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I've been quiet due to various work. Here's a glimpse at some smooth anime avatar face Normals using my Geometry Nodes tools in Blender. These use an adjustable Lofted proxy mesh to ensure even spacing even while editing the mesh shape. Character created by Joce Joce

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Joce1 年前

She looks so pretty :)

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aVersionOfReality1 年前

Yes, Your art never ceases to amaze me

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Anima1 年前

Transform your @figma designs into production-ready @shadcn components with Anima. Streamline your workflow, maintain design consistency, and generate Tailwind-based code effortlessly.✨

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東方幀友並 ~ GENSOKYO RAHEN1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit 這不是一件容易的事！

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ScreechingCrow1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit Nice, stuff like this is really valuable.

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aVersionOfReality1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit Thank you!

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ChoySaDraws1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit It looks very clean!!! Will you do a video about it?

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aVersionOfReality1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit Thanks! Hopefully I will. I've not had a chance to do a video in awhile.

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Wyujee1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit I just finished following your projected eyes texture and you're peak!!!

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aVersionOfReality1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit Thank you! 😎

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ChiliOil1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit The lighting effect looks amazing! Will there be a detailed tutorial?🤩

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aVersionOfReality1 年前

@lil_blk_rabbit The shader is just a basic toon shader, plus some painted textures. The Normals stuff is pretty much the same as my long YouTube tutorial on Customizing Normals. I hope to make more tutorials about this stuff in the future that are more succinct.

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Need clean toon shading for your Avatar? Making a setup to easily and accurately refit proxy meshes to different anime faces in Blender. Its a bone rig on the proxy mesh and some projection math in Geometry Nodes and a Normal Transfer. Part of tools to help vtubers upgrade.

aVersionOfReality

51,125 次观看 • 1 年前

The Fondant Custom Normals Blender addon is being tested, and we're aiming for a 1.0 release next week! The first feature is the Weighted Normals + Laplacian Smoothing Geometry Nodes modifier. This let's you calculate Normals that are as clean as a nice quad mesh even if your topology is a mess and triangulated! We'll be following up with more tools to support creating high quality Normals for 3D anime and vtuber characters. We have an optimized adjustable Face Normal Transfer proxy mesh nearly ready to go. Check out the Docs to see more about the Addon's features and workflow (link in the reply.)

The Fondant Custom Normals Blender addon is being tested, and we're aiming for a 1.0 release next week! The first feature is the Weighted Normals + Laplacian Smoothing Geometry Nodes modifier. This let's you calculate Normals that are as clean as a nice quad mesh even if your topology is a mess and triangulated! We'll be following up with more tools to support creating high quality Normals for 3D anime and vtuber characters. We have an optimized adjustable Face Normal Transfer proxy mesh nearly ready to go. Check out the Docs to see more about the Addon's features and workflow (link in the reply.)

aVersionOfReality

53,941 次观看 • 1 年前

The first version of the Fondant Face Proxy Normals is feature complete, so here's a closer look at how it is used (character by Joce ). First, align the armature to the head. If you want to attach to an existing rig, make sure the Root bone is exactly placed on the head bone. Adjust it to fit the face with the alignment bone layers. Use the debug material to help see what you are doing. Then use the other bones to adjust the shape. You can attach it to an existing rig by parenting the root bone to the head bone, or even merging the proxy rig into it (2nd clip.) The Normals rig can be posed on the fly for different shots. Since the setup actually uses a mesh object to control the curves (via Geometry Nodes), you can also easily make shapekeys on the proxy to correspond to expression keys, and then drive them (3rd clip.)

