After a lot of hard work and testing, Jodelle is finally ready for publication.
- Jodelle preview 01
This project was Bellatrix idea, at first meant as something simple and quickly done but when the project landed on my computer, the plans were completely broken.
- Jodelle preview 02
- Jodelle preview 03
- Jodelle preview 04
Jodelle became an experiment to create a MakeHuman character with prepared hair dynamics and cloth physics to work almost out of the box when appended into a scene to pose or maybe animate.
I made my first animation as an presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMKwb9EZP-cAnimation is for me completely new. It wasn't easy so I think I'll continue to focus on stills for quite a while longer but it was fun to for the first time see one of our characters in motion. Blender 3 still has problem with the physics in world scale 1:1 therefore the hair dynamics and cloth simulation not looking optimal.
The body textures is only 4096p and jpeg therefore not quite as detailed as my original skin textures but enough for reasonable close-ups.
Uploaded 28/4 to Blendswap but it's still on pending. I have several times encountered problems uploading to Blendswap therefore I'm looking for another Blender friendly site where I can publish as an alternative. Created an account on Sketchfab, tested upload, but that site is not entirely suitable for blender projects that are this complex. There doesn't seem to be any possibility to upload your own preview images and no chance of making the model look the way it should in its 3D editor.
So, if you have a very fast computer with a great GPU and using Blender 3.1 - and a lot of patience.
Jodelle is downloadable at
https://sketchfab.com/Mindfront listed as restricted and looks terrible in the preview.
If Jodelle is approved by Blendswap you will find her there, along with some of our other MakeHuman characters.
In the meantime, we have three unfinished characters in the pipeline, but it will be some time before inspiration arrives to complete them if ever, they may fade into oblivion. Here is one of them with a suntan version of my 8192p base texture, using Jennifer's eyes and hair at the moment. Scene light two spot lamps.
- unfinished MakeHuman character
Also uploaded some old clothes.