Uploads from Lucia Cyr, tagged secondlife

Sorceress Workflow: Note

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:55:37 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"It is said that the sorceress of the Dusk Order can be found in every major kingdom known to man, where they bide their time pursuing their myriad agendas."

Work in Progress Notation: One of the most frustrating things, if unavoidable, is detail degradation. It can be very disheartening to spend a lot of time working on small details that dissolve when transferred to SL.

The images on the left are the base texture renders in Zbrush (Which means that it is just the texture in fullbright, no actual light or shadow rendering.) Even here, a lot of detail is lost from the original. The image on the right is in Second Life, where another chunk of details have been smoothed away and lost.

Comes with the territory, but it can be frustrating sometimes! If something important is lost however, that is a very good time to open the texture back up in photoshop for some detailing to bring out those important details.

Blood Sorceress1c

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:07:29 -0700

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"The worst thing about them... as if they were not bad enough as is? They spread. Not content to just murder in their mad capers across our nation, the monsters leave clusters of their progeny in their wake like festering boils... ensuring that their passing is not soon forgotten."

Set is done! Now to get it into SL. Please ignore the over sized chest, it is easier to scale up than down, so I made it larger than necessary to accommodate for this.

Scale Surcoats

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:59:54 -0700

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"Lauded for their versatility and the speed with which they can be put on, scale surcoats are a common sight on the field. Durable, but still highly flexible, they are popular amongst cavalry and footmen alike."

Having way too much fun with these. I've wanted to make them for /years/... but SL was never really capable of pulling them off like I wanted. Even with sculpts. Now? Can't wait.

This is a work in progress series of shots that I thought some of you might find interesting.

The far right is the base model before coloring, the results of said coloring being the one to it's left. That copy is rendered with lights, shine, shadow, etc. All the wonderful things that will never show up in SL!

Fortunately, I am able to bake a lot of those details into a solid texture, which is the "Texture only, no rendering" piece.

Finally, the last one, (far left) is the result of cleaning up the texture in photoshop and adding some of the modular elements made for the other surcoats. The result is one configuration of a hundred thousand or so possibilities.

As I will never in a million years make nor want to make a hundred thousand textures, even if I could afford it- the final set will be much more simple by necessity. However, I am going to experiment with commisions with this piece. So if you want one with Pink scales, a white belt, cloth instead of chainmail, no armor plates, with blue cloth that has gold trim.... with heraldry of your choice on the chest?

Can be done. I've made the entire piece to be modular from the ground up. It will however come with a cost that reflects the time and work it takes to make a custom variant.

So, we'll see!

Powered

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:32:43 -0700

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"Friends; they had been once. How distant that seemed now. As reality itself wavered uncertain around them, the two stared evenly at one another. Fate. Causality. Had these things really forced this hand? Or did the nagging idea of the prophecy fulfill itself in the end simply by being known?"

Done and done! Important lesson learned. Calm. Down. On. Color. Variants!
250 unique textures. What a pain! But I like how they came out.

Arm variants

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:14:57 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"Outfitted for use all over known space, the materials and patterns of this set are highly customizable."

Still playing with different designs and styles. (Note: The white one's texture is untouched and contains flaws. This has been corrected in the final version.)

Having fun with them so far!

Mechanical Arm

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:55:16 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"Servos whined and metal groaned as the child, barely over seven lifted the car with the help of her implants. She smiled, a little mechanical angel... at the terrified but grateful man underneath."

Preview of a current project. I am trying a new technique with this one that should allow me to make several high def variants instead of simple recolors. It's going well so far.

My first color choices are, unsurprisingly... inspired by playing Mass Effect 3 last night. Go figure.

ANU-8

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:50:13 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

Whew! What a nightmarish project! Really glad it's finally out. Was a lot of fun, but was definitely something of a trip! We had an event with a giant maze (seen in the picture) with traps, and puzzles and magical pick axes for destroying walls!

Everyone had a blast, so I am really happy. Even if not a single one sold, haha. C'est la vie.

PageDemo4

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:40:54 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

What's this? A website? What??

Stay tuned.

Zoneless Knight Pauldron

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:12:19 -0700

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"It is said that the Zoneless wear the faces of their first kills. Many dismiss this as legend. But there is a grain of truth to be found in every tale."

I liked how this pauldron was coming, so I went ahead and uploaded a preview. I've had blindfolded masks on pauldron designs since I was a kid.

Someone recently told me that there was a design like that in some MMO, WoW I think. This felt a bit crushing and I almost didn't design it this way, but on thought I realized it's not /that/ original a notion. Pauldrons make a good place for faces. Blindfolds are one of the common ways to decorate faces. So.. I decided to anyways. I like the result so far.