The first version of the Fondant Face Proxy Normals is feature complete, so here's a closer look at how it is used (character by Joce ). First, align the armature to the head. If you want to attach to an existing rig, make sure the Root bone is exactly placed on the head bone. Adjust it to fit the face with the alignment bone layers. Use the debug material to help see what you are doing. Then use the other bones to adjust the shape. You can attach it to an existing rig by parenting the root bone to the head bone, or even merging the proxy rig into it (2nd clip.) The Normals rig can be posed on the fly for different shots. Since the setup actually uses a mesh object to control the curves (via Geometry Nodes), you can also easily make shapekeys on the proxy to correspond to expression keys, and then drive them (3rd clip.)

aVersionOfReality

11,358 次观看 • 1 年前

The Fondant Easy Custom Normals Blender addon 2.0.0 is out! We've added the Anime Face Proxy Normals tool I've been developing as a new tier to help fund further development ($10). Get it on Gumroad (link below.) The free tier Laplacian Smooth modifier has also received fixes and optimizations. The Normals Proxy is a set of rigged Curves + Geometry Nodes magic. Place it around your anime face and get clean toon shading fast (compared to other methods.) Easily adjust the shape with the rig for different expressions and poses, add it to your character's rig, and even shapekey it for expression keys!

The Fondant Easy Custom Normals Blender addon 2.0.0 is out! We've added the Anime Face Proxy Normals tool I've been developing as a new tier to help fund further development ($10). Get it on Gumroad (link below.) The free tier Laplacian Smooth modifier has also received fixes and optimizations. The Normals Proxy is a set of rigged Curves + Geometry Nodes magic. Place it around your anime face and get clean toon shading fast (compared to other methods.) Easily adjust the shape with the rig for different expressions and poses, add it to your character's rig, and even shapekey it for expression keys!

aVersionOfReality

63,349 次观看 • 1 年前

Here's what's coming next for the Fondant Custom Normals Addon: Adjustable 3D anime face proxy mesh! If you've tried the proxy method before, you know that it can be difficult to get good results as you need the right topology and shape for good Normals, and also for it to fit to the face properly for a clean transfer. The solution is to use two proxies: one for the shape, and one for the fitting. But that gets cumbersome! And it is still often unintuitive to get the correct shading shapes. The next major feature of the addon will be aiming to solve these problems by providing a convenient proxy mesh that you can fit to your character's face with some rig controls, and then handles the rest under the hood with Geometry Nodes. All the benefits of complexity without having to deal with it yourself! This clip shows the general idea, but is early stages. I'll be sharing more as I build it out.

Here's what's coming next for the Fondant Custom Normals Addon: Adjustable 3D anime face proxy mesh! If you've tried the proxy method before, you know that it can be difficult to get good results as you need the right topology and shape for good Normals, and also for it to fit to the face properly for a clean transfer. The solution is to use two proxies: one for the shape, and one for the fitting. But that gets cumbersome! And it is still often unintuitive to get the correct shading shapes. The next major feature of the addon will be aiming to solve these problems by providing a convenient proxy mesh that you can fit to your character's face with some rig controls, and then handles the rest under the hood with Geometry Nodes. All the benefits of complexity without having to deal with it yourself! This clip shows the general idea, but is early stages. I'll be sharing more as I build it out.

aVersionOfReality

106,964 次观看 • 1 年前

📚 While it's hot, did you know you can use the Blend Normals by Proximity asset (in Bforartists) to also potentially blend shaders? I really think the Set Mesh Normal node in Geometry Nodes is.. a "normal" revolution!

📚 While it's hot, did you know you can use the Blend Normals by Proximity asset (in Bforartists) to also potentially blend shaders? I really think the Set Mesh Normal node in Geometry Nodes is.. a "normal" revolution!

Trinumedia

19,928 次观看 • 11 个月前

Putting the finishing touches on the Anime Face Normals proxy. Still setting up the geometry nodes modifier inputs and other controls. It is easy to adjust the placement and shape of the shading with the rig, and the modifier has options for the shape of the interpolation, and automatic mask setup that blends back to the mesh Normals on the forehead and below the chin. The Proxy Normals modifier automatically feeds into the Laplacian Smooth modifier to benefit from smoothing and Weighted Normals. There's a lot more planned to give more control of the number of curves, points on them, interpolation+falloff, masking, and more. But I'll save those for future updates and not make the wait longer!

