SodiePawp

Merrick in 3-D!

Added 2025-03-18 05:47:38 +0000 UTC

After entirely too much tinkering and fine tuning, I've come to an acceptable result. I learned a lot from the Veemon model, and applied it all toward this one. It's a lot more usable I think. Figured out what inverse kinematics are, kinda. So, it's not perfect, the clothes do crumple a bit in the back when the body bends. In the turntable clip, I did have to tweak the clothes to make them normal again, so that's still a quirk of an early model release.

Upside though, I did remake the clothes for this release, so they're not the ones in the turntable or screencap. I didn't redo the beltloops or crotch in the new pants though. Honestly I was sick of dealing with it, that's really it. Why did I remake them then? Because I wanted to 3D print the model, and the old clothing was too thin and crumbly, and so I needed to remake them. They work now for that, and I'll upload a pic of that sometime when I get the model cleaned up and painted. X3

The old clothes still look a bit better I think, so I'm including them as well. If you wanna 3D print with those old ones, I recommend adding in a Displace modifier and play with the midlevel setting. I think I set mine to 0.9. They're hidden underneath the "Merrick Main" in the layers menu.

Anyway, here's some links! I'll be tweaking the model more between now and the fully public release, so please let me know if there are some additional quirks that I entirely missed that I really need to patch out, or some quality of life improvements you think I could easily make. I'm not exactly JC Thornton over here, but I'll try. :P

Turntable animation, cuz Patreon doesn't allow videos from 18+ creators: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TmVt39kI0h04yOqIgOW1L_DfhT_rjxTW/view?usp=sharing

The MODEL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ljmmN3dCnanmo1IqTJLxIqc03fOq3yxf/view?usp=sharing

Included in the zip file are two versions. One cel-shaded, and one not. I include both because if you should prefer to use Cycles instead of Eevee for rendering, you're going to need the regular non-cel model for that. Cuz Cycles doesn't play nice with cartoons.