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Where did you learn to do 3D rendering? Have you studied in 3D animation in school?

I did! I am qualified for cinema and video games both.

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"Nawy what do you MEAN quick-ish 3D render it's got scratches and everything and I thought this was real for a minute!!"

Well, first, thank you very much that was the intention ❤, and second, you see, all speed is relative, and between finding my references, modeling, texturing and lighting, on top of having to learn how to make convincing gems, it still took me quite a few hours. I, however, cut corners everywhere for speed, and I wouldn't put this piece in a portfolio in its current state.

But! for the curious, I thought I could do a simple breakdown of how the witchcraft happens, without using too much specialized language to make it more accessible. In short,

In this case, I’m talking about a 3D model that was textured (colours and stuff) and then lit (lights on!) to make a pretty final picture. The objective is not to make a tutorial, but to put in simple terms what a 3D artist does to make something go from this, to that:

(people curious and/or trying to see if this interests them welcome)

I'm skipping the 3D modeling part altogether, since it isn't where most of the magic happens here. Just know that to be able to add colour and stuff on a 3D object, you have to go through the process or "unwrapping" it, which is like doing those foldable cubes in reverse

and then we can draw on it!!

Now, the good stuff:

Surfaces (metal, plastic, fabric, wood, skin, etc.) have different looks that make you able to differentiate them on sight. To make something look realistic, you have to try to replicate real life into the 3D world (duh.)

The software developers took care of the hard part (math and coding), so as artists we can play with the parameters available to make something pretty. What those parameters are depend on which "recipe" we're using. One of the most common "recipes" for realistic results is called PBR: Physically Based Rendering, named that way because it's trying to replicate real-life light physics. In this case, the 4 basic parameters are called albedo, roughness, metalness, and normal.

Albedo is the base colour of the surface (easy stuff). Roughness is to determine if a surface is rough or shiny. Metalness is to say if something is made out of metal or not. The normal is there to add all those tiny details you don't want to or can't sculpt on your 3D model (engravings, fabric bumps, etc.)

The roughness and metalness are black and white images because the information you're giving to the software is black = no and white = yes. It's easier to understand in the metalness image, where everything that is NOT a metal is black, and everything that IS a metal is white.

The normal is a bit more complex, but in short, it uses the colours green and red to know what is up/down or left/right, and will help the software fake relief on top of the model. You don't make it by hand; it's computer-generated from other stuff I'm not getting into.

With the technical stuff out of the way, we can actually use these. There are specialized softwares that will let you preview the results of each parameter in real time, so you can see what you're doing easily. This is what I have.

That software comes with some types of surfaces that are already set up, like the fabric in my piece, which was already 85% good for me straight out of the box. Then, it's up to me to use the tools available to decide how shiny a surface is, if there's dust or scratches and where, what colours things are, if there's metal parts, etc. That's where you can see a 3D artist's skills.

And finally, you bring it all together into a specialized software that can render 3D stuff and use those images on the corresponsing parameters, and then light the scene.

Because it all comes down to this: the light! For something realistic, light is vital to get right. You can pour your heart and soul into those tiny scratches, but if you don't light the scene correctly, well...

So we carefully light the scene to get some nice highlights to make the textures look good and highlight our subject (it's basically a photography studio inside a computer)

And then we add some camera effects...

and voilà! pretty picture!!

... and if you somehow did notice something different with the bolo tie from my last post, I did find out while taking all these screenshots that I messed up my initial renders in a way that made everything darker than it was supposed to be and that's why my gold looked so muddy...

I hope this was interesting and that you learned a thing or two!

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... damnit

You know what's better than goosamu pain?

Goosamu causing other people pain.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

(I just think goosamu should be allowed to bite Fyodor.)

one day

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A quick-ish 3D render inspired by Dazai's bolo tie because I don't use my skills for fun enough ✨

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#a fucked up little creature #idk why but I imagine catzai with human skin color on his face and that makes it more unsettling (via @sableeira)

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Now this is what I call a fight!

Based on @whathorselegs' wish/headcanon post, about Atsushi and Chuuya fighting and Atsushi's claws cutting through Chuuya's gravity manipulation. The visual of it gripped me by the throat.

