Dork Central

A blog for documentating and sharing updates on my animation of Hero Squad, a D&D campaign by Stumptgamers and SharkyAenne.

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How's it going?

Hey all! I haven't updated in a while, eh? So I'll admit, I've had a pretty meh month. I didn't get much work done on this and I'm behind on the dnd story in general.

I did do some more work on Rager though and I'm thinking I might put up the video in two parts since y'all have been waiting so long. Thoughts?

Not much to show otherwise and you probably won't get pictures until I do coloring on the models bc that's when I think they look the coolest but we'll see.

That's all for now, hopefully I'll get more done from here on out.

Date: June 9

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Sup

Was going to work for like all night yesterday but family stuff came up, sorry.

I did work on Rager today though. He's got part of an earring and a dagger so that's good. I'm going to start trying to make it a habit to work on this for a couple hours every Friday.

More updates soon!

Date: May 11

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Small update

I think Britney is almost done. I'm just working on her cape. I tried to use a cloth simulation but it was really working for me so it's probably going to have to be by hand.

After that I'll just have to finish Rager (who I'm recording) and then any of the main side characters who would be in the first chunk of animation.

So we're not too far off! I'm sorry updates have been sparse and picture-less, I'll try and get a bigger update once Britney is done.

Date: April 13

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Another small update

I wanted to do some modeling since it's been a while. I found that I hadn't done the girl's nails very nicely. Even with tweaking I was kind of eh about them but then I raised the back end of the nail and now I really like it. Still p round but oh well.

Pics soon

Date: March 29

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Small Update

Earlier I worked on lovely Britney. I finished off her hair and connected her head to her neck!

No pics rn since I'm updating this on my phone.

Date: Mar 25

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Attaching Britney’s Braid Part 1

To be explained at the end

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Part 2!

Explanation below:

Okay so Britney’s braid would have been super easy buuuut it gets bigger. Which meant I couldn’t cheat lol. I handcrafted this last night and tonight (Although it’s past 2 now so by tonight I mean yesterday’s tonight through to now) for like 5 hrs??? These pics only show me attaching the braid though, which was like an hour. The hard part was figuring out how to make a braid that got bigger.  In the end, I just took a curve I’d made earlier and duplicated and rotated it twice and hand pulled the points from there.

I actually kept getting confused on how the braid worked that I braided some string irl and then made these strands match. I just really needed a visual representation to get going. This still needs some work on the top and bottom but this is the hardest I've worked on a 3D piece and I’m so proud of myself.

It would mean everything if you’d reblog this for me. I know it’s not beautiful or anything but making a braid by hand was crazy and I really want to share this.

P.S. this isn’t the first time I’ve done Britney’s braid. I spent a long time figuring out how to make a braid with an array but p much had to scrap the whole thing. I haven’t even deleted it from her file though lol)

More soon!

Date: 3-16-19

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Attaching Britney’s Braid Part 1

To be explained at the end

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AAAAAAAA

I just worked on Rager and didn’t record it

Oh well…

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I’m just going to switch to Britney. My comp doesn’t want to run the recording software (It needs some clean up). Sorry for the mistake. Luckily, it was just some hair.

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AAAAAAAA

I just worked on Rager and didn’t record it

Oh well...

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Man, it took way too long to get an update out to y’all. Sorry about that. Anyway... Christina’s armature is done! All I have left is the shape keys and then she’ll be finished! The first pic is her finished armature actually.

The second one is the render it’s showing me. Obv there isn’t much light bc she isn’t in a scene but not bad right?

I also started working on the armature for Atlas. It’s all in place but I have to weight the bones. Pics of that soon.

Anyway, that’s all for now! More soon!

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I was supposed to update...

Yo! I was supposed to update here and forgot. I'll just post the pics with the next update, but I started on the rig! It's going great so far and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to export it for all the models.

Pics soon lol

Date: Feb 23

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Revamp!

So this account was originally for a comic for Stumpt’s first DnD game, but let’s be honest, I can’t draw people XD

But! They started a new DnD game and I’ve already made 3 of the 5 main models. I thought it might be a good idea to record my progress on a designated blog. I’m also posting occasional updates on Twitter, but I want something specifically to track this.

So feel free to follow! Updates will probably start in 2019 bc I hurt my wrist XD But I will do a post using my Twitter updates to catch this blog up.

Anyway here are some links for y'all;

Stumpt: https://www.youtube.com/user/stumptgamers

Hero Squad: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM03VPTxa5E1gHRoHsU2AvjVKWKSgc6eN

Podcast versions are available on all platforms according to Stumpt.

My main blog: @bladesofaura13

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Progress update about my rig work from yesterday will be posted tomorrow!

Hopefully lol

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Ahhhhh

So many things to do. Gotta keep working on my game but also need to 3D model and make a new real link post on here

So much to dooooo

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Revamp!

So this account was originally for a comic for Stumpt’s first DnD game, but let’s be honest, I can’t draw people XD

But! They started a new DnD game and I’ve already made 3 of the 5 main models. I thought it might be a good idea to record my progress on a designated blog. I’m also posting occasional updates on Twitter, but I want something specifically to track this.

So feel free to follow! Updates will probably start in 2019 bc I hurt my wrist XD But I will do a post using my Twitter updates to catch this blog up.

Anyway here are some links for y'all;

Stumpt: https://www.youtube.com/user/stumptgamers

Hero Squad: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM03VPTxa5E1gHRoHsU2AvjVKWKSgc6eN

Podcast versions are available on all platforms according to Stumpt.

My main blog: @bladesofaura13

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Mini Update

Hi! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I've been sick. I should be getting back into working on this soon, but no promises.

On the bright side for me personally, I'm getting back to where I want to be in school which will hopefully free up my mind and time to do more work.

I'm also making progress on my game and considering making a blog for that, but that might ruin the surprise. We'll just have to see.

Next time I do work on this though it should either be on Rager so I can get that time lapse out sooner or on the first rig so I can see if reusing it will actually be an option.

I'll update you as soon as I have something. Till then stay chill.

Date: Feb 8

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Some updates on Britney. She’s about halfway done. I want to resize her earing, but that’s for later. I’ve also added some basic color to help me find any problematic spots in the mesh.

Really the hardest parts are going to be her braid, which I’m going to have to resize by hand unless I find a trick, and her cloak which will be me just point pulling until it looks like fabric. I also need to decide how I’m going to get those sparkles on her dress. Other than that, her mesh is pretty much done.

I didn’t work on Rager today bc I started a little late (I was writing my story) but he looks okay. He’s still super rough but I quite like his face shape. We’ll see how it goes I suppose. and I am still recording what I’m doing so I can edit it down into a time-lapse so you guys can see all the work it takes for these.

That timelapse probably won’t have the creation of the rig in it, but I might record it and post it separately. I’m making the rig with Jazzy and then hopefully I can just copy it. So, that means you might still get to see the weighting process and how the rig looks. You’ll also probably get to see the shape keys.

If you don’t know any of these terms btw, just comment or reblog this and ask, and I’ll explain. Nobody is really looking at this regularly (one person lol hi) so it’s mostly just for me to track my progress. But I'm happy to answer questions.

Date: Feb 4th