Haruno Mebuki for G8F (Patreon)

 It's funny, after Mikoto, I was expecting the expressions on this one to  be the most troublesome. Turns out, it's something else altogether. In  fact, I got the expressions done in about 2 hours total. Much faster  compared to Mikoto, which took close to 6.

In the most, what took the most time is actually something unneeded at all. I was about to release Mebuki, and took a look at MVegeta's  pack, which then leads to adding an alternate texture for the dress,  which then leads to attempt to create that Jounin costume, which then  leads to finding that I can't rig for my life, as that upper body armor  fought me the whole time. It very nearly defeated me, but I somehow  manage to beat it into submission, at least enough to create this  preview. Believe me, you wouldn't want to see what the original rig  looks like...

So, fair word of warning.  The rig on the armor can be considered to be very crude, and poke  through are expect to be common. I added a smoothing mesh already, but,  well, it comes with its own issues, namely because of the nature of the  Shinobi Striker mesh structure, there will likely be weird distortions  on the sleeves.

Not sure if it is  deliberate. If it is for its intended purposes, the Shinobi Striker mesh  works well enough. But attempt to modify it, and the mesh is a mess.  Moving vertices around is all well and good. Try and cut off something,  like I did with the sleeves here, and add the smoothing modifier in  Daz3d, and it starts doing funky stuff.

Oh,  and the armor uses parts from Sakura Shippuden as well as the armor  pack, which I would likely have to revisit again to check the rigging.

Good  news on that is that I modified another set of armor up. The original  Shinobi Striker flack jacket does not have the Uzumaki swirl on the  sleeves, which is weird, because every other game and media has them,  that I know of anyway. I added a version that has those. I'll release  that after checking on the rigging for the armor pack.

Sorry  for the extended rant. This pack is surprisingly more troublesome then I  thought. And now I want to go and do more, and get Mikoto her own  Jounin uniform.