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phoenixiancrystallist · 28 days

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Month 4, day 1

No April Fools art, I don't do that for some reason (that would require planning my art in advance lol), but I did follow a tutorial to make a procedural bronze texture! :D

All part of my grand scheme to model and render the fuck out of some sick-ass Tanta swords :3

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #my renders #blender #blender 3d #blender render #eevee render #procedural textures #I like this one I can render it in Eevee :D #no displacement nodes! :D #I think the Blender team is working on making the displacement node work with Eevee though #so maybe hopefully I can just stick with Eevee for everything because I love it so n_n #maybe I'll love Cycles more when I have my computer upgraded to a point it can handle Cycles #but idk rendering anything in less than a minute is p r e t t y sweet :3

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phoenixiancrystallist · 3 months

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Month 2, day 7

Happy birthday to my husbando Ignis Scientia and best girl Aerith Gainsborough! :D

I had nothing planned so I scribbled this out relatively quick, by which I mean over the course of like an hour and a half lol. This is nowhere near a finished piece, more like a scribbly, sketchy thumbnail for a proper piece of art, but honestly it was kind of nice to draw something new instead of working on an old WIP

I have a few alternative ideas I want to try so I might do those for a bit to give myself a break from animating :)

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #ffxv #ffxv fanart #ignis scientia #ff7 #ff7 fanart #aerith gainsborough #no lie I totally ship them and the only reason I do is bc they share a birthday lol #lowkey headcanon they met at a joint birthday party #(Yuffie *totally* pwnz n00bz at Kings Knight and met the bros that way and dragged the rest of the crew to a Kings Knight convention lol)#Yuffie wanted to throw a party for Aerith and hit up Prompto to brainstorm ideas #and he was like ''oh hey that's Iggy's birthday we should combine them!''#Iggy was like ''plz stop throwing me parties I just want a quiet day'' but Aerith was like FUCK YEAH PARTY #anyway they met when they got asked to cut the cake together and totally hit it off and now they're dating :)

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phoenixiancrystallist · 1 month

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Month 3 day 17

@cruelfeline is a bad influence :P Hesitating on uploading this to TeePublic for sale since CF made the font; I'll have to replace it with the font I was putting together before I'm okay putting it up for sale, plus I have some cleanup I want to do to make sure everything is nice and crisp, so for now this is just a prototype ;3

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phoenixiancrystallist · 2 months

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Month 3, day 1

Once again, I haven't gone to bed yet, it's still the day I started working on this! :P

Still following the snowman tutorial, this time I had to do a bunch of troubleshooting with renders because even though the scarf is supposed to look all fuzzy now, it wasn't doing that, like, at all, even though I followed the tutorial steps down to the 100th decimal on settings. So that took an hour and I'm still not convinced it looks right, but I'll fuck with it tomorrow. ... "Tomorrow" meaning "sometime after I wake up" lol

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #blender #blender 3d #blender render #cycles render #I think the main problem is a hardware difference #something about the way my computer (Mac) processes things must be different enough from the instructor (Windows) to make a difference #either that or I modeled the scarf all wrong and I'll have to redo it again... again lol #I think what I'll do is up the samples for a better image and let that run while I sleep #not that I think it'll take all night #this render only took... eight minutes? I think?#but I don't want to stay up any longer than I already have I have to get my sleep schedule back on track since I go back to work on Monday #so overnight rendering it shall be

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phoenixiancrystallist · 30 days

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Month 3, day 30

Uh... I crashed Blender so hard my computer forgot how to computer again 😬 Luckily this time I did a smrt and saved before I tried to render, so at least we got a screenshot!

Anyway I followed a tutorial on making a procedural icy snow texture. I can follow it through all the way to the end but the rendering engine that plays nice with my computer does NOT like how the texture works, and the one that plays nice with the texture wanted to take 48 hours. Actually 48 hours, not me misreading the time stamp this time. So I tried to fix the texture so it would play nice with Eevee (the nice render engine that doesn't take forever), but it still crashed my computer.

So yeah. I need money to upgrade my graphics cards, because the set my computer came with is not powerful enough for my needs.

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #blender #blender eevee #blender procedural material #the cat is Very Upset™ that I'm not in bed yet #he's curled up where he normally would be if I was in bed like I'm supposed to be #and he's *pouting* lol

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phoenixiancrystallist · 2 months

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Month 3, day 10

Super quick adjustment in Blender tonight; decided to just swap the sword to green and the Athian V for Visoria on the pommel instead of trying to figure out how to make fire in the middle of a tutorial on making lightning, lol

Also I think it looks really good in green :)

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #blender #blender render #blender 3d #eevee render #made it a super quick thing tonight bc I would like to go to bed relatively on time #it'll help me adjust to Daylight Savings a little faster #one day we will be rid of this accursed time change #but APPARENTLY NOT TODAY D<

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phoenixiancrystallist · 22 days

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Month 4, day 7

Just a super quick tutorial tonight, some nice tye-dye as a palette cleanser from the ice cream lol

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #render #blender render #blender 3d #procedural texture #tye dye #I have spelled that four different ways tonight lol #tye dye; tie dye; tie die; tye die #one of those things where there is no right or wrong way you just spell it with your heart #well #there is a wrong way #it's ti-di #that's the wrongest way to spell it #but now to round everything out I feel the need to spell it the rest of the wrong ways I can think of so I'm sorry for this next tag #ty-dy; ty-di; ti-dy #...look that last one is just tidy with some emphasis it's actually even more incorrect than ti-di #I'm going to bed before I lose more braincells to this XD good night!

