meshes, example ...
2024-09-04 12:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostIn this live action we look into the area of modelling jewellery, ne it armbands, necklaces or spikey stuff! We are especially using the array modifier with the curve modifier, learning about topology and how loopholes are important to give things "form", how to solve weird shadows and why we don...
2024-08-29 20:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostA short shout out for this week's live lesson, we will look into creating accessories, meaning mostly earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces. I will try to give an overall overview of it, but if you have certain aspects (specific styles) you would love to have explained, please ping me with ideas ...
2024-08-28 07:52:20 +0000 UTC View PostToday we are looking more into poly modelling and less sculpting. We are creating a leather band for the arm, some gloves for the hands with the knife tool and also preparing some stuff we are gonna bake next lesson with Shana. Additionally we looked into adding button meshes to break up the silh...
2024-08-15 21:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-08-14 09:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post
If you want to try out our own body and working on it. The devkit has own shapekeys, full morphs, animations for testing.
Download: https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/112468
How to use video: 2024-08-14 09:36:39 +0000 UTC View Post