#bugtor

i know there are some great STLs out there for the Arcane Herald, but i decided to get scrappy with it for this project, because i'd installed blender last month to play around with sculpt mode on an orb, which had spawned this uhhhhh... viktor?

but after i saw @jayvikbrainrot's tiny bugtor this month, i cracked blender back open, found the symmetry and dyntopo options in blender, and went to town. i didn't know yet how to add another object to the sculpt (spoilers but i will be learning that embarrassingly late in the game on this project 😅), so i started with an orb and just went wild stacking shapes on it. why is it blue in some places? i do not know.

next i tried working out how to rig the sculpt i'd done. i used blender's rigify add-on, which worked pretty well! i tried putting him in a few poses before trying out my first test resin print.

soon i had my first physical buggo!!! he got to come on adventures and sleep snug as a bug in an @oidingus mug, swaddled by some bits of linen @chubsonthemoon used to pack my copy of their gorgeous bind of huzzah to the hammersmith.

but before painting time came, he got some friends....

and i was so stoked that the littlest buggo turned out self-standing, totally on accident! so it became the first one to get some paint, because i got impatient and borrowed some of my partner's painting gear to give the buggo some colors myself.

this buggo also got to try out a fabric cape, and proudly demonstrated the flaws in that plan

BUT! this little buggo also helped me work out that paper cape worked great! so he got to try out the lightbox photoshoot setup, hehe

after that we were almost done! the final boss: a second object!

i went back into blender, deleted the rig i'd made because i was actually having better luck with the pose and grab tools, and finally bugtor got his staff! and thus access to the Arcane! and thus the magic powers necessary to consume the cake at his cosmic tea party!

today my partner had some spare time, and they decided to paint him without using any metallic paints as a challenge for themselves because they are so so cool. 😍

in the meantime i made his paper cape. so now he's in his final form!