Cosmiclifepinups

New year resolutions and plans.

2D animation! I want to start learning 2D animation to make simple loops. I am going to be using a program I am familiar with (blender). I am thinking I can enjoy using a 3D program and still practice my 2D skills more this way.

I also plan on switching back to blender to do most of my 3D renders, I don't want to focus on any new models this year and instead fixing the ones I already hav...

katsumi on white couch.

I really wanted to have a rein deer done for this Christmas, but I planned to work on it on the toon style, sadly the toon style was more trouble than I thought it would be and working on learning and fixing problems with the shader took some time, and I feel like the latest renders were sub par. I decided to polish up my fox model and pose her in a diffrent way to close off this year. I want t...

shukura toon

not super happy with this one, together with the amount of time I spent on this I am disappointed with the result. this toon shader is a lot more difficult to handle than I anticipated and despite the quick render times it constantly crashes. My next reindeer project may be my last toon render project for the time being if I don't figure out how to get better results.  I did fix a few thin...

shakura pose WIP

this project has been grueling but I think the worst is over. there are just many set backs to this new toon shader I have been working on, worst of being the hard crashes i experience but also, shading the real fur, not just the painted texture. most of my trouble has been blending the real fur with the textured fur.  I have tried all sorts of settings and techniques but I think I have so...

Snip

quick snip of my current project, had to redo the topo for my lion model and paint a new texture for her bits and all, right now I am trying my best to blend the more painty toony fur with the lion model. so far its going well.

Romeo romeo romeo

So this is the new style I am going to be working on from now on, and the one I might just choose to animate in the future. I really hope you all like how these came out, I wanted to make this a trio of poses being that I spent so much time getting these shaders right to get the result I wanted that I missed an image for last month.

I really hope you all like the results, I want to try ...

More new style work in progress.

This month lacked a more provocative pose and a third render, and I am sorry for that. I just have been putting most of my time figuring out this 2D 3D cell shading style I want to go for. After much experimenting I think I have something that I can get ready for early next month. This is just the beginning of a texture I am going to use for the model.  I also tweaked the shader to look a ...

New style experiment on model!

I have spent alot of time figuring out how to achieve this drawing style with this 3D shader. at first I thought I would just sculpt the fur but the problem with that is in places like the tail and neck where there is a lot of thick fur, sculpted long fur would stretch and look odd. I then thought I would just use thick strands of fur however making the fur look right took quite a while and usi...

New fur style coming soon!

so I spent a week  modeling a wolf with sculpted fur by hand so that I could attempt a painterly render style but going back to the more famalier use of fur tools together with some shader adjustments I made a sample I really really like! the sculpted attempt I was going for I realized later on would not work with dynamic fur that needs to fall swoosh and move so it was never a great optio...

Anya in a hat with a drink

This one took so damn long, I got the pose down pretty quick but I was not happy with the fur and did multiple test renders that took me around 2 days until I got the settings down to something I liked. I still don't like the fur too much and feel like it could be better and more realistic. I had to finish this project as I was taking to dang long. I would love any thoughts!

I ...

Cell shading and animation. learning something new!

I have been for a while interested in animation, the only thing keeping me from attempting it is how taxing animation with  not just fur, but enough fur to make a creature look realistic can be. I recently got interested in cell shading and thought that do to its lack of any real fur I can attempt to first create some interesting more painterly creations and then eventually learn how to an...

Sue Andy standing nude

Freaking naked Sue Andy!

https://tinyurl.com/y3ss6u6g 

Sue Andy daisy dukes

Clothing is hard!


check out the full rez version, there will be a nude version soon too!


https://tinyurl.com/y378fv3z

Shukura on red sheets

More work with fabrics, the simulation for this seemingly simple fabric took almost 2 hours as I had to drop the model on the sheet itself to more realistically have it cover her shape. I wanted this render to be a big improvement from the last Lion render, so I reworked all the fur and made a fancy Venetian blind lighting look to wash over her. I love this sort of hot spot or rim light look, l...

spooky cabbit WIP 3

I am so sorry, but once again, I am having trouble with this painting, I am just not feeling it. even if so far it is looking alright, I just don't have the drive to continue for too long. I just can't get myself to get into the background and picture the colors and details needed. not sure what it is. maybe since I am not used to backgrounds I simply need to work on more sketches and scraps be...

Halloween cabbit WIP2

Refind the sketch much more to get a better idea of what I want to do with the image. thinking I might work on the sketch a little more tomorrow to be absolutely sure I have the image in my mind but I also want to get started painting so I don't tire of the image. 

Helga on red sheets.

 https://tinyurl.com/yxwmc9fb HD link

upping the complexity on my renders, fabrics are a must now! they give a simple picture with one model so much more interest without to much clutter. I increased the poly count on Helga without changing the topology much so that I could sculpt more realistic pe...

Spooky cabbit WIP

I am afraid of this one. this is the most complex painting I have done. I am used simple pin ups but thought I would give this one more of a spook theme by having some sort of back drop. I am simply not used to more than just a model in the frame and am rather concerned that this one is going to give me a lot of trouble. more so I am worried that I might not finish this one in time for Hallowee...

Skunk and raccoon scrap/Helga the wolf regroom.

Thought I would just finish up the skunk and racoon painting but as more of a spit paint. I put everything in one layer and filled color up quickly and messy. Not something I would put in my main gallery but thought I might as well finish this.

also redoing the groom on helga. there is some odd bug with the fur that makes the side of the face patchy if I add clumping. trying to figure ou...

Cabbit witch sketch.

This one is an idea so far. I want to make a painting for October of a cute spooky cabbit. this one is feeling a little iffy to me, I will keep refining this sketch until it feels right, if not I will work on a more conceptual standing pose and give this one more thought.

Baijanthi on fancy couch

I did not have a NSFW render of this character so I thought I would make one. I learned to use Maya's Ncloth system to make some nice royal purple velvet fabric to frame Baijanthi nicely!


https://tinyurl.com/y4hhhhtx  HD

Current WIPs

So these are my current WIP images for the moment. I plan on making a full render of my red panda model after a few tweaks as my first project for the month 2nd is my 3 concept paintings of my arkkin creature I will be working on to get a better idea of what I want to do with the creature. Finally it's the raccoon and skunk pinup that, honestly I have lost interest in. I have repainted and thou...

Back in business. Update /future plans and streaming.

Im back and connected and moved to a new location, for GOOD this time! I am still settling in to this new location and there is plenty of work to do in my new home. its a bit of a fixer upper.

at the very least I am connected and free to work. During the move I had some time to consider some future plans. for the the near future, I am planning to work on a new 3D model. this one is going...

Duo project wip 3/ important update

More progress on the duo project but I once again am not feeling this particular painting. I don't know what it is. it might just be this whole move, or simply that I am not used to these sort of settings. I have some what lost interest in this particular image, and I may move on to another project if I lose enough steam.


I will be moving today! and that means I will not have connect...

apologies for the lack of finished projects this month.

This month has been rather awful, I have not had a moment of peace since I moved to this new place and it has been effecting me greatly. before the months end I will be moving again to a more stable and private location where I can work without interruption. It is likely that I will not finish another full project before the end of the month as I just can't find the focus I need to figure out h...

Duo project wip 2

I was planing on refining the sketch even further until I was confident to paint, but I got a bit of inspiration and thought I would fill in some rough color.  I really want to experiment with a cooler natural spot light and warm shadows with warm defused lighting to fill most of the scene.  

I am used to looking at the color of reference images and emulating the color as best ...