Art of Riisi

Fin 🇫🇮 | 3D modeler | figurine & comic enthusiast Moi! I’m Riisipuuro, an artist in her twenties from Oulu, Finland, who’s a passionate, self-taught 2D-3D artist and storyteller. I have over a decade of experience creating in multiple fields of traditional and digital art, as well as working with and producing custom solutions for dozens of individual customers with various backgrounds and projects. Even still, I’m eagerly broadening my skillset by actively studying a Bachelor’s degree in Culture and Arts, and hoarding various experiences with ambitious projects in my free-time. With a creative soul the fun never stops!

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Fennec - I'm all ears 🦊🏜️

Personal project bc I fell in love with having big earsss, they move around so nicely with face tracking.

VRC Rank: Medium 🟠 △ Tris: 50555 | ▧ Mesh: 8 | ○ Mat: 5 | ↯ Phys: 16 | VRCFT: ✓ ◷ Blender: 53h - Unity: 16h

I experienced big ears on a public avi, so the idea of "I like having big ears" turned into "I want gigantic ears." It felt weird to not be using my own avatar since that's my whole thing, so this was a good excuse to give me something to work on.

The ""character sheet"" was more of a palette reference and a reminder of the toggles, not in any way the final vibe lol. Although having a flat vector look would be cool, but it's be a whole 'nother beast in a technical sense.

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Hornet figure 🪡

Having made the Hollow Knight figure, this was clearly meant to happen this gift-giving season🤓 Printed with Bambu P1S and PLA

Smoothing out the print lines safely without harsh chemicals is still a bit of a struggle. I thought I struck gold with the self-leveling property of PVA glue mixed with a resin cast, but alas, it's still not quite perfect. (will peel/chip off if the print's not properly sanded)

Next up I'll try wood filler mixed with acetone. Not quite self-leveling, but hopefully more durable to further processing…

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https://riisipuuro.com/portfolio

Hey hi! Any space for a remote unpaid intern? I got over a decade of experience character designing, modelling and animating for game engines, hmu!

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used a random emoji generator for these, fun way to get the creative juices flowing. Trying to get back to my 2d workflow after years of prioritizing blender.

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Varpunen 🪶

"Fly high," they said. 30k tris, 2 materials, 4k textures (c+n+h+r) UnitedExpr facetracking

A quickie avatar idea we schemed with a friend, that only took like two weeks to make. Now I have something to show for chibi designs!

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Shaman Doll 💀🤎

The Shaman senses your lifeline.

An original double-jointed wooden doll character with Nordic shaman vibes! I've already had a blast rattling around in this, and it's always easier to try out new stuff when it's just your personal project at stake.

The double jointedness is just some rotation and ik constraints, but I made sure the parenting/limb still works in case the components aren't visible. Relatively optimized for in-game, even with so many layers!

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HoneyBunny

Already intending to step on you.

A long windy project for a VRChat avi, to be turned into yet another car hood decal. I documented all the different parts that go into making and rendering models for a sticker, but primarily focused on the extra effort of making her game friendly.

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Emerald 💚

VRChat avatar idea that really flew by like a fever dream. Saw some inspiring art and shat this out lmao. The theme wasn't intended to be "a rich anime aunt" but more than two people made the assumption on their own, so I decided to lean into it. All it needs is a burning wad of cash as a flashlight.

After upgrading to a Quest Pro, the face tracking has gotten a lot of comments in game. As much as I enjoy being a little shit and make insane faces, having a more respectable look has been a nice change of pace.

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Hyvää Joulua! 🎄❤️💚❤️

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Cyan Figurine 💙

OC avatar turned to a figurine, as a birthday present to one of my best friends!

This was so far the most ambitious and complex undertaking of my figurine journey yet, with 25 individual pieces. Even if I knew I'd glue everything together, like on the head, I still printed everything in such small pieces just to make it easier to paint and handle. All the pieces had a hard edge they connected with anyway, so joining them didn't require any blending in the end.

All the bigger pieces were printed with a 0.4mm nozzle just to save time, since treating larger areas is easier to do anyway. Only for the smallest pieces like the face, frills, bows and glasses I switched to a 0.2mm nozzle.

