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Well, this is Mayas outfit, Kimi has her own that she does use in the second volume. The comic itself is being posted a page every weekday, but you can pick up the full printed comic over atΒ nekonny.com/store.html if you like ^^
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what's that weapon called that she's carrying??
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Nekohammer? lol just kidding, I havnΒ΄t given it a name yet per se, but IΒ΄ll come up with one soon enough.
ItΒ΄s a battlehammer, if you are asking about the type ^^
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i figured it'd be something like that
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That hammer looks bloody heavy and painful...
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Heavy, yes.
Painful? well, lets just say you don't want to find out how much XD
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hmmm, looks very appealling and i liketh that poster effect 
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Sim, o guizo embaixo dela eh em 3D, percebi que seria mais facil fazer a objeto em 3D do que acertar a curvatura da textura manualmente... aliais, tento usar 3D toda vez que for possivel pq facilita a criacao dos backgrounds e ajuda a manter certa consistencia no webcomic.
Bem, restando cerca de 100 p'aginas para a estoria terminar (aleluia, ja fazem 3 anos que desenho esta coisa XD), nao deve levar muito tempo. A estoria inteira em si so leva uns 4 ou 5 dias, mas e contado de modo coninuo (a la 24 XD).
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I do like this pic
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Shouldn't be too much longer till we see what happens...
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kool cant wait :3
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Nekocat forms? I'm missing a LOT of the comic, am I?
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Well, The story's not that far ahead yet, It just seemed like a good theme to use with this style. ^^
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Wow...probably the sexiest work yet...even better looking than the girls seen in some MMOs. You draw really great feet, and her outfit is original and cool, but I think it's that lovely look in her eyes (you draw beautiful faces, too) that really gets to me.
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UAU! O.O UAU! O.O UAU! O.O
ELA VAI MATAR O KENSHIN!!!! >_<
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MADNESS?
THIS IS NEKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOO!!!!!!! >:3
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lovely CG! And the details are awesome too! ^___^
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I really like your art so I am very happy that you liked my work! D
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Very nice.
On the negative side, I could say it's a shame some polygons can be seen on the ball she stands on, and the texture misses a little higher resolution, too.
On the plus side, well... The drawing itself is nice with good shadowing and light coherence, and materials are good, too. She has a nice expression and I like how you drew her ears / her clothes (I especially like the ears). The pose too is nice and well rendered. This is for me far more important than the 3D part...
So, nice work
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Your right about the bell, I originaly had planed to use the 3D model only to trace the lines and repaint the it myself. I got impatient and didn't give it the attention it deserved T_T
I'll fix this in the future...
Thanks for the observation!
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You're welcome.
You could also try and model/render the ball using NURBS to give it a more polished look, and still not have to trace all lines, which can be a real pain to do (and I know what I'm talking about since I trace everything before painting/shadowing).
Just a hasty advice, do as you feel like and keep up the good work ^^
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I just looked at my model yesterday (to rerender it with a better texture), but someting must have happened to the data because the UAV mapping got messed up.
For some reason the vertices went crazy on me and there seems to be no way to fix it. Looks like I might have to just redo the whole thing T_T
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I'm sorry to hear it... Then, do not redo it, if it takes too much time, since already the picture's cool... Will be perfect next time. Or, if you want it to be perfect, well... depends on how much time you have and want to spend...
Anyway, I won't repeat myself about the good work you've done 
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Don't hae much of a choice , I'll need to use the model again in the future. I have another drawing that's almost finnised that uses the same bell. The basic shape is simple, but the proportions for the rest is what's tough.
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Oh, okay...
By the way, I've been to your site and read the comics, they're nice and fun ^^ Now I see where the character comes from
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I'm glad you liked them! :3
(there should be a new page nonight btw)
The bell/ball is a big part of the story, and that is why it's so important that I have a good reference. I'm lucky that I saved the model at various stages during development, quite a few of them had been corrupted and even attempts to repair the damage just seemed to mess up the model even more. I've been able to recover most of it, from early stages, but I need to remap the textures again (and that can be a pain with a round object like this T_T)
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I know your pain, I hate UVW maps too, I usually end up "cheating" with planar mappings or the like, because I'm a lazy guy *^_^, but I know sometimes there's need to do a complete unwrap/mapping... and that sucks.