Putting the finishing touches on the Anime Face Normals proxy. Still setting up the geometry nodes modifier inputs and other controls. It is easy to adjust the placement and shape of the shading with the rig, and the modifier has options for the shape of the interpolation, and automatic mask setup that blends back to the mesh Normals on the forehead and below the chin. The Proxy Normals modifier automatically feeds into the Laplacian Smooth modifier to benefit from smoothing and Weighted Normals. There's a lot more planned to give more control of the number of curves, points on them, interpolation+falloff, masking, and more. But I'll save those for future updates and not make the wait longer!

aVersionOfReality

104,388 次观看 • 1 年前

I can finally announce the project I've been working on with Joce ! Fondant is building a new app that brings avatars and vtubing to Web. Multiplayer lobbies for vtuber streamer collabs or just hangouts with friends, as well as character customization tools building up to a full creator. We are using a WebGL and WebGPU techstack, so part of the point is to provide a cross-platform alternative to the current Unity based app ecosystem, and also to build tools that people can use to create or modify characters without going through a DCC (Blender, Maya, etc). For now we're starting with the basics: multiplayer lobbies, VRM support, and some tools like merging accessories into existing VRMs in the quoted post, and transferring Custom Vertex Normals from proxy meshes. My role is stylized shaders and procedural character creation. I've been working on NPR Shaders and tools to help build and customize 3D anime characters in Blender for years. With WebGPU, we can bring it into Web. My hope is to build a full character customization system for the Web with next gen toon shaders, and also a matching set of tools in Blender for serious content creators. But it is early days still, and there's a lot to be done! Here's the latest WIP of the rig for fitting proxy meshes to new faces.

I can finally announce the project I've been working on with Joce ! Fondant is building a new app that brings avatars and vtubing to Web. Multiplayer lobbies for vtuber streamer collabs or just hangouts with friends, as well as character customization tools building up to a full creator. We are using a WebGL and WebGPU techstack, so part of the point is to provide a cross-platform alternative to the current Unity based app ecosystem, and also to build tools that people can use to create or modify characters without going through a DCC (Blender, Maya, etc). For now we're starting with the basics: multiplayer lobbies, VRM support, and some tools like merging accessories into existing VRMs in the quoted post, and transferring Custom Vertex Normals from proxy meshes. My role is stylized shaders and procedural character creation. I've been working on NPR Shaders and tools to help build and customize 3D anime characters in Blender for years. With WebGPU, we can bring it into Web. My hope is to build a full character customization system for the Web with next gen toon shaders, and also a matching set of tools in Blender for serious content creators. But it is early days still, and there's a lot to be done! Here's the latest WIP of the rig for fitting proxy meshes to new faces.

aVersionOfReality

65,704 次观看 • 1 年前

Proxy Meshes aren't always ideal because many of the vertices are filler. They have to be in the right place to complete the surface shape and you have to worry about keeping the shape clean. But for simple shapes or clean curved surfaces, why not use curves directly Previously I've solved this by lofting the proxy mesh from a simpler set of curve profiles, but why not skip that and just define the Normals with the curve profiles directly? With typical Data Transfer modifier this isn't an option, but with Geometry Nodes it is no problem. And potentially gives much more control over interpolation and rigging.

Proxy Meshes aren't always ideal because many of the vertices are filler. They have to be in the right place to complete the surface shape and you have to worry about keeping the shape clean. But for simple shapes or clean curved surfaces, why not use curves directly Previously I've solved this by lofting the proxy mesh from a simpler set of curve profiles, but why not skip that and just define the Normals with the curve profiles directly? With typical Data Transfer modifier this isn't an option, but with Geometry Nodes it is no problem. And potentially gives much more control over interpolation and rigging.

aVersionOfReality

22,045 次观看 • 1 年前

Here's the Geometry Nodes Weighted Normals and Laplacian Blur on something more practical. Comparing quads, triangles, and totally messed up topology on these yoga pants. Again we see that the regular blur gets totally ruined on Triangulated quads. It is actually less bad on the messed up mesh because it is has evenly distributed edges. The Laplacian Blur cleans them all up to about the same end result (except for some issues still on the 3rd mesh due to linear interpolation in the shader.)

