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.

• 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.