IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! 🥳
It'd mean the world to me if we could get more followers on my indie project @zenithtas.bsky.social 🧡

EXTRA FUN FACT
C'Terra has a very diligent morning skincate routine that rivals this guy.

FUN FACT
Zed was always teased for being shorter than his Zenithian classmates, which is why he straightens and points his hair up! This gave him a confidence boost for awhile...until he met Aya 😅

FUN FACT
Aya's symbol is a real African symbol! It's from the Akan culture in Ghana and represents strength from overcoming hardship.
FUNNER FACT
We had no idea this symbol existed when we chose her name. It was definitely a serendipitous coincidence, but we couldn't be happier!

Also I'm looking for an artist to design our poster! It'll be in a similar vein to these kind of landscapes, but the detail won't necessarily have the same as most of them.
If you're a landscape, environment, visdev, or concept artist, DM me! (Especially BIPOC artists)

But if I go back to remodel, I'm probably going to hire someone else for the rigging/skin weighting cuz she's kind of problematic to work with (that forearm curve haunts me 😅)
If you're a blender technical/rigging artist who deals with characters with a lotta pieces, hit me up!

I've been denying the inevitability that I'm gonna have to remodel Aya’s hair and alter her textures a bit. Really didn't want to for a long time, but ever since we got more illustrations done, I want to try to keep her look consistent. She's going to look so good after it tho!

Highly recommend Mikey's commissions! Really loved his style, and he was a joy to work with. Please check him out!

You're always free to go wild on these two!

So when it comes to animating facial features, we just have to make sure the 3D setup is focused on posing with facial animation in mind. Even if the body has parts of it animating, the head needs to be very still. The 2D artists only need to draw a few, really dynamic expressions and boom!

This could be really beneficial in the indie space because hand-animating a character like Aya (who has lots of minor details like and accessories keep track of and a very rigid set of proportions) is very difficult for a single artist to draw consistently. Whereas a 3D model is always consistent.

Yes, this technique does have a lot of Spiderverse influence, but I initially got the idea from the Disney Short "Paperman", which utilized an internal program called Meander to track any hand drawn lines over a 3D model during an animated sequence.

Ok I may be biased but the hoodies are so comfy omg
And who wouldn't want cute lil Aya sticker? Look at HER
Big thanks to Lyn Campos for the art!

"What's wrong with water?"
Bro what's RIGHT with water? Anyways here's the template

My only regret is that I should've chosen Rowlet

Whoever sent me this meme:
1) how dare
2) SO ACCURATE
Yup that's their dynamic 😂