Here's the Geometry Nodes Weighted Normals and Laplacian Blur on something more practical. Comparing quads, triangles, and totally messed up topology on these yoga pants. Again we see that the regular blur gets totally ruined on Triangulated quads. It is actually less bad on the messed up mesh because it is has evenly distributed edges. The Laplacian Blur cleans them all up to about the same end result (except for some issues still on the 3rd mesh due to linear interpolation in the shader.)

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17,265 次观看 • 1 年前

Taking a look at Camera based changes to the Face Proxy Normals. 3D anime characters have the fundamental problem that Normals which produce the right shading from the front often don't from 3/4ths and side view without making big compromises. On this character, the puffiness of the cheeks means it doesn't work right. If we reduce them, we ruin the silhouette of the geometry. If we change the Normals further around the side to get a shading terminator that does work in both views, then when the light moves it will probably have new problems at other angles. There are combos that work pretty well for every angle, but they limit your face shape options. Everything is easier if you can make Camera based changes! This is rotating the Normals on the proxy before transfer to the face in Geometry Nodes. Its the same as rotating the bones shown at the start. Since there are only 3 spline profiles, its a bit low res to get this quite right, but you get the general idea. Its going to take some experimenting to figure out the best way to handle it all, but it will be much easier to author on the proxy than on the face.

Taking a look at Camera based changes to the Face Proxy Normals. 3D anime characters have the fundamental problem that Normals which produce the right shading from the front often don't from 3/4ths and side view without making big compromises. On this character, the puffiness of the cheeks means it doesn't work right. If we reduce them, we ruin the silhouette of the geometry. If we change the Normals further around the side to get a shading terminator that does work in both views, then when the light moves it will probably have new problems at other angles. There are combos that work pretty well for every angle, but they limit your face shape options. Everything is easier if you can make Camera based changes! This is rotating the Normals on the proxy before transfer to the face in Geometry Nodes. Its the same as rotating the bones shown at the start. Since there are only 3 spline profiles, its a bit low res to get this quite right, but you get the general idea. Its going to take some experimenting to figure out the best way to handle it all, but it will be much easier to author on the proxy than on the face.

aVersionOfReality

19,395 次观看 • 10 个月前

Here is the Geometry Nodes Weighted Normals with Laplacian Blur on a full character (a vroid). It easily improves the shading even on game topology with almost no setup. I built this as part of my quest to improve real time toon shading. 3D anime models are popular, but use of dynamic light is rare even among high quality vtuber models. This is for several reasons, but a big one is simply that it takes a lot of Custom Normals work to make 3D cel shading not look like a jagged mess (other pieces of the puzzle are issues like deformations, multiple lights, etc). And fixing Normals is tedious, especially on existing game topology. I have focused on proxy meshes for priority areas like character faces, but they aren't an efficient solution for the whole body + outfit. I wanted something I could just throw on any model and make it at least not a jagged mess anymore even if it wasn't perfect. As you can see from this clip, this does that very well! And vertex groups can be used to control the style of the effect and power. It still can't smooth beyond what the topology density can support, but the topo itself is no longer a problem (for higher res, could be run on a subdivided version of the model and then baked to a Normal Map.) The only changes I made to this model were adding a weld modifier to merge split edges during interpolation, and a vertex group to select the skirt. I have not yet added full handling and logic for detecting edges with big angles like the skirt, or for handling boundaries like on the hair, so both those areas can get better too. You can also see that while it successfully smooths out the Face, it isn't really stylistically correct there. That is still best done with a proxy mesh to define a new shape. This is part of the tools I am working on for Fondant. We are putting together a Blender Addon to release this + a proxy mesh tool for the face, and are working on resolving other problems in-engine to fully bring dynamic light to real time 3D toon shading. Give us a follow, and send them a DM if you are interested in testing these tools as they develop!

