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Thank you so much! Glad you liked him 😊

Very glad you think so! 😊

Thank you so much!! It must be the new character, it's like a clean canvas that's more inspiring to try new things. Leslie is a bunny that just popped out of nowhere, so he's full of surprises!

And I also hope it can get even more advanced in the future! Working on this art feels almost like being a contortionist because it really takes years to learn how to do more and more advanced poses.

Your comment turned my crappy day around as well! I often fear my art would become something beaten, boring, uninspired, just another brick in the wall of internet content... Getting no comments or very short comments is like a nightmare because it's like a proof of my fears... But this comment and similar comments really bring back hope and I'm very glad that you enjoyed this picture so much!

(And yes, I rely on comments, it's not a personality flaw but a conscious choice because it feels way more exciting to sit on the edge of my chair waiting to read what people think. I really don't like the whole idea of growing an elephant skin and working like a robot, not caring what anybody thinks.)

Very glad you liked! 😊

Thanks but I really value my freedom and the feeling that I owe absolutely nothing to anyone at any given time. I prefer to keep things free and simple, but I'm very glad that you enjoyed my works so much.

Thank you so much! I wasn't after the 70s camera look but thought the colors just looked good, I wanted to make it look like a photo you could find in real life.

Very glad that you enjoyed it so much! I was listening to some music when this video randomly popped, I thought wow this looks really cool and wanted to try making a similar scene:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwyruN4BWYA
And since I wanted to make more of Leslie at the moment, this is how he got into yoga XD I also think in the video it could be his liberal mom who got him into yoga...

Wow, I'm surprised you spotted a similarity between the shape of the metal block and the pose, I didn't even notice it as just made a random shape that looked funny XD

Oh yes Leslie is confidence itself haha! Interesting comparison to Conan, his headband and athletic nudity indeed make you think of some barbarian flavor. I'm sure the whole performance looked fantastic and one could enjoy the play of muscles and almost female curves of the longhaired teenboy :D

Very glad you enjoyed him so much!

Fixing a leotard was just a small thing, it wasn't really super hard or anything. I recorded that video because I got the feeling that a lot of people who visit my site don't understand how 3d art is made. When people look at "2d" artists, they can tell who's a beginner and who's skilled, but when they look at 3d art they most of the time have no clue who's a beginner and who's actually skilled, specially when we use third party assets. I think it's a problem that will plague 3d art for years, for example someone will look at your work Chained but then they'll spot the 3d model base and be like "oh so you just used a 3d model, at first I thought you actually painted this". They have no idea you spent more than a year creating and refining that very 3d model as well, that you have the understanding of lighting and composition, and that almost none of the so called "painters" would be able to do 1% of the work you've done. But when they see a painting, for some reason they don't say stuff like "oh so you just took pencils and made a rough sketch and then you took some paints and just basically put them over the canvas, how cheap, anybody could have done that!" So like I said the problem is people can't tell a beginner 3d artist from a skilled artist, specially with software like Daz, and I thought I'd record a video to prove that at least my stuff isn't some mindless dump of third party assets.

I know there's scripting and addons that can speed up and refine some processes but sometimes it's just easier to do by hand. For example in the video I linked in the previous comment, they made a whole addon to speed up that pillow simulation but I just did the same in vanilla Blender in a few clicks without using any addons. You essentially just pin any finite surface along its edge, add a cloth simulation and set pressure to positive and shrinking factor to negative and voila, precisely the same thing as in the video without any addons. So what's the point to study a new addon when it can be done so easily by hand?

And I have roughly the same thoughts about MD, it might be a bit pointless when I already know Blender and it has the same tools. Of course in that video I could have just selected some vertices of the leotard and run a cloth simulation on them but I just wanted to fully control how it looks by myself, after all it wasn't some cloak or baggy pants that would be indeed strange to do by hand. I think the tools you want to use should really depend on the context, in this case it was just easier to adjust and smooth out a few polygons by hand than set up a simulation. But then I don't really remember that video, maybe I indeed did some monkey job there, I think more than half of that video was literally wasting the viewer's time because it was my first recording ever and I didn't have any plans of what to do. But in the end, I think since it's you who recommended MD, then I definitely need to look at it, after all you're an experienced artist and wouldn't recommend a golden hammer to someone who already has an iron hammer just because it's more shiny. And it never hurts having more good tools! :)

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Thank you so much for the videos, indeed it will help a lot and I thought the person in the second video sounded familiar, then I remembered it's the guy who made Hair Tool.

The videos give really interesting ideas, I like the way they do clothes in layers with sewing. I definitely need to study some cloth addons because drapes and bedsheets are always useful in this kind of art. I'm also looking forward to this feature, it seems like you can make some nice furniture with it: youtu.be/7jKJvlitXSc?t=94

$39 per month? What's wrong with all those companies nowadays. But thanks for the info, I was wondering what you use for the clothes because Walther's wardrobe is so good! Specially the Renaissance outfit, I really love it a lot!

Yeah, dforce would explode if I tried to stretch those shorts any further (which of course wasn't the limiting factor, I just wanted to show that Leslie is significantly more flexible, so that he could teach Walther some tricks during their time together).

Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed! 😊

Yeah I wonder if he can really get his foot there while keeping the balance and his arms spread out. Spanking I'm sure is more than welcome, but as you said, gentle 😏

Yeah, body magic probably because it's not too realistic, but the idea that cats will fit into any box was too funny to skip. Just did it for fun to see the absolute smallest box he could fit in. Funny that you can still see the very slight definition of the ribcage here even though it's all squished from every side.

Packing into small objects is fun but there seems to be very few performers who do that. And I definitely don't see Instagram people posting pictures where they're packed into containers, even though it would be fun to see a person making such content. With some studio lights and beautiful boxes it could be an art form.

Anyhow, thanks a lot for the comment, I almost completely forgot about this and didn't think of any container art for a long time but your comment reminded me of it and now I'll definitely be thinking about it! XD