For added context, here is a self portrait I made in May last year:

Half a dozen more tweaks later, including tearing apart the whole facial rig and remaking it and we're finally done with the self portrait!

Massively proud of this piece and just how it illustrates how far my skills have grown over the last year 😁

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I finally had some free time, so aside from opening this account, I managed to get back into Blender.

Here’s a little 2-hour project of a Colombian delicacy: Ajiaco.

Trying to develop my modeling skills to a potentially acceptable level.

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Rigging is very silly 🤣

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Self portrait has come along leaps and bounds! Nearly happy with it and next its onto facial rigging and posing!

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Experiment has evolved into One Punch Man 🤔🤣

We’ll push through and see if we can’t make a half decent self portrait out of this!

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Trying to learn / work out some decent head topology this week

Pretty happy with how its coming along I think 🤔

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Its everyone's favourite neighbour!

After some further polishing of the texture and the pose I'm finally in a place where I'm happy to call this done!

Very happy with how this came out and excited to push my skills even further for the next one!

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ADHD brain meant I needed to try and make it right away! So here's my best attempt, trying to keep to your colour scheme and what I guessed was your lighting set up 😅

Probably could be refined, and almost definitely better ways of doing it! So if you do work out any other ways I'd love to know 😊

More than reasonable! If you got multimedia skills you might as well use them!

That said i’m sure there’s a way to do something similar in blender 🤔 might have to challenge myself to see if I can figure it out as well now 🤣 if I do i’ll let you know! 😊

I love that pixelated effect! Is that a material node thing or something you’ve done through the compositor? 😱

Spent some time adjusting the material through texturing painting and material nodes both to add in some hue and saturation variation - at a place where i’m pretty happy with how Totoro’s looking! Now… do I wrap this up or do we go full scene 🤔

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Okay, fuzz under control now! Did some clever stuff with geo nodes to spawn a little hair tuft thing across the main body, and then used vertext painting to "trim" the fur so it wont spawn over the eyes etc

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too fuzzy TOO FUZZY!

First pass texture painting done! Pretty happy and could leave it there, but feel like I could polish it a little more. But might come back to that at the end.

Next up, time to make him fuzzy with some geometry node magic!

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UVs unwrapped, slapped on a quick cell shading set up and thrown on some quick texture painting to check its working and already looking like Totoro! Now to get my colour palette set up and off we go!

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Reworked the arm and threw on a quick rig to pose Totoro in a more iconic pose. Now we're ready for texture painting!

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Not entirely happy with how the arms came out, so might rework them a bit. But otherwise that’s all the major modelling done!

So pretty soon it’ll be UV unwrapping and texture painting time!

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Blockout now starting to take a more recognisable form! I'm giving my best attempt to make everyone's favourite neighbour Totoro in blender!

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Everyone meet my new son. I love him, he’s perfect and I guess i’ve peaked in term of making stuff in Blender because I don’t think I’ll ever top this 🤔🤣

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a man is typing on a computer keyboard while making a face . ALT: a man is typing on a computer keyboard while making a face .

Thanks so much! It was really important that I figured out how to make it extra fuzzy

Another week, another experiment! This time taking everything I've learnt from modelling, texturing painting, through to rigging and animating to make a cute little bee!

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This is amazing, thank you so much for such a detailed break down! Looking forward to trying it out 😊

Do you know of a way to get a brush stroke like texture in materials?

Either through brush settings for texture painting or through material nodes?

Trying to get a hand painted texture effect for my models but not sure how to achieve it 🤔

I love the way you’ve put together this little multi-panel view of blender - its a really cool way of showing off a character!

Finished the texturing, threw on some cool night time lighting and we've got a battle map folks! This was really fun and quick to throw together, definitely feeling this technique has some legs! 😃

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Did some quick material node magic to add some subtle colour variations between the townhouses. Adds some nice visual noise without having to make several different textures.

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Texture painting well on its way and going very successfully!

Not adding nearly as much detail as I could be, but at the actual scale it'll be seen and, and especially for a first attempt at this I think its working pretty well!

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Links to models used if anyone is interested:

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