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Hello everybody, welcome back! I hope you're downtime was as relaxing as mine, it was my brithday around the time all this started so I was mostly just gonna be chillin' and doing whatever I wanted anyway, hah. And apparently what that was (when it wasn't playing videogames with friends) was fiddling around with blender NPR stuff some more. I still have a ways to go before it's really much good, but I've made some discoveries that let me make a little progress, I finally found a way to get outlines around fur! Sorta. It's pretty hacky and a bit unreliable, but it's kinda working. Maybe with a bit more massaging it'll get there.
For no particular reason I picked Moira for my experimentation, I just like the little grumpy trash panda and we haven't seen her in a bit. At some point while working with her on completely unrelated things, that mug popped into my head and it amused me way too damn much and felt way too appropriate for her, I just had to do something with it- and this is the result. It's hard enough to be a functioning member of society, I imagine it's no easier when you're a nocturnal critter in a diurnal world. And also you hate everyone 'cause they suck. But consuming massive amounts of coffee will perhaps take the edge off both, just a little.
So, that's what I was doing while things were down. I hope it provides some amusement.
For no particular reason I picked Moira for my experimentation, I just like the little grumpy trash panda and we haven't seen her in a bit. At some point while working with her on completely unrelated things, that mug popped into my head and it amused me way too damn much and felt way too appropriate for her, I just had to do something with it- and this is the result. It's hard enough to be a functioning member of society, I imagine it's no easier when you're a nocturnal critter in a diurnal world. And also you hate everyone 'cause they suck. But consuming massive amounts of coffee will perhaps take the edge off both, just a little.
So, that's what I was doing while things were down. I hope it provides some amusement.
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
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ha! That ***look***. Some is obviously just to the right of the frame, happily chattering on about how productive the day has been and what they still have planned. It's 4pm. This is Moira's first cuppa. The look just embodies that "wtf are you on" and "there isn't enough coffee in the pot for this" vibe.
I would be more worried about what she does when she did get the energy, coffee or not, at some point your energy normalizes and you fully "wake up" of course having had caffeine-less headaches I am fairly grumpy. So I would still give her a wide berth and be quiet till she has had her morning go Juice.
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It sounds obvious in hindsight, but I used geometry nodes to convert the hair to mesh, actual 3D cones, and then from there used the inverse hull method to generate outlines. From there, a LOT of manual adjusting of things is done to clean it up a bit. It's a lot more hands on than normal rendering, that's for sure. :P
It sounds obvious in hindsight, but I used geometry nodes to convert the hair to mesh, actual 3D cones, and then from there used the inverse hull method to generate outlines. From there, a LOT of manual adjusting of things is done to clean it up a bit. It's a lot more hands on than normal rendering, that's for sure. :P
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You're right, that is really obvious in hindsight, haha. Thats a decent solution, maybe it is pretty hands on, but honestly, anything involved in NPR rendering is pretty hands on, haha.
The way I had tries to do it before was with a layer weight node in the shader editor using the original normals instead of the custom ones from the character mesh, but it wasn't very pretty, especially since I make up each hair tuft out of clumps of smaller ones, resting in a lot of really messy looking black lines everywhere. Eventually I just decided to stop trying to get a good outline on furred characters, heh.
You're right, that is really obvious in hindsight, haha. Thats a decent solution, maybe it is pretty hands on, but honestly, anything involved in NPR rendering is pretty hands on, haha.
The way I had tries to do it before was with a layer weight node in the shader editor using the original normals instead of the custom ones from the character mesh, but it wasn't very pretty, especially since I make up each hair tuft out of clumps of smaller ones, resting in a lot of really messy looking black lines everywhere. Eventually I just decided to stop trying to get a good outline on furred characters, heh.
Me every morning. Sunrise is a time for going to sleep, not waking up.
The linework generation is pretty impressive here! I'm not sure I would have guessed that this is a 3D render. The variations in line thickness are kind of odd - looks like they're thinner around the fur tufts than on the smoother surfaces? - but definitely a promising start.
The linework generation is pretty impressive here! I'm not sure I would have guessed that this is a 3D render. The variations in line thickness are kind of odd - looks like they're thinner around the fur tufts than on the smoother surfaces? - but definitely a promising start.
Hah, deciding it's time to go to bed because I can see the sun starting to come up is an extremely common occurrence in my life. Being up at night is just too peaceful to give up.
Yeah, it's very hard to control the outlines, the mesh is a lot more... janky I guess, than the body mesh and so weird stuff happens. I'll keep messing around and seeing what I can do. :P
Yeah, it's very hard to control the outlines, the mesh is a lot more... janky I guess, than the body mesh and so weird stuff happens. I'll keep messing around and seeing what I can do. :P
I just started picking up learning Blender myself. But I'm a base amateur with any digital artwork beyond modding what's already out there for games and worlds. Totally new to me being on the initial creation side for once. I'm a traditional (pencils, paints, chalk, paper, etc) artist otherwise.
But I can certainly identify with that pose, expression, and especially the coffee cup quote most mornings.
But I can certainly identify with that pose, expression, and especially the coffee cup quote most mornings.
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