We'll be getting to Necturna, as well as the rest of the CAPs some time later in the future. We all just have to be patient for the model sheets to be made and to find a modeler, animator, someone to do the rigging, etc. etc. for that CAP.
Oh, I know it's not really a necessity, but I would prefer to have one at the start of the process if I were to attempt to make a model.
Sorry I haven't really done much, been super busy with work but sure
Ok, I'll get a .png done by the end of the day for you to review.
You got me. I am still a newb to blender and basically what I did is take a cube and mold it into the shape of her upper body, then I took a cylinder and put it in the gap to make the chest and I extruded and shaped it to become a neck, and I then threw a sphere on that and flattened it a bit to make it ovalish. After that I took a cone and stuck it under her torso and I took 2 donuts to make the sash. Then a cone to make the arm. There's a massive amount of subdivisions and since I work with sculpt a lot (since that is way faster than moving all those little vertices around) I end up with them all the time. I'd like to have less but it never looks the same and I can't sculpt with them, so I'd have to do everything manually. I tried that but it ended up less than pretty, and it took a really long time. I'm learning as I model though.
As I said, the torso used to be a cube. I'm having great difficulty correctly sculpting cones and cylinders though, they just tend to... get fcked up. Because all the vertices come together at one point. I can show you a picture of an earlier model I did... but this one has waaaay too many vertices.Yveltal I had a rough draft lying around, but I guess it's too late now. =P Hopefully it can be some use?
Yiam have you tried modeling organic objects? They're harder to do than swords, and will certainly help you with Necturna. I'm sure you know Necturna is more than just cones and cylinders, and you have to do some sculpting to make it look good. Nice work and keep practicing. n_n
As a general tip, model with and turbosmooth/subdivide cubes as much as possible. If everything is quads, it'll look nicer. You can make spheres, cylinders and such from turbosmoothing cubes, and it'll be generally easier to make UV maps for. At least, that's what the local professionals do. Even eyeballs can originally come from cubes that got subdivided a few times into spheres.
I wouldn't worry about that tbh. As long as there's rigging in the collars, it won't restrict head movement when animating.
Yveltal already mentioned this, but I really REALLY want to stress how important it is to work with quads when making models like these. One cannot just spawn a cone or a cylinder and expect to be able to make a model like this:
Nope, there aren't any teeth on the back of her dress.
Give it a slight erratic up-and-down motion with the pebbles that float around the main body, add a little rotation in there...It is a pile of floating rocks at the end of the day. Since it's already that kind of fantastical rock elemental, you could go super over-the-top like the idles in the Orre-region games and it'd still probably look good.
Here's a rough animation I put together. The pose is based off of the sprite work of Stratagem.
Will continue to work on this obviously, as it isn't at all finished, i.e. the torso is looking a bit static. Just wondering what people think of this so far? (Also someone please provide shiny textures for Stratagem.)
Yeah, here.
There's not much I can do about that myself, honestly. The texture itself will need to have some baked in shading to make it look not as smooth.
It's free software, so I don't see much stopping you now: https://www.blender.org/download/
I know, and I can get it on my PC. they're just not happy about downloading stuff on local server.