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phoenixiancrystallist · 2 months

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Month 2, day 21

Added even more things to the donut scene! And the next part of the tutorial requires a proper render, so I'll show you guys what this looks like in Cycles tomorrow :P

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #blender #blender render #blender 3d #donut tutorial #eevee render #gonna use the rest of my evening to write fanfic :P #like an adult #the Cycles render is gonna take 11 hours so I'm kind of stymied until then lol

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phoenixiancrystallist · 1 month

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Month 3, day 19

More cleanup work done! This time on the gold part of the lettering. Next is the white part, and I want to make some changes to how those show up because the way ProCreate's font tool hollowed out the letters is... I mean, it's good, I'm not sure how it could have done better considering it's a procedural generation based on the outer edge of the character, like there's math and shit involved. But I'm an ~*artist*~ and I'm pretty sure I can make it look better lol

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #my design #graphic design #Forspoken #Forspoken spoilers #in tanta we trust #thalia solarius #Athia #athian #athian script #athian font

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phoenixiancrystallist · 2 months

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Month 3, day 11

Late art tonight for dealing with life bullshit reasons, but we've added lightning! We also did an animation for it but that's gonna take like 15 minutes to render and I need to go to bed 45 minutes ago sooooooo

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #blender #blender 3d #blender render #eevee render #part of me thinks I should be marking that as Forspoken fan art #but they're not really even though I'm using Athian lol #...waaaaaait a minute #they could be #my SI uses a sword since she doesn't have magic (yet)#(and even after she gets magic she combines it with her sword work)#she could find swords from each of the four Tantas #...how the fuck would I render Love? lol #fire water and lightning are totally doable if I can figure out how to swap out the elements in this #but love?#Cinta ilu bb but you're making that one difficult XD #(I'd have to find out how to render her crystalline purple fleur de lis magic essentially)#hmmm I think I'm gonna make that my next project #designing swords and elemental effects for them #yesssss #...anyway I need to go to bed lol goodnight!

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phoenixiancrystallist · 3 months

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Month 1, day 24

Super early tonight but I have writing I want to do and dishes I need to do so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway I had an ideathink. What if... what if Susurrus is gold because he was created by the Power™ the Rheddig Tanta mentioned?

What if Knell, Keen, and Flick, who were not created by that power but were instead created by [fic spoilers] are different, "lesser" metals, because their creators are only making imitations and don't have the full "view" of the Power's designs?

Knell is silver, one of the pure element metals, because she is the closest to that design but still not quite as "perfect" as Susurrus. Keen and Flick, who are bronze and brass respectively, are alloyed metals because they are even further from the Power's vision.

And what if that Power takes control of them, and changes them into his "ultimate design," and in so doing transmutes them into gold as well?

Anyway that was the justification for me going "I bet Knell would be real pretty in gold :)" and proving myself right lol. And yes, I did do the Susurrus birb belt for the recolor on purpose :3

...is it just me, though, or does she look kind of... menacing in gold as compared to silver? Hmm.

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #Forspoken #forspoken spoilers #itwt #itwt spoilers #in tanta we trust #in tanta we trust spoilers #Forspoken fan art #Forspoken original character #Forspoken oc #OC: Knell #self-insert shenanigans #justification for making pretty pictures or no it's going in my notes for when I get to that point in the story #which still won't be for a Hot Minute© on account of I have to write two fics before that point first lol #oh yeah have I mentioned that the self-insert shenanigans are going to be a trilogy? because uh... yeah XD #they're gonna be a trilogy :)#I have the first two fics fully planned out they just need to be written #... fully is a stretch #I have a fuckton of bullet point notes/brain vomit about the first two fics that solidified into something resembling coherency awhile back #the third one is still coagulating #it's basically gonna be like #Fic 1: introduce the cast; get this bitch some magical powers #Fic 2: to Rheddah! Time to commit a murder or three! :D #Fic 3: kill god

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phoenixiancrystallist · 15 days

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Month 4, day 14

Woo, environment is all set up and ready to go! Next part of the tutorial series is making a butterfly, then we're gonna animate a little walk through the forest with the butterfly flying by :)

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #my renders #blender renders #blender 3d #eevee render #I thought this was gonna be a four part tutorial series so I was prepared for today's part to include the animation portion #totally forgot about the butterfly lol #so I think it's actually gonna be six parts?#unless the butterfly doesn't take long at all and he rolls the animation into the butterfly part #we'll see :)#but I'm really liking these tutorials #I'm learning a lot and I get to make a pretty forest :D #which is gonna be a useful skill in the future lol

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phoenixiancrystallist · 1 month

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Month 3, day 25

The birbnado (birb tornado) may not have worked with the rotational symmetry tool as well as the sunburst lines did, but I managed to finagle the tool into working well enough I only have to draw half the birbs instead of the full circle of them :D

"Horizontal rotational symmetry" sounds like absolute bullshit, though :P