Here is the Geometry Nodes Weighted Normals with Laplacian Blur on a full character (a vroid). It easily improves the shading even on game topology with almost no setup. I built this as part of my quest to improve real time toon shading. 3D anime models are popular, but use of dynamic light is rare even among high quality vtuber models. This is for several reasons, but a big one is simply that it takes a lot of Custom Normals work to make 3D cel shading not look like a jagged mess (other pieces of the puzzle are issues like deformations, multiple lights, etc). And fixing Normals is tedious, especially on existing game topology. I have focused on proxy meshes for priority areas like character faces, but they aren't an efficient solution for the whole body + outfit. I wanted something I could just throw on any model and make it at least not a jagged mess anymore even if it wasn't perfect. As you can see from this clip, this does that very well! And vertex groups can be used to control the style of the effect and power. It still can't smooth beyond what the topology density can support, but the topo itself is no longer a problem (for higher res, could be run on a subdivided version of the model and then baked to a Normal Map.) The only changes I made to this model were adding a weld modifier to merge split edges during interpolation, and a vertex group to select the skirt. I have not yet added full handling and logic for detecting edges with big angles like the skirt, or for handling boundaries like on the hair, so both those areas can get better too. You can also see that while it successfully smooths out the Face, it isn't really stylistically correct there. That is still best done with a proxy mesh to define a new shape. This is part of the tools I am working on for Fondant. We are putting together a Blender Addon to release this + a proxy mesh tool for the face, and are working on resolving other problems in-engine to fully bring dynamic light to real time 3D toon shading. Give us a follow, and send them a DM if you are interested in testing these tools as they develop!

aVersionOfReality

14,679 次观看 • 1 年前

The Fondant Blender Custom Normals Addon version 2.1.0 is almost ready. For this update I've returned to the Laplacian Smooth modifier (in the $0 version). There's a lot of big improvements based on my testing and some problems users found. One of those is a classic problem in Laplacian Smoothing: Instability! For various reasons, certain areas of the mesh can end up with very small or large values that cause oscillations. In Position smoothing, this causes the mesh to explode. For Normals, we get crazy banding or checkboard shading. This happens at high iterations and high strength. The solution is to lower the strength. Sometimes 0.9 will do it, but sometimes you end up down at 0.5. That works, but then you have less smoothing. Now you need more iterations again to get to the same amount and it gets slower. And more iterations = more risk of instability. I've implemented Momentum Smoothing, which helps prevent weird movements and oscillations by keeping some of the movement from the previous iteration. This is technically less precise, but we don't care for smoothing toon shading. It works so well that you not only don't need to turn down the strength, you can even turn it up to 2 or even 3! That means less iterations, or really crazy amounts of smoothing!

The Fondant Blender Custom Normals Addon version 2.1.0 is almost ready. For this update I've returned to the Laplacian Smooth modifier (in the $0 version). There's a lot of big improvements based on my testing and some problems users found. One of those is a classic problem in Laplacian Smoothing: Instability! For various reasons, certain areas of the mesh can end up with very small or large values that cause oscillations. In Position smoothing, this causes the mesh to explode. For Normals, we get crazy banding or checkboard shading. This happens at high iterations and high strength. The solution is to lower the strength. Sometimes 0.9 will do it, but sometimes you end up down at 0.5. That works, but then you have less smoothing. Now you need more iterations again to get to the same amount and it gets slower. And more iterations = more risk of instability. I've implemented Momentum Smoothing, which helps prevent weird movements and oscillations by keeping some of the movement from the previous iteration. This is technically less precise, but we don't care for smoothing toon shading. It works so well that you not only don't need to turn down the strength, you can even turn it up to 2 or even 3! That means less iterations, or really crazy amounts of smoothing!

