#beastuber

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I spent a good chunk of a month messing with animating a walk cycle and some posing to see how this rig would handle it. So far it's proven not to be a massive pain to work with, although I'm tempted to redo the front and rear so it can stride more smoothly.

Per usual, the wings are the biggest challenge to work with, mainly in regards to posing the feathers.

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The Beak is complete (aside from some small hiccups with the rig that are inconsequential)!

Now I can finally play with this and maybe animate a thing or two. So far I like how fluid and noodly this model can get.

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I got the limbs fixed and finished up finally, here's some renders until I get around to attempting another animation with my Beak model.

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Made a few more renders today of my Beak model, getting that star effect figured out makes for good inspiration.

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I've been messing with a lighting effect on and off for my Beak model, trying to get stars to pop up in the deep shadows of the model to sort of give them that deep space cosmic eldritch entity look. It was a bit of a pain to get right, mainly due to have to mess with inverting inputs for lighting on the shader's end, along with getting everything to play nice between the base texture, the lighting mask, and the stars.

Also here's a little extra thing where I messed with changing the pupil shape for one of the eyes to look like a little star. I don't think it got the mileage I wanted it to, but it was nice to mess with the pupil shape tweakers.

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I managed to finish up the first stage of my vtuber experiment, this time around Beak is getting a fullbody avatar, which is going to be executed by sticking a veadotube avatar (front end) on top of a looping gif (back end).

So far I feel like it went a little better than expected, stacking the two sections went smoothly and resizing both does not seem to show any loss/pixelization. It'll be interesting to make more animations for this model and see what comes of it, though the bigger challenge will be setting something up for OBS so I can swap through the back end gifs with hotkeys for some more dynamic animation states to match the front end.

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A new Beak has been (mostly) completed!

This one has been a challenge with all the new things I decided to try with version 3, but I think it will mean a lot more fun with posing and animating.

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I decided to go and try out doing some animating with Beak again. This time I ripped some audio from Sleeping Beauty and tried out making a lip sync to that scene where Maleficent crashes that party where the baby princess gets shown to everyone in the kingdom.

Some things are not where I want them to be, but in time I figure I'll get better with animating. I figure youtube will kick my ass over this little animation test so I'll keep it here.

audio source: Sleeping Beauty 1959