HyperBole Update 8_15 (Patreon)

Halfway through August!! wooo! Finally getting a 95 degree day tomorrow, I'm ready for it.

It's wild to me that August is the cold month for you folks in the southern hemisphere. August=Heat is just burned into my head.

You know what else is wild? MAGELLANIC CLOUDS! Two dwarf galaxies orbiting the milky way that folks in the southern hemisphere CAN SEE WITH THEIR EYES. Like, I love space n' stuff, and I was like 27 before I knew these things existed!  (The best we have up north is the Andromeda Galaxy, visible as a delightful little smudge off the elbow of Cassiopeia).

But I was at a birthday and a gal was doing astrology, and saying, "[astrology stuff] ...because of Andromeda, the closest galaxy to the Milky Way" and oh man Kaitlin had to fight to hard to keep me from talking about these MAGELLANIC CLOUDS.   

OKAY JUST WIKIPEDIA'D IT.   

HOT damn.   

How many Satellite Galaxies do you think the Milky Way has? I'll give you a hint: it rhymes with Nifty and starts with an F.  Dude it'd be rad to make a space opera that takes place in a magellanic cloud.   I like it when they talk about galaxies "colliding" cause it's colliding in the same way, like, a swarm of gnats or clouds collide; they don't explode, it's just a bigger friggin' gnat ball, now. 

CH'NYWAYS

I'm really happy with this first HyperBole shot (downloadable high res version if you wannnnnt). It was mostly just the platform for assembling a bunch of assets, and there's a lot I'd probably do differently, but I think I gotta move on (or at least, put it on hold until I've done a bunch of other shots, then maybe update it with techniques/assets I figure out over the next few weeks?)

The big thing bugging me is the main character of this shot- one of the first photoscans I ever did (with Sam Lazarus, thanks man!), so I still had a lot to learn, and the clothes definitely look like a stretchy little jpeg. Like, it's fine, but... I think it's definitely the weakest part of the shot. I've been considering adding a TGTB&TU Eastwood Poncho with a cloth sim over the top just to try to sell it... we'll see.

But I figured out some really useful things involving working with mocap and IK to kind of clean up/control the mocap really easily in post. I'll make a video about it soon! 

The background is just 10,000 of the low-poly-scanned folks. Normally my scenes are fairly lightweight, but I think with all the sims and geometry and all that this might end up fairly hefty, hahaha!

Also made this revolver for the Ranger Razor. Not that we'll ever see it because if we did then I'd also have to properly figure out hannnnnds.  I haven't modeled a gun in ages. I like the illusion of the etched detailing- it's just a picture of a different highly embellished antique gun, set as a bump map.  (Also, I thought I was being all wacky with this gun, but it's already been done (because everything's been done with guns)). 

Also modeled the Hyperball last night- you can't tell in this picture but it's really articulated- lots of little moving bits. This is it in Egg form. I think it's basically just going to try to attack everyone. The Players want to get the Hyperball because they need it to win. The Hyperball wants to get the players because it wants to Hurt Them.