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I'm gonna "aggressively" boop Catzai on the nose.

unsettling little creature

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get booped!!!!! 🐾

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Hi Nawy!!! I was wondering if you had a tiktok, I saw some posts with your art there and no credits :((( was hoping I could tag you in them so they know you are the artist

Sorry for asking because of such a bummer reason

I've been very clear in not wanting my art reposted freely and I've gone over why it's very rude to repost/reupload other people's creations without their consent MULTIPLE times, I know most who do this are simply unaware of the harm, yet I keep getting messages about the same person uploading all of my art (among many others', including art watermarked "do not repost") on their tiktok account anyway.

If I wanted tiktok fame I'd make a tiktok account and I'd tell all of you. I haven't touched tiktok for my own reasons and I'd very much appreciate some basic respect in not putting other people's creations on random platforms they have not consented for? Especially in the fucking "AI art" age with all the scraping and the selling of data? Just a fucking idea?

I've seen an uptick in people calling them out on reposts of my art and they started defending themselves by saying they give credit in the collection's name (wow, credit you won't see unless you go out of your way!) and that since they don't make money off it "it's fine". Glad to know independent artists on the internet and giant corporations are the same to you. No, scratch that, giant corporations would have sent you a cease and desist for reuploading their entire catalogue yourself.

Take care of small creators and don't conflate legality with decency. Some people are fine with reposts under certains conditions, some never are. Not respecting boundaries is how you lose beloved fanwork creators. We've seen it just recently. I've been seeing it for over a decade. Please keep that in mind.

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I have this in my files under the name skk_byTheScruff_01, it's dated from 5 months ago, I don't remember starting it and I don't know where I was going with it. So enjoy. Do whatever you want with it, just take it off my hands.

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Have you ever come across Tempi_b on Twitter? They make tiny Soukoku comics kind of like yours. If you haven't I highly recommend checking them out.

I hadn't!! The only place beside tumblr I look at for fanart is pixiv.

I scrolled through all I could see without logging in and their comics are so cute ❤❤❤ thank you for sharing!

@.Tempi_b on twitter

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Following up on my tiny skk mega comic from last week! Thank you all so much for the warm reception ❤ It makes me so happy to read your thoughts and see that so many people enjoyed it!!

Tinyzai was trying his best to be as loud as possible (with his size, how does he keep being so loud?). If his purring wasn't immediately taken as comfort, his cheek-rubbing and Chuuya-holding would make it pretty clear. In any case, Dazai was also embarrassed about him tiny guy revealing his secrets, so...

@frickfrackchickenstack Couches are skk's neutral ground. to me. if that wasn't clear enough from my uuuuh tendency to put them on one:

(X - X - X - X - X(x2 and more) - X - X - X)

and if you're paying attention you might also notice a second pattern here about how they seem to be sharing a couch to sleep and cuddle be close. So you can try to guess what could happen after the comic ends...

@melonn-soda @mod-strap thank you for all those who sent asks and left comments/tags/replies about my mega 2-parter comic, words cannot express how much they mean to me ❤

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I walked past 5 Canada geese standing in a circle honking at each other yesterday, and all I could imagine was a collection of the different Book!Dazais from BEAST in full Goosamu form all doing the same. A gaggle of aggrieved geese in bolo ties honking out their superiority. Just thought the mental image was important to share. uwu

(spot the Dazai reference ↓)

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the glamorous life of a mafia executive

(based on an idea from Remi!)

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(tiny) Dazai propaganda

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Tiny skk Thunderstorm Megacomic part 1 - part 2 ↓

Continued under the cut ↓

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❤

Chuuya had managed to hide that (very embarrassing) fear of lightning for all those years through careful movement planning, dubious self-control and luck. Today is probably not the day he'll talk about it, but lucky for him, he wasn't the only one here who would have liked to keep more stuff to himself.

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made a post with wayyy too many pictures so it's not gonna show up on the dash or in the tags for a while, here's the link in the meantime:

new (tiny) skk comic

Excellent time to remind you I have a very dear headcanon that Chuuya developed a fear of lightning as discussed here and here