Warmaiden1

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:54:18 -0700

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

While the males of the clan are the brute force, the made hunger of the army. The war-maidens are and edge honed with precision, able to cool the fire in their hearts long enough to take out targets of tactical importance as they weave in and out of the battle lines.

BarBarWIP3

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:53:32 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"They gird themselves in boiled leathers, trimmed with the sleek fur of slain predators. It was believed that the spirit and ferocity of these beasts would be passed on to them."

Came up with a new way to make boiled leather from scratch that is turning out pretty well. This is an unfinished example though.

BarBarWIP2

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:10:48 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"They tower over the valley-kin in the lands below their mountains, as were they mountains themselves."

Modeling the under harness for the set. Again as before, all the blue elements (And the red, scabby head in this case) will be removed, leaving the alpha of the harness behind.

BarBarWIP1

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:47:48 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"Thunderous, their feet as they charged across the ground. Wild men of the north. Barbarians. The trained soldiers scattered before their wrath, and this alone saved their lives."

Test sketch for the barbarian project.

The Man with the Hat

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:21:38 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"She heard the clicking of his boots echo off the cobblestone streets as he approached. Petrified into solidity in abject terror.. some distant part of her desperately prayed that if she just remained still he would not see her.

A jaunty tune, whistled, sounded from behind her as the daunting footsteps stopped.

She screamed.....

No one heard."

A promo picture for the new tophat set I am putting out today.

SteampunkeryHat

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:01:13 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"So you've got... gears in your hat?

"Why yes sir, that is correct!"

"So... what.. do they do?"

"I have no earthly idea....."

I have a feeling SL is going to kill this, since it is only one prim. (Went a bit overboard, I know better.) I also think that I am uncertain Steampunk will ever stop being utterly ridiculous to me. (No offense, Steampunk fans.)

Stillborn

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:32:58 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"The figure bobbed gently in the embryonic fluid like a fisherman's cork on a still day. Behind slowly moving tendrils of sable bangs, eyes that had never seen the world beyond their lids rolled back and forth in endless, tumultuous dream."

A quick stop in Innsmouth provided the backdrop for some interesting imagery. Amazing place to drop by sometime.

slurl.com/secondlife/Innsmouth/228/33/41

Sorceress Workflow: Note

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:33:27 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"Intrigue, their gain, madness, their handiwork."

Notation: I realized I hadn't actually posted any images of an object completely before I started the process that kills detail, and I like how this part is coming along- so I am posting it up! While the texture process in Zbrush doesn't remove /that/ much detail. It does kill a lot of the sharpness and clarity afforded by the realtime light and shadow rendering.

Sorceress Workflow: Step 5

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:19:43 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"They gird themselves in cloth and metal of strange make, of unknown materials imbued with curious properties. For these trinkets alone, the desperate or greedy have lost their lives.

Work in progress part five! An example of conversion. I model in all of the detail I can at the highest resolution I can, and when the texture is "baked", much of that detail is saved, and can be transfered to the low resolution model. The model on the left is the high poly zbrush model. With over a million vertices, or points, no game in it's right mind, much less SL, would include such a bracelet. However, those details can be dropped down to the much more agreeable thousand... ready to be dropped into second life as you see it onscreen.

(Though, regretfully, some detail is still lost, due to how Second Life compresses it's textures. But it's very close!)

Sorceress Workflow: Step 4

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:57:01 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"Dangerous are those who deal with these woman. For although they possess among them scholars and wisefolk without peer, any favor or request comes hand in hand with an inescapable and dangerously vague contract that has been the doom of many a fool."

Work in Progress Slide 4!: Next I start on the prims, sculpting the simple low poly prims (far left). After exporting that to SL to make sure it looks right, I up the polycount considerably and add in some high details. (Middle) Lastly, I add color, shading, texturing, shadows and highlights with a combination of texture baking, pixil painting, and hand drawn elements. I will usually pull the texture made from this into photoshop for further edits before shipping it to SL!

Sorceress Workflow: Step 3

nobody@flickr.com (Lucia Cyr) — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:38:34 -0800

Lucia Cyr posted a photo:

"They come from all walks of life, these sorcerous souls. Without fail, each is born into an inescapable destiny that guides them from then on."

Part three of the work in progress, here I've taken the textures made from the Zbrush model and imported them into SL after a few photoshop touch-ups. While not 100% complete, this is very near the final version of the under-suit for the SL model, as seen in the sketch a few pictures back.