Silver Shorthair Hell 2023

3D art is my passion, which is why I'm miserable whenever I do it and avoid it whenever possible.

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Hi, and welcome to the art blog of @silvershorthair! Here, I'll be reblogging my old artwork I posted on my main account, and all my new artwork will be posted here. Here's some tags to help you find specific kinds of artwork easier:

#2D art

#3D art

#paper cat

If you'd like to see more of my artwork that may not be featured here, you can visit the portfolio on my website, or my YouTube channel.

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I made a Half-Life Deathmatch map called dm_minimart

I didn't make it alone though, this map features textures from @chaotic-conquest, @skysupercharged, @awnemia, and HiyaJemma. I really appreciate the work they did, it makes the cereal aisle feel much more full, and chaotic-conquest's acquisition of The Grunch Crunch Company and subsequent vandalism of the minimart added something interesting to the otherwise dull walls of the minimart.

I'd also like to thank my cat Lilith for being the face of the minimart. I wasn't sure what to call it, and only a little bit before finishing the map the sign said "SILMAR" as a placeholder. Then, Lilith walked up to me, and said "I know what to do. Give me the map file." I sent it to her, and she gave it back to me with the new sign. She's a hero.

Anyways, if you're interested in playing the map, you can download it on ModDB. Let me know if you have fun with it!

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Pride month pfp (5 days before pride month ends)

This one uses some doodles that I made a bit ago with some kinda funky effects applied to them (except for the one face-down on the floor that was left unchanged)

I drew a wavy trans flag as the background.

I rotated the trans flag, and then had the idea of transparent rainbow-colored paper cats over the middle one.

Then I realized that the effect should be on the falling ones, so I moved from paint.net to Gimp for convenience and then applied it to them

Then on the top right and bottom left paper cats I made their outline, eyes, and nose white, changed their color to the same grey rather than darker greys and lighter greys, and then in the blue and white parts of the trans flag I changed it from semi-transparent to opaque. I actually used the same grey that's used in the music video for the song Lagtrain. This all had nothing to do with pride month, I just like the song and wanted to reference it.

It worked out, because I think it looks pretty cool and also makes them distinct from the middle and rainbow ones.

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Christmas pfp I forgot to post

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Ever wondered who this freak in the banner of my Tumblr main is?

This is the rat, a 3D model I made in 2022. I didn't give him a name other than "the rat" so that's just what I call him. He was designed to resemble early 3D graphics (for some examples of what specifically he was inspired by, see this Tumblr post), and I think he fits that vibe pretty well. Below is bonus rat content.

This is a video featuring the rat. The animation isn't very good, but neither is the rat, so they compliment each other.

Here is an image of the rat which was initially going to be used as a favicon for a page on my website, but was instead left unused.

The site logo that appears on the aforementioned page.

Some behind-the-scenes photos from when the rat was being made.

And free pfps I guess????? I don't know why I did this part.

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Refined the original 3 AM photo to use as a profile picture for this blog (original below)

And bonus gay one

The DOOM logo isn't traced but was instead made with the actual Doom logo extremely close by for reference

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New obsession

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New profile picture

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Toaster, I hardly know 'er (I am so sorry please forgive me)

It's a new year, so that's fun. Not sure if a lot has happened yet, but maybe that's a good thing. Regardless, I've been working on more Blender garbage. This time it's a toaster. And there's 2 of them. One is for usage in games (a Source mod and maybe other things) and the other is for usage in renders and whatnot.

The reflectiveness of the optimized toaster sucks to reflect (NO PUN INTENDED I PROMISE) how it'll probably look in any games considering I haven't figured out roughness maps. Anyways let's take a closer look at these toasters.

It was fun modelling them. The unoptimized toaster has 12,598 tris, and 6,454 without all the bezier curves which make up the toaster burning things. The optimized one is 994 tris, which is probably the best job I've done optimizing a model like this (in all fairness I did sort of just remake it from scratch and use the original as a reference).

BONUS TRASH

This dilapidated pillar, also made for the mod.

As you can see, there's a bird's nest in there. Just like with the toasters, let's take a closer look.

That's right, I tried to optimize the bird nest. With 128 tris, I think I did a good job.

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Log cabin (WIP)

EMOTIONAL JUNK! SKIP IF YOU WANT

So, I've been feeling very discouraged about 3D artwork and my future and myself and all that fun stuff, and I think that I personally just want to lay down in bed and sleep until things just magically change to be better. At the start of the month I was planning on doing a really big animation for the end of the year with a script and whatnot, but I gave up on the second day of the month. I think yesterday or the day before or whatever, I decided I just wanted to make a cute little Christmas-y animation for the end of the month. And so I started working on it.

