Blu

Beru, Koko and Meng have collected a plethora of bugs & critters with the help of Meng's Uncle!

Thanks for being an inspiration!

I still don't know a lot of things myself honestly ! I just do silly things with my old 2.79

1. I create a plain ol' plane

2. I set up the material to allow for the transparency - this can differ depending on what renderer is used

3. I grab my transparent png and uv map it to where i want

And that's it! Hope it helps a little! I don't work in actual modern versions of blender a lot, so the flow may be slightly different.

ah no unfortunately, my tagging system is a complete mess and i haven't really tagged at all for my resources and tutorials

i suppose i should just..start!

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-color adjustment with gradient maps

-'paper' animation in blender (general steps)

-'paper' animation in blender (rambling yt video)

-general animation steps i take

it's difficult to find my brushes ask post so i'll just put the diagram here (procreate only)

Thanks for being an inspiration!

I still don't know a lot of things myself honestly ! I just do silly things with my old 2.79

1. I create a plain ol' plane

2. I set up the material to allow for the transparency - this can differ depending on what renderer is used

3. I grab my transparent png and uv map it to where i want

And that's it! Hope it helps a little! I don't work in actual modern versions of blender a lot, so the flow may be slightly different.

[Artfight 2023] [14]

Corrupted One

First I draw the individual parts in a 2d art program, in this case procreate. I put an overlay texture that gives it some grittiness. As you can see I separated out the parts I planned to move a little bit, like the top and bottom jaw, eyes, wings, and body segments.

Each part of the texture is applied to a 2d plane through uv maps with the exception of the halo, which is 3d modeled.

The 2d planes are layered in a way that will create shadow when a light is added and avoid overlaps when rendered. This also really lends to the papercut aspect!

Animation for this particular piece is done through something called “shape keys” where blender will interpolate movement based on me slightly moving the individual parts.

I created several keys for different areas of motion. When all are combined it creates a nice effect. Some parts move smoother than others - this is due to me setting some keys to be “constant” instead of “bezier smoothed”.

(Oh also the halo is just rotated on an axis - 3d go brrrrr)

After rendering all the frames into a gif, I then threw it into a video editor to make the colors more contrasted and to add slight glitching and behold! Final product!

[Artfight 2023] [14]

Corrupted One

First I draw the individual parts in a 2d art program, in this case procreate. I put an overlay texture that gives it some grittiness. As you can see I separated out the parts I planned to move a little bit, like the top and bottom jaw, eyes, wings, and body segments.

Each part of the texture is applied to a 2d plane through uv maps with the exception of the halo, which is 3d modeled.

The 2d planes are layered in a way that will create shadow when a light is added and avoid overlaps when rendered. This also really lends to the papercut aspect!

Animation for this particular piece is done through something called “shape keys” where blender will interpolate movement based on me slightly moving the individual parts.

I created several keys for different areas of motion. When all are combined it creates a nice effect. Some parts move smoother than others - this is due to me setting some keys to be “constant” instead of “bezier smoothed”.

(Oh also the halo is just rotated on an axis - 3d go brrrrr)

After rendering all the frames into a gif, I then threw it into a video editor to make the colors more contrasted and to add slight glitching and behold! Final product!

A really big thing that has helped me is utilizing many layers of gradient maps of different layer blends! Lots of art programs have the gradient mapping feature, I use procreate!

Over time, I feel like my base color picking has also improved naturally in adhering to color theory as you develop an eye for what colors feel "right" together