Smoke break

 

Colorful clothes

 

TotaM

wow, this site is famished for updates !

TotaM grows with 30ish pics for the main set and another 20ish extras.

roughness

rebuilding all the characters from the ground up.
now is Ardente's turn and a good time as any to fiddle with the skin material some more.
1st iteration shown here was good enough albeit very glossy.
2nd iteration with a modified roughness in the specular node.
3rd pic is the octane graph.
quitez happy with the hair.

changelog

+ added new anim
+ added new props & dynamic materials
+ started listing the authors of the assets
+ more camera control

changelog

+ gimble lock fixed
+ added controls to camera & idle camera delays
+ added hair & dynamic mats for them
+ started working on light

gimble lock

set some dynamic materials for the dolls skins
a basic ui
working on some camera controls and loosing myself trying to understand quaternions just for the fun of learning something new :)

fail better

Happy new 2020 !
And diving to ue4 for good: for one thing, i'm swiching to v4 figures to see if they fit my needs better (no geograft to deal with). First project is very small scale and scope: just 2 characters pleasing each other in a loop. The goals are to familiarize with import/export of fbx, animations, texture & lighting. On the viewer side, some camera control and possibly some morph and texture control.
here is the very bland first import of some assets:

thinking

instances & random colors in octane

got an idea for a set where i want a chorus dancer line. That can be easely acheived with instanciating (same model reused in the scene) - but i dont want them to look like clone -even tho they are. so i'm playing with the random color node in octane.

excuse the low poly figure

Meliss

Blue dao

untitled

Pointy

your next stop

Theta, Abacus & Bandini

I know, Aletheia (with a theta) should be spelled Aleteia (with a tau) but i cant let the Theia slip - call it an old pun.

this is a screenshot of Abacus, Al's trusty computer - with all the retro you might want; with a message from Lachesis, recuring character with her 2 sisters.

and finally, meet episode one guest star Bandini

a charming personality.

clutter

my, i hadnt realized how long the process of adding clutter would be. i've always tried to have some details in the scenes i did to flesh out the mood (or jus go bare as with the black collection) - but here, as i'm building Al's office/home, i realize thats its more than mood - its Al's place, it should tell about her.
The bedroom/kitchen corner above still lack personality - and the noir-sci-fi touch, and while i'm filling the room, i'm not posing the actors...
Posting this draft and then later a more complete one so you can play spot the difference !

some time later:

notice the pet bowl ? i think Aletheia will have a cat companion...

Punk's not Dead

at the window

the street where she lives

still playing with the fog while setting the street level for Resolve.