aVersionOfReality

14,625 次观看 • 11 个月前

I'm putting a lot of attention into getting a high quality transfer for the Face Proxy Mesh we're adding to the Fondant Custom Normals Blender addon. Even if the proxy has great Normals, it will not matter if the transfer is distorted. A basic world space Nearest Surface (aka Nearest Face Interpolated) transfer can get screwed up if there are gaps between the meshes. And if they are different shapes and poly counts, there will be! So the first big piece of the puzzle is getting a clean transfer. Before transferring Normals, a transfer space is made and a UV map is transferred from the proxy. Then any other data needed can be transferred in that UV space. As long as it is right, any other data will be clean! (Normals or anything else you might want.) And a UV map is easy to debug because you can put a grid texture on it. If the grid is evenly spaced, then distortion is minimal. This clip shows the differences in distortion between a basic World Space transfer and a better transfer space made by blending Sphere projection and a simple projection of the face forward onto the proxy (used down the center line.) Different faces will need slightly different configuration. Most of this is automatic, but the addon will have some simple controls to adjust it to different face shapes.

I'm putting a lot of attention into getting a high quality transfer for the Face Proxy Mesh we're adding to the Fondant Custom Normals Blender addon. Even if the proxy has great Normals, it will not matter if the transfer is distorted. A basic world space Nearest Surface (aka Nearest Face Interpolated) transfer can get screwed up if there are gaps between the meshes. And if they are different shapes and poly counts, there will be! So the first big piece of the puzzle is getting a clean transfer. Before transferring Normals, a transfer space is made and a UV map is transferred from the proxy. Then any other data needed can be transferred in that UV space. As long as it is right, any other data will be clean! (Normals or anything else you might want.) And a UV map is easy to debug because you can put a grid texture on it. If the grid is evenly spaced, then distortion is minimal. This clip shows the differences in distortion between a basic World Space transfer and a better transfer space made by blending Sphere projection and a simple projection of the face forward onto the proxy (used down the center line.) Different faces will need slightly different configuration. Most of this is automatic, but the addon will have some simple controls to adjust it to different face shapes.

aVersionOfReality

14,935 次观看 • 1 年前

Some interesting Sega Dreamcast science I've been doing on the side recently... Here's a direct hardware capture of a tech demo of Bruce's aptly-named "Dreamcast Mesh Shit," featuring assets from... Uhhh... I don't even know where he jacked these from... 😂 ANYWAY, the main thing I've been working on is optimizing the skinning for the animations using my SH4ZAM fast math and linear algebra library, which can easily become one of the primary bottlenecks when running the late 6th generation games on the Dreamcast. My work has been mostly to allow the vast majority of the skinning math to occur in the SH4's XMTRX back-bank of floating-point registers, rather than having to round-trip to and from memory for every operation... Just shaved off a few hundred microseconds per mesh this way, with a lot more room to go. Once I have this stuff SOLID, I plan to bring it back to our DC port of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where skinning was one of the major contributors to FPS dips.

Some interesting Sega Dreamcast science I've been doing on the side recently... Here's a direct hardware capture of a tech demo of Bruce's aptly-named "Dreamcast Mesh Shit," featuring assets from... Uhhh... I don't even know where he jacked these from... 😂 ANYWAY, the main thing I've been working on is optimizing the skinning for the animations using my SH4ZAM fast math and linear algebra library, which can easily become one of the primary bottlenecks when running the late 6th generation games on the Dreamcast. My work has been mostly to allow the vast majority of the skinning math to occur in the SH4's XMTRX back-bank of floating-point registers, rather than having to round-trip to and from memory for every operation... Just shaved off a few hundred microseconds per mesh this way, with a lot more room to go. Once I have this stuff SOLID, I plan to bring it back to our DC port of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where skinning was one of the major contributors to FPS dips.

