djthed posts
Posts: 81
Files: 138
Realistic Pichu
EDIT | November 15th, 2018, 12:53PM PDTFirst thing I addressed was the mouth, as that was the biggest point of contention for most people. I pushed the upper lips down to hide more of the teeth, adjusted the size of the lips, and adjusted the overall expression slightly.Next was the fur density. Before we had a little ...
Pegasus Wing Rigging Progress
Been working on this for the past few days. I've never really done much of anything with wings before. I've animated with wings once before, and only once, but I never rigged or studied wing anatomy too much. I've been kind of dreading the day I'd have to rig wings for pegasi just due to the complicatio...
Coloratura Animation "Nice House AJ!"
I haven't animated Coloratura in one of these one off animations in a while. I wanted to challenge myself a bit with something I haven't been doing a lot lately, which is walking, with the walk getting interrupted by other actions, and just overall weigh shifting. Making sure the model feels like it has weight ...
Coloratura Expression Stress Test
I'm surprised I didn't think to publish something like this earlier. Something where I throw a ton of different expression types at my model's facial rig to see how well it works. And so far, it seems pretty good! But that's just my opinion. If you think something somewhere looks a bit off, let me know!...
The Mane Attraction Set - WIP 9
Finally getting back into the swing of things. It's been an incredibly long time since the last time I showed progress on this set. You can find the previous version here for comparison:https://www.deviantart.com/therealdjthed/art/4K-The-Mane-Attraction-WIP-8-Set-683193271So, one of the main overall differences is ...
Coloratura Performance Intro WIP 3D Animation
It's sure been a long while since I've done any animations with lip syncing. And this is the first time I'm doing any kind of lip syncing with the new overhauled rig!So, yeah. Just to show some of the hidden benefits of the new reworked rig that you guys will likely never notice, because it's all behind...
Laying Coloratura
Available on the Redbubble shop!:https://www.redbubble.com/people/djthed/works/34215552-laying-coloratura--Huge shoutouts to jhayarr23 for letting me using his original vector as inspiration for this render! You can find the original vector here:https://www.deviantart.com/jhayarr23/art/MLP-Vector-Coloratura-44-74296116...
It has been a while, Rara
Yes, yes it has.Admittedly, I have been procrastinating a bit when converting Coloratura into the up to date rig, mostly because I'd have to remodel her eyelashes again and fit that into the rig, which would've been obnoxious, but it's done now. Her clothes also had to be remade because of the body getting ...
Winking Pichu
While most of my work lately has revolved around MLP, I was more originally interested in 3D Pokemon way before I got into MLP. There is a reason my Profile Picture is still the Leafeon render I made for myself about 3 years ago as of writing this description.But there's another reason I made this. For one, I'm...
Pear Butter Frolicking
This is in collaboration with another MLP artist, TheDiscorded! Obviously, a 2D artist collabing with a 3D artist isn't too usual around here, so here's how it went:I asked TheDiscorded to create a few sketches with poses of one of the characters I already have modeled out. In this case he chose Pear Butter, an...
Pear Butter Idle Animation
Haven't done one of these in a while. And I haven't used Pear Butter in like a year. Spent some time this weak porting over the up to date rig over to her, as well as updating her mane and tail with layered hair meshes. In that time I also decided to rework the eye textures a bit.Old:New:I made them a bit more ...
Cute Applejack
This render came about when I was just testing some poses. I thought the smile was cute and thought I'd publish this. Nothing else too substantial to note.
Applejack Poster Render
Wanted to do another Applejack render for a few reasons. The last one I did, the "Serious Applejack" one, had a few problems. The expression wasn't completely clear or easy to read, and the pose overall wasn't all that appealing. I also wanted to mix things up and try some new lighting I haven't use...
Furious Applejack
Boy, sorry for taking so long on this one. I had most of the animation done for a few weeks, but ran into some oddities with the rig around the front legs that I couldn't find a solution for some time. Seems to be all good now though.The grass hasn't really changed since last time. Still the same models being e...
Wandering Applejack
( Full-Res Wallpaper: https://goo.gl/rst2Zw )I've been wanting to tackle more background related challenges lately. I did try using some "Essential packs" for the foliage, but they ended up being waaaay to render intensive for animation purposes. I decided to just stick to making my own assets and try to ma...
