got Akio´s Face Scales done, i went ahead and baked her and, After a LONG battle, i did it, i beat the Bakeing stage and i Hope for the Future now, Everything´s going smooth sailing now,

how i won? Subdiv Level 3 for the low Poly model i bake on and cage... Shrink warp and than Hit bake, Akio´s Ready for her textureing now, planning to block out her Main maps, Colors, Spec, roughness and subsurface Scattering than i can play around with the color ramps and get that done

also Due to the Fact i did Lose a bit of time yesterday, i thought about Sculpting and doing the Retopo on Alex and Conner Sully´s models just before i begin on Akio´s Rigging and as such, the first models after the ones im working on have all been picked

well two of them atleast, this is going to be Great.

had a Hard time getting Akio´s Scales On her face done right, SOOOO, after a bit of Draw tools and masking feeling it wasn´t good, i went for the the idea of useing VDM´s, im a guy who wants good stuff and i think VDM´s are the only real way to do it to be honest, so, gonna prepare a few more of these, two are already done but hopefully a few more scales will be ready for useage soon.

OK With Akio almost done with her multires Sculpt, i think now would be a Good time than any to say,

while still a bit unsure, im only a good nap away from saying i Got a good idea how i´ll deal with the multires Sculpting phase of things,

not too Stylized, not too Real but JUST RIGHT, Just the right to match my Anime 3D Art style here, not just for Akio here but All my models, includeing Alex, Conner, the Lythonax, Stegosaurus, Dippy, all the OC´s i got includeing Yoko Ruby too who, i might get started or blocked out at some point, but not now, now tho, now Akio´s Almost done can i begin on the eyes for everyone else, wanna get eyes done, looking at the time today i think i might tackle Two eyes, those been the Stegosaurus and the diplodocus eyes

Yeah, tomorrow i´ll start on that, going over her Minor Details, Teeth, gums and claws as well as the Turkey vulture like Tounge, I Don´t Think i´ll like do most of the scales in multires Stage, that might actually be done via Bump maps, with the face and bigger Scales been planned for multires instead, VDM´s are ready for legs, shouldn´t Hopefully not take too long,

RIGHT THAN with that all said and done,

Akio all Set up and that, i think i wanna get to Work on the sketechlines for our young Sauropodlet, than Get some eyes ready for pianting, fellowed by to everyone´s Surpise a new Allosaurus Desigin, Thought i was too short on Therapod action, wanted to End the Goose Saga well, Maybe also have an allosaurus model ready incase i want to animate a prehisotric scene now im also doing a Stegosaurus and hell, even set up the ending well,

of course i´ll be Getting a brand new model sheet, thought the old one was kinda shit.

three more and i can do the Eyes and get ready for the Storyboards, Animatics and Previz,

tomorrow getting Akio´s Retopo done, as well as getting her Ready for the Multires and Textureing and adding feathers to her to her tail and Arms, after Akio´s Done here(rigging and all) is it finally time for Alex and Conner´s 3D Models,

with the Sauropod´s model sheet done

i think i can soon be ready to get the eyes done for the dinosaurs, i think i might honestly get the eyes for the dinosaurs done before doing The Two new Human characters done for thier eyes.

OK so With Jurassica Safari Park, got Akio´s Sculpting done, trying to Get the diplodocus done, tomorrow it´s time for the Retopo and im also planning on HOW i would like to do things, I think Doing the Actual Storyboarding is Still a bit ahead in the future tho, by That i mean when i get the last bunch of model Sheets done, got a good idea i can do the 2D Animatic non linear whice is a Great Thing NGL, it means i can Get Scenes done i can tackle the Hardest Parts first and maybe even upload the scenes to YouTube(Hidden of coruse) and see how it all works in form of a Playlist before i do the Previz in 3D and final animations that is Also worked on non linear oder

now Here are some things of note and how i Slove it

• There are atleast 18(19 with Yoko Ruby of course) models i need for this Project however due to that im takeing Advantage of that Fact and starting on 4 models, Sculpting one at first, Akio the T-Rex and than maybe doing a few more(might Do Alex and Conner Together due to them likely to have the same Textures, skin and clothing and so on) because there are 18, i divide and conquer So to speak, divideing it into 9, 6 than to 3.
• Jurassica Safari Park is 18 pages long, meaning it is longer than the Last version that is 11 pages long and Longer than where is Skittles, unsure how i wanna tackle it however it might be Better if i Do it once i got to a Good and Soild piont, like say the Last bunch of model sheets are done, Meaning all the Charaters i need are ready and i´ll get thier eyes ready too.
• one Clear thing i got in mind is i will Use the Storyboard animation Models for drawing the Storyboards kinda like i use 3D sculpts for my main model sheets, i´ll likely do the animatic as i have done for my YT Intro minus useage of a 3D model.
• some Familie members asked me last year about longer Videos and i agree it is about time i do more of those, been too long i did that, i don´t want this end up like how Where is Skittles did and that is kinda of the big fear i got with it, but hopefully wtih good Planning and by Divideing it into good chunks, hopefully Jurassica Just another day will be a much better time for me

