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Quick thingy about a modified version of my Cosmo model. Here are the changes I've made: (CAUTION: NERD TERMINOLOGY AHEAD. TURN BACK IF YOU WISH TO SPARE YOURSELF FROM BLENDER/3DMODELING JARGON.)

- Fully modeled ear bud, flower, thingies. These have also been scaled up a bit to make the proportions more attractive in 3D.

- Her body has been thinned slightly. It's a small change, but it makes the model look much better in my opinion.

- The amulet has been scaled up and has a proper glass material for the gem. Looks more show accurate.

- Small refinements with the rig. Better bending of elbows, fingers, and skirt petals. Also fixed a small issue where the eye tracker bones were set to 'deform.' They will no longer deform parts of the mesh and will only control the eye projectors now.

- Materials have been altered so that they use bump maps instead of normal maps. I was getting weird results with the normal maps in the blender viewport, so I changed it and I'm much happier with these results. It almost hid all the UV seams too.

- Continuing on with materials, since her hair texture previously used a normal map, I instead opted for a Vector Displacement node. Her hair has a more subtle texture to it. I could have just used a bump map like the rest of them, but using this method, the UV seams are nonexistent. Noice.

So, a few changes. There will be more to come. There's some pretty significant changes I want to make to the rig, as well as add plenty of new shape keys to make her as expressive as possible. Should be a fun side project to kill some time. For now, I'm focusing on a couple drawings and the Galaxina model, which is only a couple of steps away from completion in Blender!

All right, if you made it this far, cool! I appreciate your interest and I hope to be back with another drawing soon. See ya!

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Quick thingy about a modified version of my Cosmo model. Here are the changes I've made: (CAUTION: NERD TERMINOLOGY AHEAD. TURN BACK IF YOU WISH TO SPARE YOURSELF FROM BLENDER/3DMODELING JARGON.)

- Fully modeled ear bud, flower, thingies. These have also been scaled up a bit to make the proportions more attractive in 3D.

- Her body has been thinned slightly. It's a small change, but it makes the model look much better in my opinion.

- The amulet has been scaled up and has a proper glass material for the gem. Looks more show accurate.

- Small refinements with the rig. Better bending of elbows, fingers, and skirt petals. Also fixed a small issue where the eye tracker bones were set to 'deform.' They will no longer deform parts of the mesh and will only control the eye projectors now.

- Materials have been altered so that they use bump maps instead of normal maps. I was getting weird results with the normal maps in the blender viewport, so I changed it and I'm much happier with these results. It almost hid all the UV seams too.

- Continuing on with materials, since her hair texture previously used a normal map, I instead opted for a Vector Displacement node. Her hair has a more subtle texture to it. I could have just used a bump map like the rest of them, but using this method, the UV seams are nonexistent. Noice.

So, a few changes. There will be more to come. There's some pretty significant changes I want to make to the rig, as well as add plenty of new shape keys to make her as expressive as possible. Should be a fun side project to kill some time. For now, I'm focusing on a couple drawings and the Galaxina model, which is only a couple of steps away from completion in Blender!

All right, if you made it this far, cool! I appreciate your interest and I hope to be back with another drawing soon. See ya!