Though unrelated I have this link http://tentacolor.com/sl-animation-for-blender-newbs/ - If your interested in making your own pose for something, check it out. Making a static pose is well, as easy as could be. And animating in blender is suprisingly easy. So anyway.
On with this post.
I'm currently working on a Drow skin for a new friend of mine, I'm using a photobase that I picked up pretty cheaply off of XstreetSL some time ago. (I have still got a own photoskin project on the backburner but I decided to cheat for this so she could have her skin pretty quickly :D it'll also be usefull for the Cat skin project I'm still working on.) Long and short of this post is, if your using CS4 to work on skins and are having problems with the seams (Who doesent.) Try this trick.
Take a flatened layer of your whole photo texture. (I work on mine desaturated for numerous reasons, I feel it's easier to get a good feel for the contrast and flow of pattern while not being distracted by colour.) Now use the healing brush tool (The secondary one that looks like a plaster.) this works in a similar way to the clone tool, except it copies more the grain and pattern of an area than the saturation or hue. Meaning if you have a gradient you like but it's flat, and want to put a texture ontop without loosing the shadow underneath, this will work pretty well. As with any tool it takes some getting used to and still you sometimes need to do some things the long way. But working that out has saved me a lot of time. Hope it might you too :) (I'm going to be trying this out on my next lot of cloth textures, I predict it being REALLY helpfull :D)
Well theres the skin so far (Just a head shot to show what I'm working on... Will get some proper body shots once I can be bothered to make some straps to make it PG... *Dident check if there were anti pixel nipple rules for this blog :D*
Overall going well... Should be done tommrow, needs some shading fixes on arms and back. Then I can fully layer the face for makeups, and variations of musculity and stuffs. Then it should be ready for doing lots of fun things with :3 Be officialy the first CyKi skin to be fully produced.
Ignoring the Obake skins which are still not on sale and are more likely to be remade with this texture under them in some places. (SO I feel less like an Eloh rip off) The originals I will sell at just over upload cost, I think anything else for an Eloh based skin is unreasonable, and I suggest ANYONE hard up and wanting a good custom skin tries thier hand, If only Eloh brings out a -good- new edition male one that'll be everyone set for decent rp skins...
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