Good luck to do it again ...
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The object should be simple enough to just re-render, but being the lazy ass I was I tried to just fix it up and redo the UVW's. It didn't quite work out, the problem with 3DSM (for inexperienced people like me) is that sometimes you donβt see grave mistakes until you've invested 2 hours worth of work. Did an entire unwrapping yesterday only to find out the mapping would not work properly because I tried to optimize the unwrapped model T_T). I think it might be best just to redo the whole thing...
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Oh, okay... Well, I used 3DS for a time now I try and learn Maya, the UI is shitty but it's very powerful, espectially to design nurbs or proxy-meshes. Anyway, I won't suggest anything to you except doing as you feel.
Sometimes it is indeed faster to redo it from scratch, when the files are mangled and/or you didn't keep each step.
Good luck !
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That's what happens when it gets corupted, also sometimes Max dislikes undo functions, once I was more than happy to have a backup when I deleted an optimize modifier, and the mesh was destroyed. Anyway, Max's built-in optimize function (and booleans, too) is not-that-good.
On an unrelated topic, I understand the title (in your signature) as "the legend of nekomimi(s?)", but I can't translate the last part, I mean, a neko is a cat, but i don't grasp the meaning of 'nekomimi', is it a word you created or does it have a particular meaning ?
on a yet unrelated side-note (lol) if 'im annoying always replying you can just tell me to shut my trap *^_^
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The bell, it looks like someone played conect the dots without following the correct order T_T
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That's what happens when it gets corupted, also sometimes Max dislikes undo functions, once I was more than happy to have a backup when I deleted an optimize modifier, and the mesh was destroyed. Anyway, Max's built-in optimize function (and booleans, too) is not-that-good.
On an unrelated topic, I understand the title (in your signature) as "the legend of nekomimi(s?)", but I can't translate the last part, I mean, a neko is a cat, but i don't grasp the meaning of 'nekomimi', is it a word you created or does it have a particular meaning ?
on a yet unrelated side-note (lol) if 'im annoying always replying you can just tell me to shut my trap *^_^
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Probably best to just redo the whole thing. I am kinda pissed off at it right now though, because I've spent 2 nights trying to recover the work and no success, so now I'm just going to start over and hope for the best.
"Nekomimi" literally translates as "cat ear", but is the Japanese equivalent for cat-girl (or cat-person). Thus, the title for the site is "legend of the cat ear". Most of the content is catgirl related anyway (in the form of various webcomics)
lol, I actually enjoy it XD
Constructive criticisms (in good mesure) are rare on DA...
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Okay...
I hope for the best for you, too, because 3D looks simple to do when you look at it but is really long when you actually do it. I've done low-polygon models for two years, and know how hard it can be. Good luck with that !
I didn't know, thanks for telling me about the translation. I could have guessed it was something cat-related, but wouldn't have found about the ears. Now I've learn a new japanese word ! I had seen already that your site contents were catgirl-related ^^ and I like that because I'm a cat-people-fan-and-artist too...
Thanks about the last part ^^ sometimes people think I'm directive or annoying...
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quem precisa de descricao quando uma imagem vale mais do que mil palavras? bem e no caso, essa imagem eh de tirar o folego.. heh nossa ela eh maravilhosa. eu realmente adorei o modo que voce desenhou ela desta vez. por onde devo comecar... bem esse uniforme em bem legal e estiloso. e sem dizer que ele eh muito sexy tambem. e eh clado kw o corpinho dela eh lindissimo. as coxas, o bumbum e a barriguinha dela sao fofinhos, otimo trabalho nos seios tambem. a cauda e as orelhinhas dela sao uma gracinha. o rosto e o cabelo ficaram super detalhados e muito bem feitos. os olhos, a boquinha e o narizinho ficaram biitinhos. e as cores ficaram lindas. oh gostei da tatoo dela. bem eh melhor eu parar por aqui, nao quero que ela me acerte com aquela marretona...
heh otimo trabalho cara.
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