#aiko3

[ardathksheyna]

Quick demo on bringing Aiko 3 (or any of the Daz Millennium 3 figures) into Blender and setting up their rigs for IK. This is basically a paired-down example of the rigs I created for my Silent Shadow characters.

[ardathksheyna]

Silent Shadow Scene Tests

If the impression you have here from this test piece is that Syleth is a hot-head and Rowan is the voice of reason, then thank you because that's exactly what I was going for.

That being said, I'm still working out my Toon Shader+Photo-realism setup. Some of the kinks that needs to be worked out revolve around shadow opacity, shadow terminus lines, line art (inverse hull doesn't work well on the Aiko/Hiro3 figures), and lighting in general. I'm working on a huge write-up on my blog about the subject of Toon Shaders in Blender and my quest to develop a light-sensitive toon shader that started way back when I was using Poser.

As for my depth-mapping setup? I'll have a post on that at some point. What I ended up doing was using an Empty as the focal spot to determine depth. Why? Because unfortunately, whatever way the vector for the camera is calculated ends up being different depending on the camera or camera-type (Orthographic or Perspective). It makes sense but I needed something more consistent.

[oceliane]

That should teach her. Also, screenshot before a mod deletes this post. :P

[oceliane]

Ooookay... I think I'm gonna take some sleep, and tomorrow, I'll come back here and immediatly regret having posted this... Never let a mandalorian on the loose!

For the mando'a-impaired people, the text on the sides is an alteration of the mandalorian saying, "Ke barjurir gar'ade, jagyc'ade kot'la a dalyc'ade kotla'shya." - Teach your sons to be strong, but your daughters to be stronger. The text now says "Tell your daughters to be beautiful, but your wives to be prettier"