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Continuing to experiment with Maya. I still plan to continue the SARA series, but you know that artists feel like they always want to tackle new things and can't stay comfortable working on the same thing for long. Plus, I have interest in learning all I can with the software with characters. I don't really care if something is "advanced"- I see artists on there do great stuff with 3D programs all the time, so this has taken up a lot of time I usually do for payable drawings, Miko comics, and other things. I even watched tutorials online.

Here is a standard sexy girl. Could be retro fitted to resemble of the Bleach "Boobie" girls in the future. I also wanna model Kon someday, who I imagine to be relatively simple. ... Oh! OR MIKO can be in CGI and she'd do the vlog-style comic movie reviews this way!

For the tech heads: Polygonal meshes with a polygonal gray back drop. Tongue and teeth objects are there. Nothing is rigged yet except for the eyes, which are controlled by aim constraints with NURB circles- that is how she is able to look at the camera. White-yellow ambient light with 2 directional lights. Pupils and irises are made using a ramp into the shader, and then the irises are stretched vertically by altering the vertices, so they're not perfectly circular. Eyelashes and lips are colored using a second shader onto selected faces- I still have to play with hair objects. Because the colors aren't yet controlled by an image file, I cannot figure out how to paint colors onto them, like a blush. Image maps may be the only way. Skin is blinn with a faint specular highlight, and an additional ramp node for a faint highlight over her edges, to make the form more pronounced.

Description
Continuing to experiment with Maya. I still plan to continue the SARA series, but you know that artists feel like they always want to tackle new things and can't stay comfortable working on the same thing for long. Plus, I have interest in learning all I can with the software with characters. I don't really care if something is "advanced"- I see artists on there do great stuff with 3D programs all the time, so this has taken up a lot of time I usually do for payable drawings, Miko comics, and other things. I even watched tutorials online.

Here is a standard sexy girl. Could be retro fitted to resemble of the Bleach "Boobie" girls in the future. I also wanna model Kon someday, who I imagine to be relatively simple. ... Oh! OR MIKO can be in CGI and she'd do the vlog-style comic movie reviews this way!

For the tech heads: Polygonal meshes with a polygonal gray back drop. Tongue and teeth objects are there. Nothing is rigged yet except for the eyes, which are controlled by aim constraints with NURB circles- that is how she is able to look at the camera. White-yellow ambient light with 2 directional lights. Pupils and irises are made using a ramp into the shader, and then the irises are stretched vertically by altering the vertices, so they're not perfectly circular. Eyelashes and lips are colored using a second shader onto selected faces- I still have to play with hair objects. Because the colors aren't yet controlled by an image file, I cannot figure out how to paint colors onto them, like a blush. Image maps may be the only way. Skin is blinn with a faint specular highlight, and an additional ramp node for a faint highlight over her edges, to make the form more pronounced.