mini-update - food models (Patreon)

Sooo this probably isn't very exciting to many of you, but it's something I'm excited about! Mostly because these sorts of 3D models have been my white whale for a long while; making detailed models of organic shapes (i.e., not easily constructed out of cubes and planes and spheres) is a lot more difficult than I could handle, and it's only more recently that I've had the opportunity to create and purchase models of this sort.

Now that I have a few? Well I want to use them obviously, though I don't actually have very many ideas just yet. Probably, a lot of this stuff will simply end up as background props; a bit of a waste, perhaps, but it really bugs me if parts of a scene are less detailed than others, which is why I haven't just used simpler models in the past.

I should note also that these still aren't the most detailed things, I'm putting in maybe a bit more work than necessary just to give myself more options with them in the future. The pizza slice, for example (which I've shown before, I believe?) was pretty flat at the start, and riddled with mesh errors; I've fixed most of the latter and I'm currently sculpting new shape morphs so I can have it fold and bend realistically. The sandwich (which is new) is less detailed than I might have liked - doesn't stand up as well to close-ups - so I'm actually just taking it apart to use all the separate fillings for use elsewhere. No more defaulting to the same few sandwich fillings for every scene involving a sandwich, hah.

This is all just a side-project for now, admittedly it's a little mind-numbing to work on at times too. A lot of zooming way in and trying to fix meshes one vertice at a time, or editing prop files in a text editor so they'll load properly into DAZ Studio. I can probably use some of this sooner rather than later, though, so I'm hoping all the work pays off and gives me a little more freedom to just create whatever scenes come to my head, without the constant "Oh I want to do X but I don't have the models for that".