parker’s desk

I started mod­el­ing (3d mod­el­ing) the new ver­sion of my char­ac­ter Kaiyra tonight, only got to put a cou­ple of hours into her but it was the most fun I’ve had mod­el­ing a char­ac­ter ever.

Char­ac­ter mod­el­ing has always been a love infatuation/absolute hatred rela­tion­ship for me.  I’m infat­u­ated with the idea of mak­ing char­ac­ter, and they hate me.  It’s always the early steps that I dread, start­ing from scratch and then a whole other list of prob­lems and things I do wrong that I don’t see until it’s too late.

So this time I fig­ured I’d try some­thing dif­fer­ent, and adapt the very well known “Joan of Arc” char­ac­ter mod­el­ing tutorial…which in itself was inter­est­ing to come full cir­cle to as I recall try­ing to do this tuto­r­ial years and years ago with no suc­cess.  Like 2002 or 2001.  Know I’m so used to mod­el­ing that I was able to actu­ally do cer­tain steps eas­ier than the tuto­r­ial called for (tech’s changed in the ten years since the tuto­r­ial was writ­ten), and use my own sketches instead of his for the body’s pro­por­tions.  What was bril­liant about the tuto­r­ial though is it was the very first one I’ve ever done where you start mod­el­ing from the toe and up from there!  Every one I’ve ever done was mak­ing the head first and work­ing down.

Any­how, got to the bot­tom edge of her rib cage tonight.  I’m hor­ri­ble for not post­ing pics of this, I’ll try to get some up tomor­row night with a post if I remem­ber to. 

Bed time…before 11:30!  The record break­ing con­tin­ues!  G’night

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