It’s little me! My first low poly character [256FES art attempt] ๐ญ
Practice in 3D character modeling: I was following a more toony tutorial…but 3D is a struggle
Turn around of my hermit dragon leonie avatar low poly model in Blender with badly painted textures as I figure it out :’D
Still frame of my low poly model of blue hair and brown dress
Shows the tiny number of tris (250) at the very bottom
I’m a forever slow newbie at this, complex 3D modeling in blender isn’t my thing
It’s been a struggle ๐ญ
Hermit dragon Leonie in 250 tris / low poly
Rules: had to be up to 256 Tris with a 256 x 256 texture map D:
My original higher poly toony model is not shown and I deleted all my video recordings of it and deleted my video edit of it as well. I didn’t finish it and I don’t want to show it anymore so why bother making a video ๐
For it I made a rough concept, the head, eyes, body, limbs, hands, feet but I didn’t finish modeling the hair (tried doing hair twice) gave up, quit working on it since I kept starting and stopping. It’s not super high poly but it’s definitely not low poly either. I don’t know if I want to go back to that toony model…
When I learned about the 256FES challenge and saw what other artists did, I moved onto making a new low poly model. It felt more fun and silly and gives me more limitations as someone who just wants to make simple models.
With higher poly modeling, I just lose interest in getting the forms right and how 3D character modeling can be so particular and intense in process the more realistic and/or stylised it gets…especially characters!! They are super hard to make them look appealing in 3D!! Wah!!
I had no interest in high detail texturing, rigging or animating with a full armature rig either. I think it’ll end up looking not great anyway so I was discouraged too. It’s SUPER time consuming as well. I don’t have the interest nor patience for that hard work!
Here with my low poly model, it was a struggle figuring it out with in-blender texture painting with limited resolution. I didn’t go further with the clothing as the low res texture made it hard to paint details…!!
Texture painting is its own challenge as it’s hard to make it efficient with limited texture resolution. I’m not great at this as I gave up on painting clothing after all since I can’t get it precise. Maybe I didn’t give some areas more resolution to work with. I noticed some artists ignored the limited texture map rule so they could paint things nicer :’D
I don’t know what I was doing, it was frustrating, I was losing interest, losing momentum but I did do what I could, learned by practice and got something done! Phew!! I was trying to get something basic down thanks to other artists’ inspirational low poly work!!
Yeah from all this work I think I’d rather do super basic low poly art to make 3D things – if I do another model again! Once again (like back in 2012/13) I respect 3D artists and animators so much as I don’t have the patience nor interest to troubleshoot and make more complex 3D art and complex animation look so good!
I just want to make silly cute things made out of basic 3D low poly forms or voxels :’D
At least I got some Blender practice and learning done even though I am not trying to be a professional 3D Blender character modeler or animator :0
Well I’m going back to weekly or whenever I feel like posting
I’m flip flopping again! Just having to wait a month or 3 weeks before I post at my very own blog is annoying ;P
If people don’t read my blog then stuff it – I want to write my blog how I want to and how I can best juggle it! It does get to me when just 0 to 2/3 people read them but what can I do… :'(
I’ll just be a petty butt for a while. Oh and when some people say they read my blog but they don’t remember/know too much of what I wrote at all making me unsure if they did read or just skimmed haha
Reminding self: this blog is firstmost for me to document my life long journey and almost everyone doesn’t care. Especially when my blog posts aren’t “packaged in a marketing/value giving way” ;P
I digress. Hope to continue juggling and doing my best with work, chats, life/chores, sleep, learning, art, my tiny discord server and so on! Work was intense today so I’m just writing all this up this evening :’D
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