other than that these four things are what is on my mind, i might update later but, wish me the best of luck, takeing baby steps right now here.

going to Get Her Hands and Feet done tomorrow as well as Paint her maqutte model here, the Roughness, Specs and SSS things went a Bit rocky at first so, might be better to do it when i Get to the Poly pianting for the whole model.

also Got Dippy done, atleast the Head and neck for the diplodocus, gonna get this done tomorrow After Akio´s Sculpting and Poly pianting is done.

OK so, Yeah scrapped the hornmoth BUT!

thought i would Get Jurassica Safari Park Just another day done, this time (After watching this) i hope i´ll get it done and the best idea i thought of is to Divide and Conquer, with 18 models, im starting off with four models and i´ll get 3 to 4 models at a time, with me focusing on 1 model at a Time, sculpting, Retopo, Texture and rig one before moveing onto another model

Today i wanted to end off 2024 with a Bang and got the Four first models done(Akio, Alex, Conner and Leo the Lythonax) as well as sketech out the diplodocus adult model sheet, and i got it done, gonna get Akio´s Sculpt done tomorrow.

i hope once we get the first models done, i might make a Teaser animation for Jurasica safari park, those first been Alex, Conner and Akio, now 2024 might not have ended up as i hope it did BUT! i think i did figure out some good things as far as my skills go and of course i have improved as an artist, so let´s Hope for the best next year as i FINALLY Get Jurassica Safari Park Just another day done, 3rd time´s the charm.

Happy new year everyone and wish me good luck for next year.

OK So, as far as the Hornmoth is like doing right now, i´d Say he is looking pretty good, tho i do think it might had been better had i done the smaller Scales at the textureing phase, like when i was gonna do them as a bump map but that´s besides the piont.

however something did hit me right now read it here but in short, i was starting to wonder if i should Start on a whole new model and with it begin on Jurassica Safari Park, the main Reason been i think i should Also start to Blockout the specular, roughness, metalness and subsurface scattering on my models too IF i do the same to colors on the Sculpts i do the Retopo on, as well as block out Colors on the main model(done it on the Hornmoth and Godzilla before)

why not Also do the same for the Spec, Roughness and other such things too, after all i do get the colors ready for anything so would make sense to also have that shit ready for when i do the other stuff, i mean i can already think back to ALL THOSE TIMES where i had to find the right colors for Sub surface scattering or roughness maps and all of that shit...

imagine if i had already done that, imagine the time i would had saved on that OH MY GOSH!

i do hate things like that come at the worst times i can imagine but, hey we´re All Artist and good ideas sometimes come at the worst times. ya know, anyways i´ll get to jurassica´s Script today and try to get that done as much as i want then i can make my final chocie on the Hornmoth´s model, part of me is thinking maybe it was a bit overkill doing a model with UDIMs as my time check model, but that´s just me.

also got Nat, Doily, Kitube, Skittles and Grumpy´s Eyes done sometime ago,

anyways Jurassica´s Script than we´re good to go for today.

OK so, Got the Colors done, tomorrow i´ll Try to Get the Specular and Roughness maps done here,

I can say it did go well tho i Wish i had done the smaller scales during the Textureing phase now looking at and not during the multires sculpting part, however i can say it makes alot easier and i think i will from now on always bake my Multires Sculpts and use thier textures for the texture pianting phase, works a charm.

still with these i do want to make the confession im still in the Dark on how to Do textureing tho i do got a good mindset over how to blockout them and all, i Think the UDIMS are Starting to make me Regard doing a Hornmoth with this time check,

not to say it´s all doom and gloom,

so far i have figured out that

Sculpting the main model takes me 2 days, same for Retopo, 3 days to do multires too...

also Good news i got a New Script in works for an old Project, will we see it next year?

who knows but for now i Don´t Want to Give away TOO MUCH, might help take away pressure should i Go full on aheads on it ya know. anyways wanna leave you with this and than we´ll see where Tomorrow gose.