Alright people! We're almost there!
The FIRST part of Chapter 4 (I can hopefully only make into 3 parts at most) is nearly complete. It's LONG, yes. Took me forever to render these images and I hit a bump on the road (bad lighting) BUT.. like Richard Fleming said when he discovered Penicillin.. "Chance only favors prepared minds", and out of that trouble I managed to either fix it and learn something new that you'll see in the near future, like sudden light change (think of horror movies like Nightmare On Elm Street and how "everything suddenly changes" to favor the horror atmosphere), and light colors (think "Matrix" using a lot of green filter and such).
ALSO... I think I finally managed to solve one of my greatest problems, seen since Chapter ONE, AKA... "upclose skin looks like UTTER SHIT!!"
There are apparently a few different methods to get around this and then there are some greatly sculpted models and textures to render skin that looks like real life skin... I'm still too far from that, but I managed to make the whole "skin ogling" more pleasant for my slightly cartoonish style.
I'll definitely improve this in the future, when I'm done studying everything I can about SSS/Glossiness/Translucency/Metallic Flakes/Emission Color/Bump Noise and all the rest of this boring shit that however makes a character REALLY stand out.
To give you a date... I don't wanna give you an exact date lol, but it's gonna be before the 5th.. most likely earlier than that. Maybe the 3rd, I don't know yet.
The current part has like.. let me see.. give or take it's already at 184 images!! O_O (The video's gonna take so much from me this time..) But the result should be pretty good.
Again, this has been the HARDEST Chapter so far, and it's not over yet..
Oh, and.. for those that don't like the tiny bubblegum man, don't worry.. he's not the only character to torture.. ;) but I got so much positive feedback for the pink gummy bastard that I just couldn't disappoint those that are waiting to see Queen Emily destroy him (he kinda deserves that anyway).
Later people!! :)
Ralph
2022-02-01 01:58:06 +0000 UTC