For the larger layer lines, gloss is truly magical at covering all the imperfections, and I can easily pronounce back any details that were lost in the print. Here I just pressed the perfectly sized nozzle of a large plastic syringe on the buttons to easily 'pop' them back out. I'd imagine a texture rolling pin would work wonders just the same!

Painting was just hours of back and forth between all the pieces when building the base paint layers, and longest session was at least 9h of just sitting there while watching YT haha. The cheap quality of the paints really started to show after three layers, when it started to clump up but everything still wasn't covered evenly...

In the beginning most the time went to just waiting for the green stuff and gloss to dry properly, but then it was full blast ahead, and in total, the figurine took over 3 weeks to finish, even after having to rush it near the end!

But you only learn by doing it, and I'm proud to have jumped into the deep end!

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Hollow Knight figurine

Birthday present for my brother that I planned years ago and failed to create with my resin printer, but now with an FDM printer I could safely make it a reality with PLA and PETG!

Proud to have figured out a way to get a glass smooth finish on an FDM print with gloss, which is way safer to work with instead of resin! Larger puddles take a long time to dry and never truly harden, but thinner layers (especially if the gloss is diluted with IPA) dry fast into a hard shell. So after 12h the gloss has reached a nice balance, where it has covered and hardened on the larger areas and all the extra has gathered into the crevices or on the bottom, that you can then scoop away and smooth with IPA and a silicone tip.

The larger layer stepping on the top and bottom still have to be dealt with first by sanding, melting or filling the areas, but as a cheap and easy fix on the rest of the model the gloss really works so much better than infinite priming and sanding. The surface still needs to be primed for the paint to have something to stick to and to help see which areas the gloss missed, but it's easier to clean the details back out from under the gloss than accidentally sand a tooth out or smthn.

Not sure of the durability or practicality for minis, but for display figures the gloss saves a lot of time and effort, and is so forgiving; Just rub some IPA in it and it starts moving again!

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Kaneli Figurine 🍂

This was my first (very ambitious) try at figurine creation, where I learned all the dos-and-don'ts of printing and painting on such scale. Will definitely be looking into higher quality paints in the future lol. But Kaneli is always first in line as a guinea pig for any first-time testings, and "done is better than perfect," so I'm proud to have her sitting on my shelf now.

Printed with Bambu P1S+AMS in PLA, and painted with cheap acrylics and pastels.

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Tora 🌸🦊

VRChat and VTuber avatar for @ToraSenPie! This model got completed a while back, but it's now time to show the world!

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Cozy Mini💤

Eepy @_Minimaali outfit update! For those chill streams, right Mini? xD

Honk shoo~

Vtuber models are nice to work on since performance won't really be an issue, but it doesn't mean optimization can be ignored!

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Post-card 🐿️

Okay I'm part of FOUR projects that are all under NDA so I haven't had anything to post, but I guess I can show the submission that got me into school! Theme was "post-card to yourself in the future," so here's squirrel-me frantically hauling my current gear around!

I rigged the face for posing, but for fun I also tested what face tracking would look like lmao

At this point, modelling and texturing a squirrel took no time at all, but back then I hadn't tried GeoNode hairs yet, I'd only done my own geo setups from zero. Like the spruce branches here, they were for rendering textures for my Christmas trees, so I was able to reuse the setup!

Figuring out the hair nodes + weird results from posing took some time, but in the end these worked way better than the old particle approach! Especially 'color distribution along the hair path' gave it that recognizable red squirrel tail.

The final card I submitted also had a 2D element to it to represent my digital drawing beginnings! I loosely painted over the render in my usual style, and printed the layers separately, ripping the 'drawn' version's paper along the paths I planned here:

And this is pretty much what the final A5 card looked like! The printer couldn't repeat the colors just as vibrantly, but hey, the teacher-judges liked it a lot, and I got in! (I was the only one with 3D background there anyway so I bet they wanted the variety lol)

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The glitchy rebel angel, kicked from high heavens!

Thank you @BACONGUDEN for commissioning and congrats on your debut!!

it was so nice to work with this design!

Also lmao maybe this is why he got kicked from heaven

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Work Bunny

The fed-up railroad worker!