Falco Girgis

49,078 次观看 • 4 个月前

All right, who wants a robot worm? 🪱 Researchers at Case Western Reserve University developed a robot inspired by earthworms. Worms move by using wave-like muscle contractions called peristalsis. This version of the worm-inspired robot has a flexible outer mesh that can continuously change shape. Using this mesh, the robot's fixed parts can move smoothly between each other, providing power and control. This project is referred to as a "soft hyper-redundant robot," due to its highly flexible nature and ability to adapt to various environments. This design could prove useful in scenarios where traditional rigid robots struggle, such as navigating tight spaces or uneven terrain. Please let me know what your thoughts are! 👀 🔔 Hit the bell on my profile to never miss a robot story!

Lukas Ziegler

24,755 次观看 • 1 年前

Let's build the next character for the team! I’m continuing to test the modular character setup in UEFN using the Metahuman Component. Works really well with custom NPCs! For this new character, I'm back to a fresh 3D workflow using AssetHub . Still aiming for that flat/ anime style so I can go straight to the Tripo P1 model and get the low poly textured meshes to work with. Assembling and rigging are done in Blender. Again making a shape key for the eyes blinking. Because I'm going to use the same bone structure, I can re-use some Control Rig systems like the hair and eyes procedural animations. The character has 35K triangles and each accessory is about 2.5K.

Let's build the next character for the team! I’m continuing to test the modular character setup in UEFN using the Metahuman Component. Works really well with custom NPCs! For this new character, I'm back to a fresh 3D workflow using AssetHub . Still aiming for that flat/ anime style so I can go straight to the Tripo P1 model and get the low poly textured meshes to work with. Assembling and rigging are done in Blender. Again making a shape key for the eyes blinking. Because I'm going to use the same bone structure, I can re-use some Control Rig systems like the hair and eyes procedural animations. The character has 35K triangles and each accessory is about 2.5K.

Jerome | InsaneUnreal

16,106 次观看 • 2 个月前

The Fondant Easy Custom Normals addon v2.1.0 is here! Works in Blender 4.3-4.5. I've reworked the Laplacian Smooth Modifier to run on Face Corners, giving us more control and quad mesh support. Also optimizations and new features. No longer needs to run slow triangulation operations. Stability problems are addressed by Momentum Smoothing, which also allows the strength to be scaled up as high as 3 without blowing everything up. So you can do more smoothing in fewer iterations! And there's more control of how things interact with the smoothing. Instead of only choosing how strong it is on a given point, now you can scale the amount it contributes to the smoothing of its neighbors. Or reduce its Original Normal strength to allow it to be overwritten or filled in. These changes and more are all part of the free tier of the addon. Please consider picking up the paid Face Proxy system to support continued development!

The Fondant Easy Custom Normals addon v2.1.0 is here! Works in Blender 4.3-4.5. I've reworked the Laplacian Smooth Modifier to run on Face Corners, giving us more control and quad mesh support. Also optimizations and new features. No longer needs to run slow triangulation operations. Stability problems are addressed by Momentum Smoothing, which also allows the strength to be scaled up as high as 3 without blowing everything up. So you can do more smoothing in fewer iterations! And there's more control of how things interact with the smoothing. Instead of only choosing how strong it is on a given point, now you can scale the amount it contributes to the smoothing of its neighbors. Or reduce its Original Normal strength to allow it to be overwritten or filled in. These changes and more are all part of the free tier of the addon. Please consider picking up the paid Face Proxy system to support continued development!

aVersionOfReality

46,495 次观看 • 10 个月前

My full CG Samurai warrior. This was my first time creating a full human character. Normally I work on creatures and robots, so this was a nice change of workflows and processes. It was originally supposed to be part of a mini fight scene but that never materialised, so it's just another character in my portfolio now. I learned a lot while creating him and even managed to develop some handy tools and workflows during the process which I still use to this day.

My full CG Samurai warrior. This was my first time creating a full human character. Normally I work on creatures and robots, so this was a nice change of workflows and processes. It was originally supposed to be part of a mini fight scene but that never materialised, so it's just another character in my portfolio now. I learned a lot while creating him and even managed to develop some handy tools and workflows during the process which I still use to this day.

Rassoul Edji

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