POSTING THE IMAGES NOW

So I decided that I wanted to make this animation take place in a cute log cabin in the forest.

So as you may have noticed, this doesn't look a lot like a log cabin. You might also be asking what's wrong with that snowman. Well, to explain, what I'm doing here is making a general layout using basic shapes and whatnot so that I can try and figure out exactly what I want. When I've figured out exactly what I want for this, then I'll start making it look actually decent. But while we're here, I might as well give you a little tour.

You aren't allowed to be mad about the lack of things to see, I said I'd give you a LITTLE tour. But wait, this cabin isn't the only thing that I've worked on.

THE TREE

Wouldn't be a forest without trees, right? Well, good news is we have trees. And look at how highly-detailed it is!!! Great tree, right? WRONG. Take a closer look at this tree.

Dear god. How low poly and horrid, right? Well, there is a valid reason for this. Polygons are expensive and we're going to be making a LOT of these trees. I tried following a CG Geek tutorial on easy low poly trees to get the branches right. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of great photos out there on pine tree branches covered in snow. I tried my best, but it just didn't look great.

Yeah, I bet you're appreciating the new tree now. Either that or you wish I kept the old tree in which case um

Point is now what I'm doing is using these little branch things as particles on the bigger branch things. Here's a photo of what the little branches look like by themselves, and what the big branches look like by themselves

The actual poly count of the big branches should be lowered because by themselves they're 33,840 polygons, which is probably not what I want for a low-poly mesh there'll be a lot of, but I'll deal with doing that later. For now, I'm going to rest.

OH WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT

THE SNOW TEXTURE

You might've noticed the snowman and the snowy tree, but there's more. I tried to mimic the way that snow is sparkly, and the way I did that was by throwing a static image I made in Gimp into the roughness slot of the material

This got me a very nice sparkly texture which I think looks close enough to snow (I haven't seen snow up close in like 2 years so cut me some slack). I'll be using this material on all the snow-related things, and I'm hoping it'll work well. I'm going to ramble a bit at the end of the post, so I just wanted to say thank you for reading this mess, and I hope you like the stuff I make.

CONCLUSION (yes I did just now look up Christmas light colors also the emotional junk is back)

I'm going to keep working on this over the next couple days, and hopefully by the end of it I'll have a cute little animation. 2022 has probably been a better year for me than 2021 in terms of good things that have happened to me. A lot of great things have happened this year which I should be happy about, but unfortunately I don't think I've fully been able to take advantage of that because of some personal problems. Joining Twitter probably didn't help that very much, but it led to me joining this site, which I do like a lot so far. I think I'm certainly going to enjoy being on here a lot more than Twitter. Anyways, that's all from me, I'm going to go lay down and be on my phone instead of going to bed like a normal person (bit of a lie, I think a normal person would've gone to bed about 6 hours ago). Bye!

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Did some stuff in Blender. It's not amazing but I'm just glad I felt like making things today.

Freeman's crowbar. I didn't put too much effort into it (that's a lie I actually put a lot of effort into it I'm just pretending I didn't so I can excuse the fact that it looks bad.) At some point I might remake it and try harder to actually make it look good.

A chair. I actually think it looks pretty decent. I might try making chairs more often to work on realism and optimization, but who knows.

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THE [[BIG SHOT]] HIMSELF!!!

I wanted to do Blender stuff today but my motivation died almost instantly so instead have this Spamton stuff I made a bit ago (around the time of Spamton Sweepstakes)

Spamton 3D model. I've tried making a few Spamton models before, but every time I've given up because I thought they didn't look good enough. This time, though, I'm actually really proud of how it turned out.

I gave him chocolate milk.

I made a lazy dumpster and some lazy dumpster garbage, and then threw him into the dumpster.

I also made a lazy phone and a lazy stool, and then just placed him there in near-complete darkness with a single spotlight over the stool. Lots of laziness.

I threw together a lazy alleyway, made a little maus, and then put white, yellow, and pink lights there to give him some cool shadow positions.

Started trying to do some animation tests using some audio which my friends @skysupercharged and @jir0we did the voice-acting for. I was pretty proud of the slide he does when jumping out of the dumpster, but now it looks weird. At this point I don't know if I'll ever finish the animation, I was trying to work on it for the first time in a while today, but as I said, my motivation just died.

ALSO BONUS IMAGES: SPAMTON G. SPAMTON'S HORRIBLE HAIR:

This was my first attempt at trying to make his hair. I think the problem was I was using the sculpt tool and had a very poor idea of what his hair would look like if he wasn't a tiny man trapped inside of a pixel-art video game. I ended up using the plushie as a reference photo for the hair and I think it helped a lot.

Conclusion

So yeah that was my Spamton stuff. I'm going to try and share some of my older Blender work here, but I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to share something new.