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Okay, so I was all set to blitz through the Doctor at the rate I'd been going at previously, when I realized "Hang on...I don't even have a proper stallion rig yet." (Duct Toast didn't have a rig of his own, he was just posed with the mare rig and then modified from there because I was lazy. Also his facial anatomy was more coltish.) So since I knew that I'd hate myself for it later down the road if I never made one, I sacrificed short-term gain for the long road, as taking my time to get a nice stallion rig will really pay off. So that's why I've fallen a bit behind in my modeling.

I took the time to utilize everything I've learned from working with the mare rig for the past few months, as you can never quite tell how good the geometry is until you rig it and play around with it. For example, the mare model needed way the frick more edge loops around her midsection for the more dynamic poses, and the facial anatomy, while it looks nice enough in the default pose, is revealed to have the most awkward configuration of polygon loops ever the second you attempt to pose it. Unfortunately you can't go around changing the geometry of an already-rigged model without having to redo the rig, so I've been stuck making heavy tweaks to the mare every single time I pose her. But now I've corrected all of these things in the stallion before rigging him, and he'll overall be a much better model in the long run as a result.

There are actually a ton of very subtle proportion differences between the two models, even though they're superficially quite similar aside from the face.

I used to be a bit averse to showing the wireframe of my models for fear that someone might attempt to reverse engineer them or something. Then I realized that was stupid--if you can somehow pull off reverse engineering my models just by looking at a low-res screenshot of the wireframe, then damn if you don't deserve access to the model at that point. o_O

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Okay, so I was all set to blitz through the Doctor at the rate I'd been going at previously, when I realized "Hang on...I don't even have a proper stallion rig yet." (Duct Toast didn't have a rig of his own, he was just posed with the mare rig and then modified from there because I was lazy. Also his facial anatomy was more coltish.) So since I knew that I'd hate myself for it later down the road if I never made one, I sacrificed short-term gain for the long road, as taking my time to get a nice stallion rig will really pay off. So that's why I've fallen a bit behind in my modeling.

I took the time to utilize everything I've learned from working with the mare rig for the past few months, as you can never quite tell how good the geometry is until you rig it and play around with it. For example, the mare model needed way the frick more edge loops around her midsection for the more dynamic poses, and the facial anatomy, while it looks nice enough in the default pose, is revealed to have the most awkward configuration of polygon loops ever the second you attempt to pose it. Unfortunately you can't go around changing the geometry of an already-rigged model without having to redo the rig, so I've been stuck making heavy tweaks to the mare every single time I pose her. But now I've corrected all of these things in the stallion before rigging him, and he'll overall be a much better model in the long run as a result.

There are actually a ton of very subtle proportion differences between the two models, even though they're superficially quite similar aside from the face.

I used to be a bit averse to showing the wireframe of my models for fear that someone might attempt to reverse engineer them or something. Then I realized that was stupid--if you can somehow pull off reverse engineering my models just by looking at a low-res screenshot of the wireframe, then damn if you don't deserve access to the model at that point. o_O