Toha's Tips It's impossible to make a 2D illustration and a 3D model match perfectly, and in the case of 3D, they must look good from all angles.
Toha's Tips Learning how to use software is one thing, learning how to make 3DCG is another, and to make what you want to make, you need both... it's hard!
Toha's Tips There are two kinds of things you need to do to get better at making computer graphics, and one of them is "things you need to do by the numbers.
Toha's Tips When creating a 3D model for work, it is safe to check with the client about anything that cannot be determined from the information in the reference materials alone.
Toha's Tips When creating a model of a character from an existing illustration, it is common for the character's face and hairstyle to differ from picture to picture.
Toha's Tips The 3D model, both for the character and the hair, is created with the four elements of proportion, volume, silhouette, and detail, which is the Toha style.
Toha's Tips Character models for games often create tousled hair. Extrusion method hair modeling is recommended for tousled hair
Toha's Tips 3D models of characters range from those for smartphone games to those for the pre-rendered video! Mixing them up can be confusing.
Toha's Tips When making a character's hair, it is difficult to create the hair if the facial outline, eyes, nose, and mouth are not defined.
Toha's Tips Modeling hair, both long and short, is hard! The type of difficulty is a little different.
Toha's Tips Reason of don't use a halved sphere object as the base of the hair model when modeling hair.
Toha's Tips How to add a Rim light-like effect to a material using Fresnel in the Blender node to make hair shiny.
Toha's Tips How to change the shadow color of ambient occlusion using a Blender node and multiply it by the texture color.
Toha's Tips The way to get the texture colors to come out as they are in Blender's rendering settings is to change the color management from Filmic to Standard!
Toha's Tips When creating polygons for the back side of the skirt, the vertices are slightly shifted so that they are not in the same location as the front side.
Toha's Tips If you want to apply the same material to multiple objects at once in Blender, use Ctrl+L to create a link -> Material!
Toha's Tips When hand-drawing textures, use the UV image output from the UV placement export as a guide for drawing the texture.
Toha's Tips How to open a face UV in Blender with a straight frontal view and put the drawing on the face as it is on the texture.
Toha's Tips I want to align the size ratio of the UVs that are scattered by averaging the UV islands when I expand the UVs in Blender.
Toha's Tips How to use Blender's UV expansion add-on UVToolKit 2.0 to expand the skirt's UVs into a straight grid
Toha's Tips Apply to object created by Blender's link duplicate will cause an error, so let's unlink before we do it!
Toha's Tips Blender's UV expansion is weird if you don't apply the object's scale value -> scale to 1 before you do it!
Toha's Tips Blender Alt+D is a link duplicator (like instance copy), and all duplicated objects can be edited together.
Toha's Tips When the mirror modifier mirrors to a strange position, reset the object origin position to zero.
Toha's Tips When modeling characters in Blender, it is recommended to set the focal length at about 150mm.
Toha's Tips When making a difficult model, keep a copy of the finished model so you can proceed without fear of failure.
Toha's Tips If you put a temporary texture on a face model with a UV projection modifier, the texture doesn't shift when you move the vertices!
Toha's Tips The wrists are positioned at the crotch and the elbows are positioned at the waist, as is usually the case with the human body and character models.
Toha's Tips Simple and standard way of splitting polygons for knee joints and such, which is common in low-poly character models.
Toha's Tips When you're modeling, it's easier if you divide the polygons while thinking about what to do with the texture at the end.
Toha's Tips The more polygons you have, the harder it is to model polygons, and the easier it is to organize the polygons you don't need.
Toha's Tips How to change the affected area in the operator panel after moving it using Blender's proportional editing.
Toha's Tips How to make the vertices of the soles of the character model stick to the ground in Blender~.
Toha's Tips Unless there is a special reason, it is safe to make character models in realistic scale.
Toha's Tips If you're modeling with a mouse and feel like you're going to get tendonitis in your hands... try modeling with a pen tab.
Toha's Tips I want to make it easy and beautiful - but I don't need to know all the useful functions of 3DCG software.
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