Salut les gars, les meufs, et les gens extraordinaires !

Cette semaine, je serais à la FBL#14. C'est à Paris (enfin, pas loin). C'est pas ma première convention, mais ça sera ma première FBL. Curieux de voir comment ça se passe.

Je serais heureux de rencontrer qui veut. Faire de nouveaux potes. J'aurais des stickers gratuits de キトゥ(Kitu) si vous en voulez. Faites-moi un coucou, ça me fera plaisir. (Meme si je suis pas un pro des interactions sociales)

J'ai aussi fait des confettis en forme de Godzilla. Aucune idée de pourquoi. Une obligation divine ou spontanée qui sait. Je sais pas ce que je vais en faire, et je suis presque sûre que je vais les renverser partout maladroitement 😅.

Bisous~

Hello guys, girls, and extraordinary people!

This week I will be attending to the FBL#14. A French Furry convention. Not my first convention, but first time there. We'll see how it goes.

I'd love to meet anyone who want to, make new friends, and I will have some free キトゥ(Kitu) stickers for you if you fancy some. Just say hi, I'd love that. (even if I'm not a social guy, and it might feel awkward)

I also made some Godzilla confetti as well. I have no idea what to do with them, but it felt I needed to make them. I'm sure I will spill them all over in a clumsy move 😅.

Love ya~

I fixed the hair colors in the middle. The straight hard black&white separation was unnatural. Now, each hair has a color based on its root. And they kinda mix in the middle following their random positioning.

I have unified the shaders for the skin AND the hairs, so only one remains of each. The shader is associated with a geometry node that "records" each point in the rest position to define if it's black or white. Then this is used by the shader to use the proper "color". But as it is in the shader, I can tweak anything I want based on that. Had a bit of help from Codex for the routing and all, so not solo work here, but I think I grasped the whole shenanigan.

And finally, I re-used the scripts I had for Kitu to generate thumbnails for all poses I made for Monokuma. I do not know if they have names. I will do some digging for that later. Now they do, but I'm not especially proud of what I came up with yet.

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I'll keep logs of my work, learning and experience. Maybe more, we'll see.

For the techies, the blog is made with Hugo and will be the source of truth for all my online communications.

Most social posts will be automatically published from content written here. Rest assured, I'm still humanly using all my socials and will respond and engage there as I normally would. Cross-posting was already a thing from the start anyway, just not from the blog.

Love ya~

• 混沌 · カオス · Kaosu → The Chaos. In the primordial sense of the term. Before, during and after everything. Outgrowing the universe as we know it.
• 狐 · キツネ · Kitsune → The fox, as in the animal
• 猫 · ねこ · Neko → The cat, as in the animal too

Kaosu Kitsune Neko or properly attached KaosuKitsuneko is a pair of characters. A fox and a Cat.

They never met. They do not know one another. They are not alike at all. There is no certainty that they are even in the same universe.

But they are linked together in a mystical way. No distances, in any conceivable and inconceivable way, can alter this connection. This link is deeply attached to their souls. They know it; more accurately, they feel it even without consciously recognizing it.

The legend talks about an event that may further connect them both together, to become something else entirely while remaining their full selves. The legends also contain prophecies about them, but that's for another time.

That's all for today, folks!

In addition the pipeline to re-generate automagically thumbnails for all poses is done and working. Tomorrow , few more face expression and poses. After that FUR!#blender

Enough for today, the weight painting will wait for tomorrow .

I did not dare to ask the AI if the topology was OK, because it was a mess down there 🙈. First thing tomorrow, redo properly that part.

As-is, I find them really cute and usable. I will see if I do the fur or the rigging first. I have no idea witch is best to do before the other.

First, the big mouth shape part. After creating the thing, the topology was not good. My IA teacher told me I need to get rid of triangle in the topology because they create too much tension. Sooo I made Kitu relax. Personally , I do not see the difference.

I'm not expert enough to really understand the need for clean topology, but I accept the "it will behave odd later, so fix it Human!"

If you see a difference, tell me. (the lighting difference is just here to help see if there is any difference 😅)

This is #Kitu. they follow me everywhere, but today is Xerox time!

Body was not that hard. But the ear was a pain in the ***! I ended up following www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKI4... to create the ear itself, and then cut holes in the head and ear to attach them together.

The blend is seamless. I'm really proud of the result. It is not a perfect copy of the plushy, but close enough for me. I home fur will play nice with that shape.

I'm no artist, and I do not have the money to ask talented people to help me create my Fursona. Soooo let's learn how to become a 3D artist and build it myself!

That way I will create it the way I want, and I will learn a new skill in the process.

But before that, I need to learn Blender. I know nothing, or very little. I will share my journey though the enormous task of learning how to create 3D characters that are cool.

I start with Kitu, a little fox 🦊. The design is from a plushy I bought on the Inari yama in Japan. So I have no clue on who made the design. All 3D by me tho.

Stay tune for more on them.

Love ya~