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Naomi 2 Prop Model

Pretty excting, eh?

Naomi 2 Progress Report

Tentative title: "Naomi Re-Armed."

Done with her new arms.  I finished the script and handed it off to my talented voice actor to record.  Hopefully she will get it to me in a couple of da...

Naomi 2 Update

Just a quickie note..  Naomi's arms are looking much better.  That is to say they move better..  All of the muscle groups slide and stretch more organically than before.  They stil...

Animation Progress Report

Just a little note... The muscles in Naomi's arms were fully remodeled today.  She really packed on some extra size.

The next step is to get each individual muscle group to move with her bones....

First Preview of Naomi's 2nd Animation

Hey all,

Naomi is getting "re-armed" in her next animation.  I am re-modeling her arm muscles from scratch.  They will have many more independently moving muscle groups, and those muscles ...

New Update to ZBrush

And it's free for existing ZBrush owners (like me)!

By the way....  Naomi is getting some upgrades for her next animation.  And you're gonna love 'em! :D

Posted to YouTube

A censored preview of Meet Naomi.  It also goes into some of the technical stuff and I made some simple animations to show them in action.  Hope you don't mind I posted your glowing comments...

This has nothing to do with anything...

But I recently got one of these.  I don't have this particular model, but mine is very similar.  I paid about $25.  It's changed my diet for the healthier and it's soooo yummy!  Ma...

Naomi's 1st Animation Sent Out (to most of you)

Hey all,

If you check your mail you likely have Naomi's 1st animation waiting for you.  If you don't have it yet, I will take care of you first thing tomorrow (later today) after I get some sle...

Because I am bored while rendering...

Today I was chatting with another Lightwave user..  Lightwave 3D is the name of the 3D software I use, if you were unaware.  This guy is a master of nodes.  Nodes are bit of code you ca...

Early E.T.A.

It is a bit early to make an estimate, but it looks from this long distance that the rendering will be done in five days.  And for 2523 frames (~84 seconds)... That's pretty good! :)

Animation Progress Report!

Naomi's skin is COMPELTE!

I am changing up the lighting to take advantage of the benefits given to us with this new RSMB tool and the improvements in render quality is...

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Animation Progress Report

If you were curious, I have half of the final body part complete.  The final body part are the left and right forearms.  The right forearm is done.  I could have got it all done today b...

Purchased RSMB. Works great!

Here's a quickie little test I did with it under extreme motion.  It handles it pretty well I think!

It's working!

Making forward progress again!

041: Maria's Introduction Animation

Maria's debut animation!  Thanks for your support!

Frustrating.

I really thought I would be rendering by now.  There was an alignment problem with one of the muscles in her upper arm..  All of the skinning work I did for the last two days has to be scrap...

An Important Question For All of You

In my last post I mentioned that I will need to disable motion blur if I wanted to get the animation rendered in a reasonable amount of time.  This is because I render motion blur by rendering th...

New peek at Naomi and News

Hello!

I just posted a preview render of Naomi to DA.  Her arms are not yet skinned so they are cropped out.

In my first test renders I see that Naomi will take over 16 days to render.. &...

Animation Progress Report!

I'm sick.  I have a cough, sore throat, fatigue and generally feel like crap..

Nevertheless I did get some work done.  I went and did a 2nd pass on both of Naomi's pecs for the shrink-wrap...

Animation Progress Report!

Just finished the 5th body part..  Two remain.  And it's looking FANTASTIC.  Even though it caused a delay, I was absolutely right to re-do her chest when I realized the muscle morphs w...

Streaming for a bit...

If you want to watch me doing over again what I worked on all day. :/

http://www.picarto.tv/CGMan

Check out this neck!

Just finished shrink-wrapping skin over Naomi's neck.  I think this is an even better example that shows skin sliding over muscle.

Animation Progress: Torso complete!

Yay!  Here is Naomi looking down approvingly at her well-defined abs. :)

Animation Progress: Torso done (as soon as it's done)

So I did a sim earlier today and everything came out perfect except for one little spot that I missed..  Ruined the whole thing.  And I made some changes.. And I also doubled the polygon res...

It's all working

Everything is great now.  I need to run the sim again because there are a few error areas I missed.. But that was my fault, not the sim's fault.

Good news this time!

Huzzah!  A friend of mine pointed me out to a third-party tool that basically does the same shrink-wrapping process that my native 3D software does.  And it works without the raindrop dent a...

Good News and Bad News

Hey,

I've got the spikey problem from yesterday sorted out.  But a new problem has surfaced..  Little random "raindrop" like denting.  You can see it in the attached file.

So cl...

Animation Progress! First look at the new tech!

Hey all!  Well at this point I have made my third attempt at cleanly shrink-wrapping skin over her muscles (and a bit of fat).  Each time was a failure but each time I got closer to the mark...

Animation Update!

Muscles all done.  Time to put her skin on!  So excited!! :D