Serious Applejack
Finally able to get the rig changes that I've been working on for the past few months applied to my other models! Not only that, but I also decided during this transition that I completely redo the topology of the body. The main reason of redoing it was to completely rework how the legs connect to the body in the m...
Expressive Pinkie Animation
It's been a long time coming, but I'm glad to announce that I am finally considering the facial rig revision phase of mine is now over. It has lasted since around November of last year. The effects were obvious; I have only been posting Pinkie renders and animations for the last half a year. I've only been ...
Pinkie Pie Nervous Smile
The eyebrows are finally done aaaaaaaaaaaaah (or at least done enough to be usable). I've tried tons of different methods to get them to work the way I want them to and I finally figured out a way to rig them in a way that works well for me. I didn't expect them to be as complicated as it was, I thought the mou...
Pinkie Eyebrow Expression Render Test
This is a long time coming, and I should've done this sooner. Much sooner.So in summary, I was having a lot of trouble getting the eyebrows to cooperate when they needed to move down towards the eyelids. But the fact that the two independent rigs of both the eyebrows and the eyelids were on the same plane, it was c...
Sitting Pinkie
First ever render of a pony that's actually not standing up. It's actually been a struggle trying to get my models to sit without the mesh looking weird and whatnot. How does it look?Also let me know of what you guys think of the facial expression going on here. The half lidded eye, the wink, and the raised eye...
Frightened Pinkie
Finally, the rig can actually make faces like this with properly placed creases and such to show that the face is real. So yes, the purpose of this render is once again to push the new rigging as far as I can. And I also have never publicly uploaded a pony face render that wasn't smiling, so this should mix things ...
PC Upgrades and Future Hardware Plans.
I'm floored by how quickly I was able to get upgraded hardware for my main PC. I predicted that it would've been many, many months from now a month ago. But I've been getting so much support lately on Patreon and Paypal for the animations I create on my Deviantart, and as typical as it is for me to say this...
Pinkie Pie
Drawing a blank on names again. Maybe I should start making polls or something on what I should name these renders... Uhm... Anyway...I've been hard at work implementing changes to how the face reacts the certain types of expressions based on Dilarus's advice. This render doesn't necessarily showcase they y...
Pinkie Hop Animation
It's been a while! I've been stressing over the quality of my model for a few weeks now, and it kind of got in the way of my releasing things to you guys. Thankfully I got tips from a veteran artist from the fandom and I managed to fix the issues I was having with the facial rig... Again. I'll put together ...
Pinkie Pie 3D Lip-Sync Animation Test
Been doing some heavy re-working on the mouth rigging for the past few weeks. Lots of experimentation going on here. Let me know if anything about the mouth in particular looks a bit off.Also no I don't plan on actually animating the song that comes after this line, at least not in the near future. Just in case any...
Playing with Clouds (V2)
Before this went public I decided to try to improve the clouds a bit more as I wasn't entirely happy with it. In fact, if you want to see how this evolved, here are some early WIPs that slowly progress to what I have now:Version 1: https://sta.sh/0b0rggziq99Version 2: https://sta.sh/01fxb57a1p68Version 3: https://s...
Playing with Clouds
Title means two things. I'm currently playing with clouds in Blender by filling meshes with volumetrics and such. But it also means Pinkie's also playing with the Clouds... Or I guess IN the clouds. Close enough.Might as well try to get used to working with clouds as they are pretty relevant in MLP for Pegasi, ...
Discord Server and new Rewards
Finally figured out what I wanted to do with the rewards... Well, at least somewhat. I've added 3 more tiers in addition to the $1 tier for early access.Tier 2 - allows for Discord Server Access. Directly chat with me about whatever on Discord, whether it be to give feedback about my work, patron rewards, or to jus...
Hardware Upgrade Plans
I've finally settled on the parts I want to save up for upgrading my PC. The most limiting factor for my build is my processor. I'm currently running an AMD FX-8350. It's aged somewhat poorly and doesn't fit my needs very well. It doesn't run Blender very well, so it is somewhat challenging to do an...
Super Smile Animation Test
Spent maybe about 3 hours animating a perfect loop animation for the base pose. Wanted to keep Pinkie moving and active, make it feel like she can't sit still with any part of her body at any time. Only thing I feel like changing is slowing down the bounciness. Especially after GIF conversion where it's forced ...
