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Howie
@howartwork.bsky.social
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When I was a child I wanted to grow up to be an artist… and I’m still just trying to figure how to do that really.

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Spent some time adjusting the material through texturing painting and material nodes both to add in some hue and saturation variation - at a place where i’m pretty happy with how Totoro’s looking! Now… do I wrap this up or do we go full scene 🤔

#3d #3dart #b3d #blender #totoro #ghibli #fanart
January 28, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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Okay, fuzz under control now! Did some clever stuff with geo nodes to spawn a little hair tuft thing across the main body, and then used vertext painting to "trim" the fur so it wont spawn over the eyes etc

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January 27, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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too fuzzy TOO FUZZY!
January 27, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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First pass texture painting done! Pretty happy and could leave it there, but feel like I could polish it a little more. But might come back to that at the end.

Next up, time to make him fuzzy with some geometry node magic!

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January 27, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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UVs unwrapped, slapped on a quick cell shading set up and thrown on some quick texture painting to check its working and already looking like Totoro! Now to get my colour palette set up and off we go!

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January 27, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Reworked the arm and threw on a quick rig to pose Totoro in a more iconic pose. Now we're ready for texture painting!

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January 26, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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Not entirely happy with how the arms came out, so might rework them a bit. But otherwise that’s all the major modelling done!

So pretty soon it’ll be UV unwrapping and texture painting time!

#3d #3dart #b3d #blender #totoro #ghibli #fanart
January 26, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Blockout now starting to take a more recognisable form! I'm giving my best attempt to make everyone's favourite neighbour Totoro in blender!

#3d #3dart #b3d #blender #Totoro #Ghibli #Fanart
January 26, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Everyone meet my new son. I love him, he’s perfect and I guess i’ve peaked in term of making stuff in Blender because I don’t think I’ll ever top this 🤔🤣

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January 26, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Another week, another experiment! This time taking everything I've learnt from modelling, texturing painting, through to rigging and animating to make a cute little bee!

#3DArt #Blender
January 25, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Finished the texturing, threw on some cool night time lighting and we've got a battle map folks! This was really fun and quick to throw together, definitely feeling this technique has some legs! 😃

#blender #3dmodeling #3d #beginnerartist #3drender #dnd #dndmaps
January 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Did some quick material node magic to add some subtle colour variations between the townhouses. Adds some nice visual noise without having to make several different textures.

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January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Texture painting well on its way and going very successfully!

Not adding nearly as much detail as I could be, but at the actual scale it'll be seen and, and especially for a first attempt at this I think its working pretty well!

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January 18, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Was a bit lazy and grabbed some models from CGTrader instead of making them myself. But works as a good test to see how easy it is to flesh out a battle map quickly with easily available assets.

Now for some texturing I think!

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January 17, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Quickly whipped up a better model for a townhouse type building and I think its starting to come together pretty quickly actually!

Now to fill out the town square with some objects then onto some quick texturing I think!

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January 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Starting a new experiment today with blender to see if I can use it to quickly whip up isometric dnd battle maps

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January 16, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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My first time trying out texture painting! I’m really pleased with how it came out and I didn’t expect to take to texture painting this quick!

Thanks to @gamedevtv.bsky.social & @grantabbitt.bsky.social for the texture painting course 😊

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3d model of a slightly wonky castle tower in a hand painted style
January 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Starting to teach myself to make some basic character animation. Took the UE base char model and pulled it into Blender, rigged it up using rigify, then created several basic video game character animations to test myself.

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October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Working on some basic idle animations today for the game i’m slowly making. I’m learning I find animating really quite soothing, maybe more so that modelling 😅

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October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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My first time making a full scene in blender! 😃

Anime / Studio Ghibli inspired, based on a photograph I took 🙂

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September 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM