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The trotting animation of my ‘average Siderian (aka µ, Mu) v1’ 3D model. See here the still renders:

https://www.tumblr.com/reignofsiderians/714802672735289344/two-final-renders-of-the-average-siderian-version?source=share

I have animated all gaits (lateral walk, diagonal walk, trot, transverse gallop and rotary gallop), but I liked trot the best so I decided to render this one with fur. I think I have a reasonably good feeling for animation and I really enjoyed it, but it was more difficult than I thought. It took me a while to get the hang of this rig and pose it the way I want it and some of the animations are still not perfect...but it's a learning process and I will try to do it better next time. Also, I’ve rendered him with a black background since he’s still just trotting on the spot – it would have looked weird if I had turned the icy background on. But in version 2, I will make him move in space and do more than just walking/trotting/running on a treadmill.

It took 3 hours to render 40 frames O.O. My computer is not that shit (I have a gaming laptop), but still – it took ages even at this crap quality. So any ideas to animate parts of the Siderian story need some serious consideration; either I go for a more 2D like style with Blender’s grease pencil or I need to upgrade mu computer/pay for a render farm. I will see about that. Also - I haven't played around with the hair dynamics settings and even though I had turned some collision setting on, the fur still goes through the ground :/. Hair dynamics and other physics settings is on the planning for model v2.

----------- DON’T COPY/USE ANYTHING OF THIS without my written permission! It’s not allowed to use my artwork for training of AIs either. Don’t use these or any other siderians as avatar/RP character in RP games. They are who they are and they CANNOT represent someone else.

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Two final renders of ‘the average Siderian version 1′

After more than a year after I first started in Blender (aside from some attempts in 2014), it’s finally finished! Now two more models to go before I allow myself to start working on actual Siderian persons.

I will post more renders and a short walk-cycle animation soon.

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A few more renders of Mu (µ) v1 - aka the statistical average Siderian, demo version 1.

Here some portraits under various light conditions and with two different fur materials. One is slightly shinier than the other and has more colour variety in the reflection (I got those settings from a tutorial). The other is the default hair shader set on black.

Some images have depth of field, some have not. More renders are on the way as I consider this model finished 8D. Still a lot to improve and learn, but I leave that to demo v2 where I will crank up the resolution of the mesh and improve the rig.

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Some try-out renders of the textured model of the statistical average siderian whom I name “µ”.

I’ve mostly used photos of my Oriental shorthaired cat Nintu to texture him. I haven’t used the fur system yet so he doesn’t have whiskers, but I’m working on that matter.

The HDR and the ice surface are downloaded from Blenderkit. Although I’ve changed the background colours of the HDR a bit.

Rendered with cycles.

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After I finally resolved the computer-crashing-while-rendering issue, I got some renders of my first attempt to give my average Siderian buddy some fur. I’m still quite a n00b at it and that shows. The hair in the mane and tail is way too stiff like as if the Siderian got zapped. The two layers of fur intersect each other in the mane and it looks messy. The whiskers became way too stiff when I tried to make this render able… However, I like the shader that to created this black fur and I like the smooth part on the body and shoulders.

Generally speaking - the particle system to create hair requires a lot of just practicing to get a good feel for it. But since this is a messy first attempt, I’m not satisfied yet and I will practice a lot more. I’ve found some very helpful tutorial/course to create realistic fur and I’m currently redoing all the fur on the Siderian.

So I decided to post this first attempt so that I can later compare it with is a MUCH better version whenever I’m finished with the tutorial series.

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Siderian walking cycles in 3D - the lateral walk.

Some updates on my 3D work in Blender. I’ve done all ‘regular’ walking cycles in Siderians and will post them one by one.

I’ve also made a normal map from the high resolution sculpture and baked it onto the low poly model. The model still looks a bit stiff as there are no real muscle contractions, but since this is demo v.1, I can’t do that just yet. This is the first time I’m doing 3D modelling and animation anyway...so the muscle system is for later down the line - in demo v3.

For now I’m satisfied with how far I got and I‘m currently working on texturing.

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Siderian walking cycles – transverse right-lead canter.

Now also added a texture! I’ve given this Siderian my cat (Oriental shorthair) Nintu’s fur (more about that later). Texture painting in Blender alone is quite a nightmare, so I did most of it in Photoshop but the stencil texturing function in Blender is quite cool.

The tiger whom I referenced had a bit of a funny canter by swinging his front paws forwards in a bit of a nonchalant way. I tried to take that over in the Siderian animation here. I will explain more about canter vs galop in some of the next posts.

This is still my demo v.1, 3D animation attempt 1 but I’m glad with the results so far.

Done in Blender and rendered with cycles (100 samples), 30 frames per second and a rather small image size to save render time and disk space. Turned into a gif with Photoship.

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Siderian walking cycles – rotary right lead gallop with double suspension.

Siderians may not as well adapted to running at high speeds as cheetahs, but I think they can still be damn fast with their long limbs and slender body.

I will explain more about gallop and canter in a next post with slow motion animations as well.

The reason that the animations differ in speed is because the first one I did a time-frame remapping thing while in the second animation, I sped it up with changing the frame rate. The latter was apparently not possible to save in a gif...