I made a 3D model of Ame in a Bubba kigurumi for her birthday last year!
And she’s a VRChat avatar!
I made this as part of ADB’s VRChat project, an VRChat world full of Ame fanart from fans, 3D models and a retrospective of her channel’s history. You can check it out and grab the avatar here:
It’s based on the kigurumi designs I did for Myth’s 2 year anniversary illustration I did, that I later turned into keychains. I really like these designs! Had a lot of fun doing them
I posted some work in progress and sneak peeks while making her on Cohost, so here’s the WIPs!
i like cohost. a chance to start anew and break out of bad habits!!! anyway here’s what I’m working on doot doot
man mastodon is confusing
anyway here’s a 3D model update from 2 days ago! I gotta hand paint the textures but blender crashes whenever I try~✨ so I gotta figure that outI plan on fixing the hair going through the hoodie with blendshapes, I hope I can figure that out ◉‿◉ moving from maya to blender is A Pain
I learned!! Gonna fix the texture on clip studio later (* ´ω｀*) she also got a free nose job
next step, rigging………………
giving her a nose was the best decision I’ve done
Almost done! There’s some parts of the texture that I need to tweak but I’m set on the style I think! I need to get better at texturing hair but that’ll be for another time~
Next part is rigging so I think this might be the final update for now, will share the final one on Ame’s birthday!
Comparison of the 3D models I’ve done:
Here’s the family picture!
Looking at them all together I can see how much I’ve improved. I’m also really happy they don’t look all that similar despite all using the same base, I was worried Ame was going to look too much like Panko. (it helps that Ame’s body is all hidden)
i said no more visual updates but I can give text updates!!!
weight painting in blender is an absolute mess. disastrous. why painting 1 on a vertex group doesn’t overwrite the 1 in the other vertex group??? you can’t have two 1s!!!!!
BUT I’ve figured it out enough that I can rig it. Also I’m quite pleased that it did keep the rig for the base mesh, so most of the body is already done!!!
If everything goes well I can finish it tomorrow UuU (which is great because my deadline is uuuuh in 3 days)
here’s updates (=ﾟωﾟ)ﾉ
Made a hoodie-off version of the hoodie! Also fixed the hair shape a little bit. Tech ramblings incoming:
I’m having a little bit of trouble getting the physbones to move as I want. Right now the hoodie is moving a lot compared to the ears, and since they’re the same bone chain I can’t set different physics for them. I think it might be the original angle of the bone? Gonna test it next time.
Another problem I encountered is that I wanted to use Silents Cel Shader’s inventory system to make it more performatic, but it’s sharing an UV with the hoodieOn hoodie so I can’t because it’s UV based. That means I need 3 meshes (hoodieOn, hoodieOff and body) and VRchat best performance is with 2 (´･з･) It would be good having the face separate from the body as well because of the blendshapes… Oh well, I’ll just make another version for Quest that doesn’t have the hoodie toggles
and that’s it!!!
I don’t think I ever posted about it, but I also used the kigurumi mesh and rigging to give Panko a kigurumi as well.
TBH it was always the plan to repurpose the mesh and it’s how I justified going through with this project because it was a lot of time for a fan project… But also one of my quickest projects, considering I started it at the beginning of November and finished it around November 20th?? (and end of November for extra features like hoodie off). One month is a crazy turnaround for a fully functional model with extra expressions, even if I started off from a base mesh (my sona avatar I made also for a one month challenge).
If I was less perfectionist I could even consider taking commissions…….. could you imagine that
(i also secretly had plans to make the rest of the group as well, but it never came to fruition. I could do at least Kiara……)
also here’s sketchfab, while it still